Jessie Watt was born in Galva Illinois on June 30, 1878 to Charles R. and Mary C. (née Ward) Watt. She married Ela Moyer on June 13, 1899 at her sister Mrs. F.M. Ferris' home in Danville, Illinois. She died in 1961 and was buried in Parkholm Cemetery.
Levi Nash Moyer was born in Ontario to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on June 19, 1845. He emigrated to the United States at twenty years of age first going to Illinois before settling in Cedar Falls, Iowa and work for several years in the dry goods industry. He moved to Chicago in 1890 where he worked with Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company. Moyer eventually landed in Plainfield, New Jersey where he spent the last seven years of his life.
He married Mary Elizabeth Raymond (1851-1914) on June 20, 1871 in La Salle, Illinois. Together they had six children. Levi died in April 13, 1919 in Bridgewater, New Jersey at the home of his son Harry.
Louise Moyer was born February 24, 1880 in Cedar Falls, Iowa to to Samuel and Emma Moyer. She graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College in 1900, teaching at the school for two years as a faculty member, before relocating with her family to Chicago and then Plainfield, New Jersey where she pursed a career in banking. She also attended the American Institute of Banking and completed post-graduate courses at New York University. Moyer retired from the Plainfield Trust Company in 1948 after a 30 year career with the company. During that time she worked as a head teller in the women's department before taking on roles as trust solicitor and director of publicity and new business.
Moyer was active in the Plainfield community serving as one time board member and finance chairman of the YWCA. She was a charter member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Plainfield and was as the group's president from 1919-1922. She was also affiliated with the Plainfield Art Association and Historical Society, and was at one point the director of the Financial Advertisers Association. She was a member of the Plainfield College Club and the Plainfield Branch of the American Association of University Women. In 1936 she was named as one of Plainfield's outstanding women by the Business and Professional Women's Club.
Moyer died in Belle Mead, New Jersey on February 24, 1958 and was buried at Hillside Cemetery.
Born February 3, 1881 in Canada.
Mary Elizabeth Raymond was born April 17, 1851 in New York City to John Coe and Elizabeth (nee Bladwin) Raymond. She married Reverend Levi Nash Moyer in La Salle, Illinois on June 20, 1871. Together they had six children. Mary Elizabeth died March 2, 1914 in Bridgewater, New Jersey at the home of her son, Harry Rollin Moyer. She was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Mary Gross Nash was born to Abraham Abram Nash (1778-1823) and Mary Krall Gross (1778-1861) on March 2, 1808 in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Mary married Abraham Bechtel Moyer on March 23, 1830. The couple had nine children; Anna N. Moyer (1831-?), Tobias Moyer (1832-1909), Samuel Gross Moyer (1835-?), Abraham Nash Moyer (1837-?), Mary Gross Moyer (1840-1935), Jacob Nash Moyer (1842-?), Levi Nash Moyer (1845-1916), Sophia Nash Moyer (1847-1870), Jessie Gross Moyer (1850-?).
Mary died on November 8, 1885 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Born July 7, 1877.
Samuel Gross Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on March 19, 1835 in Lincoln, Ontario. He married Emma Brainard Bliss on May 22, 1867. Samuel died in 1917 and was buried Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Illinois.
Sophia Nash Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on October 10, 1847 in Haldimand Co., Ontario.
She married John H. Book in 1869.
Sophia died on November 13, 1870 in Lafayette, Missouri, United States.
Tobias Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) in 1832.
He died on December 28, 1909 in Kitchener, Ontario.
Ronald Cleveland Mullin was Waterloo Distinguished Professor Emeritus and the first person to receive a degree from the Waterloo; an MA in mathematics in 1960. Mullin completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, and after taking his doctorate in 1964 he joined the Faculty of Mathematics. During his tenure at Waterloo, Mullin acted as chair of Combinatorics and Optimization, and contributed to the establishment of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He was named a Distinguished Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1996. The following year, Mullin was the first recipient awarded the Stanton Medal by the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications. Mullin died at the age of 89 on March 6, 2026 in Cambridge, Ontario.
Mary Anne Daley was born ca. 1817 on the Isle of Wight. She and her husband John Mulloy (ca. 1817-February 28, 1894) had three children, one of whom was Dr. Nelson Mulloy (1842-1913). Mary Ann and John Mulloy are both buried in the Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Ontario.
