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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour §tre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est filmd d partir de Tangle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 F T BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF LEADING CITIZENS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF I. ALLEN JACK, Q.C., D.C.L. " Biography is the most universally pleasant, universally protitable, of all reading." — Carlyle. BOSTON Biographical Review Publishing Company 15 COURT square i';oo F c: 215478 - f r- NOTE. All the biograpl'^cal sketches published in this volume were sulmiitteil to their respective subjects or to the sub- scribers, from whom the facts were primarily obtained, for their approval or correction l)eforc going to press, ami a reasonable time was allowed in each case for the return of the typewritten copies or proofs. Most of them were returned to us within the time allotted, or before tliu work was printed, after being corrected or revised; and these may therefore be regarded as reasonably accurate. A few, however, were not returned lo us; and, ;is we have no means of knowing whether they contain errors or not, we cannot vouch for their ;Kcur;icy. In Justice to our readers, and to render this work more valuable for reference purposes, we have indicated all uncorrected sketches by a small asterisk (*), phiced immediately after the name of the subject. li. K. run. CO. T PREFACE. cir to the sul)- ) press, ami a re rt'turneil to ly therefore l)e itaiii errors or e for reference 'J name of the K. I'UU. CO. WHEN the nineteenth century shall have completed its course at the close of the current year, its records will exhibit evidence of vitality, activity, and varied and momentous achievements unequalled and even unapproached in any pre- ceding period of like duration. To fully appreciate the history of any period, a knowl- edge of its actors is as important as a comprehension of its results, cs]K>cially with reference to the hundred years so soon to be completed, as during their passage the influence of the individual has been generally and phenomenally extended. It"is not every man who is born to be a hero or a leader; but each human unit, under reason- ably fa\orable circumstances, contributes something to the welfare and the history of society. To know the world or any part of it well in this advanced stage of human progress, one must have a large acquaintance with individuals, being thus"led to recog- nize representative characters, to discern types. I-ew will deny that biography is tl^e most interesting form of history, and that contemporary biography has Tn attractive- ness and value peculiarly its own. Our experience in publishing volumes of local biography, largely demoted to New Kngland-witnessour Atlantic Series, thirty-three volumes— has convinced us that such bt.oks meet a want of the times, and has encouraged us to undertake a similar enterprise in behalf of our neighbors and kinsfolk. Her Majesty's loyal subjects across the border. (Jf these some are "Mayflower" descendants, and many are numbered among the posterity of the Loyalists of ,783, who, when the independence of the thir- teen colonies had been secured, attested their allegiance to the crown by seeking a new home in Acadia. The ])resent issue of the Rkvikw, the first in our Canadian Series, may be briefly set forth as an answer in part to the question of "Who's who.'" in New Brunswick to-day. It is a book of facts, facts in the lives of persons of prominence and influence •n the Provmce. It is safe to say that people have ft.und life worth living in pro- I'-rtu.n as they have made themselves useful in their day and generatiom These PREFACE pages tell of earnest workers in various fields of activity, of some who, as farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, merchants, tradesmen, have taken a conspicuous part in developing the material resources of the country, of others who have devoted their energies to the practice of law or medicine, the concerns of government, the dissemina- tion of learning, or the advancement of reHgion. A distinguishing feature of the book, as of its predecessors, published by us for other localities, is the attention given to genealogy, formerly the fad of the few, now a recogni/.ed branch of the humanities and a firm substratum for biography. We gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness lo numerous friends who by cordial co-operation have aided in our work, and especially to Mr. I. Allen Jack, Q.C., to whose knowledge of local history and biography, wide circle of acquaintances, and sagacious supervision its success in large measure is to be attributed. HIOCR.M'IIICAL REVIEW PUHLISHING COMPANY. HosioN, Mass., I'.S.A. June, 1900. EDITOR'S PREFACE. IT is needless to add largely to what is so compicliensively cxiMx-ssed by the pub- lishers in their jjreface, but a few supplementary words may not be ret^^irded as superfluous. In ancient times certain tribes and nations not only reverenced but actually wor- shijjped their departed ancestry, and even to-day it is jjossible to indicate races pe- culiarly addicted to adherence to primitive usages, engaged in the ])ractice of this singular cult. Without lending support to this venerable species of adoration, is it entirely i)roper to advocate reverence for die persons or the memories oi those through whom we exist. Well-regulated family pride is indeed a concomitant, if not an element, of patriotism, and an essential quality for the maintenance and advancement of society. But, in order to render it truly cfificacious, creed and practice must go hand in hand: the jewel transmitted to unworthy keeping soon loses lustre, the buried skeleton cannot maintain the standard without the aid of the living descendant. And, further, such a pride should be felt, but not expressed, at least in words: the boaster is usually, an^l ^encraily with propriety, classed as a snob when glorying in his own achievement, nor can he claim exemption from the term when he relies upon what has been achieved by another. The foregoing remarks apply especially to those who have gained honor, at least in part, by inheritance; but they are not inapplicable to an important class of persons, the self-made. Whether at the beginning or in the middle of a series of human entities, an individual, if not in duty bound, is, at least, acting rightly and wisely, and not self- ishl)-, in seeking to perpetuate the memory of what has been meritoriously accom- plished or acquired by himself and by those from whom he sjjrung. The history of New Brunswick since its inception under that name is nearly con- temporaneous with that of the nineteenth century. It was, at least, only seventeen years before the close of the jireceding century that those from the old colonies who KDITOR'S PREFACE adhered to the liritisli crown reached her shores. It is only natural that the landing of the Loyalists is generally regarded as the most important epoch recorded in the Provin- cial annals, and that such of the inhabitants as are able to trace descent from Loyalist stock find in the fact a source of special satisfaction. lUit many of those who make no claim to such descent are entitled to other inherited honors of unquestionable char- acter and ancient origin. Among the French-speaking Acadians are some whose remote ancestors occupied the highest places, and were connected with events some- times of even more than national importance. A perusal of the following pages will demonstrate that the same may be alleged of many of luiglish, Irish, Scottish, or Colonial birth or parentage, where family tradition has been j^reserved with reverence and care. Ikit to an ardent American, whether monarchist or republican, the gather- ing together in this locality at the close of the Revolutionary War of many of the most exalted personages from the older Provinces is profoundly interesting. New ICngiand, the midland and the southern districts, all contributed their quotas to this goodly company, and with them a store of memories of old " new world" incidents and ex- periences, songs and tales, to form a portion of the folk-lore of New Brunswick. While its people rejoice in their British connection, they are proud of their continental heri- tage, and boldly claim a place among those who best represent the bravest, wisest, and goodliest persons who, in the days gone by, came to stay in this happy quarter of the sjlobe. The reader will find in this volume a great deal of most interesting information in regard to many distinctly representative persons and families of the Province ; and it may be truly alleged that in substance, perhaps especially in completeness of statement and in form, the book is admirably fitted to largely supply a heretofore well-nigh neg- lected w-ant. Owing to the failure of a number of persons to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by this publication, many important genealogical data well worth recording do not appear; but this, though regrettable, has no effect upon the value (>f what has been accomplished by the promoters. I. ALLEN JACK. 1 I. AI.I.KN JACK, (j.C\, IJ.C.l.. BIOSRAPHIGAL. -^/SA.vf .\i.i.i;n jack, uc, !).('. 1,., hill ri.stcr-at-law ami tor- incrly Recorder (if the lity of e)^-r^/.» St. John, was horn in St. John, :^^ June 26, 1843, a son of William i^» Jack, (>.L'. His paternal 'M'iind- Jo father was David William Jaciv, who came to New Uruiiswiek from Cooper I'"ife, Scotland. David W. Jack married Rebecca, a daa,;;liler of I'lionias Wyer, one of the Loyalists of 17S3, who had served the crown as Lieutenant Colonel durin;^' the Revolutionary War, and who came to St. An- drews, N. li. , from what was then Falmouth, Mass., but is now I'oitland, \[e. William Jack, O.C, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in St. i\ndrew,s, Char- lotte County, in iSii. He was educated in his native town, and on arrivin,i;- at niaturitv made choice of the law as his jirofession. After l)ein,i;- admitted to the bar he removed to St. Cieorf,'e, where he remained until about 1S40, when he removed to St. John, and soon .secured a large and remunerative practice. He was for some years Master in Chancery, and was also Advocate-general. Aside from a good understanding of his jirofession, espe- cially in equity, he had a wide general knowl- edge in lileiatnre anil natural science. A lover of nature and devoted to his faniilv, his favorite recreation was the beautifying of his home, Carigleagh, and many of his hapi)iest hours were spent in the garden. Ho was one of the charter members and vice-president of the .Mechanics' Institute of St. John and pres- ident of the Natural History Society of New i^runswick, and he was al.so chairman of the town of I'ortland, warden of the municiiiality of St. John, and president of the St. John Law Society. 1 le married ICnima Carleton, daughter of Captain Joseph Kenah, of the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment. Her mother, whose maiden name was Mary Allen, was a daughter of Isaac Allen (for whom the subject of this sketch was named), a Loyalist from New [er- .sey, who served under the crown as Lieutenant Colonel, and who upon his ariival in New Brunswick in 17.S3 was appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the jirovince. A grand.son of his was Sir John C. Allen, the late Chief Justice. William and luiima Carle- ton Jack were the parents of eleven children, of whom the two eldest, twins, died young. I'he other nine still survive. Lsaac .\llen Jack, after receiving his ele- mentary education, became a pupil of the late 10 BIOGRAl'HICAI, REVIEW I i< ii Canon Lee, iinilcr whom lie stii.ied for se\eral years. He then entered the Collegiate Sehool at Fredeiicion, and, after followini,' the regular course there, matricuhitetl at Kind's CollL';;e, Freclericton, aflj^rward removing to King's College, Windsor, N. S. , where in 1.S63 he received the degree of Jiachclor of Arts. In 1877 e receive'' from the last mentioned col- lege the degree of Hachclor of (!ivil Law and in 1884 that of Doctor of Civil Law. U])on leaving college he began the study of law with hiS father, and was admitted attorney in Octo- ber, 1866, and barrister the following year. He was a|)|)ointed Kecorder of St. John in April, 1885, and was again appointed to that office in 1889, u|)on the union of the city of St. John with that of Portland. He was created (J. C. March 18, 1891. On the death of Mayor Harker in; filled the \acant office until the election of a new mayor, at the same time ))erfornvng his duties as Kecorder. Mr. Jack is a member of .St. Andrew's So- ciety and of the Loyalists' .Society of New Brunswick; a fellow of the Literal) and His- torical Society of (juebec; fellow of the Hali- burton Society, Windsor, N. S. ; a member of the Associated Alumni 'f King's College, Windsor, N..S. ; a member of the faculty of tile Law .ScIkioI of St. John, conducted in coiiuec tion with King's I'ollegc, Windsor; and a member of the New Hrunswick Historical Societ)'. He was for manv years a member of the Hoard of Directors and for two _\ears piesi- dent of the Mechanics' Institute of St. John. He is a member of the Church oi hjiglanil, and in politics is a Liberal. He takes great inter- est in literary work, and has contributed to various magazines and journals and learned so- cieties. Owing to ill-health he resigned his office of Recorder at the close of 1894, and retired from actixe life in the ensuing June. (7i-)I OLLINGWORTH TULLY KING- DON, D.D., D.C.L., Church of I';ngland Bishop of New Briinswick, was born in London, iMigland, April 16, 1835. The family of which he is a worthy rejiresenta- tive has been traced back to the year 1450; ;uul an account of its origin, together with its coat of arms, ma}' be foimd in books of heraldry. Bishop Kingdon began his edi.cation in St. Paul's Sehool, London, where he was cajnain of the school. In 1858 he graduated at Trin- ity College, Cambridge. He was granted a place in the honor list in mathematics; but, as he fell sick and could not finish the exami- nation, he was ncjt classed. He was then for a year at Cuddesdon College, under Canon H. P. Lidilon, where he was elected scholar. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Wilher- force, of Oxford, and priest by Bishoji H.uniP ton, of .Salisbury. l"or about three years and a half he was cinate of Sturniinster Marshall, and he suhsec|uently officiated in a like capac- ity tor two years at Devizes, ''hen for a period of five years he was \'ice-]irincipal of Salisbmy Theological College, after which for nine years he was curate of St. Andrew's Church, Wells .Street, London. .Subsequently for some time he wa*^ \icar of Good Kastcr (a BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW II ibiited 1(1 ;arnccl so- ;ij;iiC(l his 1894, ami -June. • KIXG- rhurch (if {rnnswick, 16, 1835. rciircscnai- ;car 1450; L-v with its l)(i(iks (it ion in St. ,'ar, cajitain d at 'I'rin- f^rantcd a atics; hut, th(j cxami- is then fur ler Canim 1 schohu'. . \Vilh(.'r- ip llaniil- ycars ami Marshall, ike capac- hen f(ir a rinci])al of which for Anilrew's iset[uent]y I'.astcr (a corruption of "God's Easter"), near Chelms- fiird. While there he was elected Coadjutor Hishop of Frcdericton, and was consecrated |uly 10, 1881. In the same year he received his (l(.!'ree of Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge, iMT'land, in 1892 that of l^octor of Divinity from King's College, Windsor, N.S., and later that of Doctor of Civil Law from Trinity College, Toronto, Canada. A man of earnest purjiose and scholarly at- tainments, Hishop Kingdon has not only faith- fully and efficiently ])erf(irnied the high duties (if his .sacred office, but has also contributed effectively by his pen and otherwise to advance the cause of religion and pure morality. In 1873 he wrote a book entitled "I-'asting Com- munion" (published by Longmans, Green & Co.). This work, so full of erudite references as to be practically inianswerable by church- men of different views, attracted so much at- tention in ecclesiastical circles as to cause the luiblication of a seconc, edition in 1875. He is also the author of a iwmphlet on "Divorce," the main tenets of which have since been crystallized into part of the reimit of the Lower House of Convocation of York, l'".ngland. This pamphlet was written while he was serv- ing on the Church Committee on Divorce, having been ap[iointed by the bisho])s of the I^cclesiastical I'mvince of Canada. In 1 8go Bishop Kingdon was appointed to deli\'(M" the "Hishop I'addock lectures" at the General Theological -Seminary at New Vork, being the first ;dien to act in this capacilv. In 1888 and iS(); he attended the Conference of Hish- |is at Lambeth, ]'",nglaml. He is a deep stu- dent and lover of books, and the posscs.sor of a large and valuable library, coi-.taining some w irks so rare as to be almost priceless. Among them is a Latin manuscript dated i^fiS. He ha.-> not yet found time to cata- logue the books, and does not himself know how many there are. In i8(j)0 Hishop Kingdon was married, in the cathedral, l-'redericton, N. H., to Anna Beverley, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Beverley ^Vdino Robinson and widow of George William Marsh. One child, a daugh- ter, Anna I'hilliiiiis Lenorden, has been born of this union. Mrs. Kingdon's first husband, by whom she has two daughters, was a de- scendant of Archbishop Marsh, of Dublin, through bis son, who married a daughter of Bishop Jeremy Taylor. Mrs. Kingdon is of the fifth generation in descent ficr Colonel Beverly Robinson, who commanded a reginicnt of Loyalists in the American Revolution. As is well known, lieverly Robinson was an early friend and schoolniate of Washington. He married Su- sanne Vhilipsc, daughter of I''rederick I'hilipse, second lord of the manor of I'hilipseborough, N.V. ; and it was at his home in New Vork that Washington in 1756 met and admired Mrs. Robinson's sister, the beautiful ]\Iary I'hilijise, co-heiress with her of a large estati;. "That he sought her hand, and was refused, is traditional," says Irving. l-'rom Colonel Beverly Robinson tlie line of descent is through his son, Beverly, who mar- ried .\ ina D. Barclay, and their son, Frederick I'hili|ise, who married Jane I'addock, to Bcv- I 13 ]?I0GRAI'I1I(AI, REVIEW if ij crlcy Adini), abuve named (Mrs. Kinj,'(l()n's father), who married his cousi.i, Anna M., dniif;htcr of John V. and Anna (I'addock) Thurj;ar. Mrs. Kinj;don s grandniotiicrs were sisters, daui^jiiUrs of .\dino J'addock, M.I)., of New Hrunswick, and ;^rand-dauf;hters of ("ap- tain Adino I'addoek, or Majrjr I'addock, a sub- stantial and useful citi/en of Boston, Mass., in prc-Rcvolutionary times sometimes spoken of, from his business and tlie plaee wiiere lie had his Inisiness training, as "the London coach-maker," now remenibered as a public benefactor. The "Taddock elms" and "I'ad- dock's Mall," in front of the (iranary 15ur\ ing- i;round, ivhich tiiey sliaded foi" upwards of one hunilred years, took their name from him, he having been chiefly instrumental in planting them about the year 1762. Captain I'addock died on the Isle of Jersey in 1804. Bishop Kingdon's residence, BnttreaiiA House, is thus named after a castle, or resi- dence, built at Bi;scastle, Cornwall, by Sir Jonathan I'liilli|ips, .-.n uncle of his grand- motlier, and known as "liottreaux Castle." Coiniected with the name is a well-known legend of liie Cornish coast. It seems that some centmies ago a ship with a cargo of iiells from Spain was trying to make port at Bos castle. "Ah," saiil the pilot, "tliank (iod ! We are now almost safe!" "No," said the captain, "tiiank not (iod, but the good ship and the cajjtain." They were not safe, how- ever; and the vessel foundered, on account, it is said, of the captain's i)laspliemy. The acoustic jiroperlies of tlie caws tiuit line the coast are such that at times they give foith sounds like those of the ringing of a peal of bells. If a peasant is asked what that sound is, he will reply, "Bottrcau.\ bells." In the naming of his attractive and commodious resi- dence Bishop Kingdon is tluis perpetuating an interesting bit of the folk lore of his native land. I 'II. 1 1' NASI-:, founder of the firm of l^-*' r. Nase & Son, merchants, St. John, was born at Nerepis, parish of West- field, N. B. , April 2f), 1 82 1, son of William H. and Charlotte (Harding) Nase. He was a descendant in the fifth generation of Henry Nase, who was born in Germany in 1695, and emigrated to America in 1728. Henry Nase settled in Dutchess County, New ^'()rk, and resided there until his death, which occurred in 1759. Philip Nase, first, son of Henry and great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Germany in 1724, and came to Amer- ica with his parents when four years ol I. The rest of his life was s])ent in New York, and he died Cktober 10, 1805. His wife was born in Dutchess Cininty, May 10, 1724, daughter of John Dutcher, a native of I'ol- land. .Slie died in New York, l)eceml)er 7, 1 80 1 . Their son, Colonel Henry Nase, who was born June 28, 1752, served as an officer in the Britisli army with General Coffin before he had attained iiis full rank during the Ameri- lan Revolution, and settled in New Bruns- wick prior to the coming of that Loyalist. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW «3 a jieal e, Mem ram - ,', Amherst, , Sackville, 3ol, lioston, :ademy ; and S. Having er, he then "]•] graduated Sdiool with Immediately vas admitted and at once sion. He is e Province. kVestmorland ted a great has served ny offices of ;h at one or Dominion he L' for politi- was a School ]?oard. In f the I'rovin- iio\. III■;.\K^ R. i;m.\ii:ks(j.\. f) c: ]i ti In I'l Sll sh ;i I'r nil IVl wli IKll ti) ] lal. ni;i chi lull Mr. Ha, (if Pro (ioV BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW >7 cial Farliament, representing;- AIIati County. In 1891 lie l)ecanie a member of the Ivvecii- tivc Couneil. On the loth of October, 1.S92, lu' was sworn in as Chief Commissioner of I'lililic Worixs; and in October, 1897, lie as- simied the duties coinieetcd with the I'reniier- ship of this jiroviiice. He was at one time a member of the Legislative Council of the I'nnince, in which he voted for its abolition ; and this came about in 1892. This honorable reinrd of service in hij,di official positions is spc.iking evidence of the i,-reat estimation in which Mr. ICmmerson is held tlirou.nbout bis native province, and is a consi)icuous tribute to his talents and inte^nity. -Mr. I'Jnmerson and Juiiily, daughter of the late C. 11 Record, of Moneton, N.J{., were maiiied on June 12, 1878, and they have five children, namely: Kthel R. ; Henry R., Jr.; luiiily K. ; IJernice .S. ; and Marion Ji. Hoih Mr. and Mrs. iMnmerson aie members of the Jiaptist ciiurch. Mr. I'Jnmersoii is president i>t the Baptist Convention for the Maritime Provinces; also a member of the J?oard of Governors of Acadia University. fWTo I'ORGI' ROIH'RT SANGSTHR, a V^ prominent and prosperous citizen of Moneton, N.H., is living somewhat retired from active jmrsuits, enjoying the fruit of his earlier years of indu.stry. He was born No- vember 28, 1834, in Falmouth, N.S., the town in which his father, the late John Sangster, Jr., first opened his eyes to the lislit of this beautiful world. He comes of Scotch ancestry on his father's side, his pa- ternal grandfather. John .Sangster, Sr., having been born and brought up in Aberdeen, Scot- land. When a young man John Sangster, .Sr., emigrated with two of his brothers to Amer- ica. One brother settled in Toronto, Canada, :""1 one at Cape Breton, while John himself bought land in Falmouth, N.S., where he car- ried on general farming with excellent result.s, and also kept a hou.se of public entertainment, the Sangster Inn, which was well patronized tor many years. He was twice married; and his finst wife, whose family name was Cleve- land, was the paternal grandmother of George R. Sangster. John .Sangster, Jr., was born at the old homestead in Falmouth, N.S.. and there .spent the greater jKirtion of his si.\ty-five years of life, but died in Cornwallis, N.S. Follow- ing the occupation in which he was reared, he became one of the leading agriculturists of that part of the country, and was highly re- specteil for his manliness of character and honest dealings. He married Mr.s. Ann Xorthrup Church, who lived to the age of seventy-si.v years. Both were attendants of the Methodist church. They had si.x chil- dren, of whom George R. is the only one now living. George R. .Sangster pursueil his elementary studies in the .schools of Canning, N.S., later completing bis educaton at the academy in Lower Horton, a neighboring town. Then, little inclined to spend his life in tilling the soil, he went to J^oston, Ma.ss., where for sev- i8 mOGRAriHCAL RF.VIEW i cral years he was employed as llie driver of a horse-car. Anibitious and venturesome, how- ever, he determined to find some other mode of making a living, and soon joined a |)arty going by mule train to the Rocky Mountains in search of gold. After being there success- fully engaged in mining for some time, he re- turned to Nova Scotia, and for five years was engaged as caterer in the Kentville Station Dining-rooms. In 1876 he came to Moncton, and for ten years was caterer of the dining- room at the Moncton depot. Retiring from business in 1886, Mr. Sangster continued his residence in Moncton, and lias since been busily employed in looking after his private interests, which are numerous and important. He is a shareholder in phosphate lands in Florida, and also in the Acadian Coal and Coke Company, of which he is one of the di- rectors. A Liberal in his jiolitical views, he is ac- tive in local affairs, and for two years served as Town Councillor fmni Ward Three. In 1854 he was made a Mason in Mount Tabor Lodge of l''ast Hoston, Mass. He was de- mitted, and is now an honorary member of Keith Lodge, I'\ & A. M., of Moncton, and is I'ast Master of Kentville Lodge. He was made a Royal Arch Mason in St. Joim Royal Arch Chapter, Hast Boston. He iielongs to Ivanhoe I'rcceptory of Moncton, N. H. ; also to Prince Albert Lodge, I. (). O. P., of Monc- ton. Having never swerved from tlie relig- ious faith in which he was reared, Mr. Sang- ster is an influential member of the Methodist church, to wliich his family also belong, and he is very liberal in his gifts to that denomi- nation. He erected the Wesley Memorial Church of Moncton, and on its completion in 1890 presented it to the Methodist Society. Mr. .Sangster and Rebecca L. , daughter of I'^lisha Loonier, of Canning, N.S., were mar- ried on Sejiteniber 9, 1857. They have three chil(h-en living, namely: John H. , born March 17, 1859, who married on May 13, 1885, Alma K. McKarland, and has two children — John C, born July 2, 1886, and Lmnia R., born November 11, 1893; Liz/ie -S. , wiio was born March 24, 1861, and is now the wife of Harry 1. Hrown, of Moncton, and has one child, Jean S. , born I'ebruary 5, 1893; and George L. , born November 24, i8r)3. CALUS LOCKWOOD I'ALMKR, late ICcpiity Judge of the. Supreme Court of New Hrunswick, a jurist of more than I'rovincial reputation, was at the time of his death, which occurred Augu.st 10, 1899, one of the oldest members of the New Brunswick bar. He was born at Sackville, N. H., in 1820, son of Philip I'almer. His grandfather, Gideon I'almer, who was the fir.st of the family in this Province, was living in Westchester, N. V., whcTi the American Rev- olution broke out; but, remaining loyal to the luiglish crown, he forfeited his estate and came with others to New Hrunswick. Here he was appointed by Governor Carleton Coro- ner for the county of Westmorland. His son Philip represented that county for many years in the Legislature of New IJrunswick. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW '9 lat (lenomi- Memorial mpletioii in Society, (laughter of , were mnr- • have three born March 13. "«85. children — I ".in ma R., ie S. , who ow the wife nd ha.s one s. 1893; 1863. 'ALMKR, c. Sii|)remo :iv, a jurist was at the August 10, tlie New Sackville, iner. His as the first living in ican Rev- yal to the estate anil CK. Here cton Coro- II is son nany years k. Acalus Lockworfd Palmer received his early education at .Sackville. He began the study of law in the office of the Hon. K. H. Chand- ler in PY-bruary, 1842, one of his fellow- students being the late Albert J. .Smith. In 1846 he was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia and to that of New Hrunswick. He soon rose to prominence in his profession, winning laurels joth in the Provincial and in the higher courts, where his contentions were almost invariably sustained. In 1867 he was created a Queen's Counsel. He was a leading figure in tiie Province, and acted as counsel in many important criminal cases, in which, as well as in dealing with questions of commercial law, he proved a formidable antag- onist at the bar. For several years he was president of the l?arristers' .Society of New Hrunswick. From the year 1850 to the time he took his seat on the bench, a period of nearly thirtv years, he was probably the fore- most lawyer in the Province, and was em- ployed in nearly all cases of importance that came before the courts. A glance at the records of the Supreme Court for that time discloses the enormous amount of legal work he handled. His biography would cover the legal history of the Province during his time. He was not only engaged in nio&t of the cases of importance during thirty years, but was a most prominent figure in the contests; for, wiiile he was never considered a great orator, his knowledge of law and business lent power- ful influence to his arguments with both court and jury, and his success was marvellous. He also engaged actively for many years in the political contests of the time. He was a strong advocate of confederati(Ui, and was twice a candidate in Westmorland County in the confederate interests. Although unsuc- cessful then and again in 1870, when he ran in St. John as candidate for the Legislature, he was elected in 1872 as Rei)resentative of St. John in the Parliament of Canada, and successively held the seat until 1878. When first elected he had been a resident of St. John for only five years. He was a warm suji- porter of .Sir John McDonald's government, and always took a prominent part in debate. On the creation, in 1879, of an additional judgeship for the Supreme Court of New Hrunswick, Mr. Palmer was appointed to fill it, his standing at the bar attesting his emi- nent fitness for the ])lace. His acceptance of this appointment was a great pjcuniary loss to him, his income as a barrister having been far in excess of the salary paid a judge. \' 'len he assumed the office of Judge, he dis- played a breadth of legal knowledge and an ability to deal with the most intricate points of law that won for him a place among the ablest of Canadian jurists. Such was his suc- cess as a judge that it may be truly .said that out of the old, cumbersome, and dilatory < ourt of Chancery be has made a most useful, expe- ditious, and popular court in the Province, and one which has absorbed the greatest part of the legal business of the county. He was well known and higlily respected by many of the leading jurists of the neighboring republic, and doubtless not less so because of the fearless manner in which, on various occa- 30 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW sions in that country, lie upheld the honor of Canada and the Kmpire and the memory of the Loyalist founders of his native Province, from whom he himself was descended. Judge I'almcr took a deep interest in medical juris- prudence, and was a (jroniinent inemher of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, of which he was for some years the vice-president for New Brunswick. lie frequently attended the sessions of that body in New York, where he on several occasions presided and wiiere lie had many friends. Shortly l)efore his death, despite his advanced age, Judge I'almer was in full possession of bodily vigor and the keen faculties of mind that maile him so long a man of mark among his fellows. Palmer's Chambers in Princess Street, containing law offices, was erected by him in 1878. In 1850 he was married to Martha Ann, daughter of Andrew Weldon, Esq. Hy her he had three children, one son who died in in- fancy; a daughter, l'"annie I".. ; and Charles Arthur Palmer, of whom mention is made elsewhere in the Ri:\ii:\v. Mrs. Martha Palmer died in November, 1882; and on De- cember 14, 1886, Judge I'almer married Amelia I'iay, youngest daughter of Gilbert Ik'ut, I'^sq., of St. John. 7[7*iHARLES ARTHUR ,1'ALMKR, ( J[ LL.R, O.C, late of St. John, N.H., ^ ' who died on January 7, 1899, was born June 6, 1855, at Dorchester, Westmor- land County, N.li. He was a son of Acalus Lockwood Palmer by his first wife, whose maiden name was Martha Ann Weldon. His father was a Judge of tiie Supreme Court of New Brunswick. Mr. Palmer received his education at .Mount Allison College, Sackville, N. H., and the law school at Harvard Uiii\ersity. Admitted barrister, he subsequently practised his pro- fession until his death, gaining for himself a wide reputation and a large and important clientage. In politics lie was a Conservative, and took an interest in tlie affairs of his party, but never aspired to Parliamentary honors, being too much engrosseil with his profes- sional duties. Mr. Palmer's success was the result of his real worth of character and dili- gent ajiplication. He gained a leading place in his profession early in life. In religion he was a Methodist. He was married October 20, 1881, to Ada Louisa Sancton, daughter of (icorge P.- Sanc- ton, I'.sq. He had two sons — Arthur L. and (icorge S. , «^«*^ ' /3?)siD\EY SMITH, born at .St. John, \pj. N.H., May 4, 1834, is the eldest sou of Henry IJowyer and Charlotte L. .Smith. Henry Hovvyer .Smith in 1824, at the early age of twenty-four years, was ajipointed by the Im- perial government Comptroller of the port of St. John, and siiortly afterward succeeded to the coUectorship, which position lie continued to hold until the Imperial government was transferred to the colonial authorities in 1848, when he was retired with a pension. He continued to reside in St. John u[) to the time of his death in 1868. His father was .4i 1(1(111. His L" Court ot II at Mount nul the law A(linitt(.:(l d his pro- r liimsclf a important nservative, I Ills party, ry liouors, his [irolcs- !ss was tlie -■r and diii- dinji l)lac(; r(.diyi()n lie Si, to Ada ;c IV Sanc- liur L. and t St. John, ■ eldest son L. Smith. 10 early aL;e by the Ini- the port of cceedcd to } continued nnient was lorities in a pension. I u[) to tiie father was I Hon. WILLIAM H. TUCK. f.-v BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW «3 Charles Douglass Smith, an officer of dragoons in the British army, a l)r()thcr of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, who fouj^'ht aiul iadd in chock NapolLOM Monaparte at Acre. Ci. Sidiuv Smith was named alter his father's elder hmther, Captain (Jeorye Sidney Smith, of the Royal Navy, who as a midship- man at the at;e of eleven years was captured l)y a l'"reiich man-of-war in (juiberon Hay, and spent the succeeding seven years of his life as a prisoner of war in a i'rcuch prison, return- ing after marvellous hairbreadth escapes to his father's liouse at Hath at the age of eigh- teen years. Hy a strange coincidence some time afterward, as a Lieutenant in the navy, he was in command of the i)oat which conveyed Napoleon from the heacli to H. M. S. "Un- daunted" on the occasion of his exile to IClba, and he assisted the ex-emperor along the gang- plank into the boat. After a course of private tuition G. Sidney Smith entered the St. John Granuuar School, under the late Dr. I'atcrson, and remained there some years. He then went to the Col- legiate Scho(d at h'redericton, where he ob- tained tile Douglas ilver medal as "Dux" of the school, lie then entered King's College, Fredericton (now the University of New Hrunswick), where he remained for the full course, winning a foundation scholarship after a keen competition, taking his degree of Hatl-.elor of Arts with honors, and winning the Douglas gold medal for an essay. He entered on the study of the law in the office of William Jack, (J.C, Advocate Gen- eral in St. John, was admitted attorney in October, 185.S. and w.xs called to the bar in October, i.*S, 1658, and (lied on May 29, 1738. John Tuck died on Jainiary 4, 1742, at ninety years of ai^e. Tlic next in line, Ivdward Tuck, son of John, was born on I'ebruary 7, 1694 or 1695, and '^'cd on June 7, 1772. He was a carpcntc Uy trade, and settled in Kensington, N. H, I lis wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Dearborn, was the daughter of Samuel and Mercy (I^atchelder) Dearborn, of Hamp- ton. She was born on June 17, 1699, and died on January 15, 1756. Their son Samuel, great-grandfather of the Hon. William Henry Tuck, was bnrn in Kensington on September '3. ^7i^- He was married en September 30, 17C2, to Anna, di. •' .or of John and Mary (Marston) Moulton, of Hr.iiipton, who was born Ju;ie 24, 1744. After living for some time in Kensington, .Samuel removed to Drenl- wood, N. II. Later he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and on November 12, 1777, he died in the army. His widow, who survived him more than fifty-eight years, died on August 8, 1836, over ninety-two years of age. Judge Tuck's grandfather, .Sanuiel Tuik, son of the above-named .Samuel, was iinrn in J?rentwood on y\pril 6, 1765, and was married on July 19, 1795, to Sally Watson, who was boin on New Year's Day, 1773. He settled in l-'ayette, Kennebec ("ounty, .Me., where he became Captain m the militia and Justice of the Peace. He was a nieuiber in 1821 of the first legislature of the .State of Maine. His death occurred on July 8, 1.S40, and that of his wife on Jan.iary 2, 1 868, at the age of ninc'y-five years. Moses Tuck, father of the Judge, was born in Fayette, Me., on March 25, 1799, and was married to I'Mizabeth Travis on November 15, 1828. He was a resident in St. John for about half a century, and died there on April 28, 1868. Judge Tuck was educated in the local schools and at Mount Allison University, .Sackville, N. H. In 1855 he was called to the bar, and subsequently for many years he practised the profession of law in .St. John with niarkeil success. He became Clerk of the Crown and Quci-n's Counsel in June, 1867, and succeeded the late Hon. R. L. Hazen, (J. C, and Re- corder .)f St. John in 1874. In the latter year also he w.s jiresident of the Harristeis' .Society, .and received 'lie honorar)' degree ol Doctor of Civil Law from Mount Allison L'niversity. L'or many years he was an active politician on the Conservative side, and laboicd earnestly in behalf of a '^ritis'i-Amcrican union. In 1S82 be unsuccessfully contested the city and county of St. John for the Canailian House of Commons. His ajjpointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of New liiunswick bears the dale March 17, 1885, and his appointment as a local ji.dge in admiralty cases, October 13, 1891. In 1892 he was appointed lecturer in the .St. Jcihn Law School, in 1895 professor of statutory law ill King's College, Windsor, and on May 13, 1896, was promotcil to be Chief Justice of New Hrunswick. The St. John 7'/iti//, a Liberal paper, owncil by the late Hon. Joseph Howe, who at the time of his death, in 1875, was Lieutenant (iovernor of Nova Scotia. While he was con- nected with that [lajier, Mr. I'enety travelled extensively throughout the Provinces collect- ing accounts. In 1835 he went to New York, and the following year became connected with a Southern paper, the P/nntii's Advocate, which was published at Donaldsonville, a small town on the Mississippi River, and of which he was afterward half-proprietor. In 1839 yellow fever, the annual scourge of that climate, proved fatal in so many cases that he disposed of his interests in the ])aper and returned home. Settling in .St. John, Mr. Fenety continued his journalistic work by starting the first penny paper issued in the Provinces, calling it the Moniiii^if Xitos. The weeklies in this section of the country then sold at ten cents each, and in the United .States there were but four that sold so cheaply, the New York Ilcmld, the New Orleans J'icdyiitu; the Philadel|)hia /.(v/j,'(V, and the I?oston Ilcralii. This penny pa|)er was a great innovation; and greatly dis- couraged by other jniblishers, but in sjiite of all obstructions, Mr. Fenety, before he retired from its editorship in 1863. succeedec' in making the Wws the leading political paper of St. John. The name, however, was changed from the Moniiii:^ .Wr.'.s- io the Ihii/y .Wri'.f, and, though now out of existence, it was for a long time the oldest established paper in the Province. Mr. Fenety was for many years a trusted government ofT.cial. In 1856 he was made Justice of the Peace for the city and county of St. John, and the next year was ajipointed as a Commissioner to investigate the manage- ment of the A.sylum for Lunatics, the Provin- 2 6 lilOGRAl'HICAL REVIEW «f cial Penitentiary, tlie Marine Hospital, and the ligiit-housrs on the coast, he beinj; one of five commissioners, of whom the Hon. David VVarl<, of whom a i)rief sir(|uis of Lansdowne, from whom he re- ceived a letter written in recognition of his services ai. Mayor. In .Septemher, 1847, in New York, Mr. I'"enety marrii'd i'.lixa A., youngest daughter of Robert .Arthur, a distant relative of the il.ate Chester A. Arthur, {'resident of the I United .States. Of the nine children horn of [this union si.x are now living. One son, ; Harris I'enety, is editor and publisher of the \P(v7y Ricord ;it St. John, N.H. ; and one of [his (huiLjhters is the wife of C'harles G. D. Roberts, the Canadian poet. i\CA''/ 11. I.I.AM MUN.SON JARVIS, bar- rister, a representative citizen of |St. Jnhii, X. 1)., is a native of the city, and kvas burn ou Octnhcr 9, 1S3S, his parents beiii;^ William and Mary (.'.