Kenneth G. Murray is a philanthropist living in the Waterloo-Wellington area of Ontario. He was born in 1924 in Chatham, Ont. and served in the Canadian Navy from 1943 to 1945., He was educated at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ont. and received a B.SC. (Agriculture) in 1950. From 1950 to 1987 he worked for J.M. Schneider in Kitchener, Ont., starting as a salesman and becoming president, a position he filled from 1969 to 1985. He has been a director on the boards of several corporations: Homewood Health Centre and Corporation in Guelph, Ont.; Canada Trust in London, Ont.; and B.F. Goodrich, Dominion Life Insurance Co. Ltd and J.M. Schneider Inc. in Kitchener, Ont. He has actively supported, in person and financially, many community organizations and initiatives as well as educational facilities and opportunities in Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph. These include the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Westmount Golf Club, Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation, K-W Oktoberfest, Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, Kitchener Young Men's Club, Kitchener Public School Board and the Kitchener-Waterloo Operatic Society. In 1993 he initiated the Homewood Foundation in Guelph, a fundraising and granting agency for mental health research, education and patient care. The Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have benefited from his involvement. At the University of Guelph he initiated the Science and Society Project and the Ken Murray Annual Lecture Series, was on the Board of Governors from 1971 to 1979 and has served on several committees and in fundraising campaigns. At the University of Waterloo Ken Murray initiated the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP) in 1992.
Ken Murray has received many honours and awards in the course of his lifetime, including the Order of Canada in 2000, and The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee medal in 2002. He received honourary degrees from the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo in 1996 and 1995 respectively.

Miss Oktoberfest 1991.

Emily Ferguson Murphy was born in Cookstown, Ontario in 1868 and educated at Bishop Strachan School, Toronto. She married Rev. Arthur Murphy in 1887. In 1916 she was appointed by the Alberta Government as the first woman Magistrate in the British Empire. It was she who inaugurated and brought to a successful issue the movement that resulted in the Privy Council, in 1929, declaring that women were "persons" under the British North America Act, and therefore had a right to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. She was the first President of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada. Prime mover in the establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Edmonton 1910, she was the first woman member of the hospital board in the City of Edmonton. In 1911 she organized the Women's Canadian Club in Edmonton and was elected as their first President. Under the pen name "Janey Canuck" she was well known as a writer. In 1913 she was elected National President of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1915 she was decorated by His Majesty the King as Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Martha Magdalena Anthes was born to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker in North Perth, Ontario, October 18, 1869. She was educated as a teacher, and is listed in the 1901 census as lodging with Jared and Ellen Creary and teaching in Assiniboia East, Wapella, North West Territories. She married John A. Munn also of Wapella (date unknown) and the couple had a son, Robert Anthes born March 11, 1904 in Saskatchewan. A daughter Elizabeth Sutherland was born in Kitchener April 9, 1907. Another son, Arthur was born circa 1908. The 1916 census of Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan finds John and Martha living with their sons, Robert A., aged 12 and Arthur, aged 8. There is no mention of the child Elizabeth in this census record. Martha Munn died in 1944, John in 1960 and they are interred in Wolseley Cemetery, Saskatchewan.

Nelson Mulloy, physician, was born February 15, 1842 to John Mulloy and Mary Ann Daley Mulloy. He married Elizabeth Hanley Chapman on August 2, 1869 in Doon, Ontario. He died on August 28, 1913.

Mary Anne Daley was born ca. 1817 on the Isle of Wight. She and her husband John Mulloy (ca. 1817-February 28, 1894) had three children, one of whom was Dr. Nelson Mulloy (1842-1913). Mary Ann and John Mulloy are both buried in the Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Ontario.

Ronald Cleveland Mullin is a Waterloo Distinguished Professor Emeritus and the first person to receive a degree from the Waterloo; an MA in mathematics in 1960. Mullin completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, and after taking his doctorate in 1964 he joined the Faculty of Mathematics. During his tenure at Waterloo, Mullin acted as chair of Combinatorics and Optimization, and contributed to the establishment of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He was named a Distinguished Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1996. The following year, Mullin was the first recipient awarded the Stanton Medal by the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications.

Tobias Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) in 1832.

He died on December 28, 1909 in Kitchener, Ontario.

Sophia Nash Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on October 10, 1847 in Haldimand Co., Ontario.

She married John H. Book in 1869.

Sophia died on November 13, 1870 in Lafayette, Missouri, United States.

Samuel Gross Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on March 19, 1835 in Lincoln, Ontario. He married Emma Brainard Bliss on May 22, 1867. Samuel died in 1917 and was buried Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Illinois.

Born July 7, 1877.

Mary Gross Nash was born to Abraham Abram Nash (1778-1823) and Mary Krall Gross (1778-1861) on March 2, 1808 in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mary married Abraham Bechtel Moyer on March 23, 1830. The couple had nine children; Anna N. Moyer (1831-?), Tobias Moyer (1832-1909), Samuel Gross Moyer (1835-?), Abraham Nash Moyer (1837-?), Mary Gross Moyer (1840-1935), Jacob Nash Moyer (1842-?), Levi Nash Moyer (1845-1916), Sophia Nash Moyer (1847-1870), Jessie Gross Moyer (1850-?).

