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Schantz Russell family fonds.
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Schantz family reunion.

Material related to the Schantz family reunion. Includes publicity, correspondence, ephemera, planning and financial information.

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Artwork.

One mounted painting of a jack-in-the-pulpit flower, one watercolour landscape signed by D.E.W., and one reverse painting on glass of puppies.

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Sheet music.

Approximately one hundred pieces of sheet music from the Schantz household, many belonging to Florence Annie Catherine Schantz or Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White). A list of titles is included in the box.

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Manuscripts: J. N. Moyer.

Three manuscript poems from J. N. Moyer to the children of Tobias and Mary Schantz while they were living in Conestoga, Ont., one entitled "Johnny's Address to Santa Claus" dated Dec. 24, 1878, one illustrated calligraphic manuscript New Year's poem: "1879 AD, Affectionately Inscribed to His Nephews and Nieces, by J. N. Moyer", and one entitled "Six Children Beloved" dated Jan. 21, 1879.

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Ephemera: postcards.

One packet of 20 souvenir photographs of Montreal and six packets of souvenir postcards, including the Canadian Rockies, Lookout Mountain in Colorado, Washington D.C., Canadian National Exhibition and Chatham, Ont.

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Ephemera: memorial cards received.

Memorial cards, some including clippings, received by members of the family, including eight in stamped envelopes. People included:

  • Bair, Henry Clay
  • Bowman, Abram O. (d. July 10, 1929) - includes clipping
  • Bowman, Allan (d. April 7, 1928)
  • Bowman, Joshua Snyder (d. April 8, 1895)
  • Bowman, Maria (May 17, 1921)
  • Bowman, Mary (March 6, 1815 - August 24, 1901)
  • Burkholder, Samuel (January 2, 1816 - March 12, 1893)
  • Eby, Catharine (d. July 6, 1909)
  • Eby, Hannah (d. May 27, 1883)
  • Detwiler, Lenora (d. April 30, 1913)
  • Hallman, Magdalena (d. June 19, 1888)
  • Hilborn, Carrie E. (d. July 1, 1895)
  • Honsberger, Mary (d. February 21, 1899)
  • Kolb, Jacob Z. (d. June 3, 1919)
  • Kolb, Mary (d. Marcy 13, 1900)
  • Lackner, William A. (d. November 2, 1906)
  • Lindner, Adelina (d. May 16, 1906)
  • Martin, Benjamin F. (d. September 9, 1917)
  • Meyers, Annie Louise (d. September 13, 1906)
  • Meyer, Elizabeth B. (d. June 14, 1929) - includes clipping
  • Meyers, Eliah (June 7, 1837 - June 27, 1927)
  • Meyers, Hilda (d. July 31, 1907)
  • Meyers, Sarah M. (July 23, 1846 - November 16, 1928)
  • Millar, Alexander (November 4, 1835 - December 11, 1918)
  • Moyer, Joseph B. (d. August 3, 1891)
  • Nahrgang, Mary (d. December 26, 1921)
  • Oberholtzer, Elizabeth (March 31, 1910)
  • Plowman, Geo. (d. August 21, 1891)
  • Rodgers, Edith Cameron
  • Schneider, David B. (d. November 28, 1928) - includes clippings
  • Shantz, Josiah (November 18, 1861 - April 28, 1908)
  • Shantz, Josiah (December 5, 1834 - August 3, 1913)
  • Shaw, Elizabeth (d. December 2, 1894)
  • Snider, Menno (d. February 9, 1917)
  • Snyder, Alda (March 5, 1911)
  • Snyder, Angeline (d. May 12, ?)
  • Snyder, Ruth Magdalena (August 4, 1911)
  • Standen, Frances Emma (October 22, 1916)
  • Swartz, Nancy (d. May 24, 1917)
  • Swartz, Sarah (November 23, 1917)
  • Weaver, Elizabeth (July 13, 1858 - November 24, 1928)
  • Weaver, Ella (August 25, 1875 - September 3, 1917) - includes clippings
  • Woodward, W.S. (November 5, 1904)

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Ephemera: invitation.

One invitation to the graduation ceremony for the Senior Class of Colorado College. Homer LeRoy Schantz (nephew of Tobias Schantz) graduated with a S.B.

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Fond greetings.

Blank card with scalloped edging featuring rose, forsythia, a white dove and a hand holding a card that reads: "With fond greetings!"

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Easter greetings.

Easter Greetings card featuring tulips, birch trees and a cottage. It reads: "A greeting of friendliness / At Easter with best wishes / For your happiness".

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Christmas and New Year greetings.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year post card sent from Elizabeth Shantz to Tobias Schantz (spelled without a "c"). The front of the postcard includes an illustration of childlike angels, pine boughs and a quotes from the Bible. They read: "I am the Light of the world. S.Jno. 8:12" and "In they light shall we see light. Ps.36.9" The verso includes a written message from Elizabeth wishing Tobias a nice Christmas.