-iroline (Hoyd) larvis. The name Jarvis or Jervis, or, in its orig- inal Inrni, Gervais or (iervaise, is of I''rench |)ri,:;iii. tliniiL;li, like many other n.imes whieli ^avi- bail their source abroad and have l)een feoinmnn in I'ji-l.ind since the Norman Con- liiesi, it has now become thoroughly Angli- risi il. U appears in its French form in the I'arliamentary writs nf the fourteenth century. Gradually, however, this form passed away and the luiglish form was assumed, Jervis or Jarvis in the mother country, and Jarvis al- most universally in Cianada and the Unileil States. The name occurs frecpiently among those of the earlier settlers in New l-Ingland. The Canadian members of the family in most cases, however, trace their descent from William Jarvis, who resided at Huntington, L.I., at the end of the seventeenth century. One of his sons, Cajitain .Samuel Jarvis, born in 1698, removed to Norwalk in Connecticut. In 1738 his name, with those of two of his sons, appears among the signatures to a me- morial addressed to the General Assembly by those in the colony who then professed them- selves adherents of the Church of ICngland. It was only si.xteen years before that several members of Yale College had resigned their ofifices, crossed the Atlantic for ordination, and returned as missionaries of the Church of I'jigland to their native colony, where its ministrations were before unknown. A yoiniger son. Dr. A. raham Jarvis, subse- ipiCTitly became the second Hisbop of t'on- neclicut; while the eldest, Samuel Jarvis, who had joined his father in signing the memorial, removed to Stamford in the same colony, and was Church Warden of -St. John's Church 1 there lor many years. I When the Jievolutionary War broke out. it found the Church Warden of .Stamf(n-d with a family of five sons and five daughters. He coulil not bring himself to forego his allc- 28 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEVV giancc to the crown, and finally he was seized and sent in an open boat in inclement weatlier across Long Island Sound to join his Loyalist friends, the exposure resulting in his death. Three of his sons and two sons-in-law were prominent among the Loyalists of the time. William, one of the sons, servfcd as an officer in the (jueen's Rangers, the most distinguished of the Colonial Corjjs, uniler Lieutenant Colo- nel Simcoe; and suiisequently, on Colonel Sinicoc's appointment to the Lieutenant Gov- ernorship of I'pper Canada, Captain Jarvis ac- companied him as its first Provincial Secretary to York, now Toronto, where he died in 1817. Munson and John Jarvis settled in New Hrunswick, where the former died in 1825, and the latter twenty years later, at the ripe age of ninety-three. Munson Jarvis was a warm Loyalist from the first. In April, 1776, ho was summoned before a committee representing the Revolu- tionary clement, which had now possession of Stamford, and called on to pledge himself to the Continental Congress. He brought him- self to express his willingness to obey the orders of Congress "except as he was held back by a religious tie of conscience "; but, failing to explain his conscientious scruples to the satisfaction of the Committee, he was declared an enemy of the country and driven from his home. After some years' residence in New York he removed in 1783 with other Loyalists to the Harbor of St. John. Here he at once interested himself in securing the ministrations of the Church of l^ngland, and became one of the first Cinnch Wardens of Trinity Church. When the Province of New Brunswick was established and the city of Si. John became incorporated, he served in the Provincial Legislature and as a member of the Common Council of St. John. His only daughter married Major Robert Hazen, of H. M. Sixtieth Rifles, a son of one of the older settlers at St. John Harbor. A collateral relative, Leonard Jarvis, of New- buryport, ]\Iass. , had l)een associated with Major Hazen's father and Messrs. James .Simonds and James White in the earliest part- nership formed in 1764 for colonizing the Harbor of .St. John. Munson Jarvis had three sons. The two elder, Ralph Munson and William, became merchants at St. John, where the former died in 1853, and the latter in 1856. His third son, t])e Hon. h^dward James Jarvis, became Chief Justice of Prince ICdward Island, and died at Charlottetown in 1852. Raljih Mun- son Jarvis n:arried Caroline, daughter of the Hon. George Leonard, of St. John and Sussex Vale, N. H. The only male representative of his large family now in New Hrunswick is his grandson, Charles lulward Leonard Jarvis, of St. John, son of ICdward Lutwyche Jarvis, who died at .St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1878. William Jarvis, son of Munson, married in 1836 Mary Caroline Boyd, daughter of Dr. John Moyd of the Royal Medical Staff; and the subject of this sketch is their only son. William Munson Jarvis is a barrister of the Supreme Court and general agent for the Liverpool and London and (ilobe Insurance BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 29 Comi'any fur the Maritime I'rovinees ol Can- ada. In l866 he became a Lieutenant Coln- iK'l in the New Hriinswiei< militia. In 1.S71, (in the incorporation of Portland, now forming a part of St. John, he became a member of the Town Council. He ha.s served as ])resi(lent (if the Stniday-seiiiiiii Teachers' Association of tiie Deanery of .St. John, vice-president of the Diocesan Church .Society of New iVunswici<, and president of the New Brunswick Hoard of I-'ire Underwriters, and is now president of tliL' St. Geori^e's Society of St. John, presi- dent of tlie Board of Trade of ti)e Maritime I'rovinees, and vice-president of the .St. John Board of Trade. He married in 1861 Jane Hope, daughter of Captain Beer, R.N. She died in 1866, leav- ing; three children. He married second, in 1868, Mary Lucretia, tlauj,diter of William Henry Scovil, merchant, St. John. She died in 1873, leavinj; two daughters. His son, I'.dward William, born in 1862, is now in the l)ank of Montreal, Toronto. One of his daughters is Mrs. J. W. Digby, of Itrantford, and another, Mrs. I'erey Domville, of Hamil- ton, Out. ^\C/V/ 11-1,1. \M SHKIM'ARI) SATN DMR.S, ex-Mayor of the town of Woodstink, N.H. , is prominently identified with its mercantile interests as an extensive and successfid dealer in dry goods. He was horn in Woodstock, July 29, 1854. His father, the late ICdw.ird .Saunders, of Benton, N.B., was born in I'"redericton, where his gramlfather .Saimders, whose name was John, settled on arriving in New Brunswick. John Saunders emigrated from .Scotland soon after attaining his majority. He had learned the blacksmith's trade in ICdinburgh, and for a short tiiue he worked at it in l'"red- ericton. Removing thence to Woodstock, he embarked in the blacksmithing business on his own account, and continued thus engaged until his death. ]Cdward .Saunders when a young boy came with his |)arents to Woodstock, where he at- tended the common school, and afterward learned the trade of a tanner and currier. He worked as a journeyman for a while, and then started in business for himself at Florence- ville, conducting a tannery and manufacturing boots and shoes. A few years later he sold out his establishment, and went to Vancebcuo, Me., to enter the employ of K. Shaw & Brothers, tanners of .sole leather. He contin- ued as foreman in one of their immense factories for several years, but lesigned the position to become a member of the firm of I-'arsons, Gib- son & .Saiuulers at Benton, \. B., where he re- mained until his demise. The firm carried on a very large tanning business, and its leather accpiired such a reputation throughout Canada for superior cpialities that just prior to his death Mr. lulward .Saunders was offered a magnificent salary to become su|ierintendent of one of the largest tanneries in the Do- minion. He was made a Mason at .Sussex Lodge, .St. .Ste|)hen, N.B., and was a inember of the li.iptist chuieh. He married Jane, daughter of .Samuel McKeen, of Woodstock. M X. 3° niOGRAIMIICAI, RF.VIFAV Sovi'ii chiKlrcn wore born ol t lis union aiiil SIX survive, all resiiliiiLr in Woodstoc \\( Tlu are: William Sheppanl, wlmse personal history is given below; Annie, wile ol Wallaeo Mclli oy !•: will of McAdam ; George, ol the firm of Saiiiulers Urotliers: lul- ward, a physieian; and (luy, a nun hant taili William Sheppartl Saunders, havingattended th :h(jol of !•' ill d th e superior scIkjoI ol r lorenceville anil tlie grammar school of Woodstock, took a com- mercial course at a business college in St. John. 11 is first position was that of book- keeper for 1"'. .Shaw & Urothers, with whom he remained two years. 'I'lieii. after acting as clerk in a Woodstock dry-gooils store ,i year, he was on the road as travelling salesman for the Taylor Manufacturing Company of New Hritain, Conn., for a year. He was subse- c|uently with I'arsons, Gibson & .Saunders until 1877, when he opened his |)rcsent dry- goods establishment in Woodstock. {"or a few years Mr. .Saunders ciuiducted the busi- ness alone, but as his trade increaseil he needed assistance in maintaining it, and took into partnership his brother, George H. .Saunders, under the present firm name of .Saunders Urothcrs. I'olitically, Mr. .Saunders was formerlv identified with the Liberal jiarty, but he is now Independent. His record of |)ublie ser- vice is long and honorable, i-'or ,1 number of years he was .1 member of the County Coun- cil; in 1895 and 1S96 he served as Mayiu' of the town: and in 1897 he was again elected to the County Council. While he was M.ayor, the present excellent system of sewerage, which has jiroved of inestimable benefit and value to the jilace, was first introduced. Kra- terna lly, h e w ;is made a Mason in .Sussc.\ Lodge, K. & A. M. d demitted to Wi stock Lodge, of which he is 1'. M. He is alsc a member of Woodstock Cha|)ter, R. A. M.; and of Carleton L :e, I. (). O. v., of which r He has be en a member o f the Hoard of .School Trustees of the town for years. Mr. .Saunders married Janet .Smith, daugh- ter of George and Margaret Murray, of lienton, N. li., and they have eight children, namely: Kate .Marion: William \i., of the class of 1900, in the Mc(iill Medical College, Montreal, Canada; Murray S. ; Harry 1'. ; I""rederick S. ; Annie N. ; Jean K. ; and K. J. Grant. Mr. and Mrs. .Saunders are both members of the Baptist church, and he is superintendent of the Sunday-school con- nected with it. 7?)T*>^■• joiix j.\Mi;s 1'-r.\si;r, O.C. I.L.l)., fourth Lieutenant Governoi of New Urunswick, was born at Heaubair's Island, Miramiibi, North- umberland t,'ount\'. X. H. , August I, i8j(), son of Jiihn I''iaser, one of the I'"arraliiie I'"iasers of Inverness, .Scotlaml. His nn'ther, Mar- garet l'"rascr, was a daughter of Hugh b'raser, son of "I'"aii- .Anne," daughter of the si.xth Lord I.ovat. Hon. J. J. I'"iaser received his genenil educaticn at the Newcastle (iramiiKir School, and in 1845 began the study of law in ■?5* 4 Ilu.v. JolIX JAMKS FKASKK, (J.C. 1.1..D. HIOGRAl'HICAL REVIEW 33 ihc office of Messrs. Street & Davidson, New- castle. He was admitted as attorney in 1850, as barrister in 1852, and i)ccame a (Jiiccn's Counsel in 1S73. lie came to I''redericlon in 1851, when tlic lion. Mr. .Street became At- torney-Cicneral. In 1.S65 he was elected one (if the Representatives of York in the Provin- cial Assemlily im the Anti-confederation plat- f(irni. The j;overnnient resij^ned the next year, and in the ensuing contest Mr. l'"raser was de- feated. In June, 1S71, he was appointed a nienii)er of tiie Legislative Council and presi- dent of the Ivxecutive Council ; init these posi- tions he resigned in 1S72, to accept tiie office of Provincial Secretary in the King admin- istration, being elected by bis York County constituents by acclamation. When the lion. Mr. King retired from politics in 1870, Mr. I''niser became Attorney-General and Premier of the province, and continued in that office until May, 1882, when he resigned lo become a candidate for the Dominion House, in which contest, however, be was unsuccessful. I:i December of the same year, on the death of .Mr. Justice Duff, he was aiipointed to the bench of the Su])renie Court, which position he iield until December, 1893, wiien he was offered, and accepted, the Lieutenant-Govern- orship of New Mrunswick. Mis health fail- ing, in the hojie of regaining it and on the advice of his physicians, he left home, N'ovem- iier 2, 1896, to travel through the south of I'rance and Italy. Hut the warning was but preliminary to the final summons; and be died a few days after rcaciiing Genoa, November 24, 1896. (jovernor I'raser's death was felt not only as a great personal bereavement by his immediate family and friends, i)ut as a public calamity throughout tiie province, and particularly in his own county of York, where he was greatly loved anil re>pected. lie was several times president of St. Andrew's .So- ciety. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Mrunswick. Governor I'^aser was first married in Sep- tember, 1867, to Martha, daughter of the late Ale.vander Cumining, cif l'"redericton. In May, 188.J, he married foi- his second wife J. M. I'auletle, ilaughter of the late lion. Charles P'isher, D. C. L. , of I'redericton. Mrs. P'raser still occupies the beautiful family residence, P'arialine I'lace. j1;ti:r rohp:rtson ixcih-:.s, M.D., M.R.CS.. P;ngland, a lead- ing physician of .St. John, N'.l?., his native city, was born on the nineteenth day of P'ebruary, 1835. He was ehristeneil Patrick. His parents, James and Janet (.Small) Inches, emigrated in 1832 and settled in St. John, the former being a native of Dunkeld, and the latter a native of Dirnanean, .Strathardts, Perthshire, Scotland. Dr. Inches received his early education in the grammar school of St. John, and sui)se- qucntly studied medicine in New York City at the University Medical College; and from this institution he graduated in i8fi6. Going then to (ireat Britain, he further prosecuted his studies at the L'niversity of P2dinlnirgh, '"^ 34 mor.R.\iMnr.\i, revikw i ( ; ' Srotland, and at King's C()llf;;i', London. In riS68 he was clccteil a nieniljcr ol tlu' Royal College of Surgeons of ICngland, and shortly after returned to St. John, N.K., wlure he comnieneed tlie practiee ol his profession. Dr. Inches was hrought up in llie faith as taught by the I'resiiyterian church, and has continued his connection with that body ol Christians. In 1876 the Doctor was united in marriage with Mary Dorothea, daughter of Dr. C. K. I'"iske, a native of Massachusetts, wlio for many years practised medicine in .St. Jolin. Of this marriaj'e seven children have bien born, si.\ of whom are living. MASA KMI'IRSON KII.LAM. of Moncton, N. 15. , was for many years a member of the Trovincial Parlia- ment, and in that capacity was notably faith- ful to the interests of the county and city which he re|iresente(l. A son of the late Joseph A. Killam, he was liorn August 25, 1834, in Dorchester, X.U. His great-grand- father, Amasa Killam, was an officer in the ICnglish army, and served during the Ameri- can Revolution. At tiie cIosl' of that war he was stationed at Halifax, N..S., where he died while on garrison duty. He had two sons — Cyprian and Comfort; and of these Cyprian, the first-horn, was the next in line of descent. Cyprian Killam was born in Connecticut, one of the New England .States, hut in bis youthful days he became a resident of Dor- chester, Westmorland County, N.B., where he was busily engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, at the age of seventy-one years. Mis wife, whose maiden name was Mary MlaeU, attained the venerable age of eighty-seven years. Hoth were devoted mem- bers of the Methodist church. Of their eleven children but one survives, John A., who married a cousin, Comfort Killam, and has eight children living. Joseph .\., son of Cyprian Killam, was born on the parental homestead in Dorchester, N. 15. In his youth he obtained a good knowl- edge of farm work and also learne 1 1^ 1 iil ■!-l WILLIAM liANAKI), Ml). niOGRAPFUCAI, REVIEW 37 old when he went with his parents to Salis- liury, wiierc lie acciuired his early ediicaticin. There he siil)seqiiently worked as a farmer and hriiltje builder lor a nuniher ol yiars. htit in 187s rrtiiined to Moneton, which he has made his permanent home. While livint; in Salis- Imry he was I'ostmaster of W'heaton Settle- ment from iXf>3 until 1X74, and durin}^ that time he built the Ali)ert Railway, of wliieh he was manager a number of years. In iSSi he completed the construction of tlie St. Martin's iS: I'pham Uailway, and for five years thereafter hatl charge of that road, in 18X5 and I.S86 he built the llaveloik end of the I'etitcodiac & llavelock Railroad, which he inanajjed the next three years. In 1.S89 he re- tired from active work connected with either railway or brid^je building, although he is at the present time one of the directors of the Albert Southern Uailway Company. Politically, Mr. Killam is a stron;; sup- porter (if the principles of the Liberal iiarty, and is an active worker in its ranks, lie was elected to the Provincial Pailianieiit in 1.S7S, and has been re-elected several times since. In that body he served with ,i;ieat lidelity durinj; each term of service, ^ivini,' ujeneral satisfaction; and he would stil I lu' oui' of its nuinbers had he not resii^ned tm May 1, 1897, two years before the expiration of his term, to accept a government position as Bridge In- spector of Canada, an office which he still holds. Mr. Killam married on July 25, 1857, Millicent W'heaton, by whom he had seven children, five of whom are living, namely: ICmily A., born April 1,}, \H6t; Clarence ]•'.., born December if), 18^)5; Mdward A., born May f.(, i8rj8; i-'rauk !.., born September 25, 1870; and Jessie J., Ikmii ( Ictolnr 31, 1S72. A daughter, Carrie }., who was horn March 13. i85«j, died in April, 189S. Mrs. Milli- cent \\. Killam died at the age of fifty-five years. She was a most estimable woman and a member ot the Baptist church. On October J, 1889, .Mr. Kiliain married Mrs. Mary Alice Hallett, born McKay, who by her first marriage has one child, IClla M. Hallett, born April 23, 1882. Mrs. Killam and Miss Hallett are members ol the Presbyterian church II.I.I.XM li.WAKl), .M.l),, a highly (.•steemed ph)siiiau of .St. John, N.li. , is one of the cddest members of the medical fraternity in this province, and is well known in professional, literary, and social circles. He was burn in Kent\ille, \..S. , August Ji, 1S14, a sun of the late Dr. Robert Hayard. Menticni of this surname at once brings to mind its foremost bearer in the ranks of fame, the Che\alier de lia\ard {1475 iS--\' styleil in song and histov) the ki)ii;hl "without fear and without reproach," a jihrase which, as a nu)tlii, is used to-day on the Hayard coat of arms. The common ancestor of Dr. Hayard of .St. John and the late Hun. Thomas 1". liayai'd, fur many )ears United .States .Senator from Delaware, four years .Secretary of State, and afterward first Ambassador of the United nv. 38 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW States at the Court of St. James, was Samuel Bayard, a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, Holland, who married Anne Stiiyvesant, dauj^hter of the Kev. Balthazar Stuyvesant and sister of I'eter Stuyvesant, one of the early Governors of New Amsterdam. Accord- ing to the family tradition .Samuel Hayard, who died previous to 1647, and his sister Judith, the wife of Governor .Stuyvesant, were descendants of a Huguenot preacher who on account of religious persecution in l-'rance went to Holland. In 1647 Mrs. Anne .S. Bayard, a widow, came over with Governor .Stuyvesant, bringing her four children — Catliarine, I'etrus, Baltha-ar, and Nicholas. The Delaware family of Bayards descended from Petrus through his son Samuel, who set- tled in Maryland. Colonel Joiin Ikiyard, of I'hiladelphia, in Revolutionary times a mem- ber of the Committee of Safely, was uf the same line. One of the early American Bayards removed to Mngland, where he founded the family from which Dr. Bayard of St. John is sprung. Colonel .Samuel \'etch Bayard, the Doctor's grandfather was a distinguished officer in tiie luiglish army. He had three sons, one of who.ii was a captain in the iMiglisIi army. One of these was killed at the battle of Waterloo. The other, a Post cajitain i:i the luiglish navy, was murdered at l-'urdham, N. ^'. The third was Dr. Robert Bayard, above named. Dr. Robert Bayard was a Lieutenant in the Britisli army at the age of thirteen years, but on account of his youth was allowed to pro- ceed with his studies at Winilsor, N. .S. His fatlier's regiment was then stationed at Halifa.v. He subsequently gave u^i his nimission, and, after reading medicine for a period, entered the University of Ivlinburgh, from which he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1809. The degree of Doctor of Civil Law V as conferred upon him by King's College, Windsor, N. S. Just after his graduation he became professor of obstetrics in the Univer- sity of ?Jew York, l^ut during the War of 1812 he was forced to take the oatii of allegiance or lea\e the country. Choosing the latter alternative, he made his way to Portland, Me., from whence he sailed in an open boat to St. John, N. B., arriving in May, 1813. Subse- quently going to Halifax, N.S. , he was there for a short time, and then settleil as a i)racti- tioner in Kentville, N..S. , where he remained until 1S24, when he returned to St. John to spend the remainder of his life. He built I'p an extensive |)ractice in this city, and until hi.'-: death, in June, 1868, at the age of eighty-one years, was one of the most noted physicians of this section. While living in Halifax, N. S. , he married Frances Catherine, daughter of Commissary Robertson, who was killed in the Colonial War of 1775, antl t!ie grand-daugiiter of Colonel John Billop, a Loyalist, who, being forced to abandon his old home, his large jnoperty on Staten Island, New York Harbor, having been lonliscated, settled in St. John. William Bayard, when but twelve years old, w^as sent to I-'ordham, N. Y. , where for five years he was a pupil in the school conducted by the Rev. William Powell, a noted educator. He i\L BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 39 was afterward iiiulcr the private tuition of Dr. Valentine IVIott, the celebrated surfjenn of New YorK, whose fame became world-wide; and he also attendeil medical lectures at the collejje. doing thence to ]ulinburj;h, Scotland, he en- tereil the Univcrsitj-, from which he graduated in 1837 with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. After spending a few months on the continent, visiting hospitals in Paris and (ier- many, many of which he has since re\isitcd, lie returned to St. John and began the i)ractice of his profession with his father, whom he eventually succeeded. A writer familiar with his career has w.itten of him in these compli- mentary words : "Almost fron) the start Dr. Ha3'ard has made a brilliant success, lie has been greatl)' imnored b)- the medical frater- nity and b)' liis fellow-citi/.ens, and it is safe to say that no man in hi.s profession in the Provinces is held in higher esteem. There is not a city or large town in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or I'rince I']dward Island to which he has not been called upon pi'ofessional busi- ness. To the Docl(n's persistent energy the .St. John Public Hospital owes its existence. He bidught the matter of establishing sucli an in- stitution before the city authoiities, but re- ceived no encouragement. He tried to raise money for the jiurpose by general subscription, but faileil. Mmploying then a lawyer to draft an act to assess tiie amount rctpiired, be placed the bill before the Pro\ini'ial Legislature; and, with the assistance of the late .Sir Leonanl Tilley and the Hon. John 11. Gray, and others, the bill to raise funds enough to erect the building and to ]irovide for its future sup- port was jiassed. Since its establishment, in I .S60, 1)|-. Ha\ard has been chairman of the 15oai(l of Commissioners. He was also chair- man of the Hoard of Health for the city and county of .St. John, a position to which he was ajipointed by government in iNjS, ju.st after the passage of the Sanitary Act of that year. For four years in succession he was elected [iresident of the New Hrunswick Medical So- ciety, an office which he resigned in 1881. He was piesident of the Council of Physicians and .Surgeons frcHn i8S[ until 1S.S5, when he resigned. He was Coroner of the city and county, holding the position twenty-eight years, when there was but one Coroner where si.\ are now re(|uired to perform the woi'k, al- though there has bee;! but small increase in po])ulation. Dr. Hayanl was for sceral years the New lirunswick editor of the Montreal J/o/ictr/ trm/ Smxiciil Jtiiiniy giving him control of his lightning. (Signed, Jo.ix Wn.sox. Mrs. Hayard died in icS-6, leaving no chil- dren. She was a most estimahle woman, hos- pitable and benevolent, and always liapii)- when doing something for others. .She was eminently domestic in her tastes, and took especial deliglit in entertaining her own and the Doctor's friends. She spent mi.ch time in looking after the poor and iinfortnnate and in visiting the Home for Aged Women, the I'rot- cstant Orjihan .\s\iinn, and otiier charitable institutions. (5j|-OHN I. .STKKVH.S, a highly respected citizen of Hilisboro, N.H., and one of its most pros|)eroiis agriculturists, was born February 13, 1848, on the farm where he now resides, and on which his father, the late John L. H. .Steeves, passed his entire life. Among the original settlers of this section of Albert County was Henry, or, as the name is called in Dutch, Hendrick, .Steeves, who came here from I'ennsylvania. In May, 1763, just aftei the close oi the I-'reiicii and Indian War, a sloop commanded by Captain Hall sailed from Pennsylvania for New Bruns- wick, having on board the families of Hendrick Steeves and of Messrs. Jones, Trites, Ricker, Lutz, and -Somers. On July i of that year, after a tedious voyage, the vessel stopjied at a small creek on the north side of Gray's Island; and there Mr. Steeves and his wife, Rachel, landed with their seven sons — Jacob, John, Christian, Frederick, Ludwig, Henry, and Matthias, whose ages ranged from four- teen years down to two years. The remainder of the party proceeded up the river to what is now the town of Moncton. At Hilisboro Hendrick Steeves took up a tract of land that was formerly settled by the I'rench. He reared a log cabin for a home, and struggled along for a few years, living largely upon the game to be found in the vicinity and the fish from the streams. Hy 1766, however, his jirospects brightened; and by 1770 he and his boys had a large field cleared and cultivated, ami he owned several cattle. Thereafter prosperity smiled upon his efforts, and he lived in comfort the remainder of his days. To-d.iy his ilescendants, through his seven sons, may he found among the honored citi- zens of every Province of the I^ominion and in every State of the Union. O.ic of them, W. H. Steeves, was the first Postmaster of Hilisboro, an office to which he was appointed in 1.S3J; and he was further distinguished in 1S47 by being chosen as the first meinber from Albert Cotinty to the Legislatinx-, a iiosition to which he was sidisecpiently re-elccteil at every election until his death. I >^ I BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 41 Jacob Steeves, the next in line of descent, was horn in Pennsylvania, where he lived until he was fourteen years old, when in 1763 he came with his parents to llillsboro. He assisted in clearing the homestead, to the ownership of which he succeeded, and during his entire life was employed in farming, hunt- ing, and fishing. When twenty-one years old he went up the Potitcodiac River in a boat of his own construction to the hamlet at which friends that came from the old provinces, now the States, when he did had settled; and there he married his first and only sweetheart, Cath- erine, daughter of Jacob Lutz. Returning home with his bride, he built a log house about thirty rods from his father's abode, and from that time continued the improvements and cultivation of the property. One of the most important of his undertakings was the building of dykes to keep the tide out of the marsh. He reared several children, one of whom, John, the eldest son, was the grand- father of John I., the special subject of this sketch. John Steeves si)ent his life in Hillsboro, and was known far and wide as one of the leading farmers of the day, as well as an extensive ship-owner and mill operator. He was an expert in the use of carpenter's tools and of surgical instruments, and on account of his ability to do any kind of mechanical work, from the building of a house or shij) to the amputating of a leg, he was nicknamed "The King." 1 le married Jane Heatty. .She died at tlie age of threescore and ten, while he at- tained the venerable age of eighty-four. Both were highly esteemed throughout the town ; and she was a member of the Baptist church, which he attended. They had a family of eleven children, seven boys and four girls, of whom but one child is living, namely: Jane, who is the widow of Samuel Gross, and has four children — Nancy, Augusta, Maud, and Frank. John L. B. Steeves, the youngest child, was born in 1821 on the Steeves homestead, where he successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits during the active part of his life of seventy-one years. Taking an intelligent in- terest in all things ])ertaining to the welfare of his town and county, he became a citizen of influence, and for many years served as Magis- trate, and also as .Supervisor of Roads. In politics he was identified with the Liberals. He married Lavina, daughter of Isaac Gross, of llillsboro; and she survives iiim, living at the old homestead with her son, John I. Mrs. .Steeves is a valued member of the Bap- tist church, of which her husband was for many years a Deacon. Nine children were born of their marriage, and seven of them are living; namely, Ruth, John I., iMiinia, Ada, Martha, Frank W. , and Laura. Ruth is the wife of Mariner J. Smith, and has four chil- dren — ■ Arnot, I'rank, Horace, and Gertrude. Emma is the wife of William H. Dutfy, and has six children ^ Arthur, Carl, Paul, Leon, Robert, and Burjiee; Ada, the wife of George 11. .Steadman, has one child, Harold; Martha, whose first husband, Stephen Colpitt, left her one child, Stephana, is now the wife of James Best, by whom she has two children — Charles V \i h i i 1 42 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW and Ruth; Frank W. married Lizzie Colpitt, and has three children — Hlanche, Ora, and Maggie; and I^aura is the wife of Burpee Anderson, and has two children — John and Mary. John I Steevcs received his education in the schools of Ilillsboro, and in his father's fields obtained a practical knowledge of agri- culture. I'oUowing in the footsteps of his ancestors, he has chosen farming as his prin- cipal occupation, and on the old home farm is meeting with admirable success. On Novem- ber 2, 1.S80, he married Amanda, daughter of Jonathan T. Colpitt, of Salisbury, N.B. ; and their only child, Nellie, was bor . .lay 25, 1882. In politics Mr. Steeves is a Liberal, and in his religious belief he is a Baptist, being an active member of the church of that denomination, in which he has succeeded his father as Deacon. Mrs. Amanda .Steeves, a sincere Christian, belongs to the Methodist church. [fiDl'ON. TIIOMA.S R. JONH.S, banker and broker of .St. John and e.\-mem- ber of the Legislative Council of New Brunswick, was born in St. John on Sep- tember 12, 1825, son of John and I'^liza (Rose- land) Jones. He is of Welsh ancestry and a descendant of one John Jones, who was born near Uanvers, Mass., engaged in ship-build- ing there, and about 177'') was sent to New Brunswick l)y the General Court of Massachu- setts to look after certain ship-buililing inter- ests here. He located where .St. John now stands, but after the Revolutionary War went with a Mr. Nevcrs to Sunbury County. There he built a large ship, which was brought to St. John, but upon reaching her destination ran on the rocks ami was de- stroyed. Although crippled financially by this disaster, he subsequently built another large ship, which, however, was burned by the Americans in the War of 1812. Going subse- quently to the head of The Mistake in Kings County, he located a large tract of land, which is now owned and occupied by his youngest grandson, llis wife was a Miss Mercy Hil- drick, of Danvers, Mass., member of the fam- ily of that name so well known in both Lng- land and Massachusetts; and she bore him a large family of chiliiren. Of these Samuel, the eldest, engaged in fanning in Kings County, lie married Mary I'almer, a mem- ber of the Suni)ury family of that name who came here in 1776. Of their two sons, John, father of the Hon. Thomas R. Jones, was the youngest. John Jones was a lifelong resident of .St. John. His three children were: Thomas R.; Amelia J., who married James M. Roiiertson ; and Samuel. One of Mr. Jones's maternal ancestors was that Thomas Mullin who was the first native of Ireland that ever settled in New Brunswick of whom there is any authentic account. He was born in the north of Ireland, came out to New York inwious to the Revolution, and to .St. John in 1783 with the Fall Fleet of Loyalists. Here he died in 1796, and was buried in the old city grave-yard, nearly in front of the present police olfice. He was an mtm mmt mi I .1 JAMES R. RUKL. ■^ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 4S innkeeper; and his advertisement, ^iven below, cut from the pa^^^es of an old newspaper, is both interesting and suggestive: — "Tm(.m.\s Mri.i.iN-, "Who formerly kept the Royal Punch House in the city of New York, begs leave to inform his friends, and the public in gen- eral, that he has now opened a tavern at the launch of Grapes, No. 403, Prince William Street, town of Parr, River St. John's, di- rectly opposite the public landing, between the Exchange Coffee House and Post OfTice. He is at i)resent finishing his house in such a manner as to be calculated for commercial business, public or select comiianies, etc. His being always known to keep a plentiful stock of the best liquors, and an hospitable table, induces him to hope for a share of the public countenance. "Having transplanted as much loyalty in this promising country as he could, he hopes his friends and customers will be pleased to honor his tavern with the appellation of tiie Royal Punch House. "Said Mull in also carries on the black- smith's business in all its branches at his shop adjoining the provision store. He has parciciilarly laid himself out for heavy work, edge tools and ship work, and will always be provided with a tolerable stock of hardware, etc. His customers may be assured that all orders for work in said business shall be exe- cuted in a proper manner and with greatest desi)atch. '• r.vKK. .\iigiist 5tli, 17S3." The Hon. Thomas R, Jones was engaged in mercantile business from his fourteenth year until tiic time of the great fire in 1877, when he met with the financial loss of nearly a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. .Since then he has been successfully engaged in his present line of business, i-'or eight years he served the city as Alderman, and for twenty- two years be was in the Legislative Council. Mr. Jones was made a Mason in 1849. He is a member of the Church of I'jigland, and at- tends St. Paul's Churcii. He was married in 1852 to Miss Mary Jane Donney, daughter of Charles and Mary Donney. Of the eleven children born of their union, eight are living, six sons and two dauirhters. §AMES RHODES RUEL, late Collector of Customs and Registrar of Shipping at the port of St. John, was born at Pcmbridge House, Welsh Xewton, Hereford- shire, ICngland, October 22, 1S20, and died in St. John, N. P., ^Larch 8, 1900. He was a son of John Godfrey and Catherine l?arbara (Clery) Ruel. The family is of German origin, and the name was formerly spelled Riihl. One of its members in tiie sixteenth century was Dr. Johann Riihl, of Mansfeld, who is on record as having "filled a place of considerable emi- nence in the political world of his day," being Chancellor of the Archbisho|i of Mayntz, the Elector Albert of Brandenburg, antl the favo- rite counsellor of the younger counts of Mansfeld, representing them at the Diet of i ^ 46 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW |t !i Niiremberfj, and at other similar assemblies. ])r. Johann Riihl was a brother-in-law of the great religious reformer, Martin Luther (hav- ing married one of his sisters), and supiiortcd him at the historic interview with Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg. He was a friend ami correspondent of I.uthcr and an honored guest at his wedding. These and other interesting particulars are contained in a nionograpii cntitleil "The Par- ents and Kinsfolk of Luther," by Robert C. Jenkins, M. A., rector of Lyminge and Hon- orary Canon of Canterbury. Mr. Jenkins is a cousin of Mr. Ruel, the Collector of the port of St. John, and is a grandson of Johanna Regina Ruel, who claimed a direct descent from Dr. Johann Riihl. The Kvihl family, which was of senatorial rank in the city of Heili)ronn, was related to the Counts Fngger, Kirchburg, and Weissanbarn. The present head of that house is Prince Babenhausen, who is a kinsman of Her Majesty Queen Victoria through the iiouse of Hohenlohe-Langcburg. Gottfried Ruhl, a descendant of Dr. Johann anil great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled in London about one hundred and eighty years ago. He was distinguished as a man of wealth. Later generations of the lamily in Lngland changed the spelling of the name to its present form of Ruel. John Godfrey Ruel, grandson of Gottfried, was born in London and educated at Harrow. I'jitering the navy, he acquired considerable distinction as an officer in the Royal Marines on board H. M. .S. "Thetis" and other war vessels, and remained in the service until the declaration of peace in 1815. In 1817 he married Catherine Barbara Clery, a descendant of a French count, and in 1833 he emigrated to New Brunswick, accompanied by his wife, six sons, ami three daughters. He returned to ICngland in 1849, and died there in 1852. His wife died in 1887, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. James Rhodes Ruel began his education in the high school of Monmouth, l-jigland, and completed it at the grammar school in St. John. Entering the service of the city cor- jioration in July, 1839, he became successively Deputy Common Clerk, Clerk of the Peace, Auditor of County and City Accounts, and Chamberlain of the City. On November i, 1870, he was appointed by the Cariadian gov- ernment Collector of Customs and Registrar of Shipping at this port, which position he held until his death; and his long reten- tion in office attests his efficient performance of the important duties intrusted to his charge. In September, 1850, he became associated with the Rev. Dr. I. W. D. Gray in the edi- torship of the Cliiiiili Witness, a newspaper established to counteract the teachings of the High Church party in the Church of iMigland; and, taking its sole management in 1855, he continued to conduct it until 1864, when its publication ceased. When a young man he supported the views of the Tractarian school, but, becoming con- vinced that they were not in accordance with the teachings of the early reformers of the Church of luigland, he abandoned them for the doctrine as taught by the ICvangelical school. I '■ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV 47 He was a member of St. John's Church continuously from 1833 to the time of his death and was a warden for over twenty years; and in 1853, when the churcli edifice became the place of worship of a separate parish, he was elected a vestryman and vestry clerk. Mr. kuel for many years took a deep interest in the general welfare of the city and its devel- opment. He contributed liberally toward the original fund raised tor the purpose of estab- lishing the Free Tublic Library, and served as its secretary and treasurer from the time of its organization until 1897, when he resigned. During the agitation of the project for the confederation of the provinces, he was chair- man of the J5ritish American Association, which was founded especially to promote the success of that movement. In 1854 Mr. Ruel contracted the first of his two marriages with Harriet, daughter of John Kinnear. She died in 1859. having had one dauj;hter who also died; and in 1861 he wedded for his second wife Sophia M. Johnston, daughter of the Hon. Hugh Johnston. She became the mother of five children, namely: I'rederick Herbert Johnston Kuel, who is now in the emiiloy of the Hank of Montreal; Gerard Godfrey Ruel, LL. H., graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., now legal adviser of the De[)artment of Railways and Canals at Ottawa; Isabel U., who married A. M. Goss, of Plymouth, iMig- land; P'rnest .Swartz, wiio died in 1894, at the age of twenty-one years; and Claudine, who died in i88j. ICrnest Swartz was a graduate of the University of New Ikunswick, and about to begin a promising career as an attor- ney. Mr. Ruel's second wife died in May, 1894, and to her memory and that of her son he erected a handsome fountain in I'ernhill Cemetery, which he had previously assisted in beautifying. ILAS ALVVARD, (J.C, A.M., D.C.I.., a highly iionored member of the legal fraternity, resident in St. John, was born at Hrunswick, (Jucens County, N.H., on April 14, 1842, son of John and Mary A. (Corey) Alward. II is grand- father, Benjamin Alward, was one of the United Empire Loyalists who, at the close of the Revolution, came from New Jersey to Queens County, where he lived to the ad- vanced age of ninety. On his mother's side also Mr. Alward is descended from one of the old Oueens County families. Mr. Alward received his degree as Haclielor of Arts in i860 from Acadia College, and his Master's degree in 1871 from Hrown Univer- sity, Providence, R.I., in the States. In 1882 Acadia College conferred upon him the well-merited degree of Doctor of Civil Law. He was called to the bar in 1865, and has since been engaged in the practice of his l)rofession in St. John. In 1887 he was ap- pointed an advisory member of the Commis- sion on the Law and Practice and Constitu- tion of the Courts, and in i8gi was created a Queen's Counsel. Resides holding other po- sitions. Dr. Alward has been president of the .St. John Mechanics' Institute, lecturer in the 48 BIOr.RAI'inCAI. RKVIKW 11 I law school of Kiiif^'s College, Windsor, ;it St. John, in evidence and icjuity, and a member of the Sch()(d Hoard, lie is at the present time governor of Acadia College and a mem- ber (il tlie law faculty of King's College, Windsor. Among iiis contributions to politi- cal literature have been two brochures, "The Issues ot the Day" (St. John, 1887) and "The Record of the Tory Tarty" (St. John, 1887). A I,ii)era] in politics and an active and influ- ential member of his i)arty, Dr. Alward was returned to the Provincial Legislature in March, 1887; but from May, 1S89, down to 1899, he was in active opposition to the Hlair government. In 1895 be was re-elected 'nr St. John by acclamation, g.e. Dr. Alward attends the Church of luigland. He was married first in 1869 to I'.inilie, daughter of ]'. Wickwcre, of Canning, N.S. Her death occurred in 1879; and in May, 1888, he married Sarah luiith, daughter of W. W. Tundndl, of St. John. Three sons have blessed this union: I'lrnest H. TurnbuU, who was liorn on April 4, 1S89; William Wallace, who was liorn on August 14, 1892; and Cedric Harold, who was born on January 12, 1898. Dr. Alward and his family resiilc at Sunnyside, Mount I'leasant, St. John. DI.XON WOOD, an extensive man- ufacturer of Hay Verte, Westmor- land County, and one of its most eiiter]irising anS74 l)y acclamation. He served continuously until 1.S7S, an honored recnnl of public service that shows tiie esteem in wliich he is held throughout the Province. In his earlier lile he was identified with the militia in an official capacity, havin-- been either Ad- jutant or Captain of a company of militia for a number (,^ years. He is a regular attendant of the Presbyterian church, although in relig- ious preference he is a Congregational ist. Mr. Appleby married Harriet l-Hizabeth, daughter of John II. Ivstey, of h'lorenceville, N.H. Mr. and Mrs Appleby have five chil- dren, namely: Kate; Charles; Mary, wife of 1'. W'ilmot Watson, of the ])arish of Rich- mond, Carleton, N.H. ; Helen; and Ruth. Charles Ajjplcby, M.A., LL.H., studied law with his father, received the degree of Master of Arts from the Cniversity of New Urunswick and the degree of Hachelor of Laws from the Albany Cniversity, his father's Alma Mater. He is now senior member of the firm of Apjileby & Ketchum, publishers of the Woodstock Dis^atcli. He is likewise Lieutenant in the Hrighton ICugineers. [75)T*>N, I'Ri'Hi'.Ric i;. h.