A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
Talbot Papers with Preface, Introduction and Annotations” (1909);
“Pathfinders, of the Great Lakes” (1912); “The Indian Occupation of
Southern Ontario” (1916). In religion Dr. Coyne is a Methodist, and
finds recreation in golf.
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=Breithaupt, Louis J.= (Kitchener, Ont.), Leather Manufacturer, is
President of the Breithaupt Leather Company, Limited, with tanneries at
Kitchener, Penetanguishene and Woodstock, and Secretary of the Hastings
Tanning Company, Limited, Hastings, Ont. For years Mr. Breithaupt was a
member of the Berlin—now Kitchener—City Council as Councillor, Deputy
Reeve, Reeve and Mayor, which last office he held for two years. He was
also a member of the Waterloo County Council; Warden of the County in
1898, and a member of the Provincial Legislature of Ontario from 1900 to
1902. His fellow-citizens, in fact, have honored this representative
Canadian with practically every office in their gift, he having also
been Chairman of the Schools and Park Boards, and at various times
President of what was then the Berlin Board of Trade. He has taken an
active interest in the work of the local Canadian Patriotic Fund, of
which he was Vice-President for two and a half years, and afterward
became President. Mr. Breithaupt was on the first board of the
Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital and has been a Director of the Economical
Fire Insurance Company of Kitchener for many years, and also a Director
and member of the Executive Board of the Mutual Life Assurance Company
of Canada, whose head office is at Waterloo, Ont. Louis Breithaupt is
the eldest son of Louis and Catharine (Hailer) Breithaupt, his
grandfather having come to Waterloo County in 1831, where he was one of
the earliest manufacturers and built the fifth or sixth house in the
embryo city of Berlin. At the time of his demise in 1880, after an
active life, Mr. Louis Breithaupt, Senior, was its Mayor. The subject of
this sketch was born at Buffalo, N.Y., March 3, 1855, and was educated
in the Public and Grammar Schools of Berlin (now Kitchener), and in
Toronto. He married Emma Alvarene, second daughter of the late Benjamin
Devitt, J.P., ex-Mayor of Waterloo, by whom he has eight children,
Louise Evelyn, Emma Lilian, Martha Edna, Rose Melvina, Louis Orville,
William Walter, Catharine Olive and Paul Theodore. Among his clubs are
the Grand River, Country and Golf, and Kitchener Clubs, of Kitchener,
and the Ontario, of Toronto. He is a member of the Evangelical
Association in religion, and an Independent Liberal in politics.
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