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Christmas greetings.

Christmas greeting card sent from Walter, Margery + Dorothy Spelman to their great-grandfather, Tobias Kolb Schantz. The card features an illustrated string of garland and three movable Christmas trees. It reads: "Christmas Greetings / Behind each Christmas tree / Hidden from view / You'll find a Christmas wish / From me ~ to You."

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Christmas greetings.

Christmas greeting card featuring an illustrated winter scene with a snow covered church and a robin perched on a tree branch on front with the message: "May Your Christmas Both Happy and Merry Be." The verso includes excerpts from Josiah Gilbert Holland's poem "A Christmas Carol".

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Christmas greetings

Christmas greeting card from Nellie Shoemaker to uncle Tobias Schantz featuring two swallows, holly and a snow covered landscape.

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Best wishes.

Christmas card booklet featuring illustrated lilacs and a "Best Wishes" greeting on the front cover "From Eliza to Uncle Tobias". The booklet contains the lyrics for the hymn "Like a river, glorious".

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Ephemera: drinking cups.

Three paper drinking cups made from waterproof paper material. The front features an illustration of three seated adults raising glasses in salute and the back features an advertisement for Wolf American High Art Cycles with an illustrated bicycle.

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Ephemera: Central Methodist Church calendar.

One calendar from the Central Methodist Church located in Toronto for the date November 14, 1920. The service on that date included the unvieling of a memorial plaque to congregation members that died in World War I.

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Ephemera: Berlin/Kitchener.

Eight local advertising items, including one photo advertising card, blotters and calendars. Includes one Waterloo item for the Ontario Equitable Life and Accident Insurance Co.

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Birthday book.

An illustrated volume entitled, The Sands of Time: A Book of Birthday Gems. Chicago: Donohue Brothers, ca. 1885, printed with quotations for every day of the year, with facing pages blank for insertion of birthday information. Entries present are in several hands and represent friends, relatives and family members.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

Schantz Russell Family

Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence. Includes a receipt for bronchitis containing Indian Turnip, goldthread and whiskey.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence. Includes a transcription[?] of the "Family Register" starting with Isaac Schantz in 1774. Also notes: " Cousin Benjamin Shantz started for the North West on Monday 13 March, 1893. Cousin Benjamin Erb with Family started for the North West on Tuesday 14th March 1893. Moved. 15-3-93 Very Cold and Stormy. Walked from Dundee to Mannheim, to Petersburg & home, froze ear and tips of fingers..

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

Schantz Russell Family

Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information, and more in one chronological sequence. This 1889 notebook contains an account of Tobias' bad dream about his wife joining the Salvation Army, recipes for jelly cake, and a receipt for liver complaint.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information, and more in one chronological sequence.

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Diaries: ledger.

This ledger contains Tobias Schantz's business and personal accounts for several periods, 1865-1869, 1873-1879. Part of the ledger is filled with lists of orders taken for books between 1893 and 1898, and orders taken for nursery stock from E.D. Smith, ca. 1895, from Stone and Wellington, 1901-1902 and from J.N. Wismer. Unused space in the first part of the ledger is filled in with closely-written diary entries for 1871-1872 in which Tobias recounts his daily routine. Lists of family information, including birth dates, places, naming, school beginnings, etc. appear on p. 44-45 and [64]. Other notes appear at random, including receipts, lists of hens set and poultry weights, copies of business letters, and "Cost of Church Trial" [this last found near the end of the ledger] dated 1895. Several items are laid into this ledger, including maps of Cuba, an engraving, a seed catalogue cover, a clipping, and an assessment notice to T. Schantz dated 1899.

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Diaries: 1867.

Diary entries begin with March 8, 1867, but this whole section is marked cancelled and is re-copied starting April 8, 1867. It begins with a record of Tobias' trip to Missouri to see his father, leaving his wife Mary Schantz (nee Moyer) with their 3-year old son Orpheus and new baby Etta, born the previous October. Tobias' father Benjamin with his second wife Margaret and children had gone to homestead near Wellville, west of St. Louis, in 1866. Tobias records his impressions of the countryside, the people, the prospects, the discouragement of all but his father with life in Missouri (March 17th). On July 2 he returns to Canada to where he is then living (near "Campden" --Grimsby within walking distance.) Throughout the diary Tobias records the weather and a daily health bulletin, letters sent and received, as well as his daily reading. He goes through periods of recording his meals. Tobias also lists all the work he does every day. He mentions setting the water for porridge, making the bed, polishing his son's shoes, carrying the baby to church, etc. On Nov. 9 he took a bath, on Nov. 25 he "did not sleep short of midnight. Was talking with Mary about my thought, troubles about religion ...". All parts of the diary have been filled with writing, dating as far as 1889 -- some accounts, recipes both household and medical (many give source), a record of the family tree -- births, marriages, deaths, transcribed songs, and an account probably written in Conestogo ca. 1875 of his spiritual trials and tribulations dating from 1862 and his efforts to achieve inner peace. This account is continued in the "other book," although it is not clear what book this referred to.