\kivi:r, .m.a., 1). C. I,., Judge of the .Supieme Court if New Ihunswiik, was boiii on Decembei' 27, if^.i^', ;it Shellield, Sunbiiiy County, N. H. , son of I'.noch and Mary S. liarker, both of whom are now deceased. His paternal ancestors emigrated to ShefTield from the State of Massachusetts previous to 1760. Mr. Harker received his education at Sunbury (irannnar .School .'tiid King's College, now the University of New Brunswick. He graduated at the latter institution, receiving the degree of bachelor of Arts in 1857, and he subsequently took the degrees of Master of Arts, ]?achclor of Civil Law, and Doctor of Civil Law. He was admitted as an attorney in i860, as a bar- rister in 1861, ami appointed a O. C. in 1872. He studied with the late Mr. Justice ]''isher when at the bar, and was afterward for si.\ )ears in partnership with tlie late Mr. Ju.stiee Wetmore. He has been president of the l?arristers' Society of New Brunswick and of the St. John Law Society, and was for several years a member of the Council of each of these societies. He is also a member of St. Cicorge's Society, of which he was presi- dent for two years, and is president of the .St. John Bridge and Railway Lxtension Company. In politics Judge Barker was an active Con- servative. He was Representative in the Iloi.se of Commons for the city of St. John, having succeeded Sir Leonard Tilley upon that gentle- man's apiiointment to the governorship of New Hrimswick in 18S5, but at the general elec- tions the following \ear was defeated. Judge Barker is a stanch member and supporter of the Church of England, and is a warden of St. Paul's Church in St. John. He was one of the commissioners ajipointed by the govern- ment of New Bnniswick in 1875 to cons(didate the statutes, and a member of the Law Com- mission afterward appointed by the .same i ^' 'i'" , ii I 1 1 Lil 'II 6o BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW government. In l'*^93 lie \v;is iiiipninled to tlie office lie has since so ably tilled, that of a Judge of the Supreme Court. In 1896 he \va.s appointed Administrator of the ("lovernmeiit of New Urunswick during the absence on leave of the late Lieutenant-governor l''iaser. Judge barker ha.s been twice married. His first wife, whoni he married in 1X65, was Julia, daughter of lulward Lloyd, the latter at that time a member of the Ko\al Lngineers' Civil Sta'f stationed at St. John. Hy this union there were two daughters and one son. The son, who graduated at the Koyal Military College at King.ston, is now a Cajitain in the Royal Artillery and stationed in Malta. Judge Harker married second, Mary Ann, daughter of the late li. A. Black, of Hal i fa?;, N. S. There are two daughters by this union. OHKRT MURRAY, barrister-at-law, Chatham, X. H., was Ixirn in this place in 1855, son of liobert and Jane (Wright) Murray. Robert Murray, llic elder, was Im; n in Annan, .Scotlaiu', in 1.S16. He was a small boy at the time of the death of his father, John Muriay, and was about nine years of age when he came to America with his mother's family. He landed at Riihihucto, X.li. , aiul thence proceeded to I'ictou, .\..S. , where be was apprenticed to learn the tanner's and cui- rier's trade. .Subseia^ , BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV 6S iSj?, sun III Sl'woII ,iml Ann (Mailc) Wooil- niaii, both ni liis parents luin;,' natives ol Maine and "f I'uritan ancestry. Mr. Wdddnian, as a bn)-, learned tlie \ariiiiis processes nt Innilier nianulaetminj;, in wliicli Ills fatiier was extensisely enj;a{;e(l ; and it is l)ut natural that he .shouhl iiave devoted his workin}; life to this activity. On March 5, iS^f), he came to .St. John, and here, in com- pany with Ml'. Miller, orjjani/ed the lirm of Miller iS; Woiidman. The mills jireviously operated b)' Messrs. Mason & Vincent at Koii- ertson's I'oint were [lurchased ; and the firm at once began the manufacture of sugar boxes, which were sliipjied to the West India Islands. Later they cut spruce lumber. At the present time they carry on one of the largest lumber manufacturing concerns in .New Jhunswiik, annually cutting t\vent\' niiilicm feel of spruce lumber and thirlN-five million shingles. Their re])utatioM for business enterprise is et|ualled only by their reputation for business integrity, and the product of their mill is known to be always exactly as rcjjresenled. Mr. Woodman was married in iS.S^ to Mary Na.se, a daughter of I'iiilip Xase, who for many years was a prominent merchant in Indian- town. Mr. Woodman's success as a business man has won reiognition in liiiancial circles; and some time since he was asked to serve as a director of tiie Hank of .New Jirunswick, which is one of the most conservative and at the same time one of the most prosperous finan- cial institutions in tiie I'rovince. Mr. and .Mrs. Woodman attend .St. Luke's I'Ipiscopal Church. \Mri:L riioMSoN. o.c, ..f ^/^ .Newcastle, the oldest practising barrister in the province, was born at Chatham, N. H. , October 17, 1825, .son of the Rev. James and Catiierine (M'Kay) Thom- son. II is father, who was of the Secession Church of Scotland, was the first permanently settled Presbyterian miTiister in New Jiruns- wick, and the founder of St. Andrew's Church, Chatham. Coming from I)unifries, .Scotland, in 1S16, he labored faithtull)- u.-.til his prema- ture decease in 1S30. Mr. Thomson's mother, \vht)also was a native r)f Scotland, died in i.S5,S. Samuel Thomson, after receiving a gram- mar-school education, studieii law with John Am[)rose Street antl George Kerr. Admitted an attorney in 1846 and called to the bar in 1S4S, he has neen in the practice of his pro- fession for lifty-two \ e.us, for two or three in partnership with .Mr. Kerr and since that time alone. His piactice has extended to all the courts of the province. He is Judge of I'robate, Clerk of the County Court, Clerk of the I'eace, .Secietary and Treasurer of the county, and Clerk of the Circuits. He re- sided in Chatham until icS^.S, when, on his appointment as Clerk of the Peace, he removed to Newcastle. Judge Thomson was married in iS^cj to Miss Jane McCurdy, of Truro, N. S., a daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Hlanchard) .McCm-dy. They have eight children, fixe daughters and three sons, all of whom are now living; nimely, Anna (',., llliza I., .\lm,i K., Adelaide, Jean, Charles J., lulward H. , and (leorge K. Thomson. : V 66 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW Jii(l:;c 'riidnisoii lias tlii(iiii;liciut liis carci''' L'si'lii'wod politics. His iclinioiis aniliatioiis are with the I'icsh)teiian fl'urcli. He is one ol the oldest nienihers of Nortluimherlaiul I.oiliie, l'-. & A. M. I.KMl'lNT ri'XKHAM CI.ARKi:, the oiliest established driigj,nst in St. John, was born in that city, Marcii 15, 1S36, eldest son of John and Susannah (Parlee) Clarke, lie is a great -grandson of James Clarke, a Loyalist, who married l-'.li/.aheth I'eckham, ;ind with his wife and family came to New Hrunswick in i/J^.v James Clarke's son, John Clarke, Sr. , grand- father of Clement I'., was liorn in Newport, R.I., May .^i, 1760. On coming to St. John, he estahli.ihed himself in the baking business, for nian\- years supplying His Majesty's trooii.- and being very successful. His residence, which was at the corner of Main (now Hroad) and Sydney Streets, was destroyed in the great fire of 1.S77. He was for fifty years jiarish clerk of Trinity Church, St. John i)arisli ; and at his death a monument was crecteil to his memory h\ the corporation of tlu' chuich. He was nianied ( )ctober i;j, \J^S' '" A'i";i I'eck, who was born ( )ctober C), 1767. Their children were: Jane, who became Mrs. Treph- ager ; James; Isaac; !•' ranees, who became Mrs. Thomas Reed; Mar\ I'^li/abetb; Msther; John, fathei of the subject of this sketch; Ann, who became Mrs. JauKs 'rawford; and Augusta, who \\,\s the wif. ( f I). A. Cameron. I'rances, .Mai\-, and M'.i/a lost their li\i's in the tire of 1877. Aftei' the death of his lirst wife John Clarke, Sr. , married Jane Majori- banks, who died in i.S'40. He died in St. John, November 30, I1S55. John Clarke, son of the above, reached man- hood and received his education in .St John. A baker by occupation, like his father, he was appointed Flour Inspector of St. John, which position he filled efificientl\' for many yeius. He mirried Susannah, daughtei' of Peter I'arlec, of .Sussex, N. H. .She was born Novemljer 10, 1S14. Their children were: Clement Teck- Ikuu, whose name begins this sketch ; Josephine Augusta, who is now deceased; I'eter I'arlee, who resides in .Southbridge, Mass. ; I'rances Ibiyward; ()liver Goldsmith, who is now de- ceased; John HeiHN', who is associated in busi- ness with his br. ( ). ]•". lie manied !•' ranees I'.., daugliter of .Ste]ilien L. I'arsons, of \\'o(jdstock, and tliey have two eliildren — Artliur I., and h'rank 1'. diaries 1). Dickinson, tlie second son, born Janua'v ., \SjC), began work in liis fatlier's tannery as soon as he finished school, and in 1889 became a member of the firm. He mar- ried .Sarah I,., daughter of James K. .Smith, of Clinton, ]\Iass. They have si.x children now livin;;-; namely, Clara, Herbert I']., Roy ])., Helen 1,., Florence, and Mary A. John ]'". Dickinson, the )(Umgest son, born October II, 186^, was admitted into the firm in 1893, as before mentioned. He is also managing director, while his brother, Charles D., is president, of the Maritime Wrajiper Company, which eniplovs fiom sixty to eighty hands in the nianufactuie (jf clothing foi' women. ON. J.\Mi:S IlOl.l.N', of St. John, X.I!., .'-on of tlu> late James Holly, Sr. , of the pal i>h of Hiuton, .Sun- bur\- County, X.H. , was Imrn on Octobci" 24, 1835. He was educated in the village school, and acquired in his youth the habits of indus- try and courtesy and the principles of integrity which have proved such valuable allies to him in his business career. His father and mother dieil when he was but a boy. At the age of twehe \ears he went to St. John and worked at the lumber business with his maternal grand- father, John .S. Hrown, being employed in sur- veying and delivering. I'jitering into partner- .ship with David Mcl.ellan in M;.y, 1867, he carried on lumber business with him until Mr. iMcLellan's death in 1894. In 1895 the firm name was changed to James Holly & Son. Mr. Holl\- was a director of the S(iuth J?ay ]5ooni Comiian)- from 1876 to 188 1, was ])resi- dent of the company four year.s, and in 1885 became proprietor of the booms, having pur- chased the stock and plant. Mr. Holly is a Liberal in jxditics. He has always been warmly interested in all ([uestions of iiublic importance, and has taken an active part in public affairs. He was appointed in 1883 a member of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Jinmswick, and in 1887 a member of the I'rovincial ]5oard of Health. He joined St. John's Lodge, V. & A. M., in i8f)9, and for some time was an active member of the ancient craft, becoming a member of Xew Hnuiswick Royal ,\reli Cliajjter in 1871, and later for two years holding the rank of Noble and luiiinent Commander of Union Dc Molay iMicampment, K. T. In 18S3 he was a|)pointcd b\- the Xational Creat I'riory of Canada to the oflice of Gr.uul Sub marshal. On December 31, 1863, Mi. Hollv married 72 BIOGRAI^HICAL REVIEW Aramantha A., eldest (laii;;litcr nl the late Ale.\ai)(lcr Harnliill, I'.sq., of Lancaster, N. H. This union lias been blessed b_\' the birth of live children; namely, Jeannette A., Caroline, Alexander H. , Henrietta, and Murray McL. Jeannette A. married Charles Swinerton, of Cambridge, Mass., and has one danj^bter, Abbie. Caroline married John Moore, of St. John, and has two children -- Marian and John. iXlexander H. , who is in comjiany with hi.s father in business, married Alice Moore, of St. Jolm, and ...is one child, Louisa. Henrietta nnnried Cieorjje 1'" lemming;, of St. John, and has two children — l^^^y and (icr- trude. Mr. Holly and his family are members of the Church of I'jigland (St. Luke's). ^yimAKl) CL.AKK RANDALL, .M.l)., J ^' an active practitioner of Hillsboro, X.H., has been eslablisiicd in this town the past ten _\ears, and durin,:;' the time has u. .Sleeves; Ruth, wife of George Wilson, 01' Lui/ Mountain, N'.K., who has three children Wesley, Matilda, ami Harriet; .Samuel, who maiiied luinice Ilorsenian, and has four children Leander. Levi, Linda, and ILittie; Isabel, wife of Hr\er Hent ; Kimball, who married Laura Trites; I'!dw;ird Clark, the subjcit of this brief sketch; George, who married L.Ila foster; and Chris- tina, wifi' of John Carl. Hotb parents were active members of the Baptist iburch, in which the father served for a number of years as Deacon. Ldwaril Clark Randall obtained his early BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 73 14 \ cilucatiiiii in Xnv.i Scotia, and afterward on- Icred the Medical I'nivcrsity "f New Vork fitv, from which he ;;raduatcd in uSSo. tdni- inji at once to Ilillsboro, he liegan tiie ]iractice (if his pidfession, in which he has been emi- nently successful, and is now recogni/.ed as one of the most skilful physicians of this locality, lie is identified politically with the Liberal |)art\-, and is a niend)ei' of the Haptisl church. On December i, i,SS,S, Dr. Randall married Miss .Ma.ngie McClutchy, of Ilillsboro, and of their four children three are livinj;; namely, Jessie, Mary, and James lulward. ^/TTli.xm \^\^ fii-m o: l.l.l.XM illOM.SOX, founder of the if William Thomson & Co., the welLknown shi]) owners and apjents of .St. lohn, X.H., was born in Dumfries, .Scotland, in iiSiT), son of John Thomson, who emigrated to New Brunswick in the bii,L;- "Jessie. " John Thomson and his wife, Jessie, were the jiareiUs of fourteen children, seven of whom i;ie\v to maturity. In the old t-ounlry John 'i'homson was a sliij)-ownei'; but upon coniinjj; to .St. John he en,L;af;ed in mercantile business on Water .Street, which he subsetpiently continueil until his death in 1.S4 t. William Thomson bef;an his working life as clerk for Colonel J. \'. 'I'hnrger in the lii|uor and tea business. In 1.S4S he engaged in luisiness for himself as ship bidkei- and com- mission merchant, and subsecpiently owned a number of sailing-vessels which he employed in the carrying trade between foreign coun- tries. ^Ir. Thomson was presiilent of thcCen- tuiy Club of St. John, president of .St. Andrew's .Sociels, and during the American Ci\il War was treasurer of the relief fund. I'or some time he was \'ice-Consul for .Sweden and Norway. He was married in I1S41 to I'^lizabeth Rachael Scoullai'. .She was born in .St. John, N. H., a daughter of James .Seoullar, who came to this country from .Scotland. Of the seven childien born of this union three are living, namely: Robert; John Henderson; and Marion, wife of .Allen O. Cruckshank. The deceasetl are: Annie Walker, who was the wife of James 1'. l\oberts(in ; .Alice Cameron, wife of .Surgeon Wade, of the .Sevent_\-eigluli High- landers; George Greig, who died at twenty-one years of age; and Andrew. In i.S7oMr. Thomson took into partnership with himself William C Watson ;md his son, Robert Thomson. .Six yc:ns later this copart- nershi]) e\])ired by limitation of time, where- upon Ml". Thomson formed a new partnershi]), including himself and his two sons, Robert and John. 'The lirm name on erected a beautiful residence whicii he called 'Xithbank." Here, until about fi\e years |)revious to his death, he dis- pensed a j;enerous hospitalit)', entertaining many jx'rsous of note, as well as his more intimate friends and business ac(|uaintances. His death occurred at Asiie\ille, X.C, on March 3, iSiji, al)out five years subsequent to that of his wife. He is buried at l-'ern Hill Cemetery. Mr. Thomson was a member of tlie Masonic fraternity, and his church fellow- ship was with the Presbyterians. RiiiiKKr Thomson, above named, was born on June 9, 1S42. After leaving school at the age of seventeen, he went to Liverjiool, I'jigland, and there entercil the olTice of Duncan & Ken- dall as junior clerk. He remained tliere until the spring of i.S6j, when he returneil to St. John and entered his fatiier's office, where he continued as clerk until his admission as partner in the business. On October 20, 1S70, he was married to Louisa .\nne, daughter of the Kev. William Donald, ])as- tor of St. ^Andrew's Church. The four chil- dren born of this union are: \\ iiliam S., who died in 1,^72, Percy W. ; Mabel (i. ; and Mona C. .Mr. Thomson is Im]>erial (lenian Consul. He is a director in tlie bank of New Ihunswick. In religiiuis faith he is a Pre.' y- terian. jniiN H. TiniMSoN, jimior paitner in the firm of William Thomson & Co., was born in 1.S4S. IK' married in i.Sj^ l*",lla X'iidct, daughter of Wesley Thompson, and is the lather of two chihlren John K. and Muriel. Mr. John H. Thomson is \'ice-C"onsul to Norway and Sweden, l.LIAM 1-. HU.MPHRl'A', a prom- inent and well-known manufacturer of Moniton, N.P., is a keen, progressive man of business, who since the death of his father, the late John y\. Humphrey, has been at the heail of one of the most extensive ivoollen fac- tories in the Maritime Provinces. He was born in Moncton, Xovemi)er i,^, i all manual labo,-. He reared (|uite a large family of chihhen ; but his son, William, Jr., was the mdy one to marry. William Himiiihrev, Jr., was born and bred in l''alm()uth, N..S. , and as a young man went to Maccan, Cundailand Countv, \..S,, where he was very )Hdspcrousl\- engaged during his years BIOORAPHrCAL RKVIKW 75 of activity in hiniberinf^, farming;, and spu (11- latinj; in real estate. Mncrgctic, far -seeing', and tlio iiosscssor of niudi executive ability, ho nu't with f;iiiid snct'c'ss in all of his opcratinns, and bcianu' a man nl considerable pronuneiiee in the comnumity. His last days were sjient in Sackville, N'.H. , where he died at the age (if threescore and ten years. The only survivor (if the six children burn of bis iniion with Mary Triniian is l^lizabt'lh. She is the wife of Julward R. Hisho]), of Tort William, \..S., by whom she has fom- children — Ihiinphrey, Truman, Oscar, and Alice. Uoth the j^iand- jiaients weie niendiers of the Methodist clnncb. John A. Humphrey, son of William Hum- phrey, Jr., was born December 24, 1.S23, at Maccan, N'.S. Until he was about twenty- seven years oM he lived principally with his father, bavinj;' ibarj;e for the last four or five years of a branch of his father's business. He came to Moncton in 1S50, and purchased the projierty which now bears his name. In iSSj Mr. Jdhii A. llumpbrey, in ]iartnei- ship with the Messrs. .Snow and his son, W'ill- i.nn 1". Humphrey, commenced the manufacture of wo(dlens. In 1884 the factory was still fur- ther enlarged, the power changed from water to steam, and, by means of other impro\emcnts added, its capacit\' was increased tenfold. Three years later, more room being required for their operations, the firm again enlarged its lilant, doubling its capacity, and, after ailding the latest imjiroved machinery, bad the most complete and best ecpiipjied two-set mills in Canada. In 1888 the Messrs. Humphrey pur- chased the interest of their partners in the concern, and under the fnni name o Humph phrey 6!: .Son continued the manufacture f J. A. fact I of tweeds, unions, tlamiels, bomcspim, yarns, using principally domestic W(i( and \arns. he ]i|,int lias snue heen incit-ascd in si/e and capacil)'; and, as a larger force has been employed in each of its departments, (|inte a village has grown up in the district, which is but thice miles from the centre of Moncton. 'ihe senior partner also owned antl ojierated a grist-mill and a saw-mill in that localit}-, in these employing a large number of hands. \'er) active and jirogressive, he was •he |)rime mover in the establishment of many other business organizations, and for .sev- eral years was vice-president of the Moncton Water and fias Works and the Moncton Cotton b'actoiy, and was a director and vice-president in the .Sugar Refining ('om|)an)'. He also served a nundier of terms in the Provincial Parliament. His death at the age of seventy- two years (le|)rived Moncton of one of its most esteeuK'tl and valued citi/ens. He married jane, daughter (if M. .S. Haiiis, of Moncton, where she still resides. They ri'ared four children, namely: .Sarah, who is the wife of I.. I). I.ockhart, of Moncton, and has two cliil- dr(.'n 1 lunipluc)' and Mar\ ; Jane, inmiarried; William I'., the subject of this sketch; and Mar)', lumiairied. William I'. Hum|ihrey was educated at Mount .\llison University, .Sackville, N. H. ; and very soon after lea\ing school, in i88j, as above stated, he entered into busiricss with his father, whose death terminated the |iartnershi|i. Since that time Mr. Humphrey has carried on 76 BIOCRAI'IIICAI, RKVIKW 1! |j( ■iliinc tlic varimi> c'iit(.Ti)iiM.'s in wliiih lie ;mil his fatlier woic iiitt'icstcd, ami lias tlic entire iiiiitriil lit all tlu' niillinj; plants, imlndini; the woollen factory, the saw-mill, and llu' j,'ri>t- niill. llavini;- inherited in a lai^e nieasme the pi.u'tieal ability and lUree ot eh.naetei that ilistinj;insheil hi-, lather, lu' has nut with signal snei'ess as a manager, and iu-enpie> a linn posi- tion anionj;' the leading liti/ens ol the eity. lie is a Conservative in polilits, and in I Siji; was elected to the I'ldvineial rarlianient. lie is a nieinher ot Keith I.odj^e, 1'. & .\. M., ol MoiU'ton, and an adheient o| the Methodi>t I l-,nreh. Ml. llinnphiev anti Hessie ]■;., dauj;htei- ol Warren W'alhue. ol Moneton, were married in .\piil, 1.S85 ; anil thev ha\e lonr ehildri'n William M., liessie, |. Albert, .nid Catherine. -rp7^''-\- J<'ll>^ I'UINCl':, a venerable and \\\ hij;hl\ respeeted citi/en of Moneton, ^»^ Weslmorl.unl County, X.M., was for man\- \ears one of tlu: leadini;' ministers of the' Methodist denoniination, and was \ery ac- tive in advancing; the reli,i;ious interests of the l'ro\inces. On account of ph_\'sical inhrmi- ties. he has not been settled over any parish for the |)ast twentv years, but has resided as a supenuniierar\ di\ine in .Moneton, the town in which he was boiii on June 1 1, iSjo. lie is of excellent Mni^lish ancestry, beinj; a direct descendant in the eij;hth j;eneralion of the Rev. John I'liiue, an Oxford f;raduate, who in the eaily part of the seventeenth cen- tury was rector of the church in I'^ast Stafford, Herkshire Count\', l''.n^land, and who married the (lauj^hter of l)r. Tolberrv, a man oj much proniini'iice. Tlu' Rector and his wife reaied four sons, the eldest of whom, John I'lince, Jr., after loncluilini; his studies at Oxford Iniversily, emigrated to Massaduisetts about \(>y-,, anil becune tlu' Mlder of the chinch at llull. wheie he died in lO^d. lli> destend- ants ari' numeroiis. Uaac I'lince, born in \C'^4. son o| l^lder John Prince, cif Hull, was the lather of Jose|ih, bom in i(n)4, who married lo|- his second wife .Mar\ Townsend, and had a son Joseph, born in lieston in I 7J ^ rhi> set'ond Joseph, known as the Rev. Jo- sejih I'lince, tlu' blind preacher, was the great- grandfather of the Re\'. John I'riiue, of Mone- ton. His loss of sight was the result of a serious illness whitli alllicted him at the age of si.Nteen years. He was of a rel igious tem- perament ; and he became a noted preacher, and spent a large part of his life in Xewburv- purt, Mass., where his death occurred in 1791. Hy his union with Sarah Carpenter he became the father of twehe >ons and one daughter. His son Thomas wa-- the next in the line of descent now being traced. Thomas I'rince settled as a farmer in Xorth N'avmouth, Me., and there resided throiighnut hi^ active \ears. On retiring from agricult- ural pursuits he icmoNcd to Helfast, .Me., where' his last days were spent. He married Hannah I'riiue, a cousin three times removed; and of their si.\ children the second, Thomas, Jr., was the father of the Ke\'. John I'rince, of Moneton. ; Kl.\. JUll.N l'KI.\l.i;, I I « i f ; u HIOGRAIMIICAL RKVIKW V) TlioiiKis I'riiKi', Jr., was hn\\\ in NUrtli \.\x- mouth, Ml'., in 17X4, iiiul tlu'ic ;;ii\v in iimu'.s c'statf. In 1S14 ho i:mio tn New Hiiinswick to ciintiiHic liis business as a lunilKT nianiifact- iniT and dealor, ii;,'iitly thinlvinj;- so liuavily timbered a t(iimli\ aline |il,ue tor bis opera- tions. I'osscssinf;- nuuli nalmal (.■Mlerprise and ability, he .sueeceded in his undertakings, and in iSi.S further iiureased liis business by operatini; in adjaeenl Kumlies. I-'or some time lie was also one ot the lar^;est j;eneral merchants righl, honest man and a true Christian abides iu the comnuinity in which he resitles, and extends far out into the world around him. In 1S50 Mr. Prince married Ann J., daiigh- w 11 ■nl i i^! 80 niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW tcr (if the laiJ Thomas iMiibiec, of Amherst, N.S She died .May S, 1SS9, li.-a\iiiy two l f moc. I< A I' 1 1 1 ( : A I , R FA' I v.w 87 I this sketch; (icorf^c X'cnioii, who died in 1898; Amy, wile of the Rev. William Ben- nett, of I'eterhoro, Ont. : and Susan, widow of Samuel G. Andrews. Joshua Knight died on Februarys, 1851, ai;ed til ty-five years. Justice lulward Knii^lit obtained under his father'.s direction a j;(iiid knowledj^e of the lumber business, which he eontinued to fol- low during;' his life. For a time when a boy be wiirkeil in a lumber office at St. (ieorj^e. Later lie enL;au;ed in business for himself at St. Geori^e and at Heaver Harbor. .Subse- quently he removed to Musquash, and pur- chased the mill at that jilace, which he oper- ated for a number of years. I le also purchaseil the New Kiver mills, which he carried on in connection with his eldest son; and at the time of his death he owned and operated the Lancas- ter mills. He was one of the largest lumber manufacturers and dealers in Xew lirunswick. I'or man)' years he served as Magistrate. In religion he adhered to the faith of his ances- tors. His death occurred in 18S3, and that of his wife. Hannah, who was a n:itivc of I",ast- ])ort, .Me., in 1897. Their childien wt're: Charles, who was lost at sea; Hessie, now deceased, who was the wife of lleddle Hill- iard, of Oldtown: Harriett R., a resident of Hoston, Mass. : Joshua, who, in company with bis bnither, Leonard H. . purch;ised his father's business trom the heirs after the father's death; Lucy A., wife of Captain William C. Robertson, a mariner; Leonard li , the direct subject of this sketch: bllla R.. wife of Charles Luiigate, ol .St. (leorge; Caroline W., who is tiie wife of L. i >. .Seelev, of Boston; I'annie, the wife of G. H. j Thomas, f)f l.epreaux; Justice ]•'.., a resident of Hritisb Cohunbia; and Henry 1'., now in the Klondike region. Leonard H. Knight, after receiving his ed- ucation at .Sackville Academy, N.H., was associated with bis father in business; and since the father's death he and his brother Joshua, as already narrated, having purchased the interests of the other heirs, have carried it on very successfully. Mr. Leonard was married in December, 1885, to Miss Maria S. Haydock, of St. An- drews. His children are: Norah H. , Bessie H., John .S. and Marjorie (twins), and Guy. .Mr. Knight is Chief Game Commissioner of New Brunswick. He is a member of the Knights of I'ythias. Politically, lie is a Liberal. fS^T^N. Al.HI'.Rr r. DUNN, .surveyor- eneral of New Brunswick, is a na- tive of ihe city of St. John, where he resides. His paients were John and Mar- tiia ((iould) Dunn. His paternal grandfather, Robert Dunn, who was liorn in Ireland, lived and ilied there. John Dunn was born in Derry, Iieland, in 1S04, and was but a boy at the tiuie of his father's "lizabetli, and John. Oliver, the eldest, was for many years a merchant in .Sussex, and from this place re- moved to Urier Island. He ilied in Wey- mouth, N. .S. Robert li. was Sheriff, and resides at (jloucester. William I?., who now resides in iMigland, was for many years inter- ested in shipping at Weymouth, N. -S., and was highly successful. He was Representa- tive in the Dominion Parliament, and was Minister of Militia under the McKenzie government. Matilda married Nelson Ar- nold, and is since deceased. Hotsford, who was engaged in farming, was struck and killed by lightning at Kingston. IClizabeth died in 1895, Joiin \'. went to Australia shortly after the gold fields were c'iseovered. He died there, anil was buried in Australian soil. I](lwin A. Vail, ^I. I)., was a graduate of I'-dinbnrgh L'niversity, and practised his pro- fession in Sussex u[) to the time of his death, 90 lilOGRArillCAL REVIEW ill i—^ business in St. John and vicinity, was born at (irand Hay, near Westfield, Kings County, N.15., in i.-f3C), son of Captain David and -Sarah (Hritton) llamm. Mis grandfather was Charles Ilamm, a German, who with his wife emigrated to America previous to the Revcdutionary War, .settling first in Jersey City, N.J. An account of his family will be found in a sketch of J. B. ILamm, which ap- pears elsewhere in the Rkvii-.\v. David Hamm, the father of Matthias, was born at Grand Hay, Kings County, N.H. He followed general farming during his active years, and also operate. U. Kohert, of Montreal, Canada; Jessie K. Sjostedt, of Montreal, Canada; and Pauline. J. Norman \V. Winslow pursued his early stuilies at the Lciinoxvilie (iranunar School, Troviuce of (Juebec. at Dishop's College, and at the I'niversitv of New Brunswick. in 1.S79 he entered the law office of I'rascr, Wet- more & Winslow in l'*redericton, and remained witii that firm until iSSi, uluii he took a course of lectures at the Harvard Law School. Returning then to I'"re(kricton, he was ad- mitted as an attorney in ( )ct()her, I1SS2, and the following month he opened a law office in Woodstock. In 1SS3 he was admitted barris- ter, and lie has siiice built up a very success- ful practice in this vicinity. He does a solic- itor's business, and makes a specialty of con- veyancing, in both of which he is skilled. In June, iiS83, he established an insurance agency in Woodstock in company with his father; and on the death of the latter he suc- ceeded to the entire business, which is now one of the largest of the kind in the town. Mr. Winslow married h'lla (lertrude, daugh- ter of G. W. Van Wart, of whom a sketch ap- pears on another page of this volume. They have two children — John Douglas and Maricui (icrlrude. Mr. Winslow belongs to a numi)er of the leading fraternal organizations of Woodstock, including I'". iS: A. M., No. 11, of which he is one of the Trustees; Ivanhoe Lodge, K. of I'. ; and Court Regina, I. ( ). I", i'olitically, he is ehairiium of the Liberal Conservative party in CarKton County. Hoth he and his wife are inendiers of the Ciiurch of ICngland, and he is vestry clerk of the parish cliunii. ^'JVfUA.lAM SII.WN, .M.IM'., one of ^»' .St. John's rejjresentative citizens, was born in .Siuionds Parish, St. John County, N. IV, on .September [9, 1S3S, his parents being William and ICIlen (West) Shaw. His father, who was a native of the north of Ire- l.md, emigrated to New Mrnnswick about the year i.Sjs, .uul liere engaged in agricultural pursuits. His death occurred in 1S39, and that of his wife, I'Lllen, in iS/J, the latter being seventy-two years of age. They had six children, four of whom are living. William Shaw spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, but in 1H34 came to the city, where he worked at different occui)ations until iiS6.S. He then joined his brother James, .md the two established the baking business which has since been so highly suc- cessful. Mr. Shaw has shown himself to be an apt business man, skilful in the handling of his business and in its financial manage- ment, iiromjit in every transaction, and of un- imiK'aclwble integrit)- in the conduct of all his affairs. Recognized as such by his fellow- citizens, he has been sought after as their reji- resentative in the carrying on of i)ublic liusi- ness in various lines. b'or ten years he served the city in the Common ("ouneil as reiireseiitative from Wellington Waril, and from the time of the union of .St. John and Portland until he resi.'jned his seat in the Council he was chairman of tin' Hoard of Pub- lic Works. r'rom 1.S90 to the ])resent time f HIOdRAI'IlK AI, RKVIKW Ik- hns beon ;i meml)cr dI tin- I'rovinci.il F.Cf^is- latiirc. I''ratcrnally, bo is a incinl)i.'r ol the Kni^'hls ol I'ythias, and lor some jcars he has hcfii trustee ol the I'Anioiith Street Methodist Cliureh. In addition to condiietinj,' his ex- tensive bakery, Mr. Sliaw has for tiie past six- teen years earried on a larj^e larni. Mr. Shaw was married in 1X71 to Isabella, daughter ol William W'ootnn, of Loyalist (leseent. To Mr. and Mrs. .Shaw the hdlow- inj^-nanied children have hern horn: William A., who is eni;a,Lced in business with his l.ither; lames h'rederiiU ; I'.dward IC, a clerk; Leonard ]\. ; Harry H., who is in his lather's business; Nellie W. ; Jennie Isabelle; and Allen H. ^n §.\Mi;s M(tiki;("><)K H.\.\ri'.R, M.n., one of the leadinj; medical practitioners of Chatham, \. 1!.. is a native of 'I'luro, N..S. , and \v;is born in 1S45, his parents being the Rev. John 1. and Jessie ((iordon) J^axter. His father w;is a Scotchman 1)_\' birth, and, previous to comini; to Xo\a .Scotia in i.Sji, was settled in JJumfriesshiic. ]lis motiier was a (laughter of I'eler (iordon, who settled at .St. Peter's Hay, I'rince Ldward Island, her native place. llcr father died when she was ;in infant, and her niotlier subsc(|uenlly married the Rev. Dr. Mc(iregor, of I'ictou. The Rev. John I. Baxter was a clergyman of the rresbytcrian church. lie served the church in (Jnslow, X.S., for lift\ti\e )ears, losing only ;i half-day in all the time of bis ministration. lle;md bis wife were the |)ar- ents of nine children, who grew to mature years, three of them being sons. They were n;mied ;is fcdhiws: Jiinies Mcdregor, Robert (iordon, David .\., LMi/.;!, Jessie, M;n\, Sar:di, l'!llen, and C;iroline. Robert (iordon was a physician, and practised bis profession in ^^(lncton, N.n., for twenty years. Jle died in August, 1890. J)a\id was a dentist, resident in (Juebec. I'lli/a is the wife of Hugh Dunlap, of .Stew iaike, .\..S. Jessie is tlu' wife of J.inies I'raser, ol .M.ugaiet Hay, N. .S. M.uv and .Sarah reside in Ti uio. Lllen ' is the wife of Charles Hart Haddeck, of (jipe Hreton. Caroline is the wife of the Rev. Isaac Sin)])Son, of Canton, 111. llu' Rev. Mr. Hax- ter was ;igent foi' the Maritimt' Provinces for the i'rcsl ,an Ho;\rd of l'ublic;ition of I'hil- adelphi;i, I'a. II is death occurred in I1S87, at the age of eighty-four years. His wife, Mrs. Jessie (iordon Ha.vter, died at llftvfour )ears of age. James McCiregor HaxtiT attended the .noiUl school at Truro, the I'resbytirian Semiiuiry at the same pbice, ,nid Dalbousic College in Halifax. b'rom the last named institution he went to Hoston, ;uid studied mcdii ine with Di". l'"oye, the City Coroner, and subse(|uent to that attended Jefferson Medical College, I'hihidel- phi;i, I'a., ;iiid llarxard Medical College. He was gr;iduated at llarxard Medital College in 1S71, and immediatel)- came to Cbath;un, which has since been the scene of bis profes- sional labors. He has ;ni e\tt'nsi\e practice among the best families here, ;Mid is looked up to as an aulhoiit\- l)\- his fellow-pbvsicians. The doctor is now serving as surgeon-major of the .Seventv-tbird Hattaliun of Chatham, having ;it in ho )i. Kll Id- le in 1111, fcs- :ii:e up ;uis. ir III niiL' jAMi;s .\i. ii.\.\ri;K. m.d. r <■ "■ ,11 t Il:;||; ^i^rmmmmmimmK^ 1^' : I,' liw i! BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV held tliis oITr'c f(ir tlio past eleven yeiiis. lie is president of the Natural ilistory Society, and takes an active jiait in all its proceedings. Violessjcinally, he is connected with the New Hrunswick Medical Society, and fialernally with the ;\Iasons and tiie Kni;;hts of I'vthias. rn>l|()N, DAVID M( LllLLAN was born in Portland, St. John, N.15. , January 20, ifi39. His father, who was a ship-huikler, came from Dnuiifries, Scotland; and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary Knij^ht, descc ided from a (juaker family of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mcl.ellan was educated at the commercial and mathematical school, St. John, tauf^ht by the late William Mills. At an early a}j;e he gave his attention to the lumber business, and was for years the senior member of the firm of McLellan & Holly, one of the largest lumber concerns in St. John, whose operations handled fiom forty to si.xty thousand feet of rough lumber annually. Mr. McIx'Uan also took an active interest in the |)olitical affairs of the Province. He was first elected to the House of Assembly of New Brunswick at the general election of 1S78 for the city and county of .St. John, at the head of the pcdl, and was re-elected at the general electiiin of 1882. The Hon. Dr. Klder, a colleague in the representation of the city and C' unty of St. John and Provincial -Secretary of the Province, died in July, 1883. Mr. McLellan succeeded Di. ICider as Pro- vincial .Secretary, and was sworn in a mcndier of the IC.xecutive Council and as Provincial .Secietary, July 28, 1883. His acceptance ot office in the government ot the Province vacated his seat in the Assembly, and an elec- tion was belli on August 23, i8J3, to fill the vacancy caused by his resignation and the death of Dr. Mlder. He was then re-elected, with Dr. A. A. Stockton as his colleague, and continued to represent the city and county of St. John until the geneial election of January, 1890, when he was defeated. In March, 1890, Mr. Mcl.ellan resigned his ofTice as Provincial Secretary, and was appointed to a seat in the I-egislativc Council, still continu- ing his position as a member of the IC.xecutive council, of which lie was appointed president, and also a member of the Hoard of Public Works, until August, 1891, when he was aj)- pointed Registrar of Deeds and Wills and Registrar of Probates for the city and county of .St. John. This office he C(>ntinued to hold till his death, on December 19, 1894. At that time b.e was a member both of the Ma- sonic order and of the ( )dd Fellows, and was president of the I'nion Clui), .St. John. In relii,ion he was a Baptist, attending tl-,e (ier- main .Street Baptist Church. In Dominion politics he was a Liberal, and in the personal relations of life was a warm frieml and poinilar with all having his aci|uaintance. He married December 19. 