GA 197 : Rieder and Anthes family fonds.

Rieder and Anthes family fonds. - [ca. 1860], 1905-[200-], predominant 1905-1929. - 35 cm of textual records and graphic material.

Talmon Henry Rieder (1878-1922) was an industrialist and rubber company executive in Berlin (now Kitchener) and Montreal. He was born in New Hamburg, Ontario, to Peter and Emeline (Merner) Rieder. In 1899, he became the bookkeeper and a minor shareholder in the newly formed Berlin Rubber Company and was soon appointed as a director. In 1903, he and Jacob Kaufman organized the Merchants Rubber Company, and Rieder managed this Berlin factory until it was merged with several other footwear companies to become the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company in 1907. Rieder was vice-president and managing director of this company, responsible for all of its Canadian rubber factories, and in 1908 he became president. He also directed the operations of the Canadian Consolidated Felt Company. In 1912-1913, Rieder formed the Dominion Tire Company in Berlin (later Uniroyal). In 1919, he resigned from his positions in the Consolidated Rubber and Felt companies to assume the position of president and managing director of the Ames Holden McCready Company of Montreal, and began building up a large leather and rubber footwear system that included the construction of a second tire plant in Kitchener (later the B.F. Goodrich Company).

In addition to his work in the rubber industry, Rieder also had an interest in urban planning. When he became president of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company in 1908, he and his family moved to Montreal's developing Westmount area; however, he maintained his home in Berlin and an interest in his land holdings there. In 1911, he purchased several farms in the German Company Tract Lot 22, on the west side of Berlin, and had the lands surveyed and divided into lots. With three other partners he formed the Westmount Improvement Company to carry out his vision to develop this area on the border of Berlin and Waterloo into a contemporary garden suburb.

Talmon Henry Rieder married Martha Melvina Anthes (1878-1971), daughter of John Schmitt Anthes (1844-1915) and Lydia Catherine Herlan (1849-1935), and they had four children (Paul, Edward Anthes, Margaret Catherine, and Helen Elizabeth). Martha Anthes' sister Ella Almina Anthes (1882-1971) married H. Milton Cook, who was involved in Rieder's Westmount Improvement Company. Ella spent some time travelling in Europe in 1910. Martha's sister Lydia Louise Anthes (1877-1942) married Albert Liborius Breithaupt (1870-1955).  (Source: content of the fonds, genealogical documents, and "Westmount, 'the tie that binds the twin city' : a neighbourhood nears the century mark" by Susan Mavor from _Waterloo Historical Society_ volume 96, 2008, p. 110-122)

Contents: fonds consists of material collected by members of the Rieder and Anthes families. Material is mainly related to Ella Anthes' travels in Europe, the Rieder family tree, and Talmon Henry Rieder's career and plans for the Westmount area in Berlin/Waterloo. Includes souvenir guide books, postcards, and other ephemera; family trees; a letter and a plan regarding the Westmount suburb; and other material.

Title based on content of the fonds.
The extent is measured in linear metres of shelf space occupied by the fonds.
Includes one photograph.
Donated in 2009.
Files arranged in chronological order.
Detailed finding aid available.
Records related to Ella (Anthes) Cook can be found at the Kitchener Public Library. These records are related to the involvement of Ella and her sisters and mother as musicians and singers in concerts by many musical clubs and societies in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Records relating to Lydia Louise Anthes and John Schmitt Anthes can be found in the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark Family fonds, especially in the series relating to Albert Liborius Breithaupt.
More information about the Rieder and Anthes families can be found in the finding aid for the accrual to this fonds, GA 200.

File 1
Northern Pacific : Yellowstone Park line. - 1905.
Contents: file consists of a souvenir menu card from the Northern Pacific Yellowstone Park line. Contains ms. annotation: "Wednesday 6 p.m., Aug. 23rd, 1905, between Seattle and Portland."

File 2
Rigo & Co., Venice. - [1910?].
Contents: file consists of a brochure from Rigo & Co., a manufacturer of artistic furniture, glass, chandeliers, mirrors, mosaics, etc. in Venice, Italy. Contains a fold-out map of Venice showing the location of Rigo & Co. and photographs of the merchandise. Item probably belonged to Ella Anthes, acquired on her trip to Europe.
Brochure contains English, French, German, and Spanish.

File 3
A guide to Stratford-on-Avon, its church and vicinity : with a description of the historic memorials and relics of Shakespeare. - 1910.
Contents: file consists of a guidebook to Stratford-on-Avon, part of Abel Heywood & Son's series of illustrated penny guide books. Contains illustrations (photographs and drawings) and advertisements. Cover contains ms. annotation: "E.A. / Aug. 20, 1910." Also included is a pamphlet about the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, found loose inside the guidebook. Item probably belonged to Ella Anthes, acquired on her trip to Europe.

File 4
Post card album. - 1910.
Contents: file consists of a post card album compiled by Ella Anthes on her trip to Europe during the sumer of 1910. Album contains ca. 260 post cards and a small amount of loose emphera from Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Ms. annotation inside front cover: "Ella Anthes / trip to Europe / summer 1910 / married Milton H. Cook / Sept. 14, 1911."
Pages of album are brittle.

File 5
Plan of Westmount. - 1921.
Contents: file consists of a plan of the Westmount neighbourhood in the City of Berlin and the Town of Waterloo. Also included is a letter from T.H. Rieder of the Westmount Improvement Co. Ltd., to H. Milton Cook regarding the plan and noting that the red check marks are lots that have been sold.
Material is oversized.

File 6
Canadian Pacific : steamship Duchess of Bedford. - 1929.
Contents: file consists of a guidebook for passengers of the Canadian Pacific steamship Duchess of Bedford, travelling from Liverpool, Belfast, and Greenock to Saint John, New Brunswick. Contains a fold-out map.

File 7
Margeret Catherine (Rieder) Paisley's family tree. - [after 1966].
Contents: file consists of a ts. family tree showing two generations of the decendents of Emeline Merner (1857-1940) and Peter Rieder (1850-1936). Annotated E.W.M. Paisley.
Untitled item.

File 8
Rieder family tree. - [after 1969].
Contents: file consists of a ts. family tree (blueline print) showing five generations of the decendents of brothers Abraham Rieder (1822-1867), Daniel Rieder (1827-1868), Peter Rieder ([18--]-1858) and David Rieder ([18--]-[18--]). Includes family crest.
Material is oversized.

File 9
Wedding of Lydia Louise Anthes and Albert B. Breithaupt. - [200-] (originally created 1901). - 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Contents: file consists of material relating to the wedding of Lydia Louise Anthes and Albert B. Breithaupt held in Berlin (now Kitchener) in 1901. Includes a photocopy of an undated newspaper clipping about the wedding and a reproduction of a photograph of the wedding party and guests. William Lyon Mackenzie King was best man in the wedding and appears in the photograph.

File 10
Kitchener Manufacturers' Association : "au revoir, T.H. Rieder - but not good-bye." - Photocopied [200-] (originally created [1919?]).
Contents: file consists of a colour photocopy of three pages from a program by the Kitchener Manufacturers' Association held as a farewell to T.H. Rieder upon his move to Montreal in 1919. Includes the menu and song lyrics written for the occasion.