Ezra E. Eby

Ezra Eby was born and raised on Lot 120, German Company Tract, Waterloo Township on which the Grand River Collegiate of Kitchener was built. He was a grandson of Bishop Benjamin Eby, a son of Isaac Eby, and for twenty years taught in Waterloo County schools at Natchez, Martins, Bridgeport, Suddaby and Erbsville. Rev. Father Spetz recorded that Ezra Eby was a classmate of his at St. Jerome’s College.

This Waterloo County historian created an exceedingly valuable storehouse of facts when he wrote A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other Townships being a history of the Early Settlers and Their Descendants Volume 1 1895, Volume 2 1896 and A Biographical History of the Eby Family being a history of the movements in Europe During the Reformation and Their Early Settlement in America, printed in 1889.