HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-06-30, Page 117GMILLER'S HOTEL — Jacob Seegmiller erected the
gat South St. and The Square which a few years later
e the British Exchange, here shown in horse -and -
days, with the former Albion Hotel on the next cor-
Evidently the photograph was taken from the upper
of R.R. Sallows' studio at the corner off -Montreal St.
miller owned the hotel until he died in 1875. It burned in
grnillers
hey hauled
lour, pork,
hiskey
e hindred years after
Seegmiller tannery on
onia terrace burned, an
eating machine turned
lot of red-tinged earth
ng traces of tanbark
for the better part of a
y. At about the same
in the first days of July
year, a branch of Jacob
miller's descendants
a family reunion in the
of Utah.
ese reminders of a
long ' prominent in
h invited a speed-up
search, and a file of
aneous notes began to
Seegmiller (1803 -
Was a native of Ger-
1 (Correct spelling is
ueller.) He settled here
1. but the story begins
vious to coming here,"
ron Signal recalled,
and his brother were
habit of coming to
h from Waterloo with
horse team loaded with
flour, pork and whiskey,
which they exchanged here
for hides, salt fish and
money."
No contemporary artist has
left us a picture of that
covered wagon and four -
horse team struggling along
the bush trail and corduroy of
the 1830s which became the
Huron road and eventually
Highway 8. It is left to
imagination to envision the
young Seegmiller brothers as
they watched for their stops
at the Fryfogel, Seebach and
Van Egmond taverns and
perhaps calculated how to get
a little higher price from
Christopher Crabb in
Goderich. (Wonder if , there
was a language problem?)
"As they were solely
engaged in this business in
this section, they did a
thriving business," the Signal
editor observed. "As the
place grew, they removed
their business here, and by
active industry acquired
much of this world's goods."
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Thirty-four years after
making his home in Goderich,
Jacob was carried a little way
back on the road he knew so
well and laid away in
Maitland. Cemetery. He died
February 19th, 1875, ofasth-
ma. In the same plot are his
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