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Roland and Burwell Everett are twins. They were born on January 25th, 1902 in Ridgeway, Welland County. Their parents are Roland and Alice, nee Fite, Everett of Ridgeway. Their father is a well-known farmer of that place. Both parents are still living.
The object and purpose of Everett Bros., is to give the public a product of the very highest grade.
They established themselves in Fort Erie and Bridgeburg in their own business in 1919. One of the brothers concentrated his attention on the production of milk, cream and other dairy products which would meet the most rigid of health and cleanliness requirements, and would be deliciously palatable.
A.E. Coombs
History of The Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal
1930
In Fort Erie and surrounding territory there have lived a generation of hearty, industrious stock whose work has made an impression and whose names are interwoven in the scenes of earlier and more strenuous times. Among these were the Sherk family of which Jonas Sherk, the subject of this sketch, is the present representative. Mr. Sherk has been engaged in the farming business during part of his life and later in the lumber and mercantile business. He has also been active in public life and has been honored by important public office. He is recognized as one of the leaders in the business and social life of the community and is to-day, it may be mentioned, one of the largest taxpayers in Fort Erie.
Jonas Sherk was born in Fort Erie, June 22nd, 1853. His parents were Peter and Judith Troup Sherk, the former being one of the oldest settlers and pioneer farmers of Welland county. Early in life he went to Buffalo, N.Y., and later returned to his native place and located on a site which is still named after him-*Sherkston, Humberstone township, Welland county. The family was of Pennsylvania Dutch origin and of United Empire Loyalist extraction.
Jonas Sherk was born in June, 1853, and was educated in the public schools at Fort Erie and at Milford, Indiana, U.S.A. He taught school there and then entered the mercantile business as a clerk in a general store in the same place. His location there was due to the fact that his mother had died at an early age and Jonas was sent to live with his uncle in the Indiana town.
At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Sherk went to Fort Erie and engaged in the farming and lumber business. He also carried a feed business supplying the horses at the Fort Erie race track which he has done ever since that place was opened.
Mr. Sherk was elected councilman many times and also reeve of Fort Erie. He was also a member of the Fort Erie school board and also tax-collector for several terms. All these public offices he has filled capably and with credit to himself. He has ever the interests of the town at heart and is now, by the way, the second largest taxpayer in Fort Erie. Mr. Sherk has always been a Liberal, and is a member of the Church of England.
Mr. Sherk married Miss Fannie M. Treble, (24 November 1880), daughter of the late Charles and Fannie Treble, the former being customs collector and magistrate of Fort Erie, Ont.
Mr. Sherk has two children living, Frank, who is engaged in business with his father and married to Hazel Willit Sherk of Hamilton. The other child is Ethel May, who is also married (Arthur Nicholson Sexton) and resides in Fort Erie. Mr. Sherk is the owner of fifty-five acres of land in the village of Fort Erie and is one of the richest men in the community in which he lives. He is extremely active for his age and looks much younger than his years.
Died: 25 December 1939
A.E. Coombs
History of The Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal
1930
Is the owner of the dairy company bearing his name, and he conducts in the city of Niagara Falls in an establishment that is thoroughly modern and metropolitan in equipment and service, and he is one of the well-known and substantial business men of this city.
Melvin Dell, Jr., was born on March 6th, 1890, in Willoughby township, Welland County, near Niagara Falls, Ont., and is the son of Richard and Marjorie Dell, the former was a farmer who moved to Chippawa, this county, two years before he passed away, now deceased; while his mother is still living on Maitland Street, Niagara Falls.
Mr. Dell Jr., obtained his education at the school in Willoughby township, and a considerable portion of his youthful days was spent on his father’s farm until he was twenty-one. He spent the next three years in the general store of his uncle, Adin Dell, at Niagara Falls, and then, to better fit himself for subsequent progress in the business world he spent the next eight years with the W.H. Martin store, in that city, and then being ambitious, he started up his own dairy business at the present location, 2493 Orchard Avenue, Niagara Falls, with only one horse, one wagon and one cow, until by his industry he now has five 
wagons with five men working for him. The second year after he started, he built and he equipped his present business with up-to-date equipment and pasteurizing machinery with two large glass lined sanitary milk tanks which have a capacity of 2,160 quarts daily. This milk plant is so arranged with modern appliances that the milk, after being pasteurized, is never touched by human hands until it reaches the table of the consumer. This business has grown in seven years to fifteen times its first year sales, which attests the high quality of this milk and cream. He handles a jersey milk that by government tests is running five percent, the quality of their milk averages very highly; the law only requires three to five, so that the product of the Dells Dairy averages five points and above. The health inspector has pronounced this to be the cleanest dairy in Niagara Falls, Ont., He is an active member of the United Church. He was married for the first time to Miss Maud Irene Baker, who passed away in 1918; they had one child, a boy, Ross Melvin, now attending school. His second marriage was to Miss Marguerite Green, who was born in Lundy’s Lane, daughter of Raymond and Alice Green, the former being a farmer; both her parents are living in Niagara Falls; there were three children by this second marriage; two girls, one boy Marion, Gordon, and Marjorie; the two latter children are attending public school at Falls View School. Mrs. Dell’s great grandfather fought in the Fenian Raids, and was one of the original U.E. Loyalists.
A sound business man and a good citizen, Mr. Dell measures up to the best standards of Canadian manhood and his contribution to his community is of solid value.
A.E. Coombs
History of The Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal
1930
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