1865, I-'annyB., daughter of the late Henry Richards, of St. John. P'our children \'\:re born of this union, namely: Harry R., a lumber merchant of .St. John; Ida K., wife of l-'rederick J. Harding, agent of the Marine and l"'isheiies Department of Canada at St. John; J. Verner, Registrar 11 ■. ■u iof> lUOGRAPHICAL R :VIKW Bf. W { 1 of Deeds and Wills lor the city and county of St. John; -^nd lulmuiid 1'., who died in in- fancy. J. Verner McLellan was horn in St. John, N. B., Noveinhcr lo, 1.S68. lie was educated in the city schools, Woodstock (< )nt. ) Col- lege, and Kerr's liusiness College, St. John. In i ill r.IOdUAI'IIICAl, KF.VIF.W Gordnn, who caiiv-' to that place Iroin Scotlaiul when a younji; man. Uesidcs his wiilow he left three daiij^hters. The late Mr. Smith helonj^ed to the Ma- sonic order; the I'nioii Club, (.1 which he was one of tiie orj^anizcrs; the Neptune Rowinj;; Club; the Athletic Association, and other in- stitutions of a public or social nature, and he availed himself of every opportunity to ad- vance the interests of his native city, of which he was a most loyal son. He had travelled extensively in both Europe and America, was a man of powerful physique, and took a j;reat interest in athletic sports. In his religious belief he was a member of the {"luirch of I'ji:;- land, and for many years was a Vestryman of the "Stone CJhurch," in the affairs of which he took a deep interest and leading part uj) till the time of his death. ^OI.ONHL JCDWIN HOXD HHICR, a leading citizen of Sussex, N.H. , was '' born in Sussex on May J5, 183.;, son of Thomas Heer, who was a native of Devonshire, l^ngland. born August 18, 1777. As a boy of thirteen Thomas Heer enlisted as a cadet in the royal navy, and in time he rose to the rank of Commander. l"'or many years he was in the coast guard, and during the war between ICngland and the United States, 1812-1814, was stationed in New Hrunswick. Here he met his wife, whom he married in 1S15, and who accompanied him when he went hack to luighind at the close of the war. ller maiden name was Annie Leonard. She was ixirn in -St. John on July 2Ti, 1796, .nid was a daughter of the lion. George Leonard, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. In 1839 Tiiomas ■ lieer returned to America and settled in I .Sussex on the Leonard grant, wiiere he lived until his death at tiie age of eighty years. Thomas IJeer was an active and devoted mem- ber of the Church of I'jigland. lie was the first president of tiie Sussex .Agricultural So- ciety. Mrs. Annie L. I5eer died on ( )ctober [, iSSr). She was the mother of thirteen children; namely, Lucy Codncr, l-lleanor James, Annie Leonard, Thomas More, Caro- line, .Maria l%li/.abeth, (ieorge Leonard, Lucy Maria, Elizabeth Lvanson, I'dwin Uond, Mary, William Henderson, and Jane Hope. The first named of these, Lucy, was born in Stoke Devon, I'^ngland, and died in Hourborg in i8:;9. James, who was born April 11, 1818, at I''alnioutli, I'"iigland, died in Sussex, N. H.,on I""ebruarv :;o, 1899. .Annie Le(niard, who was born in Dock, l-Jigland, on Septem- ber IJ, 1819, is the widow of the late Cajitain T. W. R. Like, formerly officer of the survey ship "Columbia" of the royal navy, and set- j tied at this station. Thomas llore, who died '. in Liverpool, I'.iigland, in 18S5, was born on .September 29, 1S21, at Hroadstairs, Kent, lie resided in Jamaica for a nuiniier of years, but in 185, came to Xew Hrunswick, ;nul the following year returned to ICnglaiid and en- gaged in business there. He married Annie Hope, a native of Devonshire, and siie bore him several children, wiio survive him. Caro- line Heer, who was born on June ] .[, 1SJ3, at ■J 112 niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW \Vliitslal)lc, IvLMit, iMi-hiiul, married R. S. Dcvever, of St. John, and resides in Hrant- ford, ( )nt. Maria ICli/abeth was born at Foltcestone, Kent, on December 24, 1824, and died on Jnly 25, 1825. Georj^c Leonard, who was born on May 23, 1826, at IMiddle Deal, ilied at sea. He was in the royal navy lor some years, hut subsequently left the service and went into the China trade. Lucy Maria, who resides in luifxland, was born in I'rance on August 26, 1829. She is the wife of Cap- tain I'rederick Ilarvy of the British navy. I'^li/.abeth ICvanson was born at Susse.x Vale on Anji;ust 3, 1831, and died at Campo Ik-llo. Mary, who is the wife of C. J. Wilds, of Halifax, N,.S., was born on September 7, 1S35. William Henderson Heer, who died in iSgf), was born on September 5, 1837, in Sussex Vale, lie marrietl Maria Schofield, a dauj^hter of the Rev. Mr. .Schofield. Jane Hope (now deccasetl) was born on April 11, 1839. She married William ]\L Jarvis, of St. John. lulwin Bond Ik-er went to Iuii;land at twelve )ears of aj;e, and there attended the Royal Naval College at Greenwich for three years. In 1848 he returned to New Brunswick, and the following year left for San b'rancisco on board the barqne "Teal," commanded by Captain Gray. After two and a half years sjient in California he went to Auckland, New Zea- land, and thence to Sydney, Australia, where he remained until September, 1857, when he returned to Ijigland. He arrived in .St. John in January, 185S, and after a year's residence in that city he came to Sussex to take charge of the homestead estate. Since that time he lias been engaged in farming. Colonel Beer was married in 1868 to .Sarah Hogg, of Newcastle. She died in giving birth to her son, ICdwin Leonard, who was born in June, 1S70, and is now in Pritish Co- lumbia. I'rior to 1898 Ivlwin L. Beer was employed in the B.mk of Montreal. In 1863 Colonel Beer joined the militia, forming a company of which be was Cajjtain. He was subsecpiently Major of the Second Battalion of Kings County, and in iSC>6 Lieutenant Colonel. After the confederation he was ap- pointed Lieutenant Colonel from Kings County, and in i868 he joined the lughth Regiment of Cavalry. In 1870 he took com- mand of the .Seventy-fourth Battalion. In 1897 he resigned his commission Colonel Beer is a member of the lnde|)en- dent Order of Odd h'ellows. i'rom i87[ to 1885 and again from 1893 to 1895 he was Warden in the Church of ICngland. lie iias served as chorister for a number of years. I le was one of the organizers of the Provincial Rifle .\ssociation and in 1897 its president. He also assisted in organizing the Dominion Rifle Association, and commanded the Wim- bledon team in 1878. lie is at the present time its vice-jiresident. 7T%HARLi;S KDWARl) HARDING, a I J| retired lumber dealer of .St. John, ^ was born in that city, November 21, 1819, son of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) Harding. His grandfather was William niOORAPHICAI- REVIEW «»3 Ilardiii'r, a Loyalist who camo from tlie States to New Urunswick in 1783. Tiiomas Harciin^, tliu fatiier, was l)oni I'cl)- riiary 17, 17.S6, in St. Jolm, wIkic lie tol- lowcd the traile of a tanner throughout the active periiKJ of his life, lie was closely identified with local iniblic affairs, his nicin- bership of the l',oard of Aldermen extending; over a period of forty-five years; and he serv<'il with ability as Mayor of the city. Mrs. Mary Johnson llardini;-, his wife, was born October 5, 1785. She was a dauj^hter of Georne John- son, of liorton, N.S.. and on the maternal side was a rejiresentative of the Cleveland family, which was noted for its longevity. The averaf;e a^e of her uncles and aunts was ei<^hty-one years and ei,!.;lit months, and her mother lived to be one hundred and one years old. Thomas and Mary Harding were the parents of eleven chililren, namely: George Johnson Harding, M.I)., who was born Au- gust 8, 1808, and practised his profession in .St. John for many years; Mary Elizabeth, born May 2. iSio, who married Robert Taylor, a native of I'jigland, and died January 19, 1 89s; Thomas, born February 29, 18 u, who was a tanner in -St. John during his ac- tive years, and died A|)ril 7, 1859; William Harding, M.D., born January 18, 1814, now living in retirement in St. John; N'alentinc John, born March 4, 1816, who is now resid- ing in 1 lardingville, N.H. ; John Henry, born January 2, 1818; Charles lulward, the subject of this sketch ; Jesse Giles, born ( 'ctober 20, 1821; Harriet L., born November 17, 1823, who died September 30, 1895; Leah, born May 21, 1826; and .Sarah, both of whom died in infancy. The father died .\|iril 7, 1854, and the mother, who lived to be eighty-nine years old, died April 19, 1875. Charles lulward Harding was educated in .St. John and at the Horton Academy, Nova .Scotia. When a young man he engaged in carpentering, which he fidlowed for five years. He then learned to survey lumber, and for thirty years was City .Surveyor. I'or eight years he was suiierintendent for \. S. de Mill ; and after the death of the latter he estab- lished the lumber Firm of ('. Jv Harding & .Son, with which he continued until his retire- ment in 1896. Mr. Harding was married 1 )ctober 19, 1S43, to Miss .Susan IClizabeth Lawrence, daughter of Richaid Lawrence, a native of Staten Island, .\.^■., and a Loyalist, who came to New Brunswick some time after the .\nierican Revolution. Her grandfather was Colonel Richard Lawrence, of the Hritish army, who after the close 01 hostilities was arrested by the American authorities as an emjiloyee of King G'.'orgc III. The demand for his release by the British government was eventually complied with: and, gf)ing to Lng- land, he died in Nottingham, May 25, 1789. His son Richard, born 1764, died 1S46, who was engaged in ship-building in .St. John, was married in 1810 tn IClizabeth, daughter of ("aptain Joseph Mercer. ( )f the nine children born of this union, .Susan I'.liza- beth, wild is now Mrs. ll.uiling, is the only one living. Mr. and .Mrs. Harding aie the parents of I i v;;!*' 114 llIOGRArHlCAL REVIEW elevL'i) cliihlrLM), namely: I'".li/al)ctli, wife of Henry M. Hcckwith; Olivia, widow of John II. Ilardin^s Susan, wiilow of Charles A. riiinimer, late of ("laf^etown, N.H. ; Annctta, who MKinied iieniy (dy, of the same place; Charles I',., Jr., who succeeded his father in busiTiess; i-'anny, wife of James V.. Coy, also of Gagetown; Thomas H., surveyor of lumber in St. John; William L., merchant in \'ar- mnuth, \..S.; Minna Lawrence; (ieorf^ia, wife of W. 1'. H. Patterson, of .St. John; and I"' rank I')arle IIarilin}r. /^V. ll.HI'RT WILLIAM VAN WART, \|^_L a widely known dry-f;oods merchant of Woodstock, N.I?., was horn in Hamjistead, (Jueens County, N. H., ( Jctoiier -'9, 1.S32, a son of Isaac Van Wart, lie comes of thrifty Dutch stock, his paternal ancestors having; emirrrated from Holland to New \'ork in Colonial times. His <;randfatiier, Isaac Van Wart, Sr., was born on Long Island, N.Y. , and there spent his early years. In 1783 he came with tiu' colony of Loyalists to New Brunswick, and havini.; settled in Wickhani, (Jueens County, devoted his attention durinjj the remainder of his life to tilling the soil. Isaac Van W.irt was born in Wickhani, N.IV, March 17, 1S02. Cntil attaining his majority he lived at the parental homestead, assisting his father in farm work. Removing then to the neighboring town of Ilampstead, he carried on general farming on his own ac- count for many years, owning and improving an extensive farm. In ICS54 he retired from active pursuits, and thenceforward he made his home in Woodstock until his l)iisiiR's,s, w.is iij^ont 1)1 ilirt'i' I'xpii'ss coni- paiiics, anil also did |)ri\ato linnkinj;, there hoiiij; .it that tiiiio nii orj;aiH/,cd l)ai)k in Woodsloik. lit' acted as a,i;ent for tlic St. Stepiicn Haidv ot St. Stephen, by circiilatin>; their notes, as lie, bein^; a jjrivate banker, was not aUowi'd to use notes uf his own. In 1K80 lie assnnu-d the a^^ency of the Maritime Hank ol the Dominion of Canada, and i'i)ntinned its agency until the hank went out of existence. Mr. Van Wart married i'hiiiie, dautjhter of Uoher.son Merritt, of llampstead, \. K. of the five children that blessed their nnion three are now living, namely: (lertrude IClla, wife of John Norman \V. WMnslow, I'^sci., of Wood- stock; Aiirilla, wife of Jarvis .S. Stinson, of Boston, Mass. ; and Annie Mabel, who mar- ried George II. Harrison, superintendent of the high school of Woodstock, N. H. Mr. Van Wart is a Liberal in politics. He has served tour terms in the Town Council, and has been one of the School Trustees ever since the free-school .system was adopted. He be- longs to Woodstock Lodge, !•". & A. M., and is a member of the I-'ree Haptist church. Caerlaverock, in 1S55 enteied the united ii.LL\:\i liin'DOM': jack, m.a., D.C.I.., late president of the Uni- versitv of New Hruiiswitk, dieil at bis home in I''rcdericton, .November 2}, i.S.sri, passing away on the si.\ty-seventli anniversary of his birth. He was born in the parish of Tinwald, Dumfriesshire, .Scotland, November 2},, 1819, and came of honored ancestiv. He was ]ire- parcd for college at llulton Hall .\cadcmy in college of St. Salvator and .St. Leon.ud's. lie was accounted a brilliant scholar, and while in that institution led his class in mathematics and physics, taking the highest prizes in both those studies. He gradnatetl with the degree of Master of Arts in .St. Andrew's University, l-'ifeshire, in 1840, and soon after had two de- sirable positions offered him, one in Manches- ter New C(dlege, Manihesler, Lngland, to succei'd the noted Dr. Dalton as professoi of plusics, and tlu' othei' that nf professor of mathematics, natural ])hilosopIiy, and astron- omy in King's College, now the University of New Hrunswick, l""redericton. Several of his w.irni friends, among them Sir David Hrewster, one of his lormer teachers, then iirincipal of St. Anilrew's C(dlege, feared that the duties and responsibilities of the New College would be too arduous for one so inexperienced, and advised him to accept the chair in King's Col- lege, which he did in .September, 1840. King's College, as the L'niversity was then named, was under the control of the t'huich of I'jigland, and was but little ])atroni/.ed by members of otbei' religious bodies, nor was the general [jublic in entire sym[)athy with its management. During the years that followed various attacks were made u|)()n the institution by the Legislature and other bodies interested in adxanced education for the \ontli of this li'ovince; and after much contention it was remodelled in i860, and its name changed to the L'liiversitN- of New Hrunswick. Since then all denominations are represented in its government. Dr. Jack was appointed presi- I ! I! i I ■ ii8 HIOr.RAI'IllCAI, KKVIKW (lent of the L'liivcr.sity in iSf)!, ;mcl lluTiMltcr administered its affairs wilii wisiiom. Dinin.n the vacations he travelled extensively in the ]in)\'ince, and l)y publie adtlre.^ses and peisonal interviews with men nf inlhienee i)r()UL;ht the I'ollege into pmniinent nntiee and advaneed its claims as an educational institution of the highest order. lie liecame well known as an educator, and on tlie inauguration of the tree school system was made. < i cjji'i'', a mendier of the Hoard of l-'.ducation. In iSS;;, after serv- ing forty-ti\e consecutive yeai's as a ])rijfess( . and fourteen years as president of the Univer- sit\', he severed his eoimcction with it, lesign- ing th ' ])residency , n account of lailing health, and was retired with a pension of one thousand dollais a vear. Or. Jack, however, never lost interest in the college, and in iiS,S6 was appointed In the government a niemlier of the senate of the L'ni- versitv, a place which he occupied at the time of his death. The ilegree of l)octor of Civil Law was conferred upon him hv this Univer- sity in I1S55. .\ thorough student of all sciences, he was specialh' interested in astron- om\, and was among the liist to niake use of telegra])h\ in determining ilistances of loiii^i- tude. Jiy connection with the liar\ard Obser- vatfirv at Cambridge, Mass., he ascertained the true longitude of J''iedei icton, and, taking this longitude as a basis, I'mmd, at the expense and lor the benefit of the local government, the longitude of St. John and of \arious places on the ho ndars' lines ol tiie p|-o\-ince. lie was thus of great service to ,Si,- Willi. nn I.o-.in in his c(jnstruct ion of the geological map of Can- atla. l)r. Jack was a l'"el.ow of the Royal j Astronomical .Society of London, luigland, ' and of the Athomeum of New Brimswick. \)y. Jack was twice married, and by his first wife, Marian Lllen, \iiimgest daughter of J^\- torney (ieneral I'eleis. had eight childre.i, two of whom aie living. In 1S59 he married Caroline, daughtei of \o:ih Uisbrowe, a Jus- tice of I'eaee antl a former merchant of St. John. ;\Irs. Jack, who is still living, comes I distinguished slock, the l)ishrowes having , been earlv settlers of Xorwalk, Conn., and ]ieople of considerable means. In former da\s llrj\ were slaveholders. In 17S3 thev re- moved with the colony of Loyalists to Xew lirunswick, and here became identified with the best interests of the |)i'ovince. \(jah Dis- browe was a magistrate at the time of his di'ath. -Mthough not a member of an\' relig- i ious orgari/' ' 'on, he was a good Christian, lie reared L.iree sons, two of whom were or- daineil clergymen of the Church of l-jigland. Mrs. Jack has one daughter, Mrs. Lewis 1). Milledge, of .St. John, and fmir sons. Two of the sous aie residents of Hiitish Cidumbia, one being a physician in X'ancouvi'r and one a law- \(.'r. .\ third, now deceased, was an engineer. The fouilh Sol), also .111 engineer, is locateil in the United Siates. BAVIl) T.M'LKY. late Police Magis- trate and Judge of the Civil Court, Portland, was born in .Sheffield, .Snnliurv ( ounty, N.H. , April 1 J, 1820, son of l),ivid and ILinnah ( b'leteher) 'laple\-. lie mOGRAI'HICAL REVIEW 119 was dcsccndcil from Jnnu's Kobeit Tapley, a mariner and Loyalist, who was a native of i'rovidciice, R.I. Wliiie in Cork, Ireland, James R(il)ert 'I'apley married a Miss O'Brien, wlio was a i;rand-dau;.?hter of a lord. He came to New Hriinswick with his bride, and settled upon a tract ot land in Sunbury County, where he was engaged in farming for the rest til his liie. lie died at the age of forty-five, ai d his wife survived him many years, lie was the father of si.x children; namely, William, Joliii, bavid, Ann, Mary, and James. David Tapley, .Sr. , Judge Tapley's father, was born in Sunbury County in 1791. In early life he was a farmer, but, moving to .St. Jol'.n in [S47, he there carried on a lum- ber business until his death, which occurred November 30, ICS69. Me was a firm believer ill total abstinence. He married Hannah I'"letcher, a native of Nova .Scotia, and was the father of nine children, namely: David, the subject of this sketch; John, a lumber- man, who died in St. John, l'"ebruary 16, 1893; I\Iary, who died at tlie age of fifteen years; Robert, who went to Australia in 1853, .and is nol, and, after pursuing a course of stu.. has been the leading sjiirit in tin' de- velopment of the real estate business of the town and the promoter of many of the indus- trial enterprises that have steadily contributed to its growth and pros])erity. He was born in I'etitcodiac, X. H., December 15. iSji, a son of Jacob and Hannah (Corey) Jones, being the seventh child in a family of nine boys and girls, of whom but one beside himself is now living — 'namely, his brother, Malcolm Jones. Hut little is known of his grandfather, Henry Jones, who was engaged in agricultural pur- suits in the Province of New Brunswick dur- ing his entire life. Mr. Jones first made his ajiiiearance in Moncton when a lad of eight years, coming to "the Bend," as the place was then called, to spend a year with his elder sister, Mrs. Bennett, the mother of Mrs. C. B. Record and Mrs. J. DeWolf Spnrr. He distinctly remembers the existing conditions of that period, when, among the lUuc or ten buildings which safely housetl the entire population, the one erected by Christian Trites on the river bank, near the railway machine sho|)s, was the only one made of brick. At the end of the year, in 1S30, he returned to I'etitcodiac, where he remained until iS3(;, when he set- tled permanently in Moncton. lie found that "the Bend" had grown to some extent in his absence, although all the buililings, including the stores as well as the residences, were grouped on .Steadnian, Pleasant, Duke, and Main .Streets, while, with the exception of an occasional opening, the entire west end of the town was in its original wildness, a part of it being a vast swamp. Wild game was abundant in the forest, and the local sportsmen found keen enjoyment along the river's edge, in the swamp, and in the wooils. Very soon after coming h ;re .Mr. Jones made his first purchase of leal estate by in- vesting one thousand dollars in the Crook- shank and Walker proi)erty, which contained four acres of land extending from Main .Street to the river, and including the landing-place, the store, and the old Moncton Hotel, which j is still standing. The iirice, a fair one, I which then seemed enormous, would now I scarce buy a frontage of fifteen feet in that section of the city. Mr. Jones conducted the hotel for a few years in comjiany with Mr. James Dunlap, keeping a bar, as was then cus- tomary in all public houses, the selling of licjuor being as legitimate a traile as dealing in groceries or dry goods. In 1 ,S4 1 he sold out to his partner, and turned his attention to trading and speculating both in lands and cattle. In US41 he built a wharf to take the biooraphical review "7 place of the old huulinj; above referred to, employing Captain liabineau to do the exca- vatiiij,', ;ind Tiinotliy Gallaf^her the wood work, the entire cost being four Jiundred dollars. Ill 184S, havinj; made some money by former s|)eciilations, Mr. Jones made his first lari^c purchase of realty by buying from the late John 'I'rites eight hundred acres of land that had originally belonged to the very first settlers of the town, and embraced a large part of the middle and west end, extending from the river on the south to the creek at the foot of the Stephen 1 lumphrey homestead on the north. Owing to the depredations of the grubs;' "which had eaten the grass from the marshes for two successive seasons, Mr. Tritcs had failed to receive any income from the land; and he offered the entire tract, subject to a mortgage of seven hundred jiounds, for two thousand, two himdred and fift}' pounds, with a margin of sixteen years to make the payments. Going then to the late Lieuten- ant Governor (then Mr.) Chandler, the mort- gagee, Mr. Jone.i explained to him the condi- tions, and, having made satisfactory terms ! with him regarding the payment, set to work improving the property. The very first year after taking |)ossession he received one thou- sand dollar'- for the hay he raised on it, and the peo; le who had predicted his financial ruin began to change their minds. (;iearing a space in the forest, he built a frame house, which be occupied until the com|)letion ol his present commodious residence. Neighbors assisted him in removing the trees and grad- ing the ground, among them being Abner Jones, Robert Wilson, Mr. West, Christian and Ri'uben .Steeves; and old Mr. I'looks and Gesner Harris did the cari)entering. Of all these peojile, once prominent at "the Hend," not one is now living. A few years later, perhajis forty years ago, Mr. Jones, while (|uite sick with malarial fever, set a gang of men to work, under the supervision of the late Montgon-.ery Stewart, on the opening of Ilighfield, Monaccord, High, and other streets in that locality to the Mountain I'ioad. The prosjiect of the land in that vicinity ever being recpiired for building jiurposes was then very tlubious, and people said that Mr. Jones's illness had affected his mind, otherwise he would never have con- ceived such a project. The opening of the streets, however, proveil of inestimable bene- fit, the draining of the swamp making the land available for farming; and his subse- cpient sales of land have proved the wisdom of his daring venture, lie was for several years as.sociated with many of the most extensive real estate transactions of Moncton, having alwavs been readv to sell on a rising market, hut is not now a very large holder of land, though he is indirectly interested in many es- tates. Mr. Jones has also been identified with many other enterprises of value to the town. In I STjo he began the manufacture of a soap which acquiretl a wide reputation for its su- perior qualities anil at the .Sussex exhibition won the first prize, lie afterward established a soapery, which was successfully contlucteil I II N #11 138 HIOORAl'IIICAL REVIKVV l! Illl :i ■I i by tliu hitc W. S. Ttirn.'y lor a niin)l)LT nf years. 1 1 c was also the prime mover in liio cstablisiimeiit of the Westmorland liaiik: and he accompanied the late Patrick Kin;^ to St. John to secnre the thirty thonsand dollars in gold with which the hank was cai)itali/.ed, goini; just after a heavy freshet, when the roads were so Hooded that, hut for the careful- ness of the driver and Mr. Jones's precaution to have the box containing; the money fastened into the wagon with a heavy cord, the gold would have been lost in the mi;;hty torrent of waters. In 18'pJ, .iftei' the disastrous failure of the Salters, extensive ship-builders, .Mr. Jones, in order to protect himself, continued the in- dustry for a while on his own account, beini; associated with the late Governor Chandler. I'.niployin;.; \V. II. T. .Sumner. Abiier Jones, and A. .McKay as builders, he and his asso- ciates in the short space of a year and a half had completed three twelve-hundred-ton ships, the "John Hunyan," the '* lllizabeth Kate," and the " ll.xcelsior. '' anil also three smaller vessels. .After retiring,' from the ship-build- ini;' business Mr. Jones devoted himself al- most entirely to private banking and money loaning, carrying on a very successful finan- cial business until relieved from care and worry by his son, Andrew II. Jones, who now assumes all resjionsibilities connected with the various enterjirises in which he is inter- ested. In politics be is independent, and at one time siM'vi-'d as Mayor of .Moncton. In his religious belief he is a Baptist. I le contributed largely toward the building of the i-'irst !!a|)- tist (liurch, and was subsetpiently a gencrou.s giver toward the erection ol the edifice occu- pied by the l''ree Kaptists. Mr. Jones first married I'.Lizabeth Steeves, who bore him four children, ol wIkmh I )r. Lemuel !•". Jones is the only suivivcu'. liy his second wife, Kate .Simpson, he had si.x children, ol whom but one is living, lunily .\., wife of John .S. Trites, of .Sussex, N. H. Of his union with llli/.abeth J. lieer, his pres- ent wife, eleven children have been born, and of these live are living, namely: Andrew 11., of whom a brief sketch may be found else- where in this Volume; (iurney R., who mar- ried Alice Price, and has three children -- Randolph, Nelly, and an infant son; Middle- ton H. , who married Clara .McMurray, and has one child, Vernon, Bessie J.; and Char- lotte (). Mrs, Jones is a member of the Methodist church. II.I.IA.M l!.\R.\im.l., of I'airville, was born at Truro, N..S., March 6, iSj;. In May, 1.S47, he came to St. John and entered the employ of his eldest brother, Alexander Harnhill, lumberman, at the latter's mill at Pleasant Point, in which position he continued until b'ebruaiy, 1 cS68. < )n the 3d of l""ebiuary, 1868, with his wife and family and several relatives, he sailed from .St. John in the barcpientine "Helen," bound for Wangaiuii, New Zealand, intending to take up his residence there. After spending a few months in Wanganui, and visiting Welling- ton and several other of the then princi|Xil ir- hn Kr, \r s Hiy lew UII.IIAM liAKNIIII.I. 4 111 ( ,' ill' tl 1 'i i Mi I i I ll niOGRAPIIICAL REVIKW »3» business places of the colony, the entire party bein^ disappointed with llie bnsini'ss prospects and dissatisfied with the climate, returned to New Urunswiik, arrivinj; in St. John on De- cember 23, i.SoS. In March, 1S69, Mr. Mam- hill entered into partnership with Mr. Will- lam II. Long, and acc|uircd the Marble Cove Lumber Mill at the Falls .St. John, N.H., which was enlarged and operated by the firm until the dcalii of Mr. Long in 1878. The business was thereafter continued by Mr. Harnhill and Mr. William H. Murray (who had for several years been a silent partner) until April. 1881, when Mr. Marnhill retired from active business and removed to l-'airville in the parish of Lancaster, where he now re- sides. Me retains his connection with sev- eral corporations, including the St. John Rail- way Company, of which he has for several years been a director, and is also interested in shipping. He married January 31, a.u. 1861, Mary 1'.., eldest (laughter of (ieorge S. Maker, for many years a prominent lumberman anil mill- owner of .St. John (Newcomb's (lenealogical Recoril). They have two sons: William I'Vederick Marnliill, of Fairville, lumberman, born December 14, 1S61, now and for several years past one of the representatives for the parish of Lancaster in the Municipal Council of the city and county of St. John; and Alex- ander Perley Marnhill, M.A. (Mt. A. "85), of St. John, barrister at law, born May 27, 1863. The following record of the family is given in the Historical and Genealogical Record compiled by Thomas Miller. Robert Marnhill, a native of Ireland but of Scotch descent, arrived at what is now known as McNabs Island, Halifax, .\.S,, October <), 17^)1, in the ship "Hopewell" from DinK'gal, Ireland. In the spring of 1762 he settled at Chiganois, N..S. , and became one of the grantees of the township of Londonderry. John, eldest son of Robert, born in Ireland in 1730, and his wife, Letitia I teyarmond, were also j)assengers on the "Hopewell." Alexander, second son of John and Letitia, was born in 1765, iitil in 1787 married Alice, daughter of Robert 'n<' ICsther Hunter. John, second, son of ; xandcr and Alice, was born August j, 179 ul married in 1817 tiie second daughter of William and Mary Joyce. They were the parents of four sons ami three daughters. The sons were: Alex- ander Marnhill, of St. John, N'.l!., hnnber- man : John Marnhill, of Toronto, Out., mer- chant: William Marnhill, of St. John, X. M., lumberman; and Robert Marnhill, of Truro, N.S., farmer. Of these, William Marnhill, the subject of the foregoing record, is the only one now living. {W^^ DI'O.N KXIC.HT I'RI'l.SCOlT, for VmJ_ mail)' years proniinently iilentified with the lumber anil real estate interests of New Mrunswick, was born in I'enntield, Char- lotte County, N.M. , on the twelfth da)' of b'eb- ruar)', iSji. His mother's maiden name was .Sarah Knight He followed the lumber busi- ness successfully in the Mela River district l> '32 niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW f[! fiiim his foiirtcoiith year im til Ik forty- tive, when ho retired witii a coini)eteiicy and remiived to St. J< Here lie enjoyetl tlie fruits (if liis lalxir, ami in\ested \o a eonsidcr- able extent in real estate. He spent nnieh time in readini;-, anil was remarkably well in- f. ormed i/n all publie cpiestions and live issues 1 li H e was a dire etor in the old C( )mmercial Hank, hut led a (luiet life after his retirement from Ml I'rescott first married a Miss Horth- wreth, who h; was 1)1 nil 1 n Scotland. ]i\ her he .1(1 (ine f aujjhte will) IS now tl ie widow () the ate (ieori Ritch )f llalifa.v, N.S. The first Mrs. I'rescott died in icS/^; and Mr. Prescott was subsetiuentlv married to Miss He Mn ana Berrvman, a ■liter of the latt J?e ir\niaii, of .St. John. New Brunswick, coming at the same time that his son James did, and for several years after- ward conducted a jirivate schv)ol in I'rederic- toii. While there he published problems in the local jiaper that the professors of the uni- versity could not solve, and later he publislied correct solutior.s of the same. James McLaughlin was born at Newtown- Limavadi, Ireland, in 1.S04. He received an excellent education, and followed the ])rofes- sion of surveying until coming to New Hruiis- WlCl' H e se ttled (Jueens County, where he taught school for a few years, and then came to Woodstock to ass:ime the position of editor aiu' manager of the Tili-gmf'h, which he ably tauuht scIk lajfcd for tei He suhsequently Woodstock until he ])oiiited .School Inspector of the counties of Mr. i'rescott was an attciuhint of the Haptist : ^'ork, ('arletoii, .Si Vict oria, a jiosi- II is death occurred on April 19, j tion for which he was eininently fitt cd. Hid 1 891. He was a mar of large jiliNsiiiue I'hich he held until coni])elled on account fin e appearance. Courteous and kiiidh', lie , failing health t( IS arduou.s duti !■( ■'■P -1 ■■:|^ •rrij* r 1 1" , r tSf '* f i ,", f . li 11 .fell P^^"^— !P- II li ■*l |i)ll\ 1.. PICK. I aaiftg^Y IJKKJRAI'IIICAL REVIEW '35 1876, soon ;ittcr tlic ilcnlli of liis Idrnicr 0111- ploycr, Mr. McLaii^'hlin, in minpiui) witli K. 15. Jones, iiurchased a dry-goods business, whicli they successfully conducted under the firm name of Jones & McLaughlin for three years. In 1879 Mr. McLaughlin bought tlie interest of his paitncr in the establishment, and has since carried on a very successful mercantile business alone, his trade in ih\' gooils and clothing being extensive anil prdlit- able. He is veil known tin()u;;hout tiie luni- munity as a trustworthy citizen, n(]t afraid to assume rcsjionsibility if called upon, although he has refu.sed to accept a nomination for tiic office of Mayor. He has been Town Clerk, was 'I'own Assessor two years, and for twche years was a niend)er of the Idwu Council. He is a member of Woodstock Lodge, !■". iS: A. M. ; is also a mendjer of the koyal Ar- canum, Woodstock Council, No. 525, of which he is Last Master; and is treasurer nf tlie Presbyterian churcli, of wbicli he is a valucii meudier. Mr. McLaugiiiin married iXiuiie, dau;;hter of Moody Magui re, of Woodstock ; and of tiic six ciiildren that blessed their union live are now living, namely: Hessie; Harry; Roy and (iu\', twins ; and Amia M. fs^OHN LI'AVLS I'l'CK, a leading mer- chant of Hillsboro, Albert County, N.H., is a man of good business knowl- edge and practical ability, and is closely iden- tified with the financial interests of the town. He was born July 6, 1857, in the neighboring town of Hopewell, a son of l^lisha I'eck, whu was the third in line of descent to bear that name. Elisha Peck, first, was born in the United States, where he resided until after the close of the Revolutionary War. Peing an adherent of the Crown, he then removetl with other Loyalists to New Hrunswick, and, settling in Albert County, took up a tract ol land nearly four miles in length, which included the i)res- ent site of the village of Albert. He was one of the largest laiulhoklers of the county, and became one of its foremost farmers. He reared eight children, I-Ilisha being the name given to his second son. Elisha Peck, second, was born in Hope- well, where he engaged extensively in agri- cultural pmsuits during his days of activity, and was also a large dealer in real estate in that vicinity. A wide-awake, energetic man, he took a deep interest in everything connected with local matters, and for years was Captain of the Volunteer Militia Company of Hope- well, and was also Justice of the Peace for a long time. In politics he was a Conserva- tive. He married Sarah, claughtiT of Na- thaniel Prewster. lught ol their children grew to .adult life, and two — Judson N. and Charles A. — are yet living. Jndson X. mar- ried Annie Turner, of Dorchester, N.P., and has five children ^ Albert, l".l izabeth, George, John, and Jane. Of Charles A. a biographi- cal sketch may be found on another i)age of this volume. I^lisha I'eck, second, and his wife were members of the Hopewell liaptist Church, and both lived to be well adv.nued in iil . 1 1: 1 ]' ii ' j i «36 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW years, she attaining the aj^e of seventy-two and he that of eighty-seven. Their son, Elisha Peck, tliinl, was born at tlie parental homesteail in 1823, and there spent his entire life of sixty-six years, being engaged the greater part of the t.me in tilling the soil and in adtling to the improvements already inaugurated on the farm. He mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of Jolm Lewis, of Ilillsboro. She is now living on the home farm, an active woman of sixty-eight years. She is a member of the Baptist church, and in the daily walks of life endeavors to live up to its teachings. She bore her husband seven children: Alice, wife of William R. Pock, of Hoston, Mass.; John Lewis; Charles L., who married Lucinda Mittons, of Covcrdale, N.15., and has three children; William L. ; Annie R. ; Ida; and Mary K. John Lewis Peck attended school in Hope- well until he was fourteen years old, when he came to Hillsboro to live with his maternal grandfather, John Lewis, who was jiroprietor of a store of general merchandise. Lntering the store as a clerk, he remained in that pf)si- tion fourteen years, obtaining a thorough knowledge of the business. 1 1 is grandfather then took him into partnershii), and the firm name became John Lewis & Co. I^'our years later the senior member of the firm died. Mr. Peck has since continued tiie busiTiess alone, and lias been very successful. Being e'^ Tgetic and [irogressive, and well versed in finance, Mt^ Peck established a private bank- ing concern in Hillsboro on November 1, 1897, and this he is conducting in conjunc- tion with his other interests. He is a hard- working man, self-made in every respect, owing his ]iresent prosperity entirely to his own enterprise and effort. Politically, he is a firm sup[)orter of the Conservative [irinci- ples. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging to Howard Lodge, No. 15, F. & A. M., of Hillsboro, N.I^, and is also a member of the A. O. F. of Hillsboro. M"-. Peck and Minnie F., daughter of Chip- man Bishop, of Hillsboro, were married on August 27, i]in when a young man, and engaged in the wholesale flour business. l'"rom .St. John lie went to Portland, Me., wIkmv he carried on a wholesale boot and siioe inisincss for eigiit \ears, or until iiis store was BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW '37 swcpl awiiy in llu' disastrous tire , wiiich consumed the entiie business pintion (if that city. Rcturninj;- then to New Urunswick, lie spent the lest of his life upon a farm in Sussex, Kin^s County, l.auchlan Mac Lean married Miss Marsh, daujjhter of the late Jolm L. Marsh, of I-'reilcricton. They had tour children, namely: Colonel 11. 11. Mae Lean, barrister, St. John; Aithur J?., the subject of this sketch; Maud, who resides in Canibrid;;e, Mass. ; antl Charles llerbeit, president and manai^er of the Merchants" l-',.\c!ianf;e, Toledo, O' io. Arthur J>. Mac Lean was educated in the schools of h'ledericton, X.]!., and I'ortland, Me. Mis business trainiui;- was begun with J. S. Mayo, of :\Iontreal, 1'. Q. ; and he later entered the employ of 1'. \V. (iregory & Co., ]5(jston, with whom he remained until 1S95. In that year lie ]iurchased their business in tiie Maritime Provinees, and established 'lie A. H. Mac Lean Compan)-, djalers in steamship, railway, and mill supi)lies, and iiroprietors (pf the "I'^xcelsior " branil of marine engine and cylinder oils. Tiiey are also agents foi- tlic Hostou Helting ('ompan)'s rubber goods, tiie Knowles & lUake steam -pumps, and are carry- ing on an extensive business. This concern has brancii offices in Hoston and Now \'ork. Ml. Mat' Lean married .Alice (lanong, daughter t church. -O.SIAII IX)\\'I.I;R, manufactnrer of car- riage-building materials, .St. John, and a \eteran nf the Ci\il War in the L'nitetl .States, was horn in I'rcnch X'illage, Kings Ciiunty, \. H. , November 24, iS.v. His father was Josiah i''owler, a farmer, and his grandfather, (iabriel h'owler, who came from New \'cirk to New Ihunswick with other Loyalists in 1 7.S v When sixteen \ ears old, voting I'"owler left his father's farm and went to Walpole, Mass., where he found employment in a shovel aiul axle factory. At the breaking out of the Re- bellion he took sides with the Nortii, and en- listed in the l-'ort_\ -fouith Kcginu'iil, INIassa- chusetts \'iilunteer Infanti}', with which he served until honorably discharged in iS6.(. Coming to .St. John, he established himself as a manufacturer of sjirings and axles an.i edge- tools, a business which he is still tari\ing on successfnllv, em|)lo\ing an average force (if thirty workmen. In 1)^63 Mr. Lowler was joined in inaiiiage with I'ersis M. Hlake, his tirst wife, wlm was a nati\e of l'"ranklin, Mass. .She died in 1877, leaving one danghter, Idella M., who is now the wife of A. 1). liarbcr, nf .St. John. In iSiSq he married for his second wife .\nnie R. Rankin, daughter of Alexander Rankin, formerly of the linn of 'I'. Rankin 6i: .Sous. The chiklreii of this union are: Ulanchartl, (ireta. Aline, Andrew I! , and Ronald R. h'owler. Mr. I'owlcr belongs to the Masonic order and the Sons of Temperance. lie is a mem- ber of the Congregational church. 