Fonds F 4413 - Ziegler family fonds

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Ziegler family fonds

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Archives of Ontario

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CA ON00009 F 4413

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[188-?]-[ca.1900] (Creation)

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49 photographs : black and white, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, prints

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Ziegler (family)

Biographical history

The Ziegler family lived in Wellesley Township and elsewhere in Waterloo County, Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jacob Ziegler (1824-1904) and Elizabeth Steiss (ca. 1827-1896) were German immigrants to Ontario, Ziegler arriving in 1844 and Steiss coming from the Grand Duchy of Baden. They were married, likely in Ontario, and by 1881 they lived on a farm in Wellesley Township, Waterloo County with a large family, which included children Henry, Barbara, Lydia, and Louisa. The Zieglers were Lutheran.

Henry A. Ziegler was born on 13 October 1866. He married a woman named Anna, and they had two sons, Gordon H. and Harvey William. By 1901, they lived in Waterloo.

Barbara Ziegler was born about 1858 and married Henry Scheifele [also spelled Schaufele] in 1880. She may have died in 1892.

Lydia Ziegler was born on 21 September 1867. She may have married a man named Huehnergard.

Louisa Ziegler was born on 24 February 1871 and married William H. Schaefer. They had several children, including Lizzie Ann, Delphina, and Edna.

Custodial history

Fonds was acquired with the records in C 135 (Kennedy family fonds). These records have been separated by the archivist because a connection between the two families could not be determined.

Scope and content

Fonds consists of prints of formal individual and group photographs of members of the Ziegler family and others, perhaps related, produced by a variety of studios in Canada and the United States, mostly in Berlin [Kitchener] and Waterloo, Ontario. Only a few prints bear inscriptions indicating subjects by name, and most of these are clearly members of the Ziegler family: Gordon and Harvey Ziegler, sons of Henry A. Ziegler and his wife Anna; and their cousins Lizzie Ann, Delphina, and Edna Schaefer, daughters of Louisa Ziegler and William H. Schaefer. There is one photograph of Lydia (Ziegler?) Huehnergard, possibly their aunt.

Represented in this fonds are photographic prints from studios in Ontario in Berlin (Green and Company; C. Schneuker; Seiler), Waterloo (A.C. Moyer; Heimbecker; I.W. Wilson; Edwards), Elmira (Levi Vost), and Toronto (W. Mathers; J.J. Milliken). Other studios were located in Boissevain, Manitoba (J.E. Miers), West Superior, Wisconsin (Berryman) and Le Mars, Iowa (Dabb; Brown).

A number of the photographs are in the form of cartes de visites produced by local photographers in Berlin (D.G. Denison; Lundy and Wilder), Waterloo (Lundy and Company; Heimbecker; D. Henzel; P. Reichert; I.W. Wilson), and Elmira (W. Marshall; S. Fischer).

Fonds includes printed funeral card for Elizabeth Ziegler, Henry's mother, who died in October 1896.

For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+4413?SESSIONSEARCH

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Fonds was acquired by the Archives of Ontario from William Kinrade in 1984.

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There are no restrictions on access.

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Records are in the public domain. There are no restrictions on reproduction, however permission of the Archives of Ontario is required for publication; submit a Request for Permission to Publish, Exhibit or Broadcast Form.

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