Eby, Ezra E. (1895). 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].
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The First Incubator
John Winger's pumpshop rested where George Potter's block now stands. Mr. Winger made pumps and broom-handles. In 1860 he leased part of the building to a group of American refugees for a cut-tobacco works. George Randall afterward bought the works and engaged Ralph Chamberlain as manager. Still later Wm. Oelschlager and Henry F. J. Jackson purchased the business and built a factory near the corner of Waterloo and Victoria Streets. Mr. Winger's incubator housed also Simpson & Aldous's furniture enterprise and Matthias Wegenast's sash, door, and washboard works.
A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 169
Eby, Ezra E. (1895). 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].
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The First Incubator
John Winger's pumpshop rested where George Potter's block now stands. Mr. Winger made pumps and broom-handles. In 1860 he leased part of the building to a group of American refugees for a cut-tobacco works. George Randall afterward bought the works and engaged Ralph Chamberlain as manager. Still later Wm. Oelschlager and Henry F. J. Jackson purchased the business and built a factory near the corner of Waterloo and Victoria Streets. Mr. Winger's incubator housed also Simpson & Aldous's furniture enterprise and Matthias Wegenast's sash, door, and washboard works.
A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 169
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