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W.M. German, M.P.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, issued August 22nd, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
William Manley German, was born in the township of Hilliar, Prince Edward Co., May 26, 1851. Mr German obtained an elementary education in the public schools of his district, supplemented by an advanced course in Victoria College, Cobourg. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and became a barrister a year later. He entered practice in Welland in 1882, and is at present senior member of the law firm of German & Pettit, with offices in the Arlington Hotel building on East Main Street. Mr German was elected Deputy Reeve for Welland for one year by acclamation. At the general election in 1891, he was elected a member of the House of Commons, but was unseated. At the succeeding election in 1894, he was elected a member of the Ontario Legislature, and re-elected at the following general election in 1898, resigning therefrom to contest Welland for a seat in the House of Commons in 1900, and in which he was successful. Personally, Mr German is gifted with that rare faculty of magnetism, which redounds to his credit, and while affiliating with the Liberals politically, is endowed with a broad and progressive business spirit, that at once popularizes him with the masses. He has always evinced a lively interest in all that pertained to the advancement of the town’s interests, and occupies a fine residence upon Division Street–Welland’s fashionable boulevard.
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