1 1 is busi- ness ability has enabled him to ac(|uire a financial success, and as a cili/eii he is liiglil}' esteemed for his many sterling (|Ualities. ■^y^J ROMl'HM' MARSHALL, a prominent insurance man of .St. John, X.Ii., was born in I'ictoii Cininty, Nova Scotia, April 27, 1N52, a son of Alexander McNanghton Marshall and his wife, I'Mizabeth Crockett, grand-danghter of James Johnscm, of Triiro, \..S. He is a ' li' fcl 1 .: ;i lilv St. ton soil his (if lln.N. KDllKKT MAKhllALL. f BIOr.RAPHIC.M, RKVIKW I' j;rcat-grniKls()n ol Rolioit Marshall, l^sc]., jjenerally known as Deacon Marshall, who oniijjratuil from Dumfries, Scotland, to i'ic- tou, N.S., in 1773. On Au!,aist 26, 1783, Deacon Rolicrt Marshall received a grant of three hundred and fifty acres of laml at Mid- dle River, in I'ictou County, Nova Scotia. John Crockett, of Dumfries, Scotland, wiio emigrated to I'ictou, N.S., in 1783, and who was the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, received at the same time a grant of live hundred acres of land, also in the county of I'ictou, N.S. The Johnson branch of the family emigrated in 1756 from Londonderry, Ireland, to New Hampshire. James Johnson, Mr. Marshall's great-grandfather, in 1761 removed from New 1 ■Jig land to Truro, N..S, , and became a sharer in a land grant of eighty thousand acres divided among about seventy settlers, all from the New Mngland States. This grant included the whole township of Truro. The names of James ami John Johnson appear in a record of the grant, signed by Governor Wilmot. Robert Marshall was educated in the grammar school at Chatham, N.H. lie was subsequently employed as an accountant and conlidential clerk by the well-known mercan- tile, lumbering, and ship-building firm of Johnson iS: Mackie, of (.Chatham, Miramichi. Ill the month of April, 1859, he removed to .St. John, li iving been appoii.ted accountant of the now Intercolonial Railway, then known as the luiropcan & North American Railway. While holding this position he organizeil a system of returns and accounts, [jreparcd as the result of a personal inspection of the vari- ous systems, then prevailing, of railways in the United States and Western Canada. In icS6fS he established in St. John a general agency for fire, life, and marine insurance, and now represents at 61 Prince William Street, Imperial Huilding, St. John, N.H., the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New \'ork, as agent and cashier. This comiiany, of which Jacob A. Johnson, Ivsc|., of Halifax, N. .S,, is general manager for the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and also for the colony of Newfoundland, is the largest mutual life insurance com|)any known to history. It is the largest insurance corporation in the world, with assets exceeding two hundretl and ninety million dollars, and has taken first rank as a life insurance and bond investment company in Canada. Mr. Marshall is secretary and treasurer of the New Brunswick Sanatorium, and is also a Notary Public for the i)rovince and Justice of the Peace of the county of Kings and of the city and county of .St. John, being the only dual magistrate in the province. He is the author of several papers, among them one on the subject of the "Canadian System of Clas- sification and Inspection of .Ship[)ing," 1868, several suggestions contained in which were acted ujion by the Dominion government; one on the subject of "Deck Loads," which re- ceived consideration by the Dominion ministry, and on the recommendation of h^arl Kimberly several suggestions contained in which have since been made statutory; a [laper on "I'ire and Life Insurance," read at Ottawa in 1875, , f ." K- I- 14a HIOORAI'IIICAI, KKVIKW t) ! ipii while cliairniaii of a committee o[ the Domin- ion Hoard of 'I'rade; and one in 1S74, also read before tlie Dominion I?oanl of Trade, at Ottawa, on tfie subject of "Canadian Tonnage and I'limsoll's Hill," in which he claimed for the port of St. John, N. H. , at tliat time the fourth place in gross amount of tonnage, and more tonnage, measured by population, than any other i)ort in the liritish i-jnpire. Mr. Marshall was in 1879 a member of the first Hoard of Commissioners of the luesent Pro- vincial I'i.xhibition Organization of .St. John, Mr. Marshall married first .September 27, 1855, Anna Matilda, daughter of the late | George Henderson, Ivsip, merchant, of New- castle, Miramichi. She died at Chatham, 1 Miramichi. in 1856. He married for his sec- , ond wife, June 16, i8fi^, Charlotte Neill, | (laughter of the late Captain Thomas Rees, of .St. John, N.n., and grand-daughter of James Shand, Ksq., of Montrose. County .Vberdecu, Scotland. Mr. Marshall is an e.x-Commissioner of the General Tublic Hosjiital of St. John, ex- chairman of tlie commissioners of the abattoir for city and county of St. John, a director and life member of the Highland .Society of New Hrunswick; trustee ot .St. Andrew's Pres- byterian Church of St. John; director of the Protestant Or[)lian Asylum o; St. John, hirst Lieutenant of the Second Hattalion of the .St. John Light Infantry, a life member of the \. M. C. A. of -St. John, and ex-president of St. Andrew's .Society of St. John. A prominent Free Mason, he was created on June 4, 1870, a .Sovereign Grand Inspector- general, or thirty-third degree Mason, by .Supreme Council of the .Scottish Rite of I''ng- land. He is a director of the New Hrunswick Masonic Hall Company, and assisted in founding the higher grades of I'Vee Masonry throughout the province. He at |)resent r.mks as follows: Past (irand Master, (irand Lodge of N' w Hrunswick; Past Deputy Ctrand High Priest, (irand Chapter of New Hrunswick; Past Provincial Prior Sovereign, Great Priory of Canada; Past Lieutenant (irand Commander, A. iSt A. .S. Rite, Canada; Grand Cross of the Red Cross, Rome and Con- stantine: Imperial (irand Council of Lngland; I'rov. J. G. Warden, Royal Order of Scotland; Kora Temple, A. A. ( ). M. .S., Order I^astern Star; Swedenhorgian Rite, and at present holds the positions of Most Puissant Grand Master of the Suiireme (irand Council of the Cryptic Rite of I'Vee Masonry of the Maritime I'rovinces of Canada, whose (iranil is ICast at the city of St. John. N.H. Mr. Marshall is also an Or.mgeman and a member of Pioneers" Lodge of OM I'd lows. In 1874 Mr. Marshall offered as an in- dependent candidate lor the city ol .St. John on .1 platform, peculiarly his own, holiling that in the New Hrunswick school law, with- out destroying the princi])le of ncm-sectarian free schools, modifications might be made which, while doing no wrong to Prote; tants, W(juld be acceptable to the Ronvn Catholic portion of the community. On this issue he was defeated, but in 1876 he was elected, and then the very modifications pro|)osed and recom- mended bv him were made, resulting in gen- IlIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW '43 era) harmony, proviiif^ satisfactory, in j^oncral, to both Catliolics anil I'rotcstants. In LS/f) Mr. Marshall was el-^cteil to the Provincial Legislature, Init nwin;^ to a conte:it over the election he resigned his seat, lie was at once re-elected hy acclamation, and he was also elected lor a secoiul term of four years, and was a member of the I'Vaser-Wedderburn gov- ernment of tlie Province of New Urunswick until his retirement from jiotitics in the year 1882. In the year 1881 tiie I'rince of Wales created the Hon. Robert Marshall by patent a Knight Commander of the Temple. Of this order Her Majesty, the (Jueen. is Grand Pa- tron. Mr. Marshall was treasurer in 1865 of the Confederation Association of New Hruns- wick, located at tlie city of St. John, James R. Ruel, ]'>S(|.. ])resent Collector of Customs of the city of .St. John, N.H., being president. He took an active and determined part in the elections of 1865 and of 1866, which brought about the Confederation of 1867. Mr. Mar- shall is a Liberal of the Joseph Howe, Tilley, and Fisher school of politics wlio aimed at responsible government by the people for '.ne people. « m»mt lOHlCRT COLl'ITT.S, a prosperous and lirogressive agricuitui ist of Coverdale, Albert County, N.15. , was born June 2, 1830, on the farm which he now occu]iies. He is a .son of the late Lazarus Coljiitls. William Colpitis, falher of La/arus, was born in Newcastb', Lngland, wlience lie emi- grated with bis parents to New Jkunswick. He subsequently settled in Coverdale, where he cleared and improved a homestead, on which he lived anil labored until his death. .Soon after taking up his abode in Coverdale, he married l-Mizabeth Cummings, who was born ill (iermany. They became the paieiils of se\'en ciiildren, of whom La/arus was the tliird in order of birth. Lazarus Colpitis was ixirn on tlie home farm and was tiiere trainetl to farming pursuits. Learning the trades of tanner and shoemaker, he worked at these occuiialions parts of each year, continuing his residence at the home- stead and carrying on the farm successfully until a few \ears prior to his death, wlien be retired to Moncton. He married Jane Col- pitis, a cousin, by wiiom he had five children, namely; Roliert, the special subject of this skelci) ; William W. ; Joiui K. ; Roland; and lleiuy H. La/arus Colpitis dieil at the age of si.\ty-si.\ years, and his widow at the age of seventy-six years. Both were members of the Methodist church. Roberl Colpitis ac(|uired iiis early education in the public schools of Coverdale, and having succeedeil to the owneiship of the farm which his grandfather reclaimeil from the wilderness, and on which his father's active years were spent, he has devoted his entire time lo its management. 1 le lias given attention to vari- ous branches of general farming, and has made many substantial improvements on the estate. Ill [lolitics he is iiulependent, voting for the best men and measures, irrespective of jiarty relations. (^11 March 30. 1857, Mr. Colpitis married Hannah A. Read, jf Moncton, N.]{. Four ^i i •44 lUOC.RAI'llUAI, KKVIKW L-hilil roll wore liorn to th 0111, a IK 1 til roo ;iro now living; nanioly, Clifton K., Cohort C, ant! Minnio. Mrs. Colpitis diod at llio ago of tillv-thioo voar: I So I, (Hod in iH^C}. Slio was the mother of ten childron; namely, William, John, Itonry Wit ouisa. Ohadiah, Sarah, Wil- Sho was a Inn- Christian niotii, John Doaii, and Jaiio I'oshay. W'illia a niornhrr cil tho Moliindist tiiini .h Mr. Cdliiitts al-o 1)o1oiil;s. h, t. ni, wh o was I"' n Soptonilior lo, iSoJ, let I home H'ard from. Joh n (lied in in- and was fancy. . my Wiggins, who was born January 1,^ iSof), went from St. Jd'n to Woodstock, ater roniowd to i'lirds I'oint, wliero he L'ligagc fa and tanniiii. IK was I man ol more than ordinary intolligeiuo nil in this i it\', Oitnljir jc), i ,s r Hi 111 served two terms in the I [ous if A sscni ■ ents wore ( Ihadiah and Sarah (Dean) I'urdy. bly of Now Hiiiiiswiol<, par His laliior is an ardent sup hon Now N'orlv, in 177; ^'ork .State, I'ehruai 1 in Westchester Ciuinty, porter of the 'I'dry party. Ho died in St. John, Louisa, who was horn No- )■ hi- nmilu'r in I7f^''>- I'el el)ruar\ 1 S,Si His jiaternal grandparents, (iilbort and I'Llizabeth (Ogdon) I'urd)-, won- natives of Wostciiester County; and the Ininier tnnk an active part on the Dritish side in the American Revolution. .\t the close of the war, in 17S3, (irandfather I'lirdy came witii his family to \cw lirunswick, and received a grant of land in .St. Jiihn. I. ate in life lie removed to ruiiK's I'diiit. l.nii.g lieacJi, whore he died in April, 1SJ5, aged eight)-rue years, his wife's death nccurring October 33, 1S30, at the age of niiK'tv. He JKid live children; namel\', 'riioiiKis, Wilmiith, Jiiiiathaii, Joseph, and Oba- diah. ()l)adiali I'urds, John Heaii I'lirdy's father, was six years nld when his parents came to .St. John. When a voiing man he engaged in the lishiiig iiulustrv, ■.nd later he became a pros- jierous tisli dealer. He died in 1X36. His wife, Sarah, whom he married November 20, vi'mher _•: I lardenbro I SoS, larried Cajitain Thomas ik. She died July S, !f liiistdii," and ncviT rcluincd. ( )n I)iC(.'ml)cr J4, 1844, Mr. I'nrdy was united in niarriage with llannili Amelia Stick- ni'y, daiif;litor ot Captain Saniiud Stickncy, wiio was boin in St. .SluplK'n, N.H., and was a ilc- scrndanl ot an idd New I'.n^laiid taniiiy. 'I'JK-y iiad join' sons and fonr daughters, nanicl) : l'",niiiy Rct'd, wlin was hoin NdvunilRT it, 1S45, and died .Nuyust 9, i'^47; I.ninsa, l)oii) Sc|itcnilici- 17, 1S47, dii'd May 22, I Sru ; William llcniy, Ixiin Si.|)ti.'nd)i.'i- 11, iS4(j; (ieor;;o, burn November 2", 1S51, who resides at VVickhani, (jneens Cmmty; Alice Wilmutb. born Januaiy 24, 1S54; John l)ean, Jr., bom jnly 20, 1S57; Maud May, who was born Se[)- teniber 23, iHCjo, and died Jannar\- 25, 1862; and W'allei (){;den, who was boi n June 2^, I ,S62. Alice Wilmoth l'urd}\ who married onard Arthm- Tillev (son of Sir Leonard '1 •y) on Aj I, 876, died in Aiken, S.C., b'ebriiary ''>, i8,Si, leavini; two children — I.ama b'.ilith II. Tilley and a son who died in intancy. John Dean I'nrdv, Jr., who is with the James I'ender C(im|)any (Limited), mariied November 20, iSSS, Katie Ida Leon- ard, ot St. John. She died Jamiar\ 25, iSij^, leavinj.; one daughter -— Dorothy Wilmoth I'urdv. Walter ( );;(len I'nid}', who is secre- larv anil treasurer of the James I'ender Com- pany, married January 16, i.S.S^, Hertha May Mills. She died May 2y, iS<)i, havini;- had one child, who ilied in intanc\-. William Henry J'urdv was brou<;ht uji in .St. John. lie wa.s educated at the Colleijiate -Sthool, Wind- sor, N. S. , and after the de.ith of his father took (hai|;e of his .slii|)pin;{ interests. In tS.S2 he was appointed Shipping Master for the port of .St. John. On June 19, 1872, he married Jeiniii' Durant .Sancton, dau;;hter of IIi'nr\ I'. and Maria (Duiant) .Sancton. He has h.id foui I hildren : lb unswick .Sancton ; John Dean; Maurice M. ( ). I'urdy ; and William II.. Jr., who died iti infanc)'. .Mr. John Dean I'mdy'.^ widow, who still survives and is lesidin;; in .St. John, is now in her seventv-ninth \ear. \m)ni.l.l.\.M II. II.\\W.\KD, formerly Y^V^ one of the leading merchants of .St. John, was born in .Susse.v, N'.li, , in 1S29, son o. He reeei\ed liis e(hu'ation in ilie granunar selioul of tiiat eity and at .SaekviUe (_"idlege. .\fiei- leaving selioid he entered the store of liis father, and on his fatiier's death sucieedeil to the nianageinent of l!v: business. He was niarrietl in rSS^ to Miss Annie I'., .\nder.son. a daughtei' of J. M. Anderson, anil of .Seottish descent. Mr. I I.n- ve\- r. Hayward antl his wife aie the parents of three children. |7?iT"^' CH.\KLi:S 1-ISH1;R, lor many vears a Justice of th.e .Supreme CJuut anil piominenth identitied with the Liberal p;utv of New Ihunswick, was born in Fredericton, September [0, 1 S 1 n. He was a son of I'eter l^'isber, who was a native of the State of New Jer>e\, iiut of ("leiinan origin. I'eter h'isher and his f.illur were Loyalists during the Re\! 5 I he was defeated b}' the Hon. Charh'S Mcl'herson. In 1.S52 he was appointed our of the com- missioners to conscdidate and lodiU the stat- utes, and iiupiire into the procei'diiigs ol the Cmirts of Law and l''.i|uity and thi' Law of I'^'idence, the result of which is embodied in ■;u m ). : 1 1 II<)\. I IIAKI.KS i-isiii;i<. Tl niOGRAl'HICAL REVIEW '49 several volumes issued in 1.S56. In 1851') lie was again returned to tlie Assembly, and the lollowinj,' \ear was for tlie second tiiiK- le- i|nesU'd b_\' the I.ieuleiiant (icixeinur to I'lirni a new adniinistiat inn. HI this lie heianie the Attorney -general, and remained at ils head until iSf)i, wlien lie iesii;ned, uwiii;^ tn eei'- tain c|uesti(iiis aiisini; as to the management nf tlie erown lands. In rnmpany with the lion. Joim l^oljertsoii he went to luigland in the interest of ])ron'oliny i)etter lailroad faeilities for the province, and succeeded in arranging a contract for the cnnstinction nf the line from St. John to Siiediac. lie was triumphant in the general election nf 1862, hut experienced an overwhelming defeat in Januaix, 1865, upon the issue of Canadian confederation, which he favored. He was a delegate to the (Juebec conference in \XC>4, represented I'n'd- ericton at the Uetroit convention in 1X65, and was one of the delegates sent to b'.ngland in i.Sfif) for the purpo.se of lompleting airange- ments f(U" uniting the provinces. In iSr)S his political .ser\ ices were rewaided by his elevation to the l;ciuh, he being ap- pointed a Justice nf the Supreme Court and a Judge of the Court i>\ Divorce and Mat/inm nial Causes. .\s a con.st itulional law\er he stood pre-eminent, and previous to becoming a Judge he favored laws which have since been passed, and whose I'nactment was tn his keen perceptinn siini)l\ a ipK'stion of lime. .\s a legislator he has left a I road and indrlible mark U|)on tlu' statuti' books ol the province, and as a [lolit ician he was an honest, consist- ent Liberal from first to last, free from vin- dictiveness and above all ardently devoted to Ills country and especially to his native jirov- ince. lie declined to accept the Chii'f Jus- ticeship on account of jiarty iiitei'csts, and twice I'cfused the appointment of Lieutenant (invernnr. He received the ilegiee of Doctor n\' Ci\il Law from his ccdlege in \H6C), and for liis services in behalf ui the Canadian confed- eratinn he was awarded two medals, one of silver and anotlic"' of bron/e. He enjoved the re- markable distinition of lia\ing no personal enemies, and those who antagonizeil him in politics admiied and respected him as a man. Judge I'"isliei' died at his Iioiik' in I'redericton, December .S, iHSo, and it may be said that his desire to leave the impressions of liis mind upon the institutions of his countr\- was fully realized. On .September S, 1X^5, Judge I'lsher mar- 1 ied Amelia, seventh daughter of David Hat- field, a representati\e of an old i'jiglisb fani- il_\and a Loyalist who c.imc finm W-w York to Now Hrunswick afli.a- the .\meiican KeV(du- tion. She became the niotliei' of foui' sons and four daughters, of whom two daughti'is ai'e living. Jane .M. I'., w idow nf the Hnn. J. J. I-'rasei', resides .it b'arraline I'lace, and l''rances .\melia lives at .Simimcr X'illa. :r HIS si; I. ati:rs()\, UKiuber of the llini of Iirnck iS: I'ater- -on. wholesale Miillinerv and fancy di\ goods, .St. John, was born in K innesswncid, Scotland, January iS, 1S4.S. son of Robert antl Margaret (Low) I'atcrson. He received his I i' i 1: 11 i r It m I i •5° 15I0GRAPHICAL REVIEW t'(liic;iti(in ill llio sdiouls of lii.s nalixe iiarish. Sul).se(|Uc'nlly he lH'j;nii his api)r(.'ntii.'(.'sliiii to tlic (hy-j,f(i<){i.s business, scrxiiij; four years at Duiiferniline. Then lie went to (ilasfjow, where he was enijihjyed as salesman until 187 1. In that year iie aceepted a position with Daniel & Hoyd, of the "London house" of St. John, N.U. , where he remained fifteen vears. In i8,'<6 1ie formed a partnership with I'. W. (i. Hroik, under the tirm name of Hroek & rater- son, and eslaldished what is now one of the hest known milliner\- and faiuN' div-^(Jods houses in New Urunswiek. They do the lary;- est business in the millinery line of anv firm in the Marilime rmviiiees, occupying; the large store at 3J Kini;' Street, includinL; three floors above. Besides eii;hteen clerks lhe\ em]iloy four traxelliiij; salesmen. .Mr. I'aterson was married in |S,S4 to Miss llelen M. Nase, a dauj;liter of the late I'liili]) Nase, of Indiantown, further mention of whom may be found on another page of this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. I'aterson have been born si.\ children, who are all li\ing In., one: Kenneth H. , (iraeme, Robert, I'hilip Nase (who died at the age of eighteen months), Margaret, and John Hlair Halfour. .Mr. I'aterson is a mem- ber of .Si. Davitl's l'resb)terian Church and of the .St. .Nndrew's .Society. Mr. I'ateison's residence is located at i).S Wentworth Street 1,: the city of St. John. Hut he s|iends his summeis with his family at Westfield, X.U. , a pleasant little summer re- sort that is located about fifteen miU's up the St. John River, and is one of the most beauti- ful spcjts along that river. I.I'.XAXDl'lK kOHI.NSON, of Chat ham, N.li. , manufacturer at carriages and dealer in line iin|)orlalioiis, was born in Northumberland (Jounty, this province, on .March 3, 1.S4S, son of John and Janet (Scott) Robin.son. His fathi^r was a native of County I.migford, ill the north of Irelaiul. Jle came to this country with his mother when about twehe years old. lie learned the painter's trade, and subseiiuenlly worked al it (luring llie re- mainder of hi.s life. His wife, Janet, was the daughter of .Scotch |)arents, with whom she came to America in her childhimd. She was the mother of the following-named children : William, Richard, .Mary, (ieorge, John, I-'j;.nces, ;\le.\ander, Janet, Robert, and .Martha. Mr. John I'fobinson was a member of .St. I'aul's Church and for many years a leading member of the .Sons of Temperance. He died on .\|>ril 29, 1.S69, and his wife died on Janiiar\- 19, i.S6j. .\le.\ander Robinson was onh sixteen years of age when he was set to leain the carriage- maker's trade. He worked at Newcastle, and in St. John with I'lice & Shaw, and. having finished his api)renticeshi|), worketl as a jour- neyman for a year in \'armouth, N..S., and f(jr two years at Rosebaiik. At the t'lul of that time he returned to Newcastle, and worked for a time at carriage painting. He cinie to Chatham in 1S79, and established his |)iesent business. He not onlv nianufacturi's car- riages, lint kee]is on sale im|>orted \ chicles of the best st_\'les and makes. He is agent for all kinds of farming implements. BIOORAPHICAL REVJEW '5' Mr. Robinson was inaniL'd on March 4, 1873, to Miss JaiiL' ilcwitson Cortnack, a na- tive of CiiatlKini, (lauj^lilcr of Alexander and Rulli (i'atlison) Coimacix, wlio came iiere Ironi Seotland. CH tiie nine eliildren liorn ol this union, three died in infancy, and X'iolet died at the ajje of six years. 'J'lie five livinj;- are: ("lertrude C, ]']lizabeth C, Mar-^arel K. .S. , Colin A., and Ilewetson !,. Mr. Robinson is one of the Oiathani Aldermen. He is a member of tiie Mine lodge antl chapter of .Masons, of the Ancient Order of I'nited W'ork- nirn, and of the Royal Arcaiuini. lie is one of the Irnstees of .St. Andiews i'aiish C'hnich. i)WiN 11. .Mr.M.lMNi;, .M.A., .St. John, was born in (.iambridf^e, (Jneens County, .\.H. , March 30, 1.S51, son of Charles and Matilda Jane (Cameron) .Mc.Mpine. His <;randfather, Ciiarles McAlpine, .Sr. , a native of (ilasj^ow, Scotland, who emi.Ljrated to \ew Hrnnswick and settled in (jueens C'oinit\', where he follciwed fainiin;;', was a son of I'eter and ICli/aheth (Waters) McAlpine, and one of a family of six children; namely, John, James, Charles, Mercv, I'llizabeth, and Janet. Charles .McAlpine, .Sr , on Ma\' 2,S, 1794, mariied Christine lielmain, who was born in ( ;ias};(iw, dan.:;htei- of William and Marj^aret (Nevins) lielmain, and who had three sisters and three brothers Julia, Marj;aret, Katie, John, William, and llemv lielmain. Might ihildien — Teter, James, John, Charles, Katie, Janet, I'eggv, and William wcie the frnit of their union, (irandf.ither Mc.Mpine died at tlie age of eighty-.si.x, and Grandmother McAlpine lived to he ninety-four years old. Charles McAlpine, Jr., father of luhvin H., was born in (Jneens County in iNo;;, and lol- lowed farming during his active )ears. He tiled in 1S75. His wife, Matilda Jane, was a native of (Jueens Comity anil of .Scotch de- scent. 'I'hey had nine children; namely, James, N'evin, Charles, lulwin II., .Alhenia, Matilda, Mary, I'riscilla, and Cecilia. The mother died in 1.S87. J'idwin II. McAli)ine attended the ^u]lerior schools of Cambridge, (Jueens County, his instructor being James Mitchell, who was afterward Premiei' of .New Brunswick. .After completing his college preparati.ms at tne (.'ollegiate .School, I'redericton, he entered the University of New Mrunswick, and gradu- ated with honor in \HCn). He was ])rincipal of the combined gramiiiar and high school in Chatham, N.H. , for four years. He [jursued his law studies with William I'ugsley, O-C, \wis admitted as attoine)' in iS7,S, and became a barrister in 1S79. Locating in .St. John, he has found am[)le opportunity to disiday his talents in the courts of New iirunswick, and is regarded as a lawvei' of unusual ability. He is Referee in b'.ipiity and .\gent of the Minis- ter of Justice. He has met with excellent success in several imiiortant cases, among them being that of lielyea f. .Small c/ (?'. , and Hell ;■. liell; and as Referee his judgnie.-ts in the cases of Jones ,-■. McKean and M.iclaie ■■. Cirant were sustained b\- the .Supreme Court of Canada. ( )n .No\embei' 9, i^y(>. Mr. .McAlpine was m . .1; ^^^ '52 lilOC.RAPHICAL REVIEW I i: joini'd in man ia!j;c willi Miss Clutilila I'crris, claii^litLT (il the lito jciliii I'LTiis, Msc)., M. 1'. , for OiiCL'iis CciUtily. Of tills iiiiiun two chil- dren won' horn, hnt ncithfr of thcni is li\ini;-. Mrs. Mi-Aljiinc (lii'il in iSSi. Mr. Mc.Mpine is a niL'nihcr of llihcrnian Lodge, 1'". i^ .\. M. and of tlic St. .Xndrcws Socicls . R.XNCLS J. l)i:,SM()\l), M.D.C.M., a iiopnlar physician and sni;;con of Newcastle, .N.li., was horn in Huc'onchc, Kent Count)', Octoher ~, iS6j, a son of i'atiick and Sarah ( l-'it/patrick) Desmond. 11 is patern;il j;randfatlu-r was John l)csmond, who emi^natcd from Ireland when Patrick was fomtecn years of age, .settling first at J)ouglasto\vn, X.H. , and later removing to Kent C'onnty. I'atrick Desmond, horn in Cork, Ireland, on attaining to years of maturity engaged in husi- ness as a millwright in Kent County. After following this occupation for some time he i hccame proprietor of a hotel at linctouchc, Kent County, which he mana.i;cd for several vears. lie then went into hiisiness as a mer- chant and as a manufacturer and dealer in lumher. and subsequently for soitie years he devoted his energies to shipdiuildiuL lli> the eldest son, was a sea captain. He .sailed from l.imeiiik, Ireland, in Jaiuiars', iMSS, on a vessel called the "HS5 trade will) John Kiracticallv with- drew from the concern in 1874, his guiding hand was visible in its affairs until his death, which occurred in 1876. I He was one of the first directors of the Me- , chanics' Institute. At one time he served as 1 treasurer and trustee of .St. Andrew's Church, but later he joined .St. Stephen's Church, in which he held the same offices and was a fol- ] lower of the Rev. W. T. VVishart. In 1824 j Mr. Rankine married Janet McWilliam, who was born in Scotland, daughter of Thomas i McWilliam. Her parents were pioneers in Cocaigne, N.H., where her father cleared a farm, and he was accidentally killed by a falling tree. Mrs. Rankine became the mother of eleven children, four of whom are living; namely, Thomas A., Alexander, Janet, and John. The others were: Margaret, ICliz- abeth, James, Mary, William, Grace, and Ann. 'i'he business was cariied on successfully by Thomas A. and Alexander Rankine until about ten years ago, when .Alexander retired, and H. C. and I'' rank Rankine, sons of Thomas .\., were adinitted to the firm, which still retains its prestige among the leading business houses of .St. John. The present proprietors have inherited the untiring energy and strict integrity of their sturdy preileces- sors; and these essential qualities, together with their progressive tendencies, have been the means of still further increasing the vol- ume of their business. To meet the increas- ing demand for their goods, they have just com])leted the erection of a four-story brick building on (ieorge's street seventy feet long and thirty feet wide. Thomas A. Rankine, senior [lartner of the firm, was born in St. John, August i, 1825. I I '!, iy 'S''- BIOCJRAPHICAI, RKVIKW I i I ill! I In 1846 he married Miss Louisa A. Caldwi'll, a native of Hudson, N.ll., daiif^liter of Alex- ander Caldwell and a representative of an oiii faniil\- (if that State. Of this union were iiorn eij^ht thildren, nanuly: Janet, deceased; Henry C, a partner in the business; Walter: Hester, wife of the Hon. \V. S. I'"ieldinj^, I'inane Minister, Canada; Oscar; I'Vank, who i' issociated witii iiis father; Allan, and Zillah. After the death of his first wife, Louisa, Mr. Thomas A. Rankine married Mary E. Camber, by whom he has iiad two chil- dren — Mary L. (deceaseil) and William C". Mr. Rankine is a meinber of the .St. .\n- drcw's Society, and was formerly president of the Mechanics" Listitute. He attends the Presbyterian church. XDRl'; C'L'S1H\(^ for many years a ]ir(iniinent lunihei' merchant and re- speited resident of St. John, wa> a native iif the United Stales. Hum in Iliiii;- ham, .Mass., in iSjo, he \va> a son n\ Xclicmiab and iJeborab (Hri<;^s) t'ushini;, and was of the seventh ,:;enerati(in in descent fioin Mat- thew Ciishini;, wlio, with his wife and live children, came o\er fmni hinnland in the ship " ] Jili.Ljent " in the >nnnner of iG^S, and in the autumn of that \ c,u' settled at Hin^ham, .Mass. 'I'he line was iVhitthew, ' Daniel,' Theiipbilns, ' Tbcophilus, ' Tbeophi- 1ns, ^ Nehcmiah,'' .\ndie.-^ (.See Cushinj;- .{gene- alogy in the liisturv of llinghani, published in 1893.) Comin,!.;- to St. John in 1S51 in cnmp.niy with bis brotbei, Theo|)bihis (tjio fourth of that name in lineal descent), toj^ether the\' purchiised a site at I'liinn Point, wheie in iSsJ they I'vei ted a four-t;.'ite steam sawmill. 'Phis mill, di'strovcd by file in 1855, was (piickly rebuilt. JSurned attain in iSfig, it was again rebuilt. Mi. Theophilus t'ushing was succeeded by his son, George \\. Cushing, the business being then tanii-d on under the st)'le of .\. dishing iS: Co. The liini traded e.xteii sively in lumber with West Indian, .S(juth .\meriian, and I'nited .States inaikets, and were known far and wide for their enterprise, .sagacit^v, and honorable business methods, l-'or years they had a very lucrative tiade in sugar box shooks, in the manufactuie of which they may be said to have l)eeii pioneers in .St. John. .Since the de.ith of Mr. (ieorge 1\. C'ush,ing his ])lLice in the liini has been taken 1)\' his sun, (ieorge .S. Cnsbing. -Although he never became a naturalized liiitish subject, Mr. .\ndre Cushing faithfully discharged all the duties of a good citi/en to his adopted c-iiuiitr\. lie tonka keen interest in all mo\-emcnts foi the public good. He was active in liie work of temperance, and the weight of his intluence was c\er gi\en to the support of any cause thai leslcil upnn a sound moral basis. 'I'he great Civil War in llie United .States (piickened the home im|nilses of all American citizens residing in .St. John during that period. Mr. Cushing was In birth and education a lo\ei of freedom, and look a deep interest in the slrugglc. He became accpiainteil with many of the more eminent of his countrvmen whose services on the battle- IIIOCRAI'IIK Al, KKVIKW IS7 field . lie married l''.iiza- heth Ilop]iei', who also attained a ^ond old ! a^'e. Joseph, the second son of the Kev. l)a\ id [ Crandall, was edneated at .'^t. Martin's and ! .Salisl)ur}-, .\. H. ; anu John I. CoKi »i\. H II I 'i I 1 * f :i i\ ; ' P.IOGRAPHICAL RRVIFAV if.i a tlealer in live-'lo -k. Thi; name John, bdrne, it is thus slidwn, 1)^- ^^ajo^ Gordon's j^ieat- j;ran(lt'athor, is (.■onspicuoiis in thu ancestral line foi' several i;enerati(ins faitliei' hack. Robert (inrdon, Majoi' (lordon's father, horn in 1814, was a linen weaver by trade; and he travelled over Ireland and Scotland |ire\ ion:> to crossing;' the ocean. I'ihiii liis arrival in New i^runsuitk he runnd ein|ilo\ nient in a ship- yard. Afterward he worked in a sawmill, anil still later followed the blacksmith's trade. At length be settled on a farm in A\ lesford, Kings County, but after a short time returned to St. John, West, where he s|)ent the lest of liis life; and he died Septembci' hi, il^'oij. lie belonged to the Orange Societv, and was a member of the I'resbyterian church. Robert and Jane (I)i.\on) Gordon had a faniih' of f(}ur childica, namely: Mllen, born Ma)' 2, 1S51, who died Januarv 2y, iS6,S; John J., the subject of this sketch; ;\nne Jane, i'orn .April 12, 1S55, who married Thomas II. Johnstone, of St. John; .and Catherine, bom Jain'.iry 2, 1,S5,S, now the wife of J. bl/ckicl Mcl.eod. The mother, born i.SjS, is still living. lohn James Gordon, leaving the St. John public schools at th r age o' thirteen years, worked in a saw-mill loi- tv-.o years, and then served an ap|irenticeship of three \ears at the biass founder's trade with William Il.iyward. lie subsei|ueutly worked successively as a jour- neyman for Ilayward & I""armer and as fore- nan fo|- Wales vS: (ireen, whom he left to taki' charge c the brass foundry department of James Harris & Co. 's wdrks; and later on, operating a sawmill in Campbelltoii, X.Ii. , for a time, he returned to St. John, where he was engaged in the grocer)- business for some years. While employed in the manufacture of horsesh(je nails with James I'ender, he made arrangements with lianiel (laik, of the t-lec- tric Works in Carleton, for space and jiower for establishing a wire naii manufactory; and a proposition to consolidate ina line hetwei-n .St. John ami Denierara and ports in the West Indies. lie is now a member of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Hrunswick, and is ])ro- nioier and director of the Imperial Dry Dock Compan\df .St. John, X. H. Mr. ]\obertson married Agnes, daughter of the late William Turner, of St. John, .\'.li._ formerlvof (ilasgow, Scotland. (If their seven I'iiildren one die(l in infancy and six are now living: Duncan and William Jardine, twins, who reside in .St. John; I'.li/abeth Russell, who is the wife of John Monlgomerv, a barris- ter-at-law; (ieoige Keith; Janet Paterson ; and I'"thel. Mrs. Robertson is a member of .St. Andrews l'icsl)\teiian Church. '^■ji.ISS A. .M.\R\I;N, M.D., oneof K^\ tin- leading phvsici.uis of IliUsboro, .\lbcrl Counts. N.H., was horn in the parish of Holsford, now c.iUed (iie.il .Shem- oguc, Deccndier in, iSiii, and is a son of the late Jo>iah H. Mar\cn. His grantlfather, Sil.is .M.irvcn, w.is born at lielle Isle, Kings CouiUv, \.H., where he spent his entire life of eights -four sears. He svas a farmer h)' occu])alion, and svorked most inilustriously at tilling the soil. He married Abigail JJidad, by svhom he had four children, tsvo of svhom are still living, namely: William .S., svho married \Ai/.a .Shanks and has one child, i;ila, wife of W. P'rank Hathasvay, of .St. John; and Henjaniin, svho married Julia 'i'rites. Both of the paternal grandparents svere niend)ers of tiie Church of Mngland. Josiah li. Marven svas boin in i.S'27, in lielle Isle, on the idd liomestead. In eails' niaidiood he established himself in business at (ireat Shemogue, \.H. , as a general merchant, and for a scoie of years carried on a thriving trade. Retiring then to a farm in that place, he en- gaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, at the age of si.\ty-four years. In politics he was a Conservative, and in religion he and his wife svere Methodists. He married l'!lizabeth, daughter of Joseph Avard, a leading meichant and one of the mvist inlluential citizens of his com mini it}-. She died at the age of forts-nine years, leaving seven children, namels: Alice, svife of Cicorge C. .Melvin, M.D., of .St. John, X.P. , svlio has two children Cicorgia ami Alice; Jiliss A. ; Maggie .S. , svife of Chipman Keith, of llavelock, X.H. ; I'.dgar W., iminar- ried, a dentist in l.ynn, Mass.; Jose|ih A., unmarried, svho is a connnercial traveller in St. John; John I.., a niech;uiic, residing at St. John, unmanied; and (ieorge II., svho is dentist of .Souris, P. ]■]. I. ^ Hliss A. Marven graduated from the X(jrnial Schocd at P'redericton, X.H. , ssith the class of \S-y), and sv.is aftersvard engaged for a time as a tcaciier in Dorchester .md at Port Plgin. II mi .64 BioGRArnicAL revif;w He subsequently continued his studies, attend- ing first St. Joseph's College, then the Halifax Medieal C"(dU'ge, after which he spent two \ears at the L'niw >ity of \'enn(int in Turling- ton, \'t., from wiiieh he giaduateil in i.SST). The following \ear Dr. Marven practiseil at Alhert, X.li., and in the fall of 1.S87 loeated at Ilillshoro, where he has met with distin- guished success in his professional career. I'raternally, he is a mendier of Hillshoro Court, I. O. v., and of the Canadian Home Circle, in hnih nf wliicli orders he is Iv.xam- ining I'hvsieian. He is also ;i cornner fiii- Albert Cnunty. On Heeendier 24. 1N7S, Dr. Marven married Maggie 1-"., daughter of Josejih Dohson, of Stony Creek. X.H. , and thev have two children — Laura II. anil Alice D. Mis. Marven is ;i niemher ii/7v S//n newspaper, and on the organization of the .Sun Printing t'ompany was appointed managing director. Colonel Maikham was Warden of Kings County when the Marcpiis of Lome and the I'rincoss Louise visited New Brunswick, and he presented an address to them at .Sussex. In iSSo he was ajiiiointed .Senior Major of the Lighth Princess Louise Hussars, antl in i.S(j6 was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel in the militia. Ho is \ico-i>residont of the l'rovinci;il Rifle -Association and president of the Canadian Cav- alry Association. Ho is a Knight Templar and a past ])resident of .St. (ioorge's .Society, vice-|)resident of the Kovstone l''iie Insur.ance Company, and a director of the I'ictou Charcoal Iron Company. In politics be is an active Conservative, in religion a member of the Clinrch of haigl.ind. lie was married in Xo- \ ember, 1X66, to N'aida, daughter of the late John L. Turnbull. His family consists of two sons and four daughters. irX CARLTON CLINCH, the wcll- I jN I known b.nikei- of .St. John, was horn c"*"-^^ ' \\\ St. Croorge, Charlotte County, N.B., on .Soi)tombor 12, I n I C" A I , K K V I KW a iiK'Hibci" ot the R(iy;\I l-'cnsihle Anu'iicans, l)cin}; a Lieutenant, anil siil).si.'(|iicntly iircinuitcd til l)e Caiilain. At the close of tlu- war IVUt Clinch, lirst, or Captain Clinch, came with other Loyalists lo \cw Hiiinswick and settled at St. (ieorge, where he was granted a lar,!;e tract of land by the Hritish j;overninent. lie formed a mili- tary company in Charlotte t'onnly, which |)er- fiiinied valuable service in keep.,.!;' down out- breaks; anil he was a member of the fnst Council before the j;overnnient of the Province was formed, lie died in St. George at about sixty years of a);e. Patrick Clinch, son of c'a|)tain Peter Clinch, was born and brouj^ht U|) on the farm in Char- lotte County, and was _i;iven a good education for those days. He founded a newspaper at .St. Andicws kniiwn as the rivviminlisl. ]'"or a number of vears he represented Charlotte Counlv in the Provincial Le,i;islature, and for nianv years was Inspector of Schools. lie died at about ei^hty-fonr years of age. I Iks wife, whdse maiden name was Lk'anor Daxiil- son, was of Scotch descent. Their son, Peter Clinch, second, father of 1). Carlton Clinch, was an attorney in practice at .St. Cicorge. He married .Sarah Jose|)hine, the daughter of the late Abraham J. W'etmore, of St. (ieorge, also of Loyalist descent. Peter Clinch and his wife weie the parents of five children, of wliom four arc living, by name Marion ]•". , Lli/.abeth W'.. 1). Carlton, and I'etei'. Their father died in 1N54, at the age of thirty-four years; and their mother died in 1895, at the age of seventy-one years. i Coming to St. John as a youth of thirteen, ' 1). Carlton Clinch was variously employeil until 1S7',, when he entered the banking house of .S. Jones & Co. as clerk, where he re- mained until 1SS2, since whicii time he has carried on foi- himself an extensive banking and brokerage business. Mr. Clinch married Susie C. McCullnm, of Maitland, \.S. He has two children - Douglas W'etmore and .\rchibalil ( iordon. ILI.IAM CLARK, a wide-awake, *^ "ublic-s|iiriteil citi/en of Sackville, X.H., is associated with its mercantile inter- ests as manager of the general store belonging to his father, Stephen Clark. He was born November 2fi, iSfii, in that part of the town known as W'dod Point, where his grandfather, the late James Clark, settled in icS'4,S. James Clark was born and leareil in Ndva Scotia. Learning the trade of a blacksmith in his early days, he followed it lirst in his native town and later at Wood Point, where he re- sided fiom iS4,S nntil his death, at tiie age of si.xty-si\ years. His wife, whose maiden name was Cynthia Sninvden, lived to the venerable age of eight\-nine years. They had six chil- dren, of whom twi) aie now living .Stephen and Mary. The latter is the wife of James I'nid), of liritish Columbia, and has four chil- dren-Dorcas, Mabel, Henry, and |-"dwaril. Stephen Clark was born in Nova Scotia, and was there bred and educated. Kcmnving to Wood Point, Sackville, N.H., with his parents, he engaged in farming and fishing until 1S65, BrOGRAF'HICAL REVIEW 169 when he embarked in mercantile business, in which lie has been very successfully eiif^aged until the present time. In rell;;i()n lie is an aj;ni)stic. ]?y liis uninn with Mary Jane l)u,:;an he has three children, namely: William, tiie special subject of this sketch ; Jane, who is the wife of John Campbell, of St. John, N.H., and has two chiltlien - ('wen and luiward ; and Mary, wife "f Seward Ji.hnsun, of this I'rox- ince, and mother (if three children - Herbert, \'ioln, and John. William Ciaik attended the schnols at Wood I'liint during; the da\ s of his ho_\hn(id and youth, and subset|uently made several voyages to the Kast Indies, to lunopean and other for- eign ports, going as a common sailor. When tired of life en the ncean, he engaged in the business of stone i|uarrying at W(i(jd I'oiiU, continuing thus emi)loyed until 1S97, when he retired from that work in order to devote his whole time and energy to the care of his father's store, of which he had had the practi- cal conti(d for live previous years. He has a large and remunerati\e tiade in general mer- chandise. i\ man of progressive ideas, genu- inely interested in local matters, he is a lib- eral sn]iporter of all movements likely to advance the welfare of the town and count). Ml'. Clark has served as 'Idwn Councillor two terms, having been elected to that office in I .S95 and re-elected in iSg". He is a Conserv- ative in politics and an .igimstic in tlieidog\-. ( )n September iS, i.SSiS, he married Cassie C, daughter of Timothv Richardson, of Wooil I'oint. ( )f this union thrive children have been born; nameh', N'iida, .Seward, and William 11. 1-:NKY IMAXWKI.L, a retired lumber =n manufacturer of St. John, is a native if the north of Ireland. He was born May 7, 1806, sou of Henry and Mary (Kowentree) Ma.xwell. His ancestors came from Scotland. In I1S26 he crossed the ocean to New liiunswick, and locating in .St. John was first em[doyed in loading vessels with lum- bei-. He later worked in a shipyard for a year, and then betook himself to the wililerness, where in due time he cleared a good farm situ- ated on the (iagetown Road, at what is now Summer Hill. .After an experience of seven years as a farmei, he returned to St. John, and, resuming work in a shipyard, continued in that occupation for the succeeding three years. He then I'ligageil in preparing tindier for ship- building purposes, from which dex'elojied the extensive and successful business carried 011 bv him for so many years, and upon bis retirement he was succeeded by his sons. .After retiring from the lundier business he turned his atten- tion to the im|iro\eme;it of real estate, and erected ten line dwelling houses, ' inr of wliich were afterward destroved by tire. (In l'"ebruaiy 11, 1S35, Mr. .Maxwell was united in marriage with bdi/a Corbett, who came from Ireland with li'.'r father, James Cor- bett, in iSjo. The late Joseph Medill, of the Chicago 7'rihin.r, was her nephew. Mr. and Airs. Maxwell ha\e had twelve children, iianely : William Heiir\, of .San l'"rancisco, Cal. ; James C., of l-'rcdericton, N'.H. ; Richard, .Samuel R., ami Charles II., all of .St. John; Jane .M., who married Richard Holt, of .Selkirk, Man., anil died in 1ISS6; Mary, widow of Lewis W. i.ing- \ I ii \' II' IM -i r];« llIOr.RAl'HICAL REVIKVV 1 ,1 ley, late (if St. Jnlm ; .W'nc I',., witc ol Judge (i. W. lUirliiil^'c, ol ()ll,i\\a; Ann I',. ('., wile III \V. r. Court, dl St. J.ilin; lieillia 1'. , wliii married Jdiin S. Hale, ut ( Htawa ; l''.mnia ( ', , wim manieil K. W. Me(',irl\. ol St. jnhn; ,ind I'llla Medill, wile cil J. I'., \arra- way, wldi'li j;ii tn ilie niaiseiip nt ilie successtid nisi /'liiis advueate, his preduininani eliaractcrislic lieiny intense furee eoupjid with eonsnnunate taet and an intintive kniiwled;;e nt human natuie. When tiiuroughly ainu^ed, his furensic ehi^ ([uenee is nt ;i lii^di nrdei', and lias heen ^reat]\- admired Ilisspeeih in tlie detenec of Iloraee (i. Hurtnn, svhn was hrnu.i;lu I'mni 'I'drnnto nn a warrant charging him with endiezzlement of a large sum nt innney tmm liis t.'mplnyers, Messrs. 