b.1835 d.1898
Married Mary Schneider
Aaron Kraft was the son of George Kraft who came to this area in the first large Mennonite emigration from Pennsylvania in 1806. George and family settled on CCT Lot 42 west of Wat and Aaron grew up there with plenty of farming experience. When he married Mary Schneider (Snider) a daughter of Waterloo grist miller owner Elias Snider, he set up a farming operation on part of his father’s large farm. In 1879 he moved to Waterloo where he became a partner with his father-in-law in the Union Mills.
Sources
1.Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History.
2.Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, December 23, 1897.
3.Marg Rowell et al, Welcome to Waterloo.
4. Waterloo County Councillors, A Collective Biography.
5.Grassroots Government Biographies of Waterloo Councillors.
Aaron Kraft Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Aaron Kraft 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
- Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see the transcribed text. 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
- 1835-1898
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Kraft, Aaron ; Kraft, George ; Snider, Elias ; Schneider, Mary ; Snider, Mary
- Corporate Name(s)
- Union Mills ; Snider Flour Mill
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.113
- 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
Website:
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