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Diaries: 1867.

Leather covered notebook used as a diary. Entries begin May 9th, 1867 during Tobias' trip on the American prairie and continue through his return to Canada. Tobias likely copied from this notebook into the diary which contains entries for the same time period. This book has been written in also by a child, possibly Florence Annie Catherine Schantz.

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Character references.

Four character references: 1.) Samuel Nash Moyer, Late Head-Master of the Port Elgin School, Clinton, Ont., 1864. 2.) S.F. Eisenhour [sic], Agt. For I.H. Defrees, Syracuse, Ind., 1865. 3) F.J. Crowder, Preacher in Charge of Pt. Elgin Mission, Canada Conference, 1867. 4.) Rev. A.M. McCulloch, Moorefield, Ont., 1884. Correspondence not indexed.

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Singer Manufacturing Co.

One promissory note signed by Mary Schantz (nee Moyer), 1893 as well as a copy of Lease and a copy of Premium, or agreement between Singer and prospective agents or employees setting out terms of employment and compensation, filled out with Tobias Schantz's name as employee.

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Phrenological chart, approved by O. S. Fowler.

A large printed broadside, filled in by the phrenological practitioner. The chart, on blue paper, was printed by Shaw & Moon, Book and Job Printers, Metcalfe St., Elora, C.W. Tobias Schantz was examined 18 February 1861 by Sarah Arm [Ann?] Daniels.

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Organ receipts and notes.

Promissory notes and receipts relating to the purchase of an organ from Charles W. Kelly, Guelph, Ont., Dealer in Bell Pianos and Organs.

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Ledger.

This ledger contains Tobias Schantz's business and personal accounts for the period 1866-1869. Empty space in the ledger has been filled in between 1917 and 1922 with Tobias' orders taken for nursery stock from E.D. Smith Co., from J.N. Wismer, Nurseryman, Port Elgin, and from Brown Brothers Company, for all of whom he acted as an agent. He includes the name, address and varieties of plant stock ordered. This ledger documents how people lived their daily lives and what money was spent on.

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House: 43 Schneider Ave.: rent and mortgage receipts.

Receipt book, possibly belonging to Samuel B. Schneider, containing mostly stubs for house rent and mortgage interest, that was likely filled out and kept by Tobias and signed by Samuel B. Schneider as necessary, as some other stubs relate to Tobias' affairs.

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Homestead documents for Didsbury, Alberta.

Correspondence with the Dominion Lands Office, Interim Homestead Receipt, Notice to Show Cause, Certificate of Recommendation for Homestead Patent, tax and assessment notices and receipts for the SW quarter of Section 30, Township 30, Range 2, West of the 5th Meridian, District of South Alberta . Correspondence not indexed.

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Ephemera: envelopes.

Various envelopes addressed to Tobias Schantz or found with his material. Note that these do not correspond with any item of correspondence.

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Ephemera.

Business and advertising cards, some for nurserymen. Also contains two reciepts, one for coal and one for dry goods.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.This daybook documents Tobias' stay in Didsbury, Alberta.

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Diaries: notebook.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence. Includes notes on calls made, customers quotes and orders, pasted in editorials, deaths of relatives and friends as well as Tobias' hand written draft of his daughter Etta's obituary which contains information on her life, marriage, children, and more.

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Schantz, Tobias Kolb.

Material created and accumulated by Tobias Kolb Schantz. Includes diaries, ephemera, school material, character references, and household and homesteading records.

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Notebook: Moyer family birth dates, diary notes.

A small bound volume printed in 1868 by Dan'l Hoffman & Co., Wholesale Dealers in Hats ..., New York. It contains two leaves of advertising and two leaves of notes, including the following: a list of names and birth dates of parents and siblings of Mary Schantz (nee Moyer), notes made by Mary Schantz on journey with her sister Sophia Emma Schantz and Sophia's new husband, John Book, with comments and notes added later by one of the Schantz children.

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Manuscripts.

Short holograph school essays by Mary Schantz (nee Moyer), many with corrections. One is dated Brantford, 1861.

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Schantz, Mary.

Material created and accumulated by Mary Schantz (nee Moyer). Includes a genealogy notebook and school essays.

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Valentine's card.

One elaborate Valentine's card bearing an engraved image of a child dressed in what appears to be late nineteenth-century apparel. An embossed envelope is included with card.

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Titania's palace : postcards.

Eight postcards which constitute the complete first set of Titania's Palace series no. 1 postcards by Tuck's Post Cards. A note on verso of card 4 indicates that they were produced sometime after 1904.

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