1'. I'', (nllier & dt. (a New Wnk puli- lislung iinuse with a branch in St. John, uf whieii lUirtnn had iieen mana,i;tr), and tried in tlie .St. Jnlm Cnunty Cnint in May, 11^9", was pKinnunced in' man\' persnns wlin Iieard it tn lie the linesl address deli\ercd in tlie St. Jnhn cnurtdinuse since .S. R. 'riinnisnn's taiimus speech in the Munrne murder trial tliirt)' vears ago. On this nccasinn Mr. Mullin's address, wliii'h was a merciless criticism of tlie nietlintls pursued by the parties behind the jirosecution and an impassioned appeal to the symjiathies of the jury, occupied over two hours in delivery and evoked deep emotion, causing many nt tlie iiu)' and spectators, ;is \w\\ as tlie prisoner himself, to shed tears, (,)n being accpiitted, Miirton, with an excess of feeling, dramatically embraced his counsel. The ease e.xcitcd much interest; :ind the unexpected actpiittal of the prisoner, who was a cnmp.irali\e stranger in till' city and wlinse donm to incarci'iatinn for a long term in tlu' penitent iary had ln'cn a fore- gime conclusion in public istini.it ion, though a great surprise, produced a revulsion of sonti- nieiit on the part of the public towaid him. Although Ml. Mullin, by fnrie nf nierit alone, now pr.iclic.ilK inonnpidi/i's this braiuh nf the prnjessinii i:i .St. Jnhn, yet he has no speei.il likinj' fnr it, and prelers his general practice, which is huge and varied and con- stantly increasing. .Mr. Mullin is a I .iberal-Cniiserxative in politics, enjoying a high reputation as an oratoron piditical subjects, and taking an ac- tive interest in the welfare nf his party, which he believes is still, as it was in days gnno by, the truest exponent nf Canadian nat iniialit)-, as well as the ever Inyal guardian nf the best in- terests nf the I'',m|iire, faithful alike to its ideals in pnwei' or out died at the age of two years; David .\le.\ander am! (ieorge Kerr, merchants in this city; and Robert J., who died at the ago of six months. Ml'. Kennedy belongs to the Masonic order, and is president of the Thistle Curling Club, of which he has been a member e\er since its organization, somi' twenty-two years ago. I.1 his religious belief bo is a rresbyterian, and is one of the elders of St. Andrew's Church. KI,.\M)() II. \V.\K\VICK, of St. John, wholesale an ' retail dealer in crockery and china ware, was b(nn in .St. John, January ^j, 1.S49, son of William and .Susanna (Ilayward) Warwick. Wi'liani Warwick, bon> in Di;d)\-, \..S., was tlio son of a I.oy:'.list settlor from X'irginia. ' He received his education in Si. John, X.H., j and on reaching manhood engaged in the hard- ware business in that city. Si:l)se'iuently he went into the shipping and commission bnsi- iiess. and at one time was in ihe groci'ry busi. ness. In 1S5J, without reliniiuishing his shipping and commission operations, he en- gagetablished the manufactiuo of ! ottoiv in .Si. Join. Ho was an ac.iv, member of the Methodist cr.urch, ami took an especial interest in Sun- lay-school work. He with Mr. Robert I'"rost '.fu BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW '7S or^'aiiized a Suiulay-school on the Marsli Road, furiiishin<, and fittinj;- up a room at their oivii expense. This was afteiward nK'ri;e(l into the I'lxMiouth Street Methodist Siinda\ -sehool. His interest in Sunday-schocds was not con- lined to those of his own denomination, hnt emhraeed otiicrs of all tiie evangel ieal denom- inations. Iliswife was a (lauf;hter of William Ilay- ward, of Susse.\, N.li. 'I'liey liad two chil- dren, namely: Orlando II., the sjieeial sub- ject of this ski'ti'h ; and Sarah .M., who is the wile of W. 1'". I.inton, (jf Truro, N.S. After jjiving up his business [ St. John. Mr. War v.ick rem'ned to Lawrencetown, .\. S. , wiiere he resided until his death, which (jccurred on ( Ictober 25, i.S'cjo. Mrs. Warwick, who sur- vives hei- husband, is now a resident of Truro, N. S. Orlando II. W'aiwick was rearetl and edu- cated ill his nati\e i'it\-, .St. hihn. In i.S(')4 lie went to .St. .Stc|ihcii, \.H., with his cousin James S. Clark. whot>) Mr. William War- wick, his father, had started theie in ihecroek- er\ business. .Siibsetpiently returninj; to St. John, in [SC)^ he entered the stori; carried on h\- hiy lather and .Mr. Ilayward, where he was employed as clerk until 1 S70. In that \ear he became a member of the tirm, and so re- maineil until iS;^, w he ■ Mr. I layward ptn-- cliased the business. In i.Sjj he estaidished his present l)usiness on the north side of Kin^ Street, \ihere he conducted it loi- sonu' ten years. la iS,S7 he lemoved to his present commodious quarters on the south side (jf Kinj; Street, where lie now carries on the largest wholesale and retail crockery and cliina ware business in the Maritime Provinces. He is a mendier of the (juarterlv Hoard of the (jneen's Street Methodist Church and tieasurer of the St. John I'rotcstant Orphan Asylum. Mr. Orlando II. Warwick married in 1.S75 Miss Ida May I.ockhart, a dau};hter of the late Alexander I.ockhart, a prominent ship-owner of St. John, formerly of St. Martins. Mr. and Mrs. Warwick have five children — tJeorge, Ida May, William, Orlando II., Jr.. and Charles J. W\I;T1':R McSWKKNI-:V, a prominent business man of Moncton, \. H , ,is been intinlately associated with its mercantile interests for thiee decades, and bv his upright dealiiij;s has won the resiiect and esteem of all with w'lom he has come in con- tact, lie was horn in ^lonctnn, April II, 1S4J, a son of I'etcr and Joanna (Downing) .Mc.Swc'cney. (I-'uither p.uental history may be liiund in Kmncttior with the sketch of bis brother, (icorgi' MiSwcency, on another jiage of this work. ) I'cter McSweenev received his iilucation in tlu' schools of .Moncton, and when but a \dnth went to .St. John, wiiere lu' was emploved as clerk in a store for thirteen consecutive years. Returning to Moncton in 1.S6.S, he became a member of the (nni of .McSweenev ihdthers, which for several years dealt e.\tensivel\- in carpi ts and fiunitme. In iS^.S lie opened his preseiu store, which is dexoteil to the sale of dry goods and gentlemen's furni.shing goods, in ^ ?f ij6 lilOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i I wliitli lie lias a lari;!.' trade. I'roni the start lie lias met with success in his dealings, and has ■.i(i\v the leadiiifi estahlishnient nf the kind in the vicinity. Mr. McSweeney is identified with the l.ilier.il parts- in politics, and has ably filled vaiimis otfices of trust, lie was for two years a nieniiicr of the Town Cnuncil, and served as chairman of the Almshouse Commit- tee and as the chairman of its Hoard of Trus- tees. ( )n March lO, i.S()9, Mr.' McSweene)- was apjiointed .Senator of CaiKula. Mr. McSweeney was married Novend)er ii, 1S73, to Mrs. Wilhelmina Fisher, widow of the late J'eter l-'isher, of .St. John, N. H. Three children have been l)orn of this union; namely, ("ora, Aliicrnon (!. , and Wilhelmina. f'^V\^()\<.r,i: MiS\\i;i:xi;v, of :\ioncton, \|^J_ .\.H., is familiarly known to the trasellinj; i)ul)lic as the proprietor (jf the Brunswick Hotel, a deservedly jiopular house, well patronized liy home .md forei.i^n tomists. He was 1)0111 in Moncton, Januaiy 2 J, li^-.^), a son of the late I'eter McSweeney, who for nearly half a century was conspicuously identi- fied with the i^rowtli and development of this sei'tioii of W'estmorluiul County. I'eter McSweenev was reared to manhood in Kenmare, County Keriy, Ireland, where he rcecixed a fine hinglish and classical education, which w.c^ furtiier advanced liy a course of stuih' at the c RIOGRAPHICAL RF.VIKW '79 niorland County, lie had tho ilistinctiim of being the very fiist Roman Catholic to luiUl the office. His wife, wluise maiden name was Joanna Downing, died in 1876. 'I'liey were the parents of seventeen cliildren, of whom two sons and seven daughters are now living, namely: Peter, of whom a hiograjjhy ajjpears elsewheie in this volume ; (leorge, the subject of thissketih; Milcah, wife of IIenr\' Vonge, superintendent of the Southern Di\ ision of the Mexican National Railwa)-; Mary, wife of I'.dgar I,. Newhouse, superintendent of the Mexican Guadahi]5e Mining Company; Lucy, wife of J. J. Walker, of the accountant's o!"*ice of tile Intercolonial Railway in Moncton ; I'lllen; Agnes; Joanna; and Kate. (ieorge McSweeney grailuated fioni the Menu'ancook College in 1M7.V and three \ears later entered into business with his brothers as one of the firm of McSweenev lirothers, in which lie contiinied until 1882. He was sub- secpiently in business alone foi- a short time, fur two years dealii 1; successfulh' in furniture and carpets. In May, 1884, desirous of mak- ing a radical change, \\v purchased the prop- erty known as the W'eldon House, which he enlarged, remodelled, and lefurnishcd, and has since conducted with eminent success uii(k'r its present title of the Hiimswick Hotel. Ill politics ,Mr. McSv.eeney is a I.ii)eral, and since attaining his majorit) has taken an in- telligent interest in public aff.iirs. In 1.SS5, 1886, and i.S.Sj he served as .American ('onsul, and f,ir four years he repiesenlL'd W'.ud Three in the Town (."ouncil. in Septendjer, 1887, Mr. McSweenev mar- ried Ik'atrice, dauglter of the late Hon. John Lefurgey, of .Sunnnerside, IMv I. They have two children -John I-. and Dorothy D. fs^OSl'M'H D. MAIII':R, D.D.S., a rising young dentist, was born in what was then known as I'ortland, \.H. , but whiih is now included in the city of St. John. He is a son of the late Joseph and Mary I'.. (Delaney) Maher. His grandparents were John and Mary Maher, Maurice and Anna Delaney. Tiie grandfather Mahei' was for many years a shi|v bnilder in this I'rovince. He died about 1867. lie was the father of eight sons. Of tliese the oidy one living is Ilemy M.iher, who lias carried on the grocerv business in .St, John for many years. Joseph Maher, Dr. Mailer's father, was a suivevor of recognized abilitv, and followed that business until his deatli, which occurred about the )ear 1872. Mrs. Mary !•;. Maher, a \erv beautiful woman, nliowas the mother of seven children, died sliorti) alter her husband. .S!ie was the daughter of Maurice Delane\', who was one of the earliest settlers and one of the most respectetl lili-cens of the(dil town of I'oit- la"d. The surviving children of Joseph and Mary Maher are: Maude; and Joseph D., the subject of this sketch. IMaude is now Madame Maher of the .Sacred Heart Convent, and is at piesent loc;ited in ll;ilifa.\, \..S. Josc|)li 1). Maher, who is still single and generally spoken of as pretty comfortable, pur- sued his preliminai) studies in I'ortland, N.H. , PI i8o BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW and coinpletccl his cdiuatidn at St. Mary's C()lli-'j;c, Montreal. !lc ljej;an his iirotcssinnal studies in i.Steri'd in both places. Dr. Mailer's ability as a dentist may be iud,s;ed by the fact that lie possesses excellent , testimonials from the go\ernoi-, preniii'i', the late ex-piemier, mei ors of the ,i;o\ei nment council of New Hrunswiik, the mayor of -St. John, and many others. In 1.S95 lie advanced the idea of eslablishin;;- | compidsory e\amination ol children's teeth, and his communication to the school board upon that subject w.is ver) fa\or.d)l)- receiveii by the ]nii)lic. His parlors, offices, and laboratory are anion^ the finest in the Dominion, and he employs a staff of skilled assistants. Ifeis.i prominent member of tlv New lirunswick Dental Association, whiih he heljied to form. l)v. Maher li\es at the X'ictoria Hotel, Kinj; Street. He is a mend)er of the Union Club, and has a host of friends. XfUf 11.1,1 AM iML'RDOC'K, civil en-ineer and superintendent of the scwei- anil ater departments, .St. John, was boiii in Pais- ley, .Scotland, April \6, i.S^.S, sen of William and .Marj;aret (vSniith) Murdock. William Murdock, Sr., was born in i'.usley in 1X23. Learnin;; the shoemaker's trade, and succeedinjf when a younj,' man to the business established by his father, he carried it on for a number of years. In 1S54 he was induced to come to St. John by his brother (iilbert, who emigrated in 1.S42, and who was superintend- I'lit of the water woiks from I S49 until his death, which occmred in 1S94. ( )n his arri- val in St. John, William Muidock, .Sr., entered a clothinj;' store carried on b\ C'ockburn and (Iilbert Murdock, but later took an interest in the Albert House on Market .Scpuiie. with which he was connected for a year. He was then appointetl b\- the {government to manufact- ure j^as for Partridge Island Light, and, re- signing from the service in iS^.S, he obtained em]do\nient as one of the lir>t of the conduc- tors of the I'jnujiean and Noi th .American, now- intercolonial. Railway. Resigning tiiat posi- tion a little later, he turned his attention to literary and journalistic work, for which he BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i8i T *,' had a decided preference, and about this time ho inil)lisiie(l a xolunic of jMienis, wliiili was favoraljly received by tlie ]Uiblic. He was fur a while connected with the Srii/tis/i .liiiiilidii I of New \'ori<, and, after worlxinj; at the siioe- niafier's trade a sliort time, lie tinned his atten tioii wliollyto newspaper work, wiiieli lie fol- lowed successfully for the next few years, ren- dering;' valuable service to the A/oniiiii^ .\'i rt'.v and the 'J'ili\<;;ni/ altenlioii to liimhei- lle I H'i^an on a moilcsl sci lint j^radii- peiations, and, in addition lands investei all)- enlarged his to Iniyinj; tiniher inilliiin |iio|iiTty and farms, his |iinchas(. this line extendiim for several miles. ii'ieh' in lit nilt at one lime a larue mill, dl eiiuiniiei with all the recinisite machinery for immediate lint wliuh, howe\er, was never iis(.'( tor Ih nienioialile 'Sa\li\ j;ale," which levelled the timber and destro\ed tlu' forests for many miles, ]iractieall\ criiiplcd til lumber indiistiA lor a time. II e siilise- (lueiillv !;a\i' up the nKiniilaetiiiiii' III 111 the |irincipal 1111 lis of this section lia\il lieeli more or less injured by the ^ale for a time he was prominently I'onnected with the l^ay of {•'uiuly Red (iraiiite Works as one of the leading stoekholdei s of the (.■onipain that coiUiolled them Mr. J!air\' was also in- terested in the railway systems of the |)iov- ince, and for nine \eais was pri'sident of the Grand .Soulheiii, now I ie was a t'oiiserx at i\ i ll u' .Shun ilitic: lid f( III took an active part in town nuitters, a number of _\ears was Justice of the i'eai was a member of the Chinch of Mnj^land and for several \ears a \esU\ni.in of ilie I'aiish t'luirch al St l icor.ne. On May 16. 185:;, iMr. Harry married Jane, ilan^hu if William .Marv Russell. Slu the praclii'c of his prol\'ssion at .St. .Stephei and .St. (ieor;;e until his death, eight \ears latei ; and Jennie, educated at .Si. Catherine Hall, Augusta, .Me. mil now the wife of II ur\' (Joodenow, ]■; On 1^1. 1 S(i(>, .Mr. Harry married .So|)hia, ikiiightei of .Samuel and .Mar\ .\i Walk Mi W mace was educated al a private school in .St. J' under .Mrs. II mil. \. li. ii.I.I.XM C()I.WI':i.I,, formerly a well known fish dealer of .St. John, was liorn March 19, iSdcS, son of John and Marv (lliitchiiigs) Colwell. 11 is grandlalln'r Cohvell came to .\l Hi iiinswirk with the Loyalists in i7iS3,and settled near Long Inlet, (•iieins County, where he followed farming. John Colwell passed his youth on his father's f.irm, and, after attaining to years of maturity, was for a lime engaged in agriculture. .Sub- seijueiilly forsaking this occupation, he engaged in fishing, which he followed for many years. Hi ife, M; i-y I lute .inalist S Cn leiil. himself, of famih' of tl\e sons and llirei' daui like diter,- nameh : !•; jtl izalietli, now deceasei Willi was the ife of Tl if Carletiin; Will iani, ihe subject of tins sketth; lolin ; .Susan, whi if Carleli ]•; obeit tharl .Marv. •s ; 1 .ev i ; 1 lannn, Th.' last (1 died wlu'l ml ^i.xlecn \ears old ll! IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 HIM IM S "f IB 2.0 U ill 1.6 Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-45C3 \ TT^^ ^^\ kr, 1 86 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW John Colwcll, the father, died in 1853, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife survived him seven years, dying in November, i860. William Colwcll, after attending the :om- mon sehools in his boyhood, engaged in the fish business, which he followed for many years. In 1S71 he and his son. luioch 15., formed a partnershi]) as wholesale dealers in all kinds of fresli and salt water fish and Liverpool salt, which business they conducted together until his death in 1875. William Col- well was one of the prominent merchants of the l)lace, and was much respected for his sterling personal character. He was a charter member and tiie first treasurer of the Masonic lodge in Carlet(.'n. He was also a Deacon of the liap- tist church for many years. In 1829 Mr. Colv.ell married Milliccnt, daughter of Charles Hanim, drand Hay, Kings County, now deceased. She was born in 1809, and died in 1894, surviving her husband nine- teen years. Their ciiildien were five in 'lum- ber; namely, William, Charles, Susan, Milli- cent, aiul l-jioch \\. Their son William, who for fifteen years held a government position in the custoin-house, subsequently went to tiie United .States. Charles followed fishing for a few )ears, then engaged in the grocery busi- ness, in which he continued until his deatii, in the spring of 1898. .Susan is the wife of Dr. James .S. White, of Hartland, Carleton County, N. H. Milliccnt is the wife of Thomas Thomp- son, a contractor of St. John. Mnoch W. Colweli, born in 1849, was edu- cated in the ])ublic schools of Carleton. In 1871 he engaged in the lish business with his father, the firm being known as William Col- wcll & Son. Since the oeath of the elder partner the younger has conducted the business alone, dealing in fish, salt, and coal. He does an extensive business, his markets being prin- cijially in the United StUes. He was electeil to the City Council in 1878 from (iu\'s Ward, re-elected in 1882, and again in 1894 and 1899. In ]iolitics be is a C'onservative. KKY rilllM'S OTTV, a well-known itizen of St. John, was born in that city on January 31, 1824, his par- ents being Captain Allan and I';iizabeth (Crookshank) Ott) . His lather, Cajitain Allan ()tty, was born in the old Danish town of \\'hitl)y, \'orksbire, I'jiglanil, on November 18, 1784; and he entered the Hritish navy August 15, 1803, on hoard the guard-ship "Haldar." I'mm 1806 until his iironiotion to the rank of lieutenant on .\|)ril 4, 1810, he served chiefly in the capacity of master's mate, a rating be a'Ltaine ■ 1 i w I, h f ^^TT i^ u a; ,11 Ht| 1 88 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW succeeded to the business. In 1899, after the business had been conducted on King Street for fifty-two years, Mr. Kennedy removed to his ])resent large store on Waterloo Street, where he now does tiie leading business in his line in St. John. 11^ was married in 1S68 to Miss Margaret Austin, a daughter of Henry and Su.san (Wright) Austin, of St. John. His family consists of three children: ICdwnrd '1'. , who is associated with Lini in the business; Susan A., who lives with her parents; and William I-., a painter, residing in St. John. IIARLKS K. KNAPr, a prominent lawyer of Dorchester, N. H. , is well known throughout Westmorland County, in connection with the business of its courts, as a man of jironounced legal ability. He was born at Fort Cumberland, in this county, March 15, ileting his education engaged in business with his father, and when a young man he made several voyages in oriler to familiarize himself with the working of a ship antl the freight carrying business. In 1872 he took a position in the store of Turnlnill & Co., willi wliom he became associated as a partner in 1878, the firm name being subseipienlly changed to its present style of Merritt brothers & Co. They carry on an extensive wholesale grocery and shipping business, their sales amounting to two-thirds of a million dollars annuall)-. Jose[ih F. fcl Li'-.i^:., BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW '9.5 iMcrritt is largely interested in shipjiing. He is president of the Moss Glen Manufacturing Company and a iieavy stockholdci- in gold, silver, and copper mines. lie was married on .\ugust 25, 1897, to Georgia J. M. Oakes, daughter of -the late lion. ICdwin Randoli)h Oakc-i, of Dighy, N. .S. They have one daugh- ter, Mary (ieorgia, born November 19, 1 S98. William Hawkesley Merritt entered a coun- try store as a clerk at the age of thirteen years, and about eighteen months later he went to work in his father's shipyard, remaining one year. Coming to .St. John when he was six- teen yeans old, he took a clerkship in the store of the late R. E. I'uddington, later entering into partnershij) with R. K. and J. ]•:. I'udding- ton, retail grocers at No. 55 Charlotte Street. After the death of R. !•:. I'uddington the two surviving partners continued their association for a year, or until the death of Mr. J. li. I'uddington, since which time the busines.s has been conducted by Mr. Merritt under the firm name of I'uddington & Merritt. He is also interested in shipjiing and the manufacture of lumber. On June 8, 1880, he married Lau- rissa Alma Hughes, daughtci of the Rev. John Hughes, of St. John. They have three chil- dren—Charles Kiting, Julia Hazelwoode, and Adah Laurissa. William II. Merritt was for- merly a warden of St. John's Church. Julia A. Merritt married Thomas Arm- strong, of St. John, N.B. , now residing in Minneapolis, Minn. Edward Henry Merritt, who died November 27, 1895, was manager of the Moss Glen Man- ufacturing Company and a business man of ability and integrity. T'or his first wife he married t harlotte A. Kierstead. She was born August 30, 1854, and died .Vugust 1 8, 1889, leaving nine children, namely: Julia Hell, born Marrli 6, 1875; Ira tauten, born .\pril 4, 1877; ('iiarlcs Holdcn, born Septem- ber 26, 1878; Oriin l.ee, born January 3, 1880: Harold Wi)(i(lbur\-, born June 29, 1882; Cecil Ray, i)orn October 5, 1883; Henry Clif- ford, born March 2, 1886; Gabriel l':iden, iiorn b'elnuary d, 1888; and Lew I'illis, born July 27, 1889. His second wife, whose maiden name was b;iizabetii Almira I-'lewel- ling, is the mother of (juc son, Leslie Stratton .Merritt. Gabriel Wetmore Merritt, who entered the employ of Turnhull & Co. at sixteen, and in 1884 became a jiartner in the firm, is now as.sociated with his brother, Josejih 1". Merritt, in the firm of Merritt Hrothers & Co. He is also interested in .shipping and mining. He is i)residcnt of the Union Club and of the ^'oung Men's Liberal Club. He attends St. John's (Anglican) Church. On September 12, 1888, he marrietl Annie M. Worralt, daughter of II. b'. \\()rrall, of Halifax. N. S. They have one son — (Jabriel Guy, who was burn Uecember 2, 1890. Erank Stanley .Merritt came with his parents to St. John when nine years old, and after leaving school he became a clerk in the retail grocery store of I'uddington & Merritt, where he is still employed. On June 8, 1892, he married Jennie Louise Butcher, who was born in this city, daughter of Frederick Ran- kin Ikitcher, a native of I'rince Edward ^ f^ I it ill '''11 If 'II f H: ,i 4 11 ^1 • ^ f'l > iMif f'l til ilH f1 If 194 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW Island. Tlicv liavc OIK' son- I'"i(.'(lc'rirl< (ut- ald, lioiii i\|iiil ,?, i.S(j7. I'lnnk Stank-y Mor- ritt belongs to the Knights of Pythias. The Mciiilt Urothers arc able business men, and ()ceu|)y a pmniinent jjlace among the wealthy citizens of St. John. ( l.FRKl) K; IIOL.SIKAD, a well-known ;ist of Moneton, N.H., is a wide- awake, progressive business man and a citizen of influence. .Son of the late Charles A. Holstead, he was born in Monc- ton on .\ugust 6, 1866. The family is of J'jiglish origin. Mr. Ilolstead's grandfather, Charles Holstead, spent his early life in Eng- land, the country of his birth, but on reaching man's estate followed the tide of emigration westward. On reaching New Hrunswick, he lotated at first in .St. John, but later removed to Moncton, whicii he made his ])crmancnt home. Charles ,\. Holstead was born in Moncton, N. H. , where he ohtainetl his elementary educa- tion, lie afterward continued his studies at Mount Allison College, in .Sackville, N.l^., and was subsec|uently fitted for the bar in the law office of A. A. .Stockton in St. John. Heginning the practice of his jirofession in Moncton, he secured a large clientage, and at the time of his death, at the age of forty-three years, was among the leatling lawyers of the community. He was a Liberal in politics and a very prominent member o' the Masonic fra- ternity. He married Maggie ]"'erguson, and was the father of eight children, si.\ of whom survive; namely, Alfref Durham, luigland, September 27, 1807. He learned the machin- ist's trade, and subsequently engaged in busi- ness in luigland as a member of the firm of Smith & .Smart. Emigrating to Canada in 1833, he was appointed superintendent of the mechanical department of a large brewery and distillery in Montreal, and while in that posi- tion he supervised the construction of the first !■! BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW '95 iniM |il;iMcr ever maiuifaLtuivd in C'.iiKuki. In 1837 lie scrvi'd MS an officer in Colonel Mai- son's rct;iment, whieli took i)ait in i|uelling what is known as the Tapineau Kel)ellih Douglas. H.I.I AM CiRAV HARRISON, for many years a iiighly respccteil citizen f .St. John, N. B. , was born in .St. John in I 1S3.S, his father being the Rev. Camion Harri- 11 f ' : ! V ijl jll rt :i^ if 1'' 1 \ i j I ■ { ! / 'i ' 'I J' I \ •I ) 1 ; ' ' ; f It I '. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW son, of whom mention is nnulo on another paj^e of this volume. INIr. Harrison was reared in I'ortland, now St. John, and was jducated in the ])rivate schools. After completing his studies he started in the <;rocery business in partnersliip with a Mr. C laig, and for a num- ber of years carried it on in Main Street. Later he disjiosed of his interest in the con- cern to become an auctioneer, but eventually went into the grocer)' business again. He was married in 1865 to Miss Agnes Mc- Ghee, a native of .Sussex and a daughter of the Rev. Thomas McCJhee, who ime to this country from luigland as a missionary of the Anglican Church. (M liiis marriage ten chil- dren were born, and four are living at the l)resent time; namely, Herbert Gray, Ai^nes Mliza, Leonard Jarvis, and William .Stanley. Tlie father, William Cray Harrison, was a prominent member of St. Luke's Chinch. His death occurred on August 5, 1893. Herbert (iray Harrison, the eldest of tiie three sons, was born on \o\ ember 7, 1868, and was educated in tiic pui)lic sciiools of .St. John. Upon leaving school he went into the London House with Daniel & Jioyd, and worked there for ajjout si.\ years. Subse- (|uently, in i8yo, he started a grocer)- busi- ness, and since ihat lime has most successfully managed it. He is a member and vestryman of St. Luke's Church. Leonard Jarvis Harrison, who was iiorn on September 12, 1872, was educated in the i)ub- lic schools of .St. John, and subse(|ucntly be- came clerk for Myles & \'oung in the hardware business. After a time he joined his elder brother in the grocery business. William Stanley Harri.son, who was born on September 5, 1880, is now in attendance at a business college. Z. DICKSON, commission mer- chant and dealer in ])ro\'isions, a well-known business man of the city of St. Joiin, is a native of Kotbsay, Kings County, N.l?., and was born in 1845. His grandfather, Joseph Dickson, came to this Province in 1783, with the Loyalists, after having served for some time in King George's army. His wife, whose maiden name was P'airweather, was the mother of thirteen chil- dren. Mr. Dickson's parents were James and Frances C. (Upham) Dickson. His father died in February, iSt)4, at seventy-four years of age, and his mother on November 3, 1898, at seventy-five years of age. They were the [larents of three children — ^ S. Z., Harriet S., and Hedley \'. , the latter of whom was married to Miss l'"rost, they having seven children. James Dickson was a farmer. Mr. Dickson was reared as a farmer boy, and remained with his parents until he was si.xteen years of age. He attended the public schools, .some of his teachers being William Thomason, 'I'iiomas Lee, anil Kerr Welmore. Upon leaving school he became clerk in the London House, which was ojierated by Messrs. Daniel & Hoyd, anil there conflnued until the death of Governor Ho)il in 1893. During that |ieriod he purchased the old homestead which years before had been the home of his inii le, Th omas Dicks Ir- BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW In the spriny of 1894 Mr. Dickson bought (lilt a business in the City Market, and since that time ho has given liis attention to its development. He has i)cen most successful, and the business is now running on a substan- tial paying basis. Mr. Dickson was married in 1870 to l\ilinor Tobin, daughter of J. .S. liock.sworth, of Digby, N.S. ; and .she has borne him four chil- dren, three of whom are living. Of these George Armstrong is in Inisiness with his father; Alice M. is the wife of Dr. William II. Simon, of .St. John; and lulgar J. is in the employ of A. C. l-"airwcatlier. Crni'MAN IIARTLICV, senior mem- ber of tiie firm of Hartley & Carvell, barristers, at Woodstock, N.B., is well known in legal and business circles. He was born in Woodstock, October 27, 1864, .son of James R. and Lucy (1. (Harnaby) Hartley. He is of I'jiglisb descent, his grandfather, James Hartley, having been born and reared in the vicinity of Newcastle, I'^ng". uid. After reaching man's estate, James Hartley came to America, and, ]niiciiasing a tract of land lying along the St. John River, about forty miles above I>'redericton, N. B. , he there engaged in farming until his death. He mar- ried Susan Moore, daughter ol John Moore, the paternal grandfatlier of I*"ied .Moore, a sketch of whose life ajipcars else\»l\ere in tliis volume. .She survived her husband, and dieil in 1894, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years and si.\ months. James R. Hartley was horn in Shogomoc, York County, N.H., and there sjient his earli- est days. At the age of fourteen \ ears he came to Woodstock, and, after studying for a while went to New I'lngland, where he learned sur- veying and civil engineering in a scientific school. Returning to Woodstock, he estab- lished hiinseir as an engineer, and subse- quently surveyed nearly ;dl of Carleton and Victoria Counties for the |) uposc (if laying down government lines. He also engineered and brought in the railway line from Rich- mond to Woodstock, and afterward siirveved the route tlnough the St. Joim X'aliey of llii. proposed I. C. R., on the western division of which he was working at the time of his deatli in 186S. He was then in the prime of a vigorous manhood, being but lhirt\-si.\ vi.'ars old. He was a member of the I'rovincial Par- liament, and had a most iiromising career before him. He was a man of influence in his eom- muiiity. He belonged lo the h'ree Will Bap- tist ciuncji, and was a meinl)cr of Woodstock Lodge, 1'". & .\. M. He married Luc\ (i., daughter of John J?arnaby, of Digby County, .Nova Scotia, and was the father of two chil- dren, of wlioiii J. ("hii)man is tiie onlv one now living. John Hainahy died in 1 S90, at the venerable age of ninety years; and his wife, whose maiilcn name was Malvina Chipman, died in Woodstock in 1894. J. Chipman Hartle)- attended the coiunion and giamniar schools of Woodstock in his youthful days, and afterward was a pupil at tjie Sackville Academy. He subsetpiently gradu- ated from the University of Mount Allison with Bill :i 3 ll« I- PT ■( T ■'■ I Ml i- If t I I ' i H: '1 ■:■* ill BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW the degree of liachelor of Arts. He llien began to leatl law with L. 1'. Fisher, of Wood- stock, and was achnitted as attorney in 1888 and as hnnister in 1S89. After jjractising atone two years, Mr. Hartley, in 1 Sgo, formed a coi>artner.shiii with ]''rank B. L'ar\ell, under the present firm name, and has since built up and carrieil on an extensive general law prac- tice. He is connected with several local busi- ness organizations, being a director of the Small & Fisher Company; director, secretary, and treasurer of tiie Maritime Pure l""ood Com- jjanv; director and secretary of the Woodstock Carriage Comjiany ; secretary of the Uaird Company, Limited, druggists; and secretary and treasurer of the Idbiciue Kiver Log Driv- ing Company. A Con.servative in jiolitics, he takes the stump in every campaign, and does most effectual work for his jiarty. l""or the jKi.st nine or ten )ears he has served as Town Clerk. He is an active member of Ivauhoe Lodge, K. of v., of which he is 1'. C. Mr. Hartley married Sarah, daughter of John S. Leighton, of Woodstock, and they have one son, R. l'erle\ Hartley. Mis. Hart- le_\' is a member of the ]ia|)tist chunii. §.\Mi;S HARHLR, surve\-or and measiuvr of .shijiping at the port of St. John, was born in Old Meldruni, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, May 19, 1819, son of John and Christian (Allan) liarlier. He was educated in Scotland, and at the age of si.Nteen he came to .St. John with his cousin, John Duncan, of the ship-building (iiin of Owens S; Duiuau, for whom he worked for the six years following his arrival. He ne.\t engaged in the lumber manufacturing industry, ami about the year 1846 he became associated with Alexander I'etrie in purchasing and operating saw-mills. This firm, which transacted business in St. John and Liver|)oo], being known in the prov- ince as James Barber & Co., and in luigland as Alexander Tetrie, Laughland & Co., existed about two years. y\fter this Mr. Barber served four yer.rs as secretary of the Albert Mining Comi)any and one year as its manager. He later became ecretary of the Caledonia (^il Com[)any, which manufactured coal oil, and was forced to suspend operations, partly by the high tariff in)])()sed by the L'nited States govern- ment during the Civil War and partly by the discovery of the oil wells in Pennsylvania. In 1856 he turned his attention to farming, which he followed for twelve years. In i86S he was ai)])ointed Ciiief Clerk in the Registry of Shipping, connected with the Department of Customs in .St. John, N. B. , and Measuring Surveyor of .Shipping in the Deiiartment of Marine and l'"isheries. He continued in that office until 1895, when lie was succeeded by his .son, but still holds the position of Measur- ing Surveyor of .Slii|)ping. On March 7, 1856, Mr. l^arber was uniteil in marriage with Janet Brown, a native of Clasgow, .Scotland, daughter of James and Jane (McClymont) Brown. .She became the mother of four children ; namely, Keith Allan, Jeannie .McClymont, Kilmcny Christian, and Mary Alice. Keith .Allan Barber is now Chief Clerk in the Registiy of .Shipping. Jeamiie 1 ii u \ \n i^ jAMKS n.\Ki'.i::K. !! U f- :i^ I 1^ ^'1 i f » I . ; ■ I 1 ■i i f : J ) i :^ ■ \'^ , 1 'i ! \i 1 ■' »;i i 'J ii ii \ ; • "; 1 ■" ' Fi ; i' ■ i : j ■I i n' 1 P.lOGRAPinCAL RF.VIFAV a OS McClymoiit is the wile of Struati Robertison, of the firm of A. Chipman Smith & Co., St. John. Mary Alice died at the age of six years. Mr. ]?arher is an honorary member of .St. Andrew's Society, l-'or many years he was a trustee of St. Stepiicn's (I'resliyterian) Church. SOSKPH HENRY SCAMMKI.L, ship- broker and commission merchant, St. John, was born in that city, April lo, 1837, son of Jose])!! and J-'annie Matilda (Walker) Scammcll. His father was born in Wylie, I'lngland, August 9, 1809, and his mother was a native of Nova Scotia. Coming to this city when he was a yf)ung man, Joseph Scammell, in company with his brother William, opened the St. John Hotel, which stood at the head of King Street; and he was later proprietor of the Waverly House, then one of the jiopular hostelries of the Prov- ince. Joseph and William Scammell belonged to the Masonic order, and Joseph was a mem- ber of Trinity Church. He married on his birthday, August 9, 1832, Fannie .Matilda Walker. They became the parents of nine children, namely: John Walter, born Septem- ber 28, 1833, who (lied May 16, 1897; Annie Tilton, who was born May 19, 1835, and is now the widow of George Hyron Cushing, of St. John; Joseph Henry, the subject of this sketch; Harriett Matilda, born August 10, 1839, who died May 9, 1847; Willi.im Perot, born July 27, 1S41, who died August 5, 1S42; I'jiima Julia, who was born June 13, 1843, and resides in .St. John; Charlen l-Mward, born March 19, 1845, who also resides in St. John; Helen Matilda, born March 25, 1847, now the wife of Joseph Allison, of .St. John; and P'red- erick Krnest, born June 30, 1S49, now a resi- dent of New York. Joseph Henry Scammell ])ursued the regular course of .study at the .St. John Grannnar School, and completed his education in Kings- ton, N. n. iMitering the lumber business as a clerk for K. D. Jewett, he remained with him some eight or nine years, at the end of which time lie engaged in the shipi)ing business, first alone and later in conijian)' with .Sargent .S. Littlehale, now of Stockton, C'al. After the withdrawal of Mr. Littlehale, John Walter .Scammell was admitted to ])artnershi|), and still later P'rederick K. Scammell entered the concern, thus forming the well-known firm of Scammell brothers, who for many years were prominent shipowners, commission meri'liants, and steamship agents, being the local rejiresent- atives of the Anchor Line. The jjresent firm of J. IL .Scammell & Co. succeeded the old concern in tSgj, and are still tran.«acting a general brokerage and commission business. In 1857 Mr. Scammell married Miss Maria Louise .Stevens, daughter of .Sanforcl .Stevens, of Pitt.ston, Me. One child burn to Mr. and Mrs. Scammell died in infancy, and livechil- tlren are now living, namel) : lulward Jewett, in Daw.son City, N.W. T. ; P'rank S. , a resi- lient of Boston, .Mass.; J. Henry Scammell, M.l)., of St. John, a graduate of McGill College, Montreal; John Kimball, a (i\il en- ^ if f'f i I I Hi t i :r ' ] i 111 206 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW {^ineer of St. John; and Sanford W. Scanimcll, of Boston, Mass. WI.LIAM UROUARD MACKKX- ZII"., chief engineer of tlie Inter- colonial Railway, has his heackiuartcrs in Moncton, X.M., which has heen his jilace of residence for many years. Horn February 16, 1848, in Pictou County, Nova .Scotia, he is a son of the late James Mackenzie and the de- scendant of sturdy Scotch ancestors. His paternal grandfather, William Macken- zie, was horn and educated in .Scotland, hut in early manhood emigrated to Nova Scotia. Lo- cating in I'ictou County, he took up a tract of land that was still in its primeval wildness, and hy dint of persevering toil secured a home- stead, on which he was pros)5crously engagetl in general farming and lumbering until his de- mise, at the age of si.xty-tive years. Indus- trious, honest, and thrifty, he became influential in the community, and was numbered among its most respected citizens, lie married Kate Sutherland, and had seven children, of whom two, Hugh and I-'rancis, are now living. His sons all became land surveyors and road-mak- ers, and had charge of the construction of nearly all the highways and bridges in .Nova Scotia. His widow survived him a number of years, passing away at the age of fourscore years and ten. James Mackenzie, son of William and Kate, was born in I'ictou County, Nova Scotia, in the settlement now called Kenzieville, where he sjient a large part of his life, and where he died at the comparatively early age of si.xty years. Learning the jirofession of a land sur- veyor and civil engineer, he followed it for a long time, and in connection with bridge antl railroad i)uilding was well known throughout the Province. He owned a good farm, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits during his later days. His widow, whose maiden name was Maria Hrouard, is still living, and makes her home with her children, of whom Will- iam H., the subject of this brief biograi)hical sketch, is the eldest. The others are Ma- tilda, John, Maria, Hugh, and Tina. One daughter, Annie, the wife of the Rev. Jeremiah lunbree, died a few years ago. William H. Mackenzie acquired the rudi- ments of his education in the district school of Kenzieville, N. S., and afterw^ard attended the Pictou Academy. In 1S72 he became attached to the Interc(donial Railway as the chief en- gineer's office assistant, a position which he filled for eight years. l''rom iSSo to 1S97 he was assistant engineer. In 1S97 he was ap- pointed to his jiresent position as chief engi- neer of this road, and is now one of its most pojiular and trusted officials. Mr. Mackenzie has been twice married, and is the father of five children, namely: 1)\- his fust wife, Marion Ladtl, of iMigland, who died a few years after theii' marriage, Una and Lucy; and by his second wife, Lizzie Hunter, of .Nova .Scotia, three children — Katrina, Hrouard, and X'ivienne. Mr. Mackenzie is a member of the Reformed Church of Lngland, and Mrs. Mackenzie is an attendant of the Baptist church. 