Owner : Simon S. Snyder

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Item Name	Account Books	Image1 Image2
Other Owner(s)	Nil
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1863 - Late: 1907
Description	Seven Account Books from the pharmacy of J.S. Hoffman, later owned by Moses Springer and Simon S. Snyder, Waterloo, Ontario. The Account Books were used to record prescriptions, listing the name of the patient, the components of the preparation and, in some cases, the price.
Provenance	A history of the Hahn Pharmacy is as follows (from a typewritten account provided by the donor): The pharmacy opened January 1, 1863, probably by Mr. J. S. Hoffman. The store was purchased January 29, 1868 from Mr. Hoffman by Mr. Moses Springer and Mr. Simon Snyder. Both men were well-known in Waterloo's early history. Mr. Moses Springer was the first Reeve of the town of Waterloo in 1857, and was the town's first mayor in 1876. He later became M.P.P. Mr. Snyder was mayor of Waterloo in 1895-6, and was described as "a chemist and druggist, and is doing an extensive business in the town of Waterloo, where he carries a complete line of drugs, chemicals, druggists' sundries and pharmaceutical preparations." An advertisement in the Waterloo Chronicle dated Mar. 4, 1868 announced Springer and Snyder were successors to Mr. J. S. Hoffman, and had purchased his stock "to be sold very cheap". Subsequent ads stated "Physicians' prescriptions and family receipts, carefully compounded, and all orders promptly attended to". On January 26, 1873, Simon Snyder purchased Mr. Springer's share. On June 1, 1902, Mr. A. J. Roos bought out Mr. Snyder. At this time, Mr. Roos also had a drug store in Berlin. The Waterloo store was called the White Front Drug Store. In April, 1906, Mr. A. G. Haehnel bought the Waterloo store from Mr. Roos. On May 1, 1907, Mr. M. J. Hahn started working for Mr. Haehnel. He later graduated from O.C.P. in 1913, and (was) still working 69 years later. On April 1st 1949, Mr. Hahn purchased the pharmacy from Mr. Haehnel. On Nov. 1st, 1968, Mr. J. E. Hahn, son of Mr. M. J. Hahn, took over the business. Under A. G. Haehnel, the drug store was one of the first Rexall drug stores in Canada, according to the donor. According to a former President of the Rexall Drug Company of Canada, Rexall stores were first established in 1910. Mr. M. J. Hahn was born in Heidelburg, Ontario and was third-generation Canadian. He was confirmed in the High German language in a Lutheran church in Heidelburg. Both he and his wife spoke German at home (when they wanted to conceal information from their children, according to Mr. Jack Hahn). Some of their clientele at the drug store was of German ancestry, reflecting the composition of the Waterloo and Berlin urban areas. Mr. Jack Hahn stated that rural Mennonites or Pennsylvania Germans were not frequent visitors to their store, since there was more home doctoring among them.
Collection	Doon Heritage Crossroads Contact : 10 Huron Rd. Kitchener 519-748-1914 www.region.waterloo.on.ca/doon
Accession No.	985.039.001-.007

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