B. 1826 D. 1901
Married: Catherine Weber, Mary Hoffman
John Shuh began his business career in Bridgeport where he apprenticed as a shoemaker. In 1857 when John Hoffman and Isaac Weaver opened a store in newly-completed Commercial Block in Waterloo, John Shuh came to work for them as a clerk. Gradually, he took more responsibility and finally purchased the business. The store was known as John Shuh and Company and was a general store of the type quite common in those days – selling almost anything a person would need. John Shuh became interested in the insurance industry and in 1863 was involved in the formation of the Waterloo County Mutual Fire Ins Co and became its first Treasurer. John’s son Levi had been working for his Dad and gradually took over ownership. He also took on a partner J.B. Snider and the store became known as Shuh and Snider. They sold the business in 1891. John Shuh was President of the Waterloo Woollen Mills. He built a large home on Willow St.
Sources:
1. Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, Jan 24, 1901.
2. Barbara Ann Shuh and Jean Shuh, Descendants of John Shuh 1828-1901, Waterloo, Ont. and Truro, N.S.
3. Marg Rowell et al.
4. Wavertree Chronicles, The Diary of Clayton H. Shuh.
5. Wat Hist. Society, 1963, Vol. 51
John Shuh Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of John Shuh 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
- 1826-1901
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Shuh, John ; Weber, Catherine ; Shuh, Catherine ; Hoffman, Mary ; Shuh, Mary ; Hoffman, John ; Weaver, Isaac ; Shuh, Levi ; Snider, J.B.
- Corporate Name(s)
- Waterloo County Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; John Shuh and Company General Merchants and Produce Dealers ; Shuh and Snider
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.197
- 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
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- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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