11 IHOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 207 ^RANK AMOS CODSOl-:, D.D.S., a 9 native rcsiclcnl of St. John, was bdiii 1)11 January 15, 1862, son of William C'a'ij;l>- ton and Mary S. (Habhitt) Godsuc. The (lodsoc family, wliicii is one of the oldest in the city, is descended fiom William Godsoe, who came from New Haven, t'onn., in com- pany with Messrs. Sinionds, White, and Hazcn, and arrived here on July 11, 1763. William Godsoe served as Constable, and was Deputy Sheriff about the \ear iSiJ. lie dieil at the a^e of seventy-three years. Charles Godsoe, l)\: Godsoe's j;randfather, was born in St. John in 1S04. lie followed the butclier's trade from his youth upward. Ho ilieil of cholera durinj;' an epidemic of that di.scase in 1854. He married Ann Crei{;hton, dauf(hter of William Creij^hton, a blacksmith, who came from Maine to Gagetown. The maiden name of her mother was Titus. Charles Godsoe and his wife had eight chil- dren; namely, William C, Charles, Jose[)h, T. Amos, I'hcbe Ann, Melissa, I.o l^aron, and .Susan. Joseph, I'hebe Ann, and Susan aie 110 longer living. Melissa is the widow of Mat- thew Wilson, 1,0 Baron Godsoe resides in Philadelphia, antl Charles, Jr., is living in St. John. William Crt'igbton (iodsoe, I)i'. Godsoe's father, served an ajiprent iieship of several years at the butcher's trade with Nathan and Charles Godsoe, and in 1S47 look charge of the business owned by a Mr. Waters, which he carried on until his emjiloyer's death. In iSsn, with his brother Thomas Amos, he en- gaged in business for himself; and in Ma\-, 1S99, after more than half .1 centur\' of dili- gent ap|)lication, be retired. He belongs to the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd ]''ollows, the Sons of Temperance, ami the Orange Society, and has occupied important chairs in one or more ;lan(l. lie died at the a;;e of seventy-six years, havinj; liveil a lonj; and nse- ful life. His fnst wife was Isabella Haker, danj,'btcr of John Haker, of Triiiee lulward Island. She bore him seven children, of whom John H. , the snbject of this sketch, is the only survivor. Another son, William I''orster, was a telegraph operator in New \'ork (!ity at the breakiii;; out of the Civil War in the United States. Heiny sent, with others, on an expedition to tap the rebel wires between Charlestcni and Savannah, he was in comniuni- eation with the Southern main army for five hours, taking' cpiite a number of very important messaj^es to the eonmiaiuling j^eiieral of the Northern army. He was then captured by the rebels, and sent to ("(dunibia, S. C. , and from there to the prison at Aiulersonville, (ia., where, after ten months' confinement, he died of starvation, a young nian and unmarried. After the death of his first wife when she was but twenty-eight years old, Mr. James Korster married Mrs. Jane Kobotliam, who died in 1856. Two children were born of that union, but neither is now livinj;. John Haker l-'orsler obt.iined his early edu- cation in Kiehibucto, where he afterward learned telegraphy, ami was for some time an operator in the telegraph offirc. A young man of unusual b\isincss (|uaIifications, very skilful in his liiu' of work, he was made in 1S59 superintendent of the telegraph line between Kichibucto and Moncton, a position which he held until 1 K67, having his heatUpiarters in the former place. l''rom I.S57 until 1 SfiS he was also interested in the shii)|)ing business, and ran a jiacket between Sbediae and Kichibucto. In I.S68, at the opening of the luistern Ivxten- sioii Railway, now |)art of the Intercolonial, he was appointed station agent at I'ainsac Junction, where he remained until 1869, when he went to Nova Scotia to put the railway e.\- tending fr dcriek Myers was educated in the .schools of St. John. After completing his studies he entered his father's shop, and later was admitted to partnership. Upon his father's retirement, in 1879, he succ ded to the busi- ness, and in iS.Sjhis brother, Jacob W. Myers, became as.sociated with him under the firm name of W. I''. & J. W. Myers. In 1895 they began to make a specialty of manufacturing electric apjiliances, and they are now carrying on an exlensive business. Their building covers a s|)ace of ninety-seven by one hundred feet, and their products aie used throughout the Maritime Provinces. ()H1:RT a. MURDOCH, a well- known merchant of Chatham, .N.H., was i)orn at Murdoch's Point on June 12, 1857. He is a son of the late Alex- ander Murdoch, of wiioni mention is made in anotiier sketch in tiiis work. .Xltending suc- cessi\e])' the ])ublic schools and .St. Micliael's Academy, he received a practical eec, to be).;in his trainini; for the [iriesthood. There, too, as elsewhere, he had for colle{;c mates and teachers men whose names now illustrate the ci\il and ecclesiasti- cal history of Canada. Upon the completion of the clerical studies he was ordained priest in St. Michael's Church, Chatham, in July, 1848, by the Right Rev. William Dollard, first Hishop of New Hruns- wick, assisted by the Rev. Josepii Pacquet, the Rev. Michael I'igan, and the Rev. John Sweeney (afterward V'icar-gencral and still later Hishop of St. John)- The ceremony W'as the first s(denni fiuiclion to take place in St. Michael's; and it may be truthfully said that, of all who were sub.scqucntly raised to tiie iioly priesthood within its walls, none diil greater honor or rendered more signal service to the sanctuary than he who was thus first or- dained. After a month's stay in Chatham, where he replaced I'"ather Sweeney during the hitter's absence, I'ather Connolly went to St. I ■mis. Kent County, as assistant to the Rev. Jos>.,if) I'acquet, this being his first official assignment. Here, under the watchful care of one of tli most capable priests the province has known, he became acquainted with the system of church administration which obtains in French parishes. In the fall of 1848 he was trans- ferred by the bishop to the l''redericton mis- sion, becoming assistant to the Re\-. Walter Aylward. Here, in the wide scope of country then administered to by the priests of I-'rederic- ton, he became accpiainted witli the conditions of the Cathtdic peojjle as the)- existed under the crude and discouraging conditions of pio- neer life. These inconveniences, however, had their formative and educational value to the young priest, and enabled his quick, admin- istrative mind to grasp the possibility of im- proved organization to meet pressing spiritual needs. It also demonstrated to him that a generation stalwart in the faitli could jirosper even amid circumstances that weri' outwardly untoward and demoralizing. ilh 1-' hpn I Tm 32S BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW l|!': pi In September, i4ge width of twenty miles, and conta'- ing unlimited ])ossil)ilities of hard work. In the entire district outside of the towns there were only seven frame houses ...vned by Catholics, all the other habitations of his people being log huts, often of the most primitive description. The stint of work that lay before the youthful ])arish jiriest was sue!) as to call forth for its t.uccessful accomplish- ment not only all his energy, but discretion and tact of the highest kind. The jieople were poor and scattered, and labt)ring unilcr the dis- couraging blight i)f the religious dissensions which had culminated in the riot of 1847. Many of those wh'! had taken i)arl in that de- plorable event had disa])peaied, but the mem- ory of it still ninklcd. The young priest's task was to conciliate and win back men's minds to one anotlier, and to restore, if possi- ble, the golden tiays of lolc' mce and neigh- borly good will that had existed in the county of Carleton in the early years of its history. Happily, no better choice could have been made for this delicate duty than l''ather Con- nolly. Horn in the province, he had no per .sonal memories of trans- Atlantic feuds to cloud his mind or mislead his judgment. U]) to the time of his going to I'rince lulward Island he had attended a school where all religious de- nomin;itions met on eipial terms. There he had formed friendships with boys who now, as men, were iiiHuential in the affairs of Wood- stock. They knew him, and had no distrust of his attitude toward themselves. "There's a new priest come to town, and he can't talk Irish," reported a Wakefield farmer, on his re- turn from Woodstock to that intensely Protes- tant section now known as Victoria Corner. His neighbors would not credit his story. Such a marvel as a priest who could not ad- dress his people in Irish when he did not want outsiders to understand him was too strange to be credible. A delegation was at once ap- pointed to attend mass in Woodstock the fol- lowing Sunday, and report to the local Orange Lodge. They attended, but weio greatly taken aback to hear a good sermon in hjiglish on "The Duties and Rcs])onsibilities of Citizen- ship." P'ather Connolly pleaded the cause of peace and Christian concord even more effcc- ti\ely in the |)ubl'- lecture which he delivered about this time from the jdatform of the Mc- (.lianics' Institute, Woodstock. Invited later by Colonel William Hairil, chairman of the lyceum, Woodstock, to deliver a lecture as |)art of their winter course, the choice of sub- ject being left to himself, he addresswl his audience on " h'ratornal Love." The subject was unusual for a lecture platfoini, but its timeliness could not be denieil. Henceforth, during his stay in Woodstock, father Connolly could, without let or hindrance, devote himself to the inteicsts under his charge. Time and the annealing power of good neighborshi]) were working for the return of peace and kindly feeling in the community. A part of l''ather Connolly's work in Wood- W\'i li-^ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 239 stock was tlie completion of a new cluircli, I""gun by Father Vcreker, his predecessor. This necessitated in October, 1850, a trip to J?oston to collect funds, as he found that his people, unaided, could not meet the necessary expense. After a month's stay he returned with a sum sufficient to meet the most pressing need. The demise of J?ishop Dollard and the in- stallation of a new bishop in the person of the Right Rev. Thomas L. Connolly resulted in a general shaking-u|) and the transference of l'"alher Connolly to Harachois, a French parish, which then included also the out- lying districts of CajK' Hald, Cape Tourmen- tine, and Aboushagan. In both Cape Hald and Cape Tourmenline churches were build- ing, and the people were very poor. In this extensive field Father Connolly labored for one year. He had scarcely begun to get well ac- ipiainted with his people, Frencli and Irish, when the bishop, in order to meet the exigen- cies of religion on th.e south-western side of the province, invited him to take the pastoi- ship of Milltown and St. Stephen, in Charlotte County. Thus ended for a time bis ministry among the Irench. After a year's sojourn at IMilltown, where he built a school-house, he was transferred for the .second time to Woodstock. The priest who did not talk Irish was again needed in that storm centre. During the two years of his absence dissensions had arisen among the Catholics themselves, aggravated by liie omi- nous altitude of outside bodies. The condition of affairs was critical wiien he took charge. lie found himself, with l'"ather Harron — the previous incumbent, who had not yet left — and the congregation, shut out of church on Sunday, the keys being held by a man who had an account against the building. Acting on legal advice, he forced an entrance into the building during the week, and was in his l)lace in the sanctuary on the next Sunday. The outlook did not dismay him. It was e.\- lierience not of the pl'asantest kind, but none the less valuable, rati^ntly and tactfully lie took up his work, as best he could, where be had laid it down two years before. The labors of the next twelve years were of an arduous and exacting nature. During this period the boundaries of his jurisdiction were eiilarged to take in Aroostook County, Maine. At five jioints only in this wide area of country were there Catholic churches — at Woodstock, at (irand b'alls, at the mouth of the Tobiciuc, at River de Chute, and at Houlton. Catholics there were everywhere, scattered and isolated ; and they all had to be i)roviiled for spiritually. What journeys, then, what exposure, what in- cidents of fatigue and discomfort, must not the accimiulated exi)erience of these years have brought to l''ather Coiuiolly in that vast mis- sion ! These duties, however, bniught with them an unequalled influence with the i)eo])le for whom be s|)ent himself. His willingness to rough it and to make the best of accommo- dations as be found them won their admiration. Whether poor and struggling with adverse con- ditions or pros])erous, as in their hitter years, he ever ])ro\ed himself their father, counsellor, and friend. (irndually his ascendency over i^ 1 1 'i I., 1 r Kilt ill 230 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW their minds and iicarls incroascd until they leaned wholly upon his leadership. Seven priests do duty to-day in the district to which he in those days ministered alone; but no one of them, however devoted and self-sacrificing, can ever hojjc to wiekl more than a fraction of his influence. In such a broad field of lalior tliere was need of effective methods in order to secure cohe- rence and permanence of results. Father Con- nolly was an organizer. Slowly and carefully he laid the foundations of a system the ramifi- cations of which touched every detail of church progress. In Woodstock his work focussed on the completion of tlie new rlnirch, which he called St. (iertrude's, and on the establishment of a parocliial school, livery penny of his in- come, except what was alisolutely needed for his maintenance, went into the fund for the payment of the cluncii debt; and to increase this fund he i)ractised the most exacting econo- mies. To meet the question of a Catholic sciiool Father Connlly turned St. Malachi's Church into a school-house, and invited l^ar- tholomew Lynch, an excellent teacher, to take charge. That was in 1.S56. I'his school pros- jiered from the beginning, and in tiie same year we find It on the list of parochial schools en- titled to a grant from the New Brunswick gov- ernuKMit. This grant of one hundred and fift) dollars was obtained tiin. '<;h the kindl\' ser- vices of .S. L. Tilley, W'ho was not at that time even a member of tiie House. Tiie next work of l''ather Connolly was to procuie a pipe organ for ,St. (iertrude's Chinch. Tins he accom- plished by means of a picnic known in local hi.story as the "(Ireat Picnic" — whicli was held on Hull's Island, opposite Woodstock, in August, 1857, and was i)erhai)s, in jioint of attendance and of net receipts (seventeen hun- dred dollars), the greatest of its kind ever held in the jirovince. Subsecpiently, under Hishop Sweeney, the successor of Hishop Connolly, Father Connolly found a new and untried field of labor in the active founding of a Catholic colony on the east side of the St. John River, north of Wood- stock ; and it was largely due to his untiring energy, ui. sparing self-sacrifice, good judgment, and ])ractical knowledge of pioneer life, that the scheme was a success. In honor of the |)atron of the new settlement, Hishop John Sweeney, he called it Johnville. The first mass was held in the open air, and was an oc- casion never to be forgotten. Perha|is only in the earliest days of Acadia liad tiie holy sacri- fice been offered amid sucli picturescpie sur- roundings. Contemporaneously with the build- ing of a church in Johnville P'ather Connolly also erected churches in Williamstown, South Richmond, and Cauterinu)-. He was his own architect, and made out himself the s|)ecifica- tions for the different buildings. These years in the sixties were liiled with labors tiiat dif- ercd much from the ordinary activities of a priest. Tlie experience tliat lay behind him when he had com])leted tiie twentieth yeur of his ministry could be duplicated at that time by no otlicr jiriest in New Ihunswick. No otlicr had worked amid conditions so varied, or met difficullics of the most exasperating kind with the same mc.isure of success. f I. ~ niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 23' The constant mill-round of exposure, fast- ing, anil hardship had weakened his health. When, therefore, Hishop Sweeney, in the s|)rinatr()na{;e from the best class of |)eo|)le. Mr. ()'Connell has now been in business for over a (|uarter of a cent- ury, and his experience fits him to cojie with any emergeuc}'. lie lias done considerable contract work in teaming. b'or twenty-five years he has carried the government mail. He bad the contract for takir.g out the foundation for the Opera House, and for the last six years he has had charge of watering and cleaning the streets of St. John. He has also had the con- tract for supplying horse; for Campobello Hotel. In connection with his livery business Mr. O'Connell has bought and sold mai y horses, bringing them from Montreal and I'rince Edward Island, and selling them in this city. Mr. O'Connell was married in 1S75 to Hridget Forre.st. She died in October, 18.S8, having been the mother of four children - Mary, Laura, Ulanche, and William. On No- vember 14, 1890, Mr. O'Connell 'uiited in m.irriage with Mary Hums, of .St KriU'R .\. SII.XW, carriage manulac- turer, St. John, was born in Moncton, N.M., June i, 1853, son of .Stephen H. and Mary (Stedman) Shaw. His grand- father, Duncan .Shaw, a native of Perthshire, .Scotland, served as a midshiijman in the lirit- ish nav\ duiing the -American Revolution, and, retiuning to I']uro|)e after the close of the war, retired from the .service. Dinican Shaw was a graduate of the lulin- burgh University. 1 laving been fa^• ly im- [iressed with the inducements offcre tiers in America, he recrossed the .\tlani. , and after his marriage, which took place in I'ort- land. Me., he settled in .Sackville, N. H. En- gaging in tlic ship-building business, he con- struitcd the first two vessels launched in that town, which were captured by .American |)ri- vateers during the War of iSij. He oiiened the |)laster mines at .\lheit, built a hotel in Sackville known as the ".Shaw House," which he managed for some time; and he served as Deinity-sheriff. Jk'ing the first graduate of ICdinburgh University to locate in the settle- ment, he was considered a valuable accpiisition, and was one of the juoneer schoolma.sters in Sackville. He was prominently identified with the Masonic order, anil reached a high degree. I'' ,;? ItlOCRAl'IlICAI, KKVIKW 241 lie attended the Clnirch 1 if KiigUnid. Duncan Shaw lived tn l)e over eij^hty years old. Of his uniiiii witii his fust wile, whn was a daiifjli- ter of (^aptain llamm, of i'cirtlainl, Me., were l)oni fi\f liiiicheii; iiaimdy, Stephen II., Martha, Saraii, William, and Charles. Martha married a Mr. Lewis; and .Sarah married (ien- iral Harper, of Shediaek. Dunean Shaw mar- ried for ills strond wife a Miss Steeves, and hail oiu- son, James, and one incton. (loin^ tn St. John in i.S.^f), he had charj^e of II. J. vS: I). McKay's saw-mills until 1.S50, when his em- ])!oyers retired from business; and he suhse- ipiently manaf,^ed the lumber business of the Hon. John Robertson. lie was secretary and manager of the .South Uav IJoom Comi)any from 1858 to 1876, when he retired. During the last ten yc.irs of his life he suffered pa- tiently from the lass of his eyesight. Stephen II. Shaw died May 12, 1886. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist church. His hrst wife, Mary, was a native of Moncton, daughter of William and Ilaiuiah (Trites) Stedman, the former of whom came to New Hrunswick with the Loyalists after the close of the American Revolution, and followed the blacksmith's trade in eoimection with fainiing. William .Stedman and his wifi' both Ii\cd to an advanced age. They were the parents of ten children; namely, John, William, James, laioch, lietsey, Mary, Margaret, Nancy, Caroline, and I'" ranees. Mrs. Mary S, Shaw died Jaiuiary 14, 1849; and .Steiihen II. .Shaw married for his second wife Itetse\ I.ee, a daughter of Major Lee, of St. John. She died July 27, 1897, aged ninety-two. .Stephen H. was the father of ten children, all by his lirst marriage; namely, William Duncan, h'.dniund J'., .Arthur N., (ieorgc, Charles .S., John, James, Caroline, Martha, and Mary. Of these William Dun- can, (ieorge, and John are no longer living. Lclmiind r. , Charles S., James, and .Arthur N. , the subject of this sketch, reside in St. John. Caroline niarried Colonel \\illiam Cnnard, of St. John ; Martha married Mdgar Whiteside, now of I'alatka Heights, Fla. ; and Mary is the wife of h'rederick Colonian, of l''redjricton. Arthur X. Shaw was educated in the public schools. After serving an apprenticeship of four years at the carriage-maker's trade with Jeremiah Hairison he worked as a journeyman in Massachusetts, New Wnk, and Connecticut for two years. Returning to .St. John he re- entered the employ of Mr. Harrison, with whom be remained until the factory was burned, when, in company with James A. I'rice, Samuel Crolhers, anil Ilenr)' Sayre, he bought the property and rebuilt the shop. That concern carried on business for three I ! fjr— . A- - 1 ' 'lit if ii ti 1 [ \- 1 1 I I !-»ii|* 342 T3I0GRAPITICAL REVIEW years, at tin- ciiil of wliich time Messrs. Price & Shaw establislicd the l;iisiness wliicli they are stiil eoiidiieting. They mamifaiture all kinds (if vehicles in a durable as well as an artistic manner, and aie (ine nt the oldesl car- rla};el)uildinj; tirms in St. John. On November i, 1859, Mr. Shaw was united in marriage with Miss Margaret !•!. Ililyard, daughter of the late Thcmias liiiyard, of St. John. 'I'hev have had eiglit childien Will- iam 11. , I'anest I.ee, Mary, Matilda, I.oretta I.., Annie, Charles, and Arthur. William II. .Shaw is in biisieess with his lathei. I'.rnest Lee, Annie, ('h.iiles, and .\rtlun' are mi hinger living. Mr. Shaw was fnrmerly (luite active in pub- lic affairs, and ser\ed with ability as treasurer (if the tnst 'I'dwn t'liuncil. lie attends the W'esleyan Methmlist churcl.. ^y-'.i'l'.K Mri'Clli;!!., the pr.igenil.ir of '-^ the Miuhell faniih- (il Miiamichi, N'.H., was a native nl Abei'deen, Seol- IK when a young man. c.inie t(i vcw lirunswicl' .•ttli engaged in the hotel business, w I S 1 6, Newcastle, hi eh be fo 1( nved for many \ears. II e was burned .iglit in number — Harbara, j.me. Will Ik lam, and I'etei', I.imes, :\I;i ry. ;\}:nes married Fall Watt, ami had three children W illiani. and Gi IV a married , icortre Watt 1857, and died in the West in 1873. A sepa- rate sketch (li IVtcr (the lion. I'eter Mitchell) may lie found elsewhere in tiiis volume, liar bara died unmar'ied in 185V Jane is now a resident of the I'nited .States. William di^d in 1845. Mary became the wife of John Hardy, an employee in the Marino OfTice at Ottawa. I'eter Mitchell, the father, died i- 1850. His wile, surviving him eighteen years, passed away in 1868. James Mitchell, son of I'eter and Harbara (Grant) Mitchell, was born October 10, 1825, three days aftt'r the great fire of Miramichi, being the first white child born in the countv after that memorable event. He icceivt'd his educa'.on in the grammar-school of Newcastle. Appointed High .Sheriff in 1855, he made one of the best slieriffs that Xorthiimbci land County ever had, ho' dug the office fmni 1S35 to 1871. In tiio year la't named he resignetl it in order to accept the apiiointment of Inspector of Lights under his brother, I'eter, who was then Minister of Marine and iMsbeiies. lie I'on tinued in this |i(isition until he was sii|ierannii ated, since which time he has lived ii'liied at bis home in Newcastle. He was first married in 18: to Mi Jane Caldw father came dl, to N'l a native if N. wcastie. Ih Hrun ;k from the noith if I relaiul lines aiK I Ai Mitchell w< tlie 1 1, nents of several children, o f wl 10m tliiee W oUimiiia, wild mar- attained maturitw namely engiiu'cr, now in Hiitish t! lied I.ily Mcl.agan ; James, a liaiiister, mar- ried to lsai)ella McCiirdy, who died at Medi- cine Hat, in l-'ebruary, 1898, at the age of IM, —Li ierance of New Brunswick, Past (irand Lecturer of the Orange .Society of New Brunswick, and Pa.st Chief Ranger of the Indeiiendent Order of I'"or- esters. He also belongs to the Knights of Pvtbias and the Ancient ( )rdcr of Ciiiteil Workmen. t^ToX. HARRISON A. M. Ki;oWN, f—' I ]\I.P. P., a hicmbt'i' of the government >~— - of New Brunswick, is a well-known barrister ol .St. John, :iiul was boin in St. Stephen, N.li., November jS, iSG.^, son of the Re\-. Ilezekiah and I'^li/.abeth S. (Harrison) McKeown. He w:is educated at the C(dlegiate .Scho(d ;it P'redeiicton ami at Mount -\llison University, being graduated a Bachelor of Arts from the latter in i.S.Si. He .studietl law in the offices of Dr. A. A. .Stoekton and Attornev- general Wiiite, and in I.S,S4 was admitted as an attornc)- ol the .Sui)reme C'ouil, since which time he has been activel\- engaged in the prac- tice of law in the cit) of St. John, N.15. Ik- is a giaduate in law from Victoria L^nivorsity, taking his degree at that institution in iSS'5. r llAKKISii.N A. M. KlJiWN. M.IM', -^■>-. W f^ •'■ ,\ ' ' IM lis i|i ; 1 ' ,' I'l ■*, : . 1 i '' 1 ! 11 1 ii i! i,[4 ■L - ^C?!=^ niOGRAl'HICAL REVIEW »S3 lie represented the city and county of St. John in the I'rovincial Lej^islature for one term, fnmi 1S90 to l8y2, and was elected in 1H99 to the same body as a mend)er for the city. On the recon.stniction of tiie New Brunswick ;;()V- ernment in January, 1900, Mr. McKeown was taken into the Cabinet and is a nieniber of the I'annierson .ujniinistration. iKV. Ili;/i;KlAII A[iKi;i)\VN was liiirn at Nictau.x l''alls, N. .S., in tlie year i^ijo. lie was educated at Middletown Univer.sity, Micklletown, Comi. In the year 1853 he became identified with the Methoilist Conference of the Maritime I'rovinces, and upon the division of the Con- ference accordin;;' to provinces lie became a member of the New Hrimswick division. lie occupied a pr>niinent position amoiif; the cler- gymen of th;,t body, and was recoi;ni/.cd as a most effective i)ul[)it orator as well as a skil fid administrator of ciiurch affairs. llelillei the foremost pulpits of the cluircli, being sta- tioned at St. John, I'redeiicton, Woodstock, St. Ste[)ben (twice), and Chatham. He married I'Hizabeth S. Hairisnii, of .Slicfficld, Suiilnu)' County, and had live children: I bin. flarrisun A. McKeown; William A. MeKeown ; lulith S. Camiibell, wife of the Rev. (i. M. Camii- bell; Bessie C. Clarke, wife of (ieoij;e J. Clarke, of .St. Stephen; and Maude ]•".. lioii- nell, wife of Dr. .S, Uniinell, of lu'inie, l\.C.. I\Ir. McKeown was conspicuous among the clergymen of the Methodi.st denomination in New Hrunswick for many years. He held the highest positions in the gift ol the church, being president of the Conference in 1878, and being almost invariably cbairmim of the dis- trict in which his sphere of activity lay. His death occurred at Sussex, Kings County, on October 9, 1883, from heart failure. OSKPH l'INLi:V, wholesale grocer, St. John, was born in County Donegal, Ire- land, in 1S36, son of William and Mary I'"iiiley. Coming to St. John in 185S, he took a iiosition as travelling salesman, and a }ear later entered the employ of the well-known wholesale grocery firm of I.. H. Deveber & Sons, with whom he remained nineteen years, and as buyer for that linn crossed the Atlantic some forty times. I'pon the retirement of L. II. Deveber & Sons, Mr. I'"inley established himself in business on Water .Street, wliere he : soon afterward added dry goods to his stock, I and later moved to Prince William .Street, where be built up a large trade. I'urchasing j his present quarters on Dock .Street, he sold i out his dry-goods department, and since taking ' possession of this store has given his attention wholl)- to his grocery trade, which is one of ; the largest in the l'rn\ ince. He is a self-made man. ami his success in business is the result I of his practical .sagacity, perfect knowledge of I the business, and a iiersonal acquaintance with the majority of his custmiiers. Mr. I'inley has always advocated the system of cash trade or short credit, ami, acting upon this principle, he has made a reputation as a close buyer, while he has been enabled to give iiis cus- , ! i'l f- nil J »! '■ ■i hi- ' r WT'^ I f »S4 mOGRAl'IUCAL REVIEW inmcis tlie lii-iK'lit in ri'diiccd prices tor lasli. I lu staiti'tl with ;i i';i|iil;il ol ten ti)(nis;ni(i dol- lars, and at the end of tlic cij;ht]i year his sales had increased to tliree hundied thiinsand d(d- lars for the yeir. Althouj^h t;d\in},r nuaetive jiart in iKililits, he iia^ always heen a eonsis- tent l.ii)eral. ItHF':: HARl,i:S !■:. FISH, M.l'.l'., who is I extensively engaged in stone (piarry- ing and also owns a niodern roller tlonr-mill at Newcastle, is a son of the late James and I'llizabeth (McAllister) h'ish and grandson of James Alexander I'ish, a pioneer settler of Miraniit hi. James Alexander h'ish was a native of Waterville, Me. His wife, whose name in maidenhood was Sophia Childs, was also a native of Maine and a member of a prominent family of that .State. Coming to New IJrnns- wick some years after his marriage, he settled on the Miramichi River, where he fonnd em- ployment at Inmbering, working in the woods. lie then sent for his family, which consisted of iiis wife, two sons and a daughter — James, Hiram, and I'Lsther. Though the cliildren were small at the time, they all accomplished the journey on foot. .Starting from Water- ville in .September, they proceeded first to .St. John, thence up the river to I'Vedericton, ami thence across country to Miramichi, the roads being generally jioor, and for a part of the way, at least, non-existent, (irandfather l'"ish (lied only three years after settling there, lliswife, surviving him, liveil to the age of eighty-six years. Her maiden name was Sophia Childs. .She was a native of Maine, and belonge 1 to a prominent family of that State. All the children are now deceased, the daughter, I'lsther, having lived but a short time after their settlement on the Miramichi. Iliram, who died at the age of about thirty- eight years, was i)y ociiip.ition a tanner and currier. James l""isb, the other son, was reared to manhood in Miraniiilii. Working in the wooils witii his father, he acc|uired a practical knowledge of lumbering, and subsequently engaged in business on his own account, being at one time one of the most extensive shippers of lumbei- in Newcastle. He also had a large farm, wliicli be conducted successfully, and l)y his enterprise and industry accumu- lated a large property. It is related to his credit that at an e.irly age he assisted largely in supporting his widowed motiicr. He was married in 1844 to Miss l''.li/abcth McAllister, a native of New Hrunswick and daughter of John McAllister, who came from lulinburgh, Scotland, about 1818, settling in Doaktown. Mrs. I'"ish's father was a man of more than ordinary intelligence. He conducted a card- ing-mill and grist-mill, besides being engaged in farming and lumbering. Her mother, who was in maidenhood a Miss Ogilvie, of l'".din- burgh, came of a prominent IJnmf' ire family. James bish was for m.H magistrate. He was :< worker in the I'resbyi also a l'"ree Mason. .an . i8y6. His wife diei /. They ,1 (.leven I.M m \-^ niOr.RAlMHCAL REVIF.W »ss diildrcn, of wliom four -Howard, Ksther, I'rank, and Mary died in childhoixl, and one son, Hiram A., a physieian, died in Jan- uary, iX(j7. 'I'lu' survivors are as follows: James (). , wiio is a farmer and lunihernian of New Castle; William l-*., a civil en};incer and deputy crown land surveyor; Charles IC, the special subject of this sketch; Jane ICIizaheth, and Sophia Childs, ol New Castle; and I'",. Clifford, a physician practising in Melrose, Mass. Charles K. l""ish received his education at Ilarkins Academy. After le.iving school he foimd employment with his father in the li.in- her business, remaining with him until 1885. I!e then purchased a stone cpiarry on the Miri- machi River, which produces a fine cpiality of greenish olive sandstone, and which is nientidiied in the ^overnnient reports at Ottawa as beinj; the largest deposit of sand- stone in the Maritime Provinces. It has en- tered into the construction f.i some of the finest huildinj;s in Canada, amont; them the new city hall at Hamilton, Ont. ; the I.ant;- win Block and the new Departmental lUiild- ing at Ottawa; the Mclntyre residence at Montreal; the residence of James Ross, the street railway magnate, at Montreal; St. James Street Methodist Church, Montreal; the Joyce Muilding, Montreal; the I'ost-office lUiilding at Krascrville, Uuebec; the post- olTice at New Castle and that at Chatham, N. M. ; the Roman Catholic church at Nelson; and St. Dunstan's Cathedral at Charlottetown, 1'. 1^. I., besides many others. Another v)f Mr. Fish's quarries jiroduces a stone particu- larly well adiipted to the grimling of wood pulp. Mr. I'"ish represented the town of New Castle in the County Council for two years. He also served ten years as Assessor. He was elected to the Provincial I'arl lament in the general election of 1899, and was one of the Aldermen to the first town Council. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Independent Order of I'"oresters, ami the Ancii'iit Order of United Workmen. Mr. I'Msh was married in 1882 to Miss Annie !•:. Willanl, a daughter of Oliver Will- ard, of Chi-rryfield, Me. Mrs. Fish's mother, whose maiden name was I'^li/a I'atton, was a descendant of an old Loyalist family who set- tled in the Annajxilis Valley, Nova Scotia. I'"ive of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. I*'ish are now living; namely, Iras A., Sada 1'., Mildrereme Court of New Jirunswick, and also received his commission to act as Notary I'nblic. In Michaelmas term, 1S49, he was duly callcil to th. bar. {'"or a few years after his admi.s.sion he practised alone; but on December 20, 1852, he entereil into partn.'i.shiji with the late John M. Johnson, Jr., which partnership lasted up to the time of the death of Mr. Johnson, in November, 1S68. Dining its continuance they were engaged in many very importimt ca.scs, and always had the reputation of being very careful, successful practiti()ner.s. Mr. Wilkinson's first governmental oflice was that of Surrogate Judge of Probate for the county of Northumberland, which was resigned by the late Hon. Thomas II. Peters, on July 8, 185 1. This Mr. Wilkin.s(jn resigned in the spring or summer of 1870, with the view of becoming a candidate for the New Hrunswick Legislature; and it may be mentiom-d t'i t dur- ing all the time that Mr. Wilkinson held the office no apiie.J was ever made from any deci- sion or judgment made by him in any cause before him. In the spring or summer of 1S52 Mr. Wil- kinson was appointed (under the first educa- tional act of New Brunswick authorizing inspectors, ])asse(l in the |)rcvious winter) inspector of schools for his county, Nortlunu- berland. This office he held for several year.s, until, fearing that the increasing professional demands on his time and attention might in- duce a less careful and thorough performance of his duties as inspector, or that the latter might interfere with his professional duties, he resigned the office into the hands of the governiuent, stating these reasons. lUit his resignation was much to tlie regret (jf the then supciimenuent, Marijhall D. Avary, who was most desirous that he .shoukl continue in office and become a district inspector under the new act then about to be passeil. On November 8, 1870, he was appointed, by ) |i r =ss niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i| I: n* ! f' II If hi! ill the conimissioncis of the Intercolonial Rail- way, an officer fur examining and reporting upon the titles of lands taken for railway pur- jioses through tiie county ot Nortlunnheiland, and later, by the railway authorities, to perform a similar duty in regard to many unsettled and disputed cases in the mljoining counties of Gloucester and Restigouche; and at intervals for several years after his appointment as rail- way solicitor lie was ajipointed one of the appraisers, with one or other of the paymasters of the Intercolonial Railway, for the time being to apiuaise and (after the preparation and exe- cution of the projier transfer of title) ])ay the land damages foi the rights of way, water courses, and conduits taken for railway pur- poses throughout all these counties. In the fall of 1X72 ho was appointed by the Dominion government, on the resignation of John <"i. (I. Layton, Immigration i\gent for Northumberland. This office he had held for a few years, when, on a change of government, a new jiolicy in regard to immigration was in- augurated, lint on the cessation of the office courteous and full acknowledgment was made by the then government of the aljility aiul zeal with which the duties had been performed. On April J, iS/i, lie was a|)|iointetl by the Dominion government one of Her Majesty's Counsel Learned in tlie Law. ( )n March 6, 1S77, he was appointed, by the Vicc-admi- ralt\' C'durt, Surroi;ate of the Vice-aomiralty Court of New Urunswick ; and on March 11, 1S81, on the resignation of Judge Williston, he receixed the ap|)ointment of Judge of the County Courts of Northumberland, Gloucester, and Restigouche. On the next day he was duly sworn in, and held his first county court at Uathurst, Gloucester County. On I'ebruary 12, 1884, he was rx officio ap- pointed hrst commissioner under the litpior license act of 1883 for the several license dis- tricts of Northumberland, (ilouccster, and Res- tigouche, and held the same until the decision of the I'rivy Council declared the act nitm vires. On October 26, 1885, he was ap- pointed, under separate commissions, the revis- ing officer of the electoral districts of the counties of Northumi)erland and Restigouche resjiectively, under t'ne electoral franchise act passed in 1884. Judge Wilkinson is a member of the Church of Lnglaud, and f(Ji- thirty years, without a break, he was the vestry clerk of tiie church, corporation in Ciialliam, where he has always liveil, and only resigned the office a few years ago, because of his necessarily frequent absence from home to fill judicial app(jintments. h'or a like peiiod, with ver\- rate exceptions, he lias been a delegate to the Diocesan C'hurcii .Soci- ety ;uid to the Diocesan Synod at and ever since its forn^atinn; and on several occasions he has been elected by the Diocesan to the l'i'o\ incial .Syudd. At tiie fdrniation of the Diocesan he stroiigl)' es|ioiised the necessity of the bishop's concurrence in all acts of the .synod, so in the I'rovincial .Synod he was witii those wiio held and voted that tiie House of Bishops should have a veto power on a'., nomi- nations to the episcopate, both of which views, though not without mucli oppusitioii, ulti- mate! v carried. 1 \ f, • ! itv ;: i i r lifi f i My' '^m JiiSI.I'll l;. IIA.MM. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 361 On St. James Day, 1S50, Judge Wilkinson was married to VM/.a Lovibond, only child of the late Kit. Sanuie! ]iacon, D. K. (the first rector of Chatham, and who continued such for the long i)eriod of forty-seven years, dying at his post, I'ebruary 16, iSCxj), a grand-daughter of the celebrated sculi)tor, the elder John Bacon. Judge and Mr.s. Wilkinson are the parents of si.\ children, of whom three are now living: Kliza Bacon, wife of John P. Burchill, M.V.V. ; the Rev. Willi;,m James Wilkinson, H. D., rector of Bay du \'in; and .Mary Ivlith, the wife of William K. liutler, M.I. CI':., pro- fessor of mathematics and engineering at Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont. OSI'.l'H B. HAMM, the well-known liveryman of St. John and a former member ol the Board of Aldermen of the city, was born at Grand Bay, Kings County, N. B., June S, 1S30, son of Captain David and Sarah (Brittian) Ilamm. He is of German origin and a descendant of Charles llamm, who with his wife emigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary War and settled in Jersey City, N.J. At the breaking out of hostilities Charles llannn joined the Royal army, and after the close of the war he came with other Loyalists to New Brunswick. Locating ujioii a grant of land at Gnnid Hay, near Westfield, he cleareil a good farm, which he occupied for the rest n( his life. Ills children were: Cb.irles and Barbara, who were born in the States; Mathias; Andrew; George; Malachi; David; Julia; and Mar- garet. Captain David Hamm, sixth .son of Charles, was a native of Grand Bay, where he followed general farming during his active yc-rs, and also ran a grist-mill. He married Sarah, daughter of Captain Joseph Brittian, of Kingston, N.B., and she became the mother of five children; namely, James K., Kliza- beth, David, Jo.seph B., and Mathias. Cap- tain Ilamm's death occurred in 1882, and was caused by an accident while working in his mill. Joseph B. Hamm, the subject of this sketch, resided at the paternal homestead until he was twenty-four years old, when he estab- lished himself as a horse dealer at Indian- town. In 1856 he moved Into the city of St. John, and, engaging i.i the livery business, has followed it continuously to the present time. He also buys and sells horses, and is considered a reliable dealer. In 1855 Mr. Hamm married for his first wife Barbara, daughter of iNIathias Hamm, of (irand Bay. She died in 1875. In 1870 he married for his second wife Miss Annie Currie, daughter of William Currie, of Sun- bury County. Mr. Hamm is the father of three children by his first union, namely: A. (i. Hamm, who is engaged with him in busi- ness; Ada, widow of William Dennison, late of Kings County; and William, who is now in Oregon. In 1876 Mr. Hamm was elected from Wel- lington Ward to the City Council, in which he served three years, and w:is then appointed 1 ?is \ ' I ' I < ■IV i i^ 1- 1 imii »■ i.. i ! 362 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW W^M . kl.ii HI liH. H : t b ill Inspector of Coal, serving in tliat ca|)acity until tlie office was abolished. Elected from King's Ward to tiie Hoard of Aldermen in 1S95, he sorvetl in that body until the sjiring of 1.S99. 'R1':1) SAXDAI.I.. chamberlain and s Treasurer of St. John, IV. H. , has l)een connected with the niunicipa! government in this capacity for over a score of years, and has proved himsell' a most capable and tiiistworth)- |)ublic (itTicial. lie was boin in St. John, Decendicr 29, 1S45, and was educated there. Having completed the courses in the granmiar school, he prepared for cidlegc, and then changing his jjlans he gave up further study, and for a few years was employed in a trans- portation, ex[)ress, and shipping business as a cleik. In 1S77 he was made a supernumerary iderk in the City Chaml)erhiin's office, in 1S79 he was appointed clerk, and in i.SSo became Chamberlain, a jmsition which he lias contin- uously filleil until the iiresent time. Under his able administration the office woik ha.'