In 1886, at the age of 16, he helped build the first schoolhouse in the New Cumberland area and vowed he was not going to attend since he helped build it. Conseqently, head strong and outgoing, he never learned to read and write. Born on the South Shore in Nova Scotia, he emigrated to the US and lived in Winchendon MA on Alger St becoming a citizen in the thirties. He lost a finger working in the woods as an axman and spoke English with the old German syntax and mannerisms. "It was a tick of fog." He was a Red Sox fan and listened to their games on the radio after he became blind. He never married. His father was Johann Peter Wambach 1827-1888 and his mother, Mary Matilda Gorkum 1835-1901? of the New Cumberland/Mt Pleasant area near Bridgewater on the LaHave River, Nova Scotia Canada. Burial in Evergreen Cemetary in Woodville section of Hopkinton, MA, USA, next to his nephew Gordon W. Corkum, near his sister Elizabeth Bushen.
In 1886, at the age of 16, he helped build the first schoolhouse in the New Cumberland area and vowed he was not going to attend since he helped build it. Conseqently, head strong and outgoing, he never learned to read and write. Born on the South Shore in Nova Scotia, he emigrated to the US and lived in Winchendon MA on Alger St becoming a citizen in the thirties. He lost a finger working in the woods as an axman and spoke English with the old German syntax and mannerisms. "It was a tick of fog." He was a Red Sox fan and listened to their games on the radio after he became blind. He never married. His father was Johann Peter Wambach 1827-1888 and his mother, Mary Matilda Gorkum 1835-1901? of the New Cumberland/Mt Pleasant area near Bridgewater on the LaHave River, Nova Scotia Canada. Burial in Evergreen Cemetary in Woodville section of Hopkinton, MA, USA, next to his nephew Gordon W. Corkum, near his sister Elizabeth Bushen.
