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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ruth Emily BOHLENDER: Birth: ABT 1909 in Ontario, Canada. Death: 23 OCT 1999


Sources
1. Title:   Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1922
Author:   Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada)
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007;
2. Title:   1911 Canada Census
3. Title:   1901 Census of Canada
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006;
4. Title:   1891 Census of Canada
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008;
5. Title:   Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
6. Title:   Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947
Page:   Archives of Ontario; Series: MS935; Reel: 601
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
7. Title:   1881 Canadian Census
Page:   FHL Film 1375901 NAC C-13265 Dist 162 SubDist D Page 26 Family 115
Publication:   Name: Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 FamilySearch (TM) Internet Genealogy Service, January 13, 2006;
8. Title:   1921 Census of Canada

Notes
a. Note:   Daniel Bohlender was born on August 10, 1869 in Waterloo. As a young man he worked in his father’s grocery business called the “Red and White Store”. Around 1915, he purchased a grocery store on Erb Street West from Mrs. Lorentz and opened a shoe store featuring the locally made Valentine and Martin footwear. Bohlender had many community interests and was active in the Waterloo Musical Society, the Waterloo Board of Trade and the Waterloo Evangelical Church. Bohlender was elected to council as alderman from 1915-1919, 1925-27 and 1929-1930 having been elected to the position of deputy reeve in 1917, 1926 and 1927 and reeve from 1918-1919. He served as mayor from 1920-1921 and then again in 1932. As mayor, he is credited with having acquired the former mill pond (now Silver Lake) for Waterloo Park, beautifying the town square, modernizing the town’s fire hall equipment and introducing a successful afternoon market. From City of Waterloo website. May have been nicknamed "Biddle" Owned a shoe store located to the left of 25 Erb Street West. The building became an insurance office. http://www.therecord.com/living-story/2628277-flash-from-the-past-waterloo-smithy-specialized-in-horseshoes-/


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