File 3 - Gofton, Alfred and Norm Schneider.

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Gofton, Alfred and Norm Schneider.

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SCA161-GA134-Accrual2003-21-3

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1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm, on mount 12 x 16 cm

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(1831-Present)

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The Schneider family were white settlers of what is now Kitchener, Ontario. Members of the family are the descendants of Johann Christoph Schneider, who was born in Germany, in Unteröwisheim, Baden, on August 27, 1831. His father, a farmer, was also Johann Christoph Schneider; his mother was Margarethe Elizabeth Zoller. He left Germany in 1847 when he was sixteen years old and settled in Berlin, Ontario, where a substantial German settlement already existed. He worked as a carpenter and later as a mechanic, and by 1858 was a building contractor. He married Anna Elizabeth Metz on April 26, 1857. They had seven children, of whom John Metz Schneider, founder of the meat packing firm later known as the Schneider Corp., was the first. Johann Christoph died in December 20, 1900. He, along with his descendants, played active roles in business, politics, and the cultural and social life of what is today the Region of Waterloo.

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Fully body studio portrait of Norm Schneider and Alfred Schneider Gofton. Norm is standing with arm on Alfred's shoulder. Both are wearing coveralls with a shirt and tie underneath.

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Scanned as TIF file August 2020.

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Blue pen inscription on verso: "Norm Schneider / Alf Gofton."

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Blue ink inscription on post-it attached to verso: "Alf was the son of / J.M.'s sister Elizabeth (Gofton) / His father mistreated him / + his mother died young. / Alf moved in with J.M.'s / family + was like a brother / to Norm all his life."

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