Rieder and Anthes family fonds, accrual

Rieder and Anthes family.
Rieder and Anthes family fonds : 2010 accrual to GA 197
- 1851-[199-].

3.3 m of textual records and other material.

Martha Melvina Rieder (1879-1971) was a homemaker in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario. She was the fourth child of John S. and Lydia Anthes. Martha went to the Central School in Berlin and then attended Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby. In 1906 she married Talmon Henry Rieder and they had four children. Margaret Catherine (1906-2003), called Marnie, was a teacher and married Elmer Paisley. Edward Anthes (1908-1966) was president of the Mutual Life Assurance Co. from 1959 to 1964, and married Jean Rudell. Helen Elizabeth (1911-1959) married Joseph Henderson. Henry Paul (1914-[19--?]), called Paul, was a sales manager at the Waterloo Manufacturing Co. and married Dorothy Scheifle in 1941. The Rieder family lived at 58 Roy Street in Berlin, but moved to Montreal in 1912 because of Talmon's business interests there; they lived in Berlin again from 1915 to 1917 and then Martha and the children moved back to the Roy Street home in Kitchener permanently after Talmon died in 1922.

Talmon Henry Rider (1878-1922) was an industrialist and rubber company executive in Berlin and Montreal. He was born in New Hamburg, the eldest child of Peter Rieder (1850-1936) and Emeline Merner (1857-1940). In 1899 he became the bookkeeper and a minor shareholder in the newly formed Berlin Rubber Company (Margaret Avenue) and was soon appointed as a director. In 1903, he and Jacob Kaufman organized the Merchants Rubber Company and Rieder managed this factory until it was merged with several other companies to form the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company in 1907. Rieder was vice-president and managing director of this company, and in 1908 he became president. He also directed the operations of the Canadian Consolidated Felt Company. In 1919, Talmon resigned from these positions to assume the role of president and managing director of the Ames Holden McCready Company of Montreal. Talmon also had an interest in urban planning. In 1912 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 died unexpectedly after a 10-day illness in April, 1922.

John S. Anthes (1844-1915) was a businessman and politician in Berlin. He owned the Simpson-Anthes Co. furniture manufacturing business and also established the Anthes Furniture Co. and then in 1906, the Anthes Manufacturing Co. with John C. Breithaupt as president. In 1916, C.J. and J.H. Baetz took over management of that company. John S. Anthes was also involved in municipal affairs. He was first elected as a councillor in 1886; served as Deputy Reeve in 1887, 1891, and 1897; and again as councillor in 1907. He was also one of the first water commissioners and one of the founders of the Berlin & Waterloo Hospital, in addition to holding various offices in the Zion Evangelical Church.

In 1867, John S. Anthes married Lydia Catherine Herlan (1849-1936), daughter of Rev. F. and Caroline Herlan. John S. and Lydia Anthes lived at 44 Weber Street in Berlin, and their family was involved in the nearby Zion Evangelical Church. They had five children. Caroline (Carrie) Catharine Anthes (1868-[19--]) married businessman and politician John C. Breithaupt (1859-1951) in 1892, and they lived in Berlin. John Isaac Franklin Anthes (1870-1933) was an associate with his father in the furniture manufacturing business. He then became a director of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company. In 1919 he founded Anthes & Sons, Agents and Importers, in Montreal. J.I. Frank Anthes married Cyrena Hoffman Simmonds in 1897 and they had five children; they lived for a time in Wiarton, Ontario, as well as in Berlin and Montreal. Lydia Louisa Anthes (1877-1942) married businessman Albert Libourious Breithaupt (1870-1955) in 1901; they lived in Berlin and had six children. Martha Melvina Anthes (1879-1971) married Talmon Henry Rieder in 1906 and they had four children (see above). Ella Almina Anthes (1882-1961), who attended the Ontario Ladies’ College in Whitby at the same time as Martha, married H. Milton Cook, secretary of the Mutual Life Assurance Co.

Accrual consists of material documenting the lives, interests, and activities of members of the Rieder and Anthes families of Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario, with a focus on Martha (Anthes) Rieder and her family. Includes correspondence, diaries, ephemera, photographs, land transactions and mortgages, agreements, clippings, ms. notes, genealogy materials, financial statements, company newsletters, membership certificates, and other personal documents.

Accrual is arranged into 12 series:
Series 1: Correspondence Received by Martha Rieder
Series 2: Correspondence Received by Talmon Rieder
Series 3: Correspondence Received by John S. and Lydia Anthes
Series 4: Correspondence Received by Others
Series 5: Rieder, Martha
Series 6: Rieder, Talmon
Series 7: Anthes, John S.
Series 8: Cook, Ella Anthes
Series 9: Anthes, J.I. Frank
Series 10: Rieder, Peter
Series 11: Property Transactions and Mortgages
Series 12: Photographs.

Title from contents of the accrual.

Includes 1943 photographs, 4 architectural drawings, 3 negatives.

Donated in 2010.

Some material is in German.

Records related to the Dominion Tire Company (eventually Uniroyal) and the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, as well as the United States Rubber Company, can be found at the Kitchener Public Library.

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 S. Anthes can be found in the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark Family fonds, especially in the series relating to Albert Liborius Breithaupt.

More records pertaining to the Rieder and Anthes families are found in the original accession (see Rieder and Anthes family fonds).

Finding aid available: file level. (257 KB, 34 pages)

Call number: GA200

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Rieder and Anthes family fonds, accrual