Louis Breithaupt (tanner)
Louis Breithaupt | |
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Berlin, Ontario | |
Predecessor | Hugo Kranz |
Successor | John Motz |
Spouse |
Catharine Hailer
(m. 1853–1880) |
Children | 11, including Louis Jacob |
Parents |
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Philip Ludwig "Louis" Breithaupt (8 November 1827 – 3 July 1880) was a German-born tanner and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of Berlin (today known as Kitchener) from 1879 to 1880.[1]
Biography
The son of Liborius Breithaupt, a tanner, and Catherine Goetze, he was born in
On a trip to Canada to buy sheepskins, Breithaupt met his future wife, Catharine Hailer of Berlin.[1] She was the daughter of wheelwright Jacob Hailer,[2] who was an early German settler in Berlin.[3] They were married on 8 February 1853,[2] beginning the process that would end with Breithaupt relocating himself to Berlin. His three eldest sons, Louis Jacob, William Henry, and John Christian, who would later become locally prominent in their own right, were born in Buffalo before the move, in 1855, 1857, and 1859 respectively. In 1857, Breithaupt opened a tannery in Berlin in partnership with his new brother-in-law, Jacob Wagner, who soon died in the next year of 1858.[1] Breithaupt at first tried to manage the Berlin tannery from Buffalo, but was frustrated by the situation, and ultimately made the decision to relocate to Berlin and concentrate his business operations there. He did so in 1861, selling off his share in the business he had started with his father to Schoellkopf and focusing entirely on managing his Berlin tannery.[1]
Breithaupt quickly became a prominent local figure in Berlin. In 1862, he paid $10,000 for the construction of the three-storey American Block at the northeast corner of
In 1866, Breithaupt was elected to the
In 1880, while still in office as the mayor of Berlin, Louis Breithaupt died.[3] He is buried in Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery.[2] His three sons co-managed the Breithaupt leather company after his death, and would continue under family management and ownership until its sale in 1967.
Descendants
The following chart displays some notable members of the Breithaupt family and their parents, and does not include all people in the family.[2]
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See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Louis Breithaupt 1827-1880". Your Heritage Waterloo Region. Archived from the original on 2014-09-25. Retrieved 2014-09-25.
- ^ Region of Waterloo. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ a b Hayes, Geoffery (1999). "From Berlin to the Trek of the Conestoga: A Revisionist Approach to Waterloo County's German Identity" (PDF). Ontario History. 91 (2). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ mills, rych (16 January 2017). "Flash from the Past: Before Canada there was the American Block". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Region Hall of Fame". Waterloo Region Museum.