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Benefactor recognized need f h station A tribute in a 1906 Fruit Township where Moses section, giving them the the school and hall; inal walled Mennonite Growers‘ Association for attended school in the winâ€" _ advantages of city life," iÂ¥ * 1906: purchase of land for _ graveyard and expansion by Ontario report said, "We ters and worked on the wrote Harvey M. Gayman in F R the establishment of the the addition of property | desire to show our family farm during the Rittenhouse School and Horticultural Experiment given by Rittenhouse. Just unbounded gratification at summers. (This informaâ€" Gardens, 1911. «ts Station. The government of _ before his death in 1915, he | the splendid public spirit tion was compiled from "His thoughts first \Q y Ontario was quick to accept _ completed the purchase | shown by Mr. Moses various historical referencesâ€" â€"turned to education â€" \ ® this gift and immediately and organization of the | Rittenhouse of Chicago in by Ruth M. Smith.) something for the benefit of e s lgt * set to work to establish the _ added land. After his funerâ€" | giving a farm for experiâ€" Although he received the young people. Realizing tÂ¥ 1 ,\,' % Experimental Station at al at Victoria Hall in 1915, | mental work in tender fruits _ only a public school educaâ€" _ the many advantages his « i2" > Vineland Station, formally he was the first person and in the prompt action of _ tion, by his thrift and enerâ€" own sons enjoyed in their . called the Horticultural buried in the new part of | the Ontario Department of gy he became a very rich modern city school, which e# 4 Research Institute of the cemetery. ‘ | Agriculture in providing for _ man. In 1864, at the age of were completely lacking in iÂ¥ Ontario; "It has been estimated | | the equipment of the 18 years, Rittenhouse left the old stone school, at * 1908â€"12: extensive imâ€" that in cold cash, the value | | same." & his home in Clinton and Vineland, he first of all purâ€" Â¥ _ provements to Victoria Ave. _ of Mr. Rittenhouse‘s gifts to | 1‘ Moses Franklin Rittenâ€" travelled to Chicago to seek _ chased a good assortment Moses F. Rittenhouse â€" whose _ from the lake to Hwy. 8â€" the community amounted | | house was known in the his fortune in the lumber of books and presented name stands for generosity and _ the muddy and rutted road _ to about $100,000 a great community as a financially _ market. By 1883, he was them to the school. Then benevolence in _ his â€" native _ was underdrained and amount for that day. successful lumberman and _ well established in the lumâ€" _ began some talks with the County of Lincoln. macadamized. A concrete However, benefits such as a philanthropist who did ber trade and had founded school board, which finally Following is a list of sidewalk was also conâ€" these cannot be measured not forget his home town. a highly successful Iumber led to the erection of a new _ some of the donations structed along the entire in dollars and cents, and The 10th child and the firm with his partner J.R. school on a fourâ€"acre plot made by Moses Rittenhouse _ length of one side of the although the fine school 7th son of John Rittenhouse _ Embree. In 1871, he marâ€" donated by Rittenhouse. to the Vineland area: road and the 3.5 miles of which Rittenhouse built is and Elizabeth Funk, he was â€"_ ried Emma Stover from the _ The cost of the fine new * 1886: The Rittenhouse road were planted with now torn down... yet the born Aug. 12, 1846 on a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania _ brick building was shared library; maple trees; man will not be forgotten. farm in Lincoln County. His _ area. They had three sons, by Rittenhouse and the ° 1890: Rittenhouse Public _ + 1912; annex building at His spirit will live on in the father was born in Edward, Charles and Walter. _ school section. With four School; Rittenhouse Public School; _ community." B. Coffman, "A Pgnnsylvar1ia and came "Millionaires have acres of ground at its disâ€" ° 1890â€"93: two acres of * 1912; land for a driveway _ Tribute to Moses R. 1\:11h his parents Michael founded libraries, art galâ€" posal, Rittenhouse became _ landscaped gardens at the from the township road to Rittenhouse". | Rittenhouse and Dinah leries, and educational one of the first schools in school; the loading platform at the Special thanks to historiâ€" Fretz to Upper Canada in institutions in large centers _ the province to start a garâ€" * 1904: Victoria Hall, Vineâ€" new railway station; an Larry Ritterihouse for 1800 with the Pennsylvania _ of population, but seldom dening program," B. land Station; * 1915; Vineland Cemetery. _ providing the historical | German Mennonites. The havg they spent money on _ Coffman in, "A Tribute to °© 1905: pumping station at _ The present Vineland information and photos for / family settled in Clinton the isolated rural school Moses E. Rittenhouse". the lake to provide water for _ Cemetery includes the origâ€" _ this section. e 0 m @