Mary died on November 8, 1885 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mary Elizabeth Raymond was born April 17, 1851 in New York City to John Coe and Elizabeth (nee Bladwin) Raymond. She married Reverend Levi Nash Moyer in La Salle, Illinois on June 20, 1871. Together they had six children. Mary Elizabeth died March 2, 1914 in Bridgewater, New Jersey at the home of her son, Harry Rollin Moyer. She was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Born February 3, 1881 in Canada.

Louise Moyer was born February 24, 1880 in Cedar Falls, Iowa to to Samuel and Emma Moyer. She graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College in 1900, teaching at the school for two years as a faculty member, before relocating with her family to Chicago and then Plainfield, New Jersey where she pursed a career in banking. She also attended the American Institute of Banking and completed post-graduate courses at New York University. Moyer retired from the Plainfield Trust Company in 1948 after a 30 year career with the company. During that time she worked as a head teller in the women's department before taking on roles as trust solicitor and director of publicity and new business.

Moyer was active in the Plainfield community serving as one time board member and finance chairman of the YWCA. She was a charter member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Plainfield and was as the group's president from 1919-1922. She was also affiliated with the Plainfield Art Association and Historical Society, and was at one point the director of the Financial Advertisers Association. She was a member of the Plainfield College Club and the Plainfield Branch of the American Association of University Women. In 1936 she was named as one of Plainfield's outstanding women by the Business and Professional Women's Club.

Moyer died in Belle Mead, New Jersey on February 24, 1958 and was buried at Hillside Cemetery.

Levi Nash Moyer was born in Ontario to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on June 19, 1845. He emigrated to the United States at twenty years of age first going to Illinois before settling in Cedar Falls, Iowa and work for several years in the dry goods industry. He moved to Chicago in 1890 where he worked with Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company. Moyer eventually landed in Plainfield, New Jersey where he spent the last seven years of his life.

He married Mary Elizabeth Raymond (1851-1914) on June 20, 1871 in La Salle, Illinois. Together they had six children. Levi died in April 13, 1919 in Bridgewater, New Jersey at the home of his son Harry.

Jessie Watt was born in Galva Illinois on June 30, 1878 to Charles R. and Mary C. (née Ward) Watt. She married Ela Moyer on June 13, 1899 at her sister Mrs. F.M. Ferris' home in Danville, Illinois. She died in 1961 and was buried in Parkholm Cemetery.

Jesse Gross Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on February 28, 1850 in Ontario.

He married Anna E. Tomlins on October 15, 1874 in La Salle, Illinois.

Jennie Moyer was born in Iowa in February 1885 to Levi Nash and Mary Elizabeth Moyer. She died at 18 years of age in Cook County, Illinois on April 26, 1903.

Jacob Nash Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on October 23, 1842.

He married Mary Jane Miller (1854-1913) on April 20, 1886.

Born October 12, 1879 in Ontario.

Born February 1887 in Kansas.

Emma Brainerd was born February 14, 1849. She married Samuel Gross Moyer in 1867.

Ela Bliss Moyer was born February 11, 1869 in Peru, Illinois to Samuel and Emma Moyer. He married Jessie Watt in 1899 and together they had two children: Dorothy Louise and Barbara Helen. Ela died in 1954 and was buried in Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Illinois.

Dorothy Louise Moyer was born February 19, 1910 in La Grange, Illinois to Ela Bliss and Jessie Watt Moyer.

Charlotte Hayes was born in Kings Basin, Illinois. She married Harry Rollin Moyer in 1896 and together they had four children. The Moyers lived for several decades in Plainfield, New Jersey. Moyer died January 15, 1950 in New York and was a resident of Far Hills, New Jersey at the time of her death.

Born January 1890 in Kansas.

Barbara Helen Moyer was born August 28, 1912 in La Grange, Illinois to Ela Bliss and Jessie Watt Moyer. She married James Alexander Kidston in 1950 and together they had two children. Barbara died July 22, 1993 in Illinois.

Anna Elizabeth Tomlins was born May 1855 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. She married Jesse Gross Moyer on October 15, 1874 in La Salle, Illinois. Together they had several children. Moyer died in April 1929 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas.

Anna N. Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on January 9, 1831 in Lincoln Co., Ontario.

Anna married John Wismer (1819-1858) on April 11, 1852.

Following the death of her husband, Anna married William W. Moyer (1823-1891).

Abraham Nash Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on August 10, 1837 in Haldimand Co., Ontario. He married Nannie Entrekin on September 7, 1870 and together they had two children: Metta Sophia (1873-1963) and Clyde Entrekin (1879-1954). Moyer died in Missouri September 12, 1919.

