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The Carriage Shop The founder of the Carriage Shop was John M. Weber one of seven children, son of Johanes and Elizabeth Weber, both of Berenfeldt a rosharzog Hessen in Germany. They migrated to Canada in 1854. They made the crossing in a sailboat, which took 14 weeks during which time they ran into many adverse winds. They resided in Waterloo County near the town of Waterloo, then to New Dundee for a short while after which they moved to Carlsruhe and later back to New Dundee. They lived here until their deaths at the respective ages of seventy and ninety-one years. Elizabeth Weber was blind the last ten years of her life. They are both buried in the New Dundee cemetery. John was the fourth of the seven children. He married Elizabeth Hilgartner in 1861 at Preston and they took up residence in New Dundee. He bought a wood working shop from a Mr. Mitchell in the same year. They lived in a frame house on Main St. which they later moved back and built a new brick house in which Mr. Carl Buck now resides. The place of business was located on South St. and was comprised of three buildings, a woodworking shop, paint shop and lumber shed situated where the hatchery and Mr. Dinger’s barn now stand. The paint shop was once a schoolhouse which was later replaced by one where Mr. Ephriam Hallman’s house now stande. The three buildings and barn burnt to the ground around the noon hour about the year 1880. The paint shop