--, been carried on willuiut fiiction. and the many important changes which he has made in the entire system have met with general ajiproNal. Mr. Sandall and .Antoinette Duffell, daugh- ter of William I^uffell, of .St. John, were mar- ried in i.SSi, and tliey have two children. lie is a thirty-seconil degree Mason, and has held all the chaiis in the l?lue Lodge and Royal Arch cliaiJters. He is also a membc' of the Knights of I'ythias, and is I'. C. of his lodge. He is a niendjer of llie C'luuch of ICn^land. IIARI.KS II. rKTERS, wholesale gro- cer, St. John, was born in this city in 1S62, son of Charles H. and Han- nah (Slip) Peters. His father was born in IIami)stead, N.l?., in 1S23, and assisted on the home farm imtil reaching his majority. He then went to Gagetown, where he purchased a tannery, which he carried on for si.\ or seven years. Selling out he came to St. John, and, purchasing the tannery of lulward Hensoi con- ducted it for til'' rest of his life. In coiniec- tion with this he engaged extensively in the feed business, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1S95, had acquired a compe- tency. He was a nicmber of the Baptist church. His wife, Hannah, who was a daugh- ter of George .Sli]), became the mother of eight children; namely, Albert, William, Jr., John, I'klwin, h'rederick A., Lillie, Charles II., and P'rank I,. Albert Peters is a trimk manufac- tiuer in .St. Joim. John is engaged in the feed business. I.illie married James T. Logan, and resides in this city, and P'rank L. is a tanner. The mother died in iiSSj. .\fter completing his education in the pid)- lic schools of St. John, Charles II. Peters became a clerk in the wlKilesale grocery store of Harding & Hatheway, remaining with them eight years. In iSSf) he formed a [lartnersbip with John II. Baird, estahlisliing what is now the well-known grocei\' hmise of Baird & Peters, and built u|) a large and profitable business. This linn continued until the death of Mr. Baird in 1S92, since which time the surviving ]iartner has carried on the business alone, retaining the old firm name. BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIKW 261 In iS.Sg Mr. rcteis was united in niarriaf,^' with Miss I'"aiinic L. I'^Ilis, a native of New Yiiik, (laii.nlUer ni 'I'lidnias I'lllis, now of St. John. Mr. Peters is a nienilier of tlie Kiii.t^hts of Pythia.s. •fm»^* . |II.\RLi;.S .SI.OCCIITT lAVLOK, I larlior Master, St. Jolm, was horn in Weymouth, N.S. , I'ehruary Ji, liSji, .son of Morris Leonard and Mary Aliee (Lee) Taylor. Mis ^Mandfather, John Tavlor, who was a nati\e of New Jerse\- and a Loyal- ist, after serviiij; as a C'a|itain in the ISritish army during the Revolulionar\- W'ai', received from the -government a pension and a ijrant of land in Nova -Scotia, located in what is now the town of Weymouth. lie took with him to Nova Scotia several sla\-es, and kept them till they dietl or were emancipated, lie married Kleanor Taylor, and had five children, three sons and two daughters, of whom Morris L. was the younL;cst chilil. Morris Leonard '{"aylor was horn at the homestead in Weymoutli. The latter pait of his life was devoted to :i^ricultural pursuits. lie died at the age of seventy-eight \ears, and his wife, ;\Iary .Mice, lived to he eighty-live. | They were the ])arents of nine children, in eluding Charles .S. , all of whom grew to ma- turit)-. Mrs. Taylor was a daughter of Hcnja- min Lee, a Loyalist wlio went from Comiecti- eut to Nova Scotia. Charles .S. 'l'a\lor in his vouth was appren- ticed for five }ears to a pilot on the Hay of Fundy, anil when his term was completetl he entered the regular service. I'"(ir twenty years he piloted vessels in and (.ut of St. John with- out a single mishap, which, considering the dense fogs and the great velocity of the tides in this region, is a record to he |)r(niil of. In I.S74 he was apiiointed Harhor Master, and he has filled that position with marked ahility continually to' the present time. In 1S59 Mr. Tayhu- was uniteo in marriage with Miss Margaret Mantell, of St. lohn, daughter of Charles Mantell, a native of Lon- don, luigland. They have had five children, namely: Charles ]•:., a resident of San h'ran- cisco, Cal. ; liyron Ciordon, who died Octoher I, I.S95; William llemy, who resides in King- man, ]\Ie. ; I'juma L., wife of R. P. McGivern, formerly of this city; and Ve.sta AllLson Tavlor. Mr. Taylor and family ,ue mendjcrs of the Church • f II tt 7^ II 264 BIOGRAnilCAL REVIEW !i |MilP' mm (.•lit'tiiii. Ills pidlcssidiKil studio wiTL' purMK'd at MiCiill IJnivi'isity, Mcintrcal ; and lie ic- ccivcd tlu' (l(.'i,'icc i.f M.1),,C'.M, trnni thai in stitiitiiin in March, 1S75, liavinj^^ received Ihc prize for botany in his tirst \ear, also the final ])iize. He settled for the practice of his profes- sion in (hathani, and has since pnrsiied it snc- cessfiilK'. 1 1 is patients ha\e found in him not onlv professional skill, Init, what is often (piite as valuable in a physician, the s\nipatli)' which s])rings fiiim a l; ;n)il in 1.S65 he niariit'd lor his soniiid wilL- lunily Divis, tlanj;litii of IhililianI Davis, cit' Nnva Scdtia. Walter I'. I.conaiil in cdinpany with his Inotiu'is, juhn !•'. and tlu- late Charles II., es- tablished their present indnstr)- of cnriii;; and packing fisli in St. John, and is ikiw, with liis siirvivin^f hrother, eonduiting a lar^e and profitable business, the lirni havini; a branch in Montreal and one also at (Irand l\i\er, !'.(_>. The bnildinj; in wliit'h the enterprise is carried (in is eij;hl\ b\ three hundred feet, and they eniplov about thirtv men. In their I'stablish- nient in Montreal, located at J4 and 26 hound- linj,' .Street, twelve men are i-n)ployed, and at Grand River are employed fourteen men. In i.SSo Mr. Leonard was joined in marriaf^e with Miss Sarah llanuncmd, dau<;hter of John Ilamnmnd, of .St. |ohn. They ha\e si.\ chil- dren — ^ Walter, John, (Jhailes, Alice, I^dna \'era, and ( ieoiye I'. M)Ki;w I K.wcis M, .\\i;.\m:\', I). D.S., of St. John, was Imrn in that city November 6, 1N44, S(ui of h'ran- cis and h'.Uen McAvennev, both of whom were natives of Ireland. His preliminary studies in the .St. John cimnnun schools were supjile- mented with a course at .St. Maiy's (.'iille;;e, Montreal, I'. IL\ 1:. WILSON, maiuifactmer of iron and coppi'r materials for constructing buildings, and dealer in stoves and rauge.s, was born on Charlotte Street, .St. John, in lSf)2, son of John ]•;. and l';ii/abeth (\'oung) Wilson. His parents were natives of Ireland, and came in New Ihniiswick wlun \<* ■ calling. He was a highly esteemed citizen of his clay, lie served in the militia, an' he- longed to Alhimi Lodge, ]•", & A. M. lie difd in i,sr)5. ']'o him and his wife, I'llizabelii, three eiiildren were horn, namely: IClizrdieth, wife of W. ]•;. f.ise, of St. John; John !•;., the Mihject of this sketch; and William, who died in ii.iancy. 'J"he mother died in 1 86; ; and the two orphans, ICIizaheth and John, were reared iuul educated hy their maternal grand- parents. jiihn K. Wilson was educated in .St. John, .•md completed his studies under tiie instruc- tion of Mr. Mills, His first knowledge of the iron business ..vis ol)tainn', ;;; the employ of A. G. Howes, with whcnn he remained some si. V or seven years, at the end of which period he went to the Crilfith Cialvanized Iron Works; and he later sjient some time with a copper- smith. In 1S85 he established himself in business on Union .Street, and in i.Sijo removed to his present (piarters on .Sidney Street, where he carries a ,'ull line of stoves, ranges, and copper materials. lie employs thirty-thiee men, and is the most e.\tcn-^ive handler of gal- vanized iron for building :n the .Maritime Prov- inces. Ir Oclobcr, i.SS:;, Mr. Wilson was joined in mariiage with lieatrice Orr, a native of St. Johii and a daughter of Jann's Orr, who wa-; also h(Hii in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson ha\e ii.ul live children, name',: Ic I,n Harold; C.'i:ir,i \'(jung; Alice lie:itrhc; Ali Idled; aiul VV';ilter, who died ,it tin- .ige of one yciir, Mr. Wilson represented Wclliiigt(in Ward in the C'.mimon Council lor two years, leading j the poll in every waril in the city, the second year elected by acclamat'on, and declined to accc|)t a third election cm account of business pressure. He belongs to Albion Lodge, V. & A. .M. ; Log Cabin Court, Order of h'or- esters; the Knights of Pythias; the Ancient Order of L nited Workmen; :ind the Natural History .Society. yC/tyil.I.IAM Hl'XRY POWMAN, of **' the firm of Howman I't Le Lacheur, contractors and builders, St. John, was born on Ce- :iin Street, August 2, 1S32, son of John :iiul I'.li/: '-th (McCoullough) Powinan. John liowman, who was a native of Devon- shire, I'jigland, emigrated when a young maii, and, settling in St. John. w;is emi)lovcd for some time in driving the m;iil between St. John and I'redericton. His wile, Idizabeth, who was ;i (kuighter of John R. McCoullough, a soldier in the Uritish army, was born in 1797 in Cumbciland Coiintv, .\o\:i Scoi ia. They were the jiarents of four children : Mary, wife of Jolm Rankin, of St. John; l-di/abcth, who married (ieorge I.awson, and died, in Calif ■•- nia; John Richard, now a resident of Minne- ai.olis. .Minn., where he settled in 1857; and Wi!li;im Henry, the subject of this sketch. John MownKin died in iS:;^, and Mrs. I'ljza- beth .M. Jiowni;in died in 1892. William Henry Howman was educ.ited in St. John. When si.xtecn years old he began ;ni a])preiiticeship to the c:npenler's and house joiner's trade, with John Rankin, present Dep- uty Sheritf of St. John, with wJK.m he served I ill |j;pf "I l< 373 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV , r, five years, after which lie worketl as a joiiniey- niaii for a similar period. He then went to Chicago, where he reiiiaiiieil, however, hut six months. ReluniiiiL;' to .St. John in iS^S, lie formed his jiresent |)artnershi|) >vitli "VIr. Le Laeheur, and the\- have since conducted a prosperous business, heini; now the oldest (irni in their line in .St. John. Anmnj; ti'c many buiUlinjrs (.'rected by them may ijc mentioned the \\'iy;;iii Orphan Aslyum (the one that stood before the fire of 1S77, as well as the one wliich they erected afterward to take the place of the tirst destroyed in that catastro- phe) ; the residence of Dr. llolden; tlie build- ing of T. McAvity & Sons' Jhass I'ounchy, and tlie l.awton Saw l'"aclor\-. Mr. Howman was niairied Auyust, iSTu, to Miss Jane .Spears, a native of .St. John, and daughter of John .Sjiears, a branch jiilot of the port of St. Jolni. lie has two chililreii : (Icr- tiude, wife of C. A. l'"isiier; and William 11., a resident of Hostcju, Mass. Mr. Hownian was for tliirt\-tive years a mend)er of the h'ire Department of the cil\-, and for fouileen \ears was its ca])tain. lie also icpresentt'd the cit}' of i'orlland in the Council. (^^OlIX W. Kl'..\Sr, meicliant and ship- ^•il '\\'i"-'i. -"^l' John, was born in Studholin, ^-^ Kiiii;s Coimty, N'.H., Januarv 10, iSi3, son of Kobeit and I'llcanoi (Keirstead) K 'asl. His patejnal ^randpa:e!its wcie Robert and Ann (Harris) Keast, of |-ji.i;land. Robert Keast, second, the father, who was born in Cornwall, I''.nj;land, in iSiM, was a miner in the old eountiy. Coming to New lirunswick in 1S43, he settled in Studholm, and then cleared a farm. In iS5,S he moved to ( hieens C'ouniw where for a iiuinhei' of years he continued to follow agriculture, and is now living in retirement. His wife, I'lleanor, is a native of Kings Count), and a daughter of John 1!. Kcir>tead. Her grandfather tame from New \'ork to New liiunswick with the Loyalists in 17S3. .She has had fiftei'U chil- dren, si.\ of whom are living; namely, Robert, (ieorge, John W. , A Hurl ]■'... Cornelius, and Hettie M. Kobeil Keast, third, lives in Lowell. Mass. ; (ieorge l;\es in Auburn, Me. ; Albert i:. is a resident of .\lberta, N.W.T. ; Ciornelius occii))ies the old homestead in (Jueens County; and Hettie M. i.v the princi- pal of a school at Red Deer, Alberta. I'hc parents are members of the liajitist chuich. John W. Keast assisted on the home farm until he was twenty \ears old, when he went to sea, and in three years became master of a small vessel. He later commanded the three- masted scbooiier " l-!va Maud," of which he was part owner, and for thirteen years made voyages between the \\ e.st Indies, Xewfoimd- land, and other places. In iSSS, 011 account of t'v,' ill-health (jf his wife, he abandoned the sea, and while still retaining his ship|)lng in- teivsts, engaged in mcrcanlile business, build- ing u]) a ]irosperous trade. He is a self-ni.-ule man, and by his industrv aiul [n'rseverance iias accumulated a competencv. Mr. Keast has en twice married. His first wife, whom he wedded in iSSi, was Miss Amanda S|)ringer, a nat've of (Jueens County, niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 27S iind a (laii[;;litcr "f the late James Spriiij^ci-. She (lied in 1S91, having- been the nintlier (if live chiUhen. Three of tliese are livinj;; nanu'ly, I'lthcl, Joliii II., and Rulieit J. In 1892 he married for his second wife Miss Abl)ie I. R()l)erts(in, dauL^iiler of John Rol)ert- s;in, of W'iekliani, (Jucens County. ( )f this union have lieen Ijoin two children Jennie and y\l)hie. Miss laiiel Keast is engaged witii her aunt in tcachinjj; in the north-west. Mr. Keast is a meml)er of tiie Independent Order of I'"oresters, the Temple Honor, and the Ancient ( )rder of T'oresteis, and is a lioyal {•"orester. lie helniij^s to the I.o\al ()ranome part in public af;airs, ha\inj;' served for two \ear.s as a iM.'Uiber of the County Council, one )ear as County War- den, lie was at one time a member of the .Newcastle Rifle Company, and also helonj^ed to the Newcastle b'ield Uattery of Artillery, lie is an adherent cjf the Tresbyterian church, and a b'ree Mason. In pcjlilicshe is a Liberal. Ill; COM. ISROTIIICRS, JAMKS .\ni) M ICI I .\ I'.I ., Mia[) manufacturers, are well-known and successful business men of .St. John. 'I'heir parents, Dennis and Jane (Grinith) Coll, with two childien, emi,i;rated from County Tyrone, Ireland, their native jilace, and settled in St. John in ICS42. Den- nis Coll had been foreman in a soap and candle factory ])rior to coming' to New Hrunswick, and here he set about establishing one for himself. His factcry, beiuf;' ecpiipped with the necessary machinery and pro\ided with a force of e.\|)ert workmen, was opened for business in the follow- ing; year, and was the first soap factory started in St. John. When candles were sujierseded by impmved nielliods of illumination he ii^ivc his cut ire atU'Ul ion to the production of soaj), which he carried on successfull)- for the rest of his life, and was succeedetl in business by bis sons. He died I'"ebruarv 22, 1S73, aj^ed seventy years. He was the father ol eight children; namel\, Bridget, Ann, Jane, .Mar\-, John, James, Michael, and Dennis. Hridget is the widow of John Carlyn, late of .St. John. Ann is residing in Minneapolis, Minn. Jane, who also resides in that city, is the wife of K. Mt I'eak. .Ma'_\ is no longer living. The sons are all residents of .St. John. The mother died in Aiiril, 1884, aged sevenly-nine years. W' I I lit r 11 If ti 276 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW The ])ari.'i)ts attciuk'd St. Tcti'i's {IvniiKiii C'atli- olic) C!liuicl). James C(ill, who was born in St, Joiin in 1843, aci|iiirL'(l his education in tlic (dninion schools. After tlic completion uT iiis stiiilies he entered the eniiiio)' of Doherts' i\: Mc lavish, with whom he remained as a cleil< tor nine years. lie then hecanie associated with his father; and a few \ -.'ars later, with his brother jMichael, sniceeded to the business as i)efore mentioned. In June, 1.S7J, hi' mairied ..An- j^usta iJobeit)', daiit;hter of Owen Doiieity, the latter a native of Ireland. They have had si.\ ciiildren, of whom two are living— Owen Griffin aiul luhvard 'ilake Coll. Wjien a )onth Ml'. James Coll took a li\el\- interest in ama- tein' theatricals, and l)eIonj;eil to a riies|)ian orj;anization known as the .St. John Dramatic Club. Micliael Coll was born in St. John in 1S44. After finishing;' iiis education he became Imok- koeper for II. and II. A. McCulloui;h. In i.SVhS lie entcieil the employ of hi.^ father, with whom he remained until ilie f.irmer's death. The piesent (iiin was then or^ani/ed, and is now carrying on the laigcst scjap manufactory in the city. ( )n J.innai)' 1, 1874. Mr. Micliael Coll mar- ried Margaiet Jose])hine J )elancy, diughter of Morris an4. He was one of the organi/.ers of the Mechanics Institute, and a member of the Sons of 'lemperance. In bis religious belief he was a Methodist, and be- longed to the (ieniiain Street Church. Thomas Harlow married Charlotte, daughter of lames (ioodwin, whose birth took place in a house on Nelson Street in St. John. She be- came the mother of si.\ children; namely, Thomas, Martha, Ldwin William, decirgc, Sophia Jane, and Charles. Thomas Harlow, third, who was a carpenter, died in iSHo, and his widow, w-hose maiden name was Mary ]?owyer, surxives him. Martha Harlow mar- ried Harris Wright, and is now resitling in Dorchester, Mass. (leorge Harlow, who was a mechanic, died about the year i.S/o. Sophia Jane is the widow of Dr. Archibald Ma.xwell, late of I'ictou, N'.S., and resides at Hear River in that rrovince. Charles died at the age of live years. Mrs. Chailotte Hailow is now eighty-nine years (jUI, and is unusually bright and active for one of her years. Ldwin William liarlow was born on April iS, 1.S57, in the house on Cobmg .Street, where he now resides. Ihuing com|)leted his educa- tion at the .Suidnuy (iranimar School, he served an ap|)renticeshii) of five years at the carpenter's trade, and after working as a jour- neyman for .some time he formed a partnershij) with Charles W. I-'rost, under the lirni nanu- of l-'rost iS; Harliiw. That concern, whose shi'P was located upon the site of the present i-lec- tric light w-orks, turned their attention to the building of ship cabins. Messrs. I-'mst and Harlow w-ere together si.\ yeais, at the end ol wliich time .Mr. I-'msl died. I'lu- surviving jiartnei- has continued in business alone evei- since. Ldwin William Harlow was united in marriage on June jTi, i.Sfij, by the Rev. .S. H. Smith, with Lli/.al)elh Jane Lrost, d.iughter of Robert Chillis l-'rost. 1 ler father was born in .St. John, and her mother, whose maiden name was also Lrost, was a nati\e (jI Kings County. Mrs. Hailow is a desiend.nit of Rob- ert Chillis, a .Scotthman and a Loyalist, who served as Captain in the Hritish arm\ during the American Revolution. She 1 as in her [jossessiou the first Hible used in St. Andrew's KIOORAPiriCAI- RKVIEW sSi Kirk, ami also a malm^aiiy laliK' mack' by liobcrt Clhilli.s, who broiighl it to this coimtiy. Mr. and Mrs. Harlow have had three children; namely, Charles \V. , 1). U.S., Arthur, and Julia Nhdiel. Arthur died at tiie aye ot three years. ('JKules W. liailow |;radualed in 1X94 Iron) the American Dental C(dlej;e, now eon- neeled with the Chicago I'niver.sity, and is praclisin;^ his profession in I'rovidence, K. 1. Mr. liarlow beloiii^s to tiu- Independent Order ol Odd h'ellows. lie has been a mem held! the hire Department since 1861, and is a trustee of the I'ireman's Relief Associiition. He assisted in entertaining 11. R. ]!., the I'rince of Wales, duriiif; his visit to .St. |ohn. 4 i ^S^.\.Mi;.S CAN' NOR, block -maker, .St. John, son of Joiui Reach and .Sarah J. ((iill) Cia\iior, was born on March 24, iS^^, in the house where he now rcsiiles. His great-grand! ather, I'eter Caynor, who was born in Ireland, went to .Scotland, and subsei[uently emigrated to .America, settling in Rhode Islanil ])re\ ions to the ke\(dut ioii- ar\ War. He was a block-maker by trade, and followed that occupation in Newport. In May, 178;?, he came to St. John with the Loyalists, and followed his trade oii \'ork Point. He was a mcnd)ei' of the Churih of England. He marrii'd, in ludand, Hridget b'ord, a native of that counlry, who was a Catholic in her relig- ious belief. He died when about fifty )ears old, and his wife lived to the adsanced age ol ninety-nine years. Their son James, giandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Indand. Joining the liritish navy, he remained in the service for some time, and about the yeai- i/yo settled in .St. John, where for the rest of his life he f(d lowed his trade of a block- makei', which hv had learned of his father. He died in 1821, at the age of seventy \ ears. lliswifi-, Anna .Seely, a native of Connecticut, was the daugh- ter of .Seth .Seely, a stanch Loyalist. .She died at the age of fifty-six. Their children were: William, Jose|)h, John Reach, .\le.\an der, Catherine, and Ann. John Reach (Jaynor, son of the tii st Jar^es and fatlier of the subject of this sketch, was born at A'oik I'oint, .Septi'inber 23, 179", and was brought up in St. John. Learning his father's trade, he contimied winking with him, and after his father's death he succeeded to the business, which was a jiiospcrous one. Ik- was frequently at work upon as many as ten vessels at the same time. In 1823 he married .Sarah J. (lill, a native if .St. Mary's, and daughter of Thomas Cill, who came here fiom I'enns) Ivania. Her lather ser\ed during the American Revolution on the ISritish side, tlist as Sergeant, being later promoted. John R. and .Sarah J. (Ciill) Caynor were the (jarents of six children, namely: Margaret, John ]!each, Thomas Cill, .Samuel, all of whom died yoimg ; bdiza, who ni.uiied Thomas C. Humbert, of .St. John; and James, the subject of this sketch. James C:iynor was educated at the .Sack\ille .Academy. Cnon leaving school he leaiued the block-maker's trade, being the fourth ri'p- resentati\"e ol the family in a diiect line to illli ^' w ■ \, II -0 ^' 282 lUOGRAPHICAL REVIEW mi fulluw tliMt ii(ciip;it idii. lie c'diitiiunjcl in the business until ukkIlmu impidwiiunts niade it uuprofitiiliic. On October 2S, iSijo, Mi. (i;i\iuir niMiried Ijiiiiiii C.'aKiliiK' I'liwlei', (l:iu,i;iiter (if Noah l''o\vler, aiui i;iaiul-(iauxlUer of Henry h'owler, a proniiiient 1 .o\ alist. -;< iiiHAi.D irrz KANJ)OLrii, .me if the I'-adiiij; liti/ens of l-'iederieton, N.H. , is ])idniincntly identified with its tinaiuial, niereantile, and manufacturing' interests, lie was horn July J4, iS^^, at Digby, N. .S. , a son of James 11. l-'it/ Kan- dol]ili anil a j;iandsoii of Josepli l'"it/. Ran- dolph. 'I'iie grandfatiier eniif^rated with tiie Loyal- ists to \n\a Scotia, and subsequently became one of tiie foremost eili/ens of Digby County, and foi' several years was a member of tiie Legislative Council of Nova Scotia. He owned a large tract of land, called "Jk'lle I'arm," at Bridgetown, where he carried on general farming until his deatli, at the age of tiireescore and ten yi'ars, In religion lie was a Quaker or I'^riend. He reared foiu" sons and one daughter, none of whom are now living. James H. l-'it/ Randol|iii was born in Digby, N.S., and during his active life was an exlen- sive dealer in dry goods. He served in public office many years, having been the senior Jus- tice of the I'eace, and, as such, presiding head of the Hoard of .Sessions. Departing from the (Juaker faith in wiiicli ln' was brougiil up, he became a devout member of the C'inucli of I'Jigland. Ill' died at the age of fortv-seven years. He married Susan I!., daughter of Afajor Tiiomas Menzies, of Lancaster, N.I!., the ri'presentat ive of an old famiU fiom tlu' south of Perthshire, Scotland, and at one tinu- an officer in the Hritish armv. Maioi' .Men/ies was a friend of Major Andre; and his grand- son, who owns Rose Hall, the house wliich [k'liedict Arnold formerly occupied, has a |)is- tol that once belonged to that ill-fated (jfficer. Nine children weie boi n to James II. b'itz Kandcdph and his wife, Archibald l-'itz being the third child. ( )ne son is a resident of I'hiladelphia, I'a. ; and one daughter, .Mrs. McCallum, is living in ^'a|■molUh, N.S. The mother died at the age of seventy-three \ears. Archibalil V. Randolph was educated in the Digby (irammar School, and at the age of si.\- teen years began to be self-supporting. l'"or three vears tiiereafter he was a clerk in the hardware store of Mr. L. .Stephens, in St. John, and the ensuing two years he was cleik and book-kee|ier for A. T. Coburn, a ]''rederic- ton merchant. In 1X51; he opened a store for the retail sale of hardware, dr_v goods, grocer- ies, and other merchandise, and, conimeneing on a small scale, he continued a successful business in these lines for ten years. In 1H65 he established a wholesale grocerv' in Mr. Ilodges's building, which he occupied until the completion of his present commodious store, in icSyS. This building, si.xty by si.xty feet, with four floors and a basement, and also three storehouses, he uses in comiection with his extensive trade in West India goods, flour, and so forth. .Mr. kandolph is also comiectcd with T^ 'f forty-seven y^ f^: ^' '/ /A 'W Photographic Sciences Corporation ^^ {\^ :\ \ "Q <^\. ^A ^\ <^' «> "^ \ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. M580 (716) 872-4503 A r^^ % K. L. JOHN DIW. I - -ss;. I r BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 285 other business enterprises. In 1870, in eom- pany with Mr. J{aiij6. wiien be went to Cali- fornia. I''or thirty years he has been a mem- ber of the Baptist church, in which he has served as Deacon a cpiarter of a century. In 1S83 Mr. I^andolph adiuitted one of his sons into partnership, and in iSyj another son was made a member of the firm, the name of which has been changed from A. F. Randolph to A. I'". Randolj)h & Sons. Mr. Randolph and Amira Donald.son, daughter of William 'rurnbi.U, of Bear River now Bridgeport, N. S., were married in 1858, and they have had eight children, of whom five are living. 1|^ C. JOHN DUNN, the well-known I /T^ . architect of St. John, was born there ^— "^ in 1837, the eldest son of Johr. and Martha {(Jould) Dunn. On the paternal side he is of Irish ancestry, his father having been born in Derry, Ireland, in 1804. John Dunn, a lad of twelve years, in 1818, after the death of his father, came to America, following the footstejjs of his brother James, and .settled in St. John. At a later date their widowed mother arrived. John Dunu learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and suhsetiueutly became a nianutacturer of lumber. I'cjr this purpose he erected a mill, in which he had the first iilaning-mill at St. John, and also im- iiorted large quantities of mahogany. Retir- ing from this business in 1854, he bought a farm in Musquash, which he cultivated until his death. His wife, the mother ol the siib- jecl of this sketch, was of luiglish parentage, her father, Charles (jould, having come from Somersetshire, luigland, with his tamily. Mr. Dunn died in i88y at the age of eighty- ill 1;? » Hi i 386 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW M\ " 1* i!~ I'll five. IIu was for many years a incniber of the Municipal Council. His smviviiiy children are as follows : IMrs. S. J. Parkin; R. C. John Dunn; J. J. Dunn, of California; Albert T. , Surveyor-general of New Urunswick and Rep- resentative for the county of St. John in the Legislatme; Thomas A. VV. ; Frederick H. , of Musquash; and ICleanor T. , the wife of C. Clinch. Mr. R. C. John Dunn began the study of architecture when a boy with George N. Smith, and later accpiired a fuller knowledge of its ])ractical details. Tor the sake of more ex- tended observation he went abroad, visiting the celebrated buildings of various luuopean countries, and widely increasing his knowl- edge "f existing architectural monuments. Upon his return he took a course of study in Hoston, and subsequently he worked in various parts of the United States, spending consider- able time in Chicago. In 1M75 he returned to his native city, where he opened m office, and has since been most successfully engaged in professional work. He has superintended the erection of many of the imjjortant buildings since erected in the ])rovince. Mr. Dunn was made a Mason in the Ciiarles W. Moore Lodge at l'"itchburg, Mass., in 1866. He was one of the first members of the Knigiits of I'ytbias in St. John. ^()H\ (ilLCHRLST, M.I)., a well- known physician of St. John, was born in that jiart of the parish of Prince William, now Dumfries, York County, N. H., January 5, 1832, son of James and Mary (Yerxa) Gilchri.st. His father was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1783. James (iilcbrist was in tiie Hritisii service at Halifax, X.S., during the War of 1S12, and had charge of the American prisoners en board of the "Chesapeake." ^Xfter the exchange of [irisoners lie came to Xew Hrunswick, where he served as .School-master's .Sergeant in the New Brunswick corps, and taught school in Prince William, Kingclear, and Southampton until a short time prior to his deatli, which occurred April 30, 1849. He was also en- gaged in farming. Politically, he was a Tory, and held several offices, ii luding that of Pub- lic Land Surveyor. He was reared a Presby- terian, but after his marriage he joined the Church of luigland, and his ciiildien were ba[)- tized in that faith. He belonged to the Ma- sonic Order. His wife, Mary, whom be married in 1820, was a daughter of John ami I'rances ((ierow) Yerxa, who came fioni Oueens County. Long Island, N. \'., with tiie Loyalists in 1783. While i)roceeding up the .St. John River they were com])elled, by the severity of the weather, to remain within the shelter of a camj) until the following spring, wiien the\- continued tiieii- jomiie\- to the mouth of tiie Keswick River, where tiiey settled upon a large grant of land. The {}erows were of l-'rencb origin, being descendants of an old Huguenot family. John \'erxa became a prosperous farmer. He reared a family of sixteen cliildren, four of whom were born on Long Island, antl among the latter were the late Major Yer.xa and the late .. -r ill inn .., ■A ii: f ; r \\ -id hrlJ^jM ii i« i( ii i;i.i!Kii)<;i-; (;. nrxN. I - .as. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 389 Mrs. [dim Hrcwcr nl \'iiik Cminty. All lived to a f^ood old aye, and tlu' second death in the family was tliat of a daui^hter who was forty- five years old. James and Mary V. Gilchrist were the parents of two ciiildrcn — John, the suhject of thissketcii, and David. The mother died in 1S55, aged seventy-two years. John Gilchrist in his boyhood and youth attended the common and Normal schools, antl sliidied Latin and jfliysies under a private tutor. He lieyan the study of medicine under I)rs. .Swan and Holmes, of Calais, Me., subse- ciuently jjursued a course at the Maine Medi- cal School, and completed his iDrejiaratory studies at the liellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, Xew \'ori<. He began to practice in 1S57 in the western part of New Brunswick, and from 1.S58 to 1867 he resided in Sheffield, Sunbury County, his field of operation extend- ing into Oueens and Kent counties. In 1868 he settled in Portland, which is now a part of St. John, and for many years has been re- garded as one of the most able pliysicians of the city Dr. (iilchrist owns a tine stoci< farm in Kings Count)', and has devoted mucli attention to raising cattle and iiorses, being the largest breeder of Jersey cows in the I\Iaritime I'rov- inces, anil the only stockman in New Hruns- wick to make a specialty of raising thorough- bretl running horses. He is (|uite active in political affairs, having contested Kings County for a seat in the I'rovincial Assembly in 1892, running against the [iresent Attorney (ieneral. He is chairman of tiie t'onsei vative organization in Lantisilowne Waul, and a mem- ber of the lv\ecu'i\e Committee. In cam- paigning he is sain to be a master of invecti\e and sarcasm. In August, 1859, Dr. Gilchrist married Miss IClizaljelh Brewer, of Robbinston, Me. •She is a daughter of the late William Brewer, and a niece of John M. Brewer, tlie well-known ship-builder; and is related to several promi- nent families in the .St. Croi.\ valley. She is descended from the family of an old I-Jiglish admiral who was stationed between Halifax and the West Inilies before tlie American Rev- olution. Dr. and Mrs. Gilchrist ha\e four children, naniely : Helen, wife of Henry Thomas, of .Montreal; Maud, wife of J(jsepli Henderson, of No\'a .Scotia; John B. Gilchrist, M.D., a graduate of Ikllevue Hospital Medi- cal College, now practising in Greenwich, Kings County; and James, who is now manag- ing his father's farm. The Doctor belongs to the Ro)al Arcanum, for which he was foinierly medical examiner; arid he is now serving in tiial capacity for the Temperance and (jeneral Life Assurance Com- pany of North America. ^l.BRID(H'; (H:RRV DINN, retired umiier manufacturer, .St. John, has been identifietl with the business interests of New Brunswick since 1S52. He is a native of Maine, having been born in Mount Vernon, Kennebec ("ounty, that State, in 1812. His l>arents were I'eter and Dorothy (Bartlelt) Dmin. His paternal aiuestors original 1\' came from SLolland. His '■real-grandfather Dimn m 11 mi I i 290 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIKVV Hill !■ ki n \' '! till I'i;'*^ fought f(ir the American colonics in the Revo- lution, as did also his j^nandfather, Christopher. Christo])lier Dunn saw service in tjie campaign that resulted in the capture of liurf,'oyne and in the battles of the Lakes. On his malernal side, also, IMr. Dunn comes of Re\dhitionary stock. His mother's father, Thomas Hartlett, was at I,e.\ini;ton, Concord, and Hunkei' Ilill; and her uncle, Josiah Hartlett, was one ot the signers of the Declaration of Indepenilence. Mr. Dunn spent his boyhood an the farm, and obtained iiis education in tiie ])ui)lic schools. In Ajiril, iiS.S.i, he came to New Ikunswick, locating in I-'redericton, where for the next nine years he worked at carpentering with his brother. He then went to Aroos- took, i\Ic., wliich was at that time a com|)ara- ti\'ely unbroken country. Clearing a tract of land, he opened uj) a farm and ])ro\ed that the soil was productive by reaping a goodly har- vest. Hut he saw from the first that the forests of Aroostook would yield gold to the wood- cutter, and he set about developing the lumiier indu.stry. He was one ol the fust men there 10 engage in that line of business, and he contin- ued it most successfulh' until 1.S70. lie pur- chased large tracts of tind)ei land, and eiuployed many men to cut it off. In addition to this, he kept on with his farming, and in time cleared a valuable estate. In 1.S70 he removed to .St. John and bought a saw-mill, and since that time has been operating it most prosper- ously. In |\<., of Freder- icton, one of the most successfid gardeners and florists in this section, was horn in Cheshire, Lnglaml. His father was a farmer; Init John at seventeen years of age, having a natural taste for gardening, left home and made his way to Messrs. Laing's nursery at Twickenham, Countv of Middlesex, near London, in which he found em])loyment. He subsequently worked successively for Lord J. Chiccster, under head gardener I'eel, at Kinghorn's nursery, Richnu)nd, and Wal- ford, Lsci. , Last .Shean, and from thence went to Reeves Brothers' nurser\-, Notting Hill, London, Messrs. Reeves being at that time one of the leading growers for Covent . BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIKW 391 Garden market. Mr. licbbiiii^ton next entered the employ nf Carter & Co. Messrs. Carter were called tiie royal seedsnu'ii. Their nursery and trial grounds were at Sydeidiam, Crystal Palace nursery. In the sjiring of the year 1S70 Mr. j. \V. Urayley, then ol l'"rederieton, N.I5., but later of Montreal, had a tine collection of stove anil greenhouse idants, also a grapery, lawn, and vegetable garden. He wished to procure a single man well np in plant cultivation, and Messrs. Carter & Co. reconimended Mr. Hebbington. lie was sent accordingly in that year to I'redericton to take charge of Mr. Hrayley's place. There was a Provincial Ivxliibition that year in October, in which Mr. Urayley received seventeen first and second prizes for collection of plants and cut (lowers, also the first for hothouse gra[)es, in cnni|)eti- tion with the late Governor Wilniot, Daniel Keniiey, Judge .Stevens, and other noted horti- culturists of that day. .\fter one year's service with Mr. lirayley, Mr. Iiehbington found his way to the nursery of Messrs. l[ovey& Co. in C.unbridge, at that time forty acres in extent, will-, some seventeen greenhouses. Mr. liebbinglou took charge of the tropical department, orcliiils, camellias, and azaleas, with a rose house, and grew all the specimen plants. He arranged them for exhibition with the result of many first prizes at Horti- cultural Hall that year. It m.iy be mentiimed that the jiear crop on the llovey place that season s
a dwelling-house and a lean-to greenhouse, and engaged to fill in all his spare time with G. 1'". I'"encty, i;s(|., (Jueen's l)rintcr, who had several greenhouses, a grajiery, and the finest residence and grounds in the Province. Mr. Iiehbington also had a kind of supervision (U'er th.e late H. (i. Ketchim"s place, also the late judge I'isher's, and he furnished and ])lante(.l .\le.\ Gibson'.s flower gardens at M.irysville. I'Tom this small beginning his business has grown so that he now has five greenhouses and a freehcld of live lots of land, besides renting one acre for growing celery, onions, lettuce, etc. I'"or his local trade he gives his attention chiefly to roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, smila.x, and bulbous roots, im|)orting each year from Holland many thousand tulips, hya- cinths, naicissus, lilies, etc. In 1S78 Mr. Hebbington found, .after getting established, that he hail a surplus stock, and pur[)osed try- ing his luck in St. John with the first baskets of flowers in the market, — ^ baskets of ver- benas, pansies, petunias, also pot plants, roses, ger.iniums, palms, sword ferns, tuberous begonias, etc., which he found sold at a good profit. I'Toni that time Mr. Hebbington has sold thousands of plants, having had five sales each year at Lockhart"s auction room, lie ii|| i ii u 292 BIOORAPHICAI, REVIFAV j 1 I 1, 1. was the first, in 1874, to make a Moral (lcsij,'n at a funeral, which hranih of tiie i)iisiiiess is now a specialty of his, he often n.akin^ as many as ten or twelve pieces at prominent funerals, lie also sells a quantity of hecliliny pjants in Chatham, Newcastle, St. Andrews, St. Stephen, and Woodstock. The beautiful display of tulips at the Dufferin and New Victoria Hotels, -St. John, as well as Mr. T. C. .Mian's, ex-Mayor Whitehead's, of l'"redericton, also .\le\ (iibson, Marysville, were supjilied and planted by .Mr. Mebbini;- lim. Besides his foreij;n importation, he buys from lioston. New York, Chica>;o, and Philadelphia markets. Mr. Hebbington has scores of prize cards from the Provincial and Dominion I'.xhibitions of 1S70, 187S, 1S80, and since. .'\t the present time Mr. liebbin^ton j^rows annually four thousand heads of celery and some twenty bands of onions. His j^arden and grounds in the months of July and Au!.;ust are a delight to the beholder. The l-'rederic- lon Ciliiiiicr for August 6, 1899, had the fol- lowing notice: "A Pi.Ai 1; (II Hi \i IV. ''One of the most delightful [)laces in the city at present is the grounds and conserva- tories of J. Hebbington S: .Son at lower end of Charlotte .Street; and citizens having guests here sluuild not think of allowing them to de- part without first making a visit to Hebbing- ton's, where they are assured of a hearty welcome, courteous attention, and an enchant- inir visit. The level lawn is as smooth as a stretch of green velvet, and is surrounded by close-clipped and fragrant cedar hedges. The flower beds are a mass of gorgeous lieauty, all colors of nature's garden being harmoni- ously blended in the artistic arrangement of the plants and llowers. Here are all the new and ])retty flowers and the much-loved and old-fashioned I'.nglish double hollyhocks and bride's bouquet, asters, sweet peas in great array, and many new colors, mignonette, candytuft, alyssuiii, verbenas, and (ither lu.\u- rious perennials. .Scores of beautiful bouquets are being made up every day to cheer a sick- room or to ornament a tasteful lady's table." Mr. Hebbington is a member of the Sons of llnglanil, a comnuinicant of the Church of l'",ngland, and for some years has been an usher in the Cathedral. He was superinten- dent of a .Sunday-school at the Mills for about twelve years. In the fall of 1.S72 Mr. Heb- bington was married to Miss Sarah Howtle, of I'.sse.v, P'-iigland ; and their only son, J. William Hebbington, is now associated with his father in the business, the tirm being |. Hebbington & .Son. The latter was formerly with Rebstocks, florists, Huffalo, N.Y. He makes yearly trips to .Montreal and the .States to buy goods. He is (piite a genius in de- signinLT and mechanical work. \RKIS ALLAN, a well-known and respected citi/en of .St. John, a native if the city, was born in August, son of Thomas and Jane (Hookwa\) M 4'^, mOGRAl'HICAL RKVIKW 893 Allan. His father, wiin was lnnn in l.rndx- .sliirc, Scothuul, I'tnty miles fioni dlasj^ow, in I7yS, cnii^iaUd tii New Hiunswiik in 1.S24, and the foUowinf; year, in ((inipany with James jiarris, es(al)]i^lu'il tlu' liisl tninuliA' in tlie I'rnxince. I'ntler the firm name of Harris & Allan, they started luisiness in a small way, hut, as the cciniitry developed and the |)i)|)ula- lioM inereasi'd, enlarj^a'd tlieir operations. 'rhou;4h their works wi'ie twice Imrned, tiiey rebuilt them, eaeii time on a hirj^er scale. Their specialty at first was the buildinj; of steam-en<;ines and saw-mills. Tiien they made sto\es, and still later railroad cars and I'ar-wheels; and in this tluy eventually did an extensive business. Mr. .Allan coiitinuini; in it uji to the time of his death. Mr. Allan's wife, Jane, was the daui,diter of Ciiles Ilookway, and she bore liini six children, namely: Thomas, now deceased, and Robert R., who formed the firm of Allan Brothers in the foun- tliy business in t'arltoii ; Elizabeth R., now deceased, who was the wife of James I. h'el- lows; Harris; liertba A., who is the wife of George J. Schoeld, of .St. John; and Mary, the widow of Morris Hest, at one time of Wood- stock, X. H. Ml', .\llan was Police Commis- sioner for the town of Portland. He was |)resident of St. vXiulrew's Society and treas- urei- of St. Stephen's Clunch. He died in June, iiS6i; and bis wife died in 