Joseph (Schoerg) Sherk
Inducted In
1972
See also Samuel D. Betzner
The first two settlers in Waterloo County were Joseph (Schoerg) Sherk and Samuel D. Betzner, of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was in honour of them and other early settlers who followed, that the Pioneer Memorial Tower was erected in Kitchener near the actual spot where they cleared land and built their pioneer homes.
Sherk and Betzner came to Canada in the fall of 1799.
In the spring of 1800, Sherk and his wife settled on Lot No.11, B.F. Beasley Block, S.R., on the bank of the Grand River opposite Doon, and Betzner and his wife settled on the west bank of the Grand, on a farm near the village of Blair.