b. 1831 d. 1907
Married – Elizabeth Kiehm
Christian Letter was born in Prussia, Germany and came as a single young man to Waterloo c1850. He married Elizabeth Kiehm in 1856. He worked as a labourer in the construction industry and eventually had a construction business of his own that specialized in masonry work. Much of his work has gone unrecorded but he is documented as doing the masonry and brick work for the Alexandra Hotel built by David Kuntz in 1874. Also, he purchased a building on the corner of Albert and Dupont St c1877, and remodeled it as a hotel that he sold to Louis Zoerger in 1878. The hotel was named the Market Hotel because the Waterloo Market located in and around the Town Hall just across the street.
Sources
1. Waterloo Mt Hope Cemetery Records
2. Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, July 18, 1907
Christian Letter Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Christian Letter 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
- 1831-1907
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Letter, Christian ; Kiehm, Elizabeth ; Zoerger, Louis ; Kuntz, David
- Corporate Name(s)
- Market Hotel ; Alexandra Hotel
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.126
- 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:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
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