Andrew Groff^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1793 - 1877  (84 years)

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• Name	Andrew Groff  [5]
  Birth	18 Apr 1793	, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1822	, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Occupation	miller
  Census	1851	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Andrew, Head, Age: at next Birthday: 59, Birth: Pennsylvania, Religion: Mennonite
  FamilySearchID	4665950
  Death	11 May 1877	, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Cause: dropsy
  	May 11th, in Waterloo Co., Ontario, of dropsy, Bro. Andrew Groff, aged 84 yrs., and 23 days. Buried the 13th in Martin's burying -ground.
  Burial	13 May 1877	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Address: Martin's Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery King Street N. Waterloo Twp., Waterloo County, ON Canada
  Person ID	I14641	Ancestors of Susan and Barry Reynolds
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2018

  
  

  Family	Annie Huber,   b. 15 Oct 1795, Lititz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA d. 19 Sep 1865, , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1815	, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Isaac Groff,   b. 2 Mar 1818, , Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA d. 2 Jun 1850 (Age 32 years) + 2. Nancy Groff,   b. 5 Oct 1822   d. 8 Nov 1897 (Age 75 years) + 3. Andrew H. Groff,   b. 26 Jul 1825, Galt/Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada d. 26 Apr 1905 (Age 79 years) + 4. Abraham Groff,   b. 13 Oct 1829, , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada d. 15 Feb 1885, , York, Ontario, Canada (Age 55 years) + 5. Jacob H. Groff,   b. 3 Apr 1834, , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada d. 3 Nov 1920, , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F5633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2020

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Birth - 18 Apr 1793 - , Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Marriage - 1815 - , Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Immigration - 1822 - , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Census - 1851 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Death - Cause: dropsy - 11 May 1877 - , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Burial - Address: Martin's Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery King Street N. Waterloo Twp., Waterloo County, ON Canada - 13 May 1877 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Migrated from Earl Twp. Lancaster County Nov. 1822. Moved with Joseph Mosser and family. On arrival in Waterloo Co. he worked in the mills of Abraham Erb (Waterloo) and Absalom Shade (Galt). He finally bought 200 acres of land on the Dundas Road. Hlandholdings were at Grovesvil, the German Company Tract 7-1848. Later he moved north of Waterloo. He made a fortune from mills and distillery between Preston and Galt. He sold the business to his son Isaac, who continued the Grovesville Mills. The death notice for his wife referred to him as senator. Andrew Groff, "son of John and Anna (Moyer) Graff, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, April 18th, 1793. His boyhood days were spent in acquiring a business education which proved of great benefit to him in later years. At the age of seventeen he made choice of the milling business as the most pleasing to his taste. His first years of apprenticeship were served in Earl Township where he remained until 1822 when he was induced by others to seek his fortune either in the West or in Canada. Being persuaded by one Joseph Mosser and others who were on the point of leaving for Canada, to join in with their company, he came to Waterloo in the fall of 1822 and found everything most satisfactory. As he was a miller by trade, old Abraham Erb wanted him to take charge of his grist mills which he intended to do after moving to Canada. After being here a short time and making arrangements to move to Canada he started again for Pennsylvania. Arriving at home in safety and spending a few weeks in visiting friends, he then set out for his new home. He left Pennsylvania with his wife and family of four children and made the trip to Canada in seventeen days. On his arrival at Waterloo in November, 1822, he was engaged by Abraham Erb to work on the saw mill where he remained three weeks, after which he entered the employ of Mr. Shade of Galt where he remained for nearly two years, and acquired a considerable amount of cash. He then purchased 200 acres of land half way between Preston and Galt and in a few years he was the proprietor of a store, tavern, grist mill, saw mill, and distillery, from all of which he soon realized quite a fortune, becoming one of the wealthiest men in the county. In 1848 he sold this property and purchased the farm of the late David Erb, north of the town of Waterloo, now in possession of his son Jacob. During the close of his life he lived on the place now possessed by Mr. F. Scheifle, a little to the north of the town of Waterloo. Here he died May 11th, 1877. He was married in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1815, to Annie, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Reist) Huber. She was born October 15th, 1795, and died in Waterloo County, Ontario, September 19th, 1865. They had a family of twelve children. Their names are as follows:" - Ezra E. Eby [5, 8]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2611] Ezra E. Eby, Book - Biographical History of Early Settlers and their Descendants in Waterloo Township, (1895 & 1896, Supplement by Joseph B. Snyder 1931,IndexesMaps and other Documents by Eldon D. Weber, 1971.), 2 Apr 2001, p. 179. [S195] Dettweiler, Allan, Web Site - Ezra Eby Revived!, (http://www.ezraeby.com/index.php : 28 July 2008), ). [S411] Darren Arndt, Web Site - Arndt, Darren, (Gedcom File). [S369] Karen Tober, Web Site - Tober, Karen, ((7 Jun 2001), http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kayteelee). [S2611] Ezra E. Eby, Book - Biographical History of Early Settlers and their Descendants in Waterloo Township, (1895 & 1896, Supplement by Joseph B. Snyder 1931,IndexesMaps and other Documents by Eldon D. Weber, 1971.), 29 Oct 2005. [S508] Newspaper - Herald of Truth, 20 Jun 2002, December, 1877, page 196, 197, 198. [S1683] National Archives of Canada, Census - Can., ON - 1851, (Ontario), 20 Jun 2002, District 3, page 133. [S508] Newspaper - Herald of Truth, 20 Jun 2002, August 1865 - Vol. II, No.8, Page 64.