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| Name |
John Biehn [1] |
| Birth |
1776 |
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
near Doon, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| Person ID |
I17335 |
All |
| Last Modified |
23 Nov 2009 |
| Family |
Anna "Nancy" Bechtel |
| Marriage |
1799 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anna Biehn, b. 6 Nov 1816, Doon, Waterloo County, Ontario d. 13 Oct 1906 (Age 89 years) |
| | 2. Mary Biehn, b. 24 Apr 1800, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| | 3. Abraham Biehn, b. 28 Feb 1804 |
| | 4. Barbara Biehn, b. 6 Jan 1806, near Doon, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| | 5. Jacob Biehn, b. 10 Mar 1810 d. 27 Dec 1881 (Age 71 years) |
| + | 6. John Biehn, b. 12 May 1813, Doon, Waterloo County, Ontario d. 17 Aug 1898, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 85 years) |
| | 7. Elizabeth Biehn |
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| Family ID |
F4626 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From Ezra Eby Book
John Biehn, " the eldest son of John and Barbara (Fried) Biehn, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1776. In 1799 he was married to Nancy, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Hoch) Bechtel. In 1800 they with his parents and family, and others moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County where now is the village of Doon. Here they resided until their deaths. Their family consisted of seven children.
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Found at http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/Region.nsf/c56e308f49bfeb7885256abc0071ec9a/ca57fa5f7d869afb85256e1b005729a4!OpenDocument on October 12, 2006
Previous Names: Beck's Hill, Oregon, Tow Town
History of Doon
Before the village of Doon was conceived, there existed in its place an area of forested land near the confluence of the Grand River and Schneider’s Creek. The history of Doon, as with other communities in the Waterloo Township, begins with the story of Richard Beasley and Block Two land holdings. In 1800, John Biehn Sr. from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania bought 3,600 acres of land from Beasley along the west bank of the Grand River, which included the area that would become the village of Doon. Biehn’s relatives from Pennsylvania, including the Bechtels, Rosenbergers, and Kinzies, acquired lots subdivided from his large acreage and took up clearing the land for farming. John Biehn Jr. settled directly in the area of Doon where he eventually established a sawmill. Because other areas of land further out in the township had not yet been made accessible with roads and trails, for several years the general locality of Doon was one of the preferred places to settle. Although both John Biehn Jr. and Frederic Beck ran sawmills in the Doon area by 1830, early settlers were mainly Mennonite farmers looking to continue their agricultural way of life. These farmers were primarily German Mennonites from Pennsylvania.
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