Hiram Walker was from East Douglas Massachusetts. An excerpt form one of the pages states: In 1872, Hiram Walker's wife of twenty-six years, Mary Abigail, aged 46, died of heart disease and was buried in Elmwood. The first church in Walkerville which was located on Riverside erected in her memory, as is St-Mary's, adjacent to Willistead Manor. The following is were you can find the story of Hiram and his brewery. http://www.walkervilletimes.com/hiramwalker.htm Sincerely, Kate Surnames of interest: Mass: Sewall, Fairbanks, Peters, Morse, Devere(a)u(x), Quincy, Wight, Ellis, Elliot, Woods, Walley, Metcalf(e), Chenery, Fisher, Fuller, Flamer, Frye (Frie), Clap(p), Gam(b)lin, Beamsley, Aslebe, Hull, Glazer, Henchman, Burrill, Blaney, King, Knightly, Arden, Garnish, Wendell, Dekay, Flint, Gookin, Willet, Dolling, Pares, Palmer, Storer, Dummer, Hunt, Archer, Grazebrook, Keene Penn: Roehm (Westphalia), Morgenroth, Riebel (Alsace & Latvia) later Calif. Wash: Hanlon, Peters, McPhee, Murphy, McDonald Pictou NS Can.: Grant, Holmes, Crichton, MacIntosh, Ramsay, Sutherland, McLean, McDonald, Fraser, Munro Corrimony, Urquhart, Inverness, Scotland: Grant, Ogilvie, Keith, MacDonald, Rose Copenhagen Denmark/Oslo Norway: Tiemroth, Möller, Foght, Dittich