b.1850 d. 1920
Married – Susannah Schaefer
Absalom Merner was born in New Hamburg, the son of foundry owner Samuel Merner. Absalom learned the trade by working for his father. In 1880 he purchased the Union Foundry in Waterloo which had been started by Abraham Buehler about 1851. His brother Ammon had similarily purchased a foundry in Elmira. In 1888 these two business joined with the Bricker Foundry on King St. S. under the name of the Waterloo Manufacturing Company. About 1896 Merner purchased the large Oetzel home out on Albert St. N. A few years later he decided to relocate his residence to South River Ont to better look after his lumber interests there, and his son-in-law Edward Devitt, married to daughter Hilda, took over the home. In 1911 this home was sold by the Devitts to the Lutheran Synod of Canada and became the first building in the new Lutheran Seminary.
Sources
1. Buehler Foundry, Waterloo LACAC Files
2. Waterloo Mt Hope Cemetery Records
3. J. E. Seagram Biography, Seagram Collection, City of Waterloo
4.Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, February 12, 1920
5. Marg Rowell et al Welcome to Waterloo
6. Waterloo Chronicle, July 30, 1896, October 29, 1896
Absolom Merner Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Absolom Merner 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
- 1850-1920
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Merner, Absolom ; Schaefer, Susannah ; Merner, Susannah ; Merner, Samuel ; Buehler, Abraham ; Merner, Ammon ; Devitt, Edward
- Corporate Name(s)
- Waterloo Manufacturing Company ; Union Foundry ; Jacob Bricker Foundry
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.135
- 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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