b. 1846, d. 1906
Married Amelia Hedderick
Mrs Seyler
Mrs Sachs
Philip Krafft came to Waterloo in the early 1870s. After working at various jobs, he became a town policeman and in 1887, he was appointed chief of the Police Department. One of his duties was to ring the town bell at 7 oclock every evening from May to Oct. He also acted as town sanitary inspector. About this same time he purchased the hotel commonly Noecher’s Place and renamed it the Krafft Hotel. In 1895 The Town Council bought the Eby Farm and began turning it into a town park. As Waterloo already had a park called the “Showground” in the eastern section of town, this new park was appropriately called West Side Park (later Waterloo Park). Krafft's Hotel benefitted greatly from traffic to and from the park. The street car conveniently stopped at the hotel corner for those going to the park. Krafft gave his establishment a new name -the West Side Park Hotel– later shortened to Park Hotel. He sold the hotel in 1901 to Emil Wankel who again changed the name to the Last Chance Hotel, reminding prospective patrons this was their last chance for a refreshing drink before they entered the park.
Sources:
1. Roland Pike, Policing in Waterloo County, 1850-1973, Waterloo Historical Society, Vol 77, 1989.
2. Waterloo Mt. Hope Cemetery Records.
3. Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, January 4, 1906.
4. Waterloo Chronicle, January 10, 1901.
5. Barbara Timm Arndt, Dorothea Schlote and her Family, A Remembrance, Cleveland Ohio, 1988, Waterloo Public Library.
6. Ellis Little, Early Waterloo Hotels, unpublished.
7. Barbara Timm Arndt, Dorothea Schlote and her Family, A Remembrance, Cleveland Ohio, 1988.
Philip Krafft Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Philip Krafft 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
- 1846-1906
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Krafft, Philip ; Hedderick, Amelia ; Hedderich, Amalia ; Wankel, Emil
- Corporate Name(s)
- Krafft Hotel ; Westside Park Hotel ; Last Chance Hotel
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.115
- 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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