=Hagedorn, Charles Kappler= (Kitchener, Ont.), was born in the County of Waterloo, February 5, 1859, son of Ernest A. P. Hagedorn and Mary Kappler, his wife. His father was a farmer who came from Hanover, Germany, when an orphan of twelve years old, settling in Waterloo County, where he worked at farm labor and by his diligence and economy acquired land and began farming on his own account, which he continued successfully until his death, in 1875. He was one of the early settlers of the county, clearing the homestead of 100 acres and endured all the difficulties and privations of pioneer life. The subject of this sketch was reared on his father’s farm and received a primary education at the public schools which was completed at the Normal school, Toronto. In 1877 Mr. Hagedorn began teaching in the public schools of his native county, which he continued until the end of 1884, when he turned his attention to mercantile life and acted as travelling salesman throughout the Province of Ontario until 1889, when he began the manufacture of suspenders and buttons. In 1895 he organized the Berlin Suspender and Button Company; in 1900 the present plant on King St. was erected. The company was later incorporated and subsequently, when the name of the city was changed, it became The Kitchener Suspender Company, Limited. The company employs a large number of skilled operators, and their product is known favorably throughout Canada. Mr. Hagedorn has given fully of his time and ability to his fellow citizens and served as Alderman in the City Council for a number of years, acting as Chairman of the Original Commission which operated the Electric and Gas Plants when these public utilities were taken over by the city. He has been an active member of the Board of Trade and was for two years president. Mr. Hagedorn is a Presbyterian in religion, and has been Superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School and an Elder for many years, taking a deep interest in temperance work. He has been President of the Waterloo Temperance Alliance for a number of years. Mr. Hagedorn was married on May 15, 1889, to Emily, daughter of John Cairns, of Kitchener, who was a pioneer farmer of North East Hope Township, now retired. He is the father of three children, Lloyd Elmo, Grover Cairns, and Edna Aleen. Politically he is a Reformer; in business affairs and in his private life he is a man of strict probity, and has always displayed promptness, reliability and sterling honesty in all his relations with his fellow citizens, by whom he is held in the highest esteem. He is well informed and is regarded as being a progressive man thoroughly in touch with modern progress. [Illustration: E. C. WHITNEY Ottawa]