B. 1862 D. 1933
Married - Emma Hoffman
Cyrus Schiedel was born in Breslau in 1862. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed in the Moses Mayer General Store in that village. Four years later in 1882 he was hired as bookkeeper in the Union Mills owned by William Snider and acted as manager when Snider absent. He remained at that position for 31 yrs until 1913 when he left Snider’s employ to become manager and Secretary of the Public Utilities Commission of Waterloo. In 1896 he built a large red brick home on the corner of Albert St N and Bridgeport Rd. He was a strong supporter of the Evangelical Church nearby and his wife Emma played the organ there for many years. Schiedel is credited with getting a $1100 grant from the Carnegie Foundation to install an organ in the new Evangelical Church built in 1905.
Sources:
1. Waterloo County Councillors: A Collective Biography.
2. Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, January 26, 1933.
3. Waterloo Chronicle: July 21, 1896; July 30, 1896; January 27, 1910
Cyrus Schiedel Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Cyrus Schiedel 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
- 1862-1933
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Schiedel, Cyrus ; Hoffman, Emma ; Snider, William
- Corporate Name(s)
- Union Mills
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.181
- 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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