Abraham was born to Samuel Meyer (1767-1844) and Anna Meyer (nee Bechtel) (1770-1832) on January 29, 1809 in Lincoln, Ontario. He married Mary Gross Nash on March 23, 1880. The couple had nine children: Anna N. Moyer (1831-?), Tobias Moyer (1832-1909), Samuel Gross Moyer (1835-?), Abraham Nash Moyer (1837-?), Mary Gross Moyer (1840-1935), Jacob Nash Moyer (1842-?), Levi Nash Moyer (1845-1916), Sophia Nash Moyer (1847-1870), Jessie Gross Moyer (1850-?). Abraham died on April 21, 1865 and was at Mountview Cemetery in Campden, Ontario.

Motz was elected mayor of Berlin in July 1880 following the death of Louis Breithaupt, Sr and re-elected again into the position in January 1881.

The Kitchener branch of the Motz family came to Canada on June 2nd, 1848 when John Motz (1830-1911) followed his elder sister Regina Motz (1819-1909) and her husband Frederick Noll (1810-1871) from Germany to Waterloo County. John Motz was born to Johannes Motz and Margaretha Schroeter in 1830 in Diedorf, Germany. As his elder brother Lorenz was set to inherit the family land, John opted to take the 64 day ocean voyage from Hamburg to Quebec City to find a new life for himself in Canada. Once he made his way to Kitchener he stayed with his sister and brother-in-law and worked briefly as a farmer and woodcutter before finding work as an apprentice tailor with Christoph Nahrgang. John Motz apprenticed with Nahrgang for three years and in 1857 moved to Rockwood, Ill. It was here that he met Joachim Kalbfleisch and the two moved back to Canada to settle in Kitchener. Kalbfleisch would later go on to run the Canadische Bauernfreund Newspaper of Waterloo.
On his return to Kitchener, John Motz enrolled in grammar school with the objective to learn English and become a teacher. However, his plans were sidetracked by his friend Frederick Rittinger who had come to Canada from Germany in the same year. Rittinger had been apprenticing as a printer with the Deutsche Canadier and in 1859 the two attempted to buy out the paper. When this proved to be unsuccessful, they decided to set up their own printing company and establish a new paper, the Berliner Journal. The first issue was published on December 29, 1859 and the two continued in partnership for almost 40 years until October 12, 1897 when a sudden illness took Frederick Rittinger. In 1880 John Motz was made mayor of Berlin and in 1900 he was appointed honorary Sheriff of Waterloo County after his 1899 retirement from the newspaper.
By this time John Motz had met and married Helena Vogt (1832-1924) on February 17, 1868. Helena had emigrated from Germany with her family in 1852. Helena’s older sister Barbara (1823-1890) married Rienhold Lang (1817-1883) in Germany and the two of them also immigrated to Canada in 1846 where they would found the Lang Tannery. John and Helena had four children: Mary (1868-1933), William John (1870-1946), Louisa (1874-1944) and Carl Joseph (1878). Mary became Sister Maria Anna, a nun of the order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Louisa married John A. Zinger (1871-1903) and lived on a portion of the Motz family lands in Kitchener with their daughter Leone, and William John followed in his father’s footsteps.

William John Motz took over his father’s place in Rittinger & Motz in 1899 when John retired. He and Frederick Rittinger’s son John Adam continued to run the company and the newspaper. By the time that William John took over from his father, the Berliner Journal had begun to amalgamate with other newspapers in the area. In 1897 they purchased the Daily News and Berlin Daily Record, in 1899 the Berlin News Record and Berlin Daily Express, in 1904 Die Ontario Glocke, in 1906 Der Kanadische Kolonist, in 1908 Canadische Volksblatt, and in 1090 Der Canadische Bauernfreund. In 1917 the Berliner Journal is renamed the Ontario Journal and absorbs the Daily News and Berlin Daily Record becoming the exclusively English language Berlin News Record, and in 1918 the Kitchener Daily Record.
While the name of the paper was undergoing its own changes, so was the ownership. In 1915 John Adam Rittinger died and his share in the company was purchased by Senator William Daum Euler. Euler and William John did not see eye to eye and correspondence in the collection shows that their business relationship was tense. Euler’s share in the company ended up becoming a minority share and was eventually purchased in 1953. In his personal life, William John had married Rose Huck (1875-1950) in 1901. Together they had two children, John George (1906-1908) and John Edward (1909-1975). William John was very involved in the publishing community and served as the President of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association.

In 1946 William John died and his share of the company passed to his son John Edward who took over his father’s position as publisher. In 1948 the paper was renamed the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, a name that it would be known by until 1994. John E. Motz married Mary Helen Stoody (1912-1967) in 1932 and together they had eight children: William John (1933-?), John Edward (1934), Rosemary Eileen (1935-1962), Margaret Ann (1937-?), Mary (1941), John George (1943-?), Ann Elizabeth (1947-?) and Paul John (1950-?). In 1975 John Edward stepped down from his position at the Record, but three of his sons were still working there. In 1990 the Kitchener-Waterloo Record finally left the hands of the Motz family when it was sold to Southam.