Born: 1841, Died: 1921
Married: Elizabeth
In early Waterloo, Julius Germann operated a harness and saddlery shop. The business must have been quite successful because, in the 1880s, he was able to build a substantial brick home on the corner of Herbert and George Sts. This area along George St., at this time, was a premier residential part of town where citizens with monetary resources chose to live. About 1889 Germann decided to make a change in his life’s work. He opted to enter the hotel keeping business, purchasing the Market Hotel on Albert St. across from the Town Hall and the local fire station. This hotel was being sold because owner Frederick Heuther had defaulted on his mortgage. Germann assumed the mortgage responsibilities and perhaps to increase the cash flow, in 1901 sold his large home on George St. to Levi Stauffer and moved his family into the hotel. In 1906, Germann sold the Market Hotel to John and Elizabeth Mayer.
Sources:
Waterloo Mount Hope Cemetary Records
Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, April 7, 1921.
Waterloo Chronicle, September 17, 1914.
Ellis Little, Early Waterloo Hotels, Unpublished.
Julius Germann Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Julius Germann from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- To see the original document please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
- Date Of Event
- 1841-1921
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Germann, Julius ; Huether, Frederick ; Stauffer, Levi ; Mayer, John ; Mayer, Elizabeth
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.64 and ELP 63.43.20
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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