Nelson Mulloy, physician, was born February 15, 1842 to John Mulloy and Mary Ann Daley Mulloy. He married Elizabeth Hanley Chapman on August 2, 1869 in Doon, Ontario. He died on August 28, 1913.
Martha Magdalena Anthes was born to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker in North Perth, Ontario, October 18, 1869. She was educated as a teacher, and is listed in the 1901 census as lodging with Jared and Ellen Creary and teaching in Assiniboia East, Wapella, North West Territories. She married John A. Munn also of Wapella (date unknown) and the couple had a son, Robert Anthes born March 11, 1904 in Saskatchewan. A daughter Elizabeth Sutherland was born in Kitchener April 9, 1907. Another son, Arthur was born circa 1908. The 1916 census of Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan finds John and Martha living with their sons, Robert A., aged 12 and Arthur, aged 8. There is no mention of the child Elizabeth in this census record. Martha Munn died in 1944, John in 1960 and they are interred in Wolseley Cemetery, Saskatchewan.
Emily Ferguson Murphy was born in Cookstown, Ontario in 1868 and educated at Bishop Strachan School, Toronto. She married Rev. Arthur Murphy in 1887. In 1916 she was appointed by the Alberta Government as the first woman Magistrate in the British Empire. It was she who inaugurated and brought to a successful issue the movement that resulted in the Privy Council, in 1929, declaring that women were "persons" under the British North America Act, and therefore had a right to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. She was the first President of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada. Prime mover in the establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Edmonton 1910, she was the first woman member of the hospital board in the City of Edmonton. In 1911 she organized the Women's Canadian Club in Edmonton and was elected as their first President. Under the pen name "Janey Canuck" she was well known as a writer. In 1913 she was elected National President of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1915 she was decorated by His Majesty the King as Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Miss Oktoberfest 1991.
Kenneth G. Murray was a Canadian philanthropist, salesman, and founder of the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program at the University of Waterloo. He was born in 1924 in Chatham, Ont. and served in the Canadian Navy from 1943 to 1945. Murray was educated at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ont. and received a B.SC. (Agriculture) in 1950.
From 1950 to 1987 Murray worked for J.M. Schneider in Kitchener, Ont., starting as a salesman and becoming president, a position he filled from 1969 to 1985. He served as a director on the boards of several corporations: Homewood Health Centre and Corporation in Guelph, Ont.; Canada Trust in London, Ont.; and B.F. Goodrich, Dominion Life Insurance Co. Ltd and J.M. Schneider Inc. in Kitchener, Ont. Murray also actively supported, in person and financially, many community organizations and initiatives as well as educational facilities and opportunities in Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph. These include the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Westmount Golf Club, Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation, K-W Oktoberfest, Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, Kitchener Young Men's Club, Kitchener Public School Board and the Kitchener-Waterloo Operatic Society.
In 1993 Murray initiated the Homewood Foundation in Guelph, a fundraising and granting agency for mental health research, education and patient care. The Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have benefited from his involvement. At the University of Guelph he initiated the Science and Society Project and the Ken Murray Annual Lecture Series, was on the Board of Governors from 1971 to 1979 and served on several committees and in fundraising campaigns. At the University of Waterloo Ken Murray initiated the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP) in 1992.
Murray received many honours and awards in the course of his lifetime, including the Order of Canada in 2000, and The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee medal in 2002. He received honourary degrees from the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo in 1996 and 1995 respectively.
Murray died March 2, 2019 in Guelph and was buried at Ayr Cemetery.
Music Four was a group of on- and off-campus musicians at the University of Waterloo. Consisting of 4 to 12 specialist musicians, the group performed period music, often performing in collaboration with the Renaissance Dancers who presented court dances of English, French, and Spanish origin under the direction of Jillian Officer of the Department of Kinesiology.
The Muskoka Lakes Association was organized in 1894 by a group of summer cottagers, and since then has worked on behalf of permanent or part-time residents of Lakes Muskoka, Rosseau and Joseph. "The Association was established to unite all those interested in the lakes and their vicinities in order to protect and promote the interests of property owners, cottagers and tourists, preserve the safe, healthful and sanitary condition and scenic beauty of the lakes; and to encourage skill and prudence in aquatic sports ... Association members were instrumental in forming the Muskoka Lakes Golf and Country Club, which is the scene of the annual regattas and other Association-sponsored activities. The Association has had a major influence on the history of the lakes since the beginning of the century."
Issues of interest to the Association since its beginnings have always included both political and environmental concerns: roads and other transportation facilities serving the area, sanitation standards, well-marked waters, fishing, fire and police services, taxation, water and air quality, acid rain, boating safety, and any other factors contributing to the health, security and pleasure of those living in and around the lakes.
International Association of Parents & Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth was founded in 1975 by David and Lee Stewart. They were inspired to found the organization after being unable to find help for their own home birth, and after over a decade of work in Missouri advocating for alternatives to hospital based births. At its peak the organization had 8,000 members and was focused on lobbying for alternatives to hospital births including midwifery, home births, and natural births.
The National Alliance is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi political organization. Founded in 1974 by William Luther Pierce, the group was formed after Pierce split from his former group the National Youth Alliance. At its height it was the largest neo-Nazi group in America. Pierce also owned a white supremest record label and music magazine. After Pierce's death in 2002 changes in leadership lead to the downfall of the organization, with only a few dozen members remaining by 2016.
The British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA), now called the White Ribbon Association (WRA), is a temperance organization that was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1876 with the goal of education the public about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. They became an affiliate member of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1885, and in 1893 a schism split the group into the Women's Total Abstinence Union and the National British Women's Temperance Association who campaigned also for suffrage. in 2004 the organization changed its name to the White Ribbon Association and today it offers free resources focusing on health education relating to alcohol, drugs and gambling.
The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship was the successor of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Eleanor Rathbone was the first president of the society and members included Irene Hancock, Elizabeth Macadam, Eva Marian Hubback, and Corbett Ashby. The society disbanded in 1928 after women received equal suffrage.
Ira George Needles was an industrial executive and university administrator who served as chancellor at the University of Waterloo from 1966 to 1975. Needles was born September 1, 1893 in Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa to Elson Reed Needles and Anna Edna Hunter. He and his wife Marian had three children, Lauranna Jones, William and Myron (Bud). After school, Needles began working at B. F. Goodrich (now known as Goodrich Corporation) in 1916 in Akron, Ohio. He moved to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1925 after Goodrich purchased the Ames-Holden Rubber Company, and worked at its office as an assistant sales manager, and was eventually promoted to several positions including general manager of the tire division (1930), vice-president of sales, and chairman of the board (1958). After 26 years, he eventually rose to the position of president of B.F. Goodrich Canada, in 1951. He resigned from B.F. Goodrich in 1960.
In the summer of 1956, Needles gave a speech at the Rotary Club of Kitchener-Waterloo entitled WANTED: 150,000 Engineers – The Waterloo Plan. In this presentation, Needles offered a different approach to education that would include both studies in the classroom and training in industry that would eventually become the basis of the cooperative education program at the University of Waterloo. Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) planned to open a science faculty that would become known as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties in 1957. Needles—along with his B.F. Goodrich colleague, then-president of Waterloo College, and first president of the University of Waterloo, Gerald Hagey—founded the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, which later became the University of Waterloo, with Needles' vision of a cooperative education program that involved industry. After founding the university, Needles served as chairman of its board of governors from 1956 to 1966 and then became chancellor from 1966 to 1975.
Ira Needles died on January 6, 1986.
During World War II, Needles served as a technical advisor for the Government of Canada to help ration rubber, which was a strategic material during the war. After the war, he founded the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where his son, William, became an actor.
Mabel Edena Neiley was born in Greenwood, Nova Scotia on September 27, 1887 (although some census records indicate 1889 as her birth year). She lived in Greenwood, Kingston, and Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) before migrating to the United States of America on December 11, 1913.
Neiley trained as a nurse and was called into active service on July 1, 1918. Since then and until April 15, 1920, Neiley worked as a U.S. Army nurse living in New York, Washington D.C., Georgia, and Ohio being part of the nursing U.S. staff during part of the First World War and the 1918 Influenza pandemic. During that time, she served in at least three hospitals: Walter Reeds in Washington D.C., Camp Gordon in Georgia, and the Columbus Barracks in Ohio.
In March 1925, Neiley moved to Los Angeles County and lived in Palo Alto, Pasadena, and Ventura. While in California, Neiley worked at the Pasadena Preventorium (Pasadena, California) as a nurse and superintendent.
Mabel E. Neiley died in Ventura (California) on March 14, 1976, at 88 and is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles.
NBBS was established on February 25, 1940 and aired radio programmes until April 1945.