b. 1857 d. 1926
Married - Mary Froelich, Elizabeth Ernst
Julius Roos, eldest son of Jacob S Roos, was born in 1857 in Preston and came with parents to Waterloo in 1861. No doubt he helped in his Dad’s shoe business when he was a youth. However, he decided that the rapidly-growing insurance business was more to his liking. He joined the staff of the Ontario Mutual Life Assurance Company where he helped in 1888 to move the company into the brand new office building at corner of Erb and Albert Sts. He worked his way up to Treasurer in the company and remained there for twenty years retiring in 1923. Called Father of Bd of Trade, he was a very big supporter of the Board of Trade for Waterloo and was the one who pushed most for the town to buy the Eby Farm that became Westside Park (later Waterloo park) in 1895.
Sources:
1. The Twin City, Berlin and Waterloo.
2. Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, August 12, 1926
3. Saengerfest Souvenier Programme, Town of Waterloo, 1902
4. A Century of Mutuality: The Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada, 1870-1970
5. History of Waterloo, Clayton Wells, W.P.L.
Julius Roos Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Julius Roos 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
- 1857-1926
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Roos, Julius ; Froelich, Mary ; Ernst, Elizabeth ; Roos, Jacob
- Corporate Name(s)
- Ontario Mutual Life Assurance Company
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.171
- 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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