| Birth |
8 Oct 1855 |
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| Sex |
Male |
| Eby ID |
00002-241 |
| Person ID |
I15417 |
| Last Modified |
26 Jul 2004 |
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| Father |
Jacob B. Baumann, b. 26 Dec 1827 |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Oberholtzer, b. 8 Oct 1831, Bloomingdale, Waterloo C., Ontario |
| Group Sheet |
F2616 |
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| Family 1 |
Agnes Babcock |
| Children |
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| Group Sheet |
F3945 |
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| Family 2 |
Susannah Detweiler |
| Children |
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| Group Sheet |
F3946 |
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| Notes |
Abram O. Bowman, "was born October 8th, 1855. In his younger days he chose the mercantile life as his calling. When seventeen years of age he commenced clerking for Messrs H. and C. Boehmer of Berlin (now The Boehmer Co.), in whose services he remained for eight years. In 1889 he went into partnership with Mr. George Giller to start a general store in Berlin. They are still in partnership and doing a well paying business. He was first married to Agnes Babcock and after her decease he married Susannah Detweiler. His family consists of three children, namely: Eva and Marion of the first wife; and Jacob Harold of the second marriage." |
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| Sources |
1. [S2] Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra Eby, 147 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
2. [S1] Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 106 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
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| Photos |  | Freeport Academy Teachers & Students
A copy of a photograph of the teachers and students of Freeport Academy taken about 1869. The photograph was printed in the 1924 edition of the Waterloo Historical Society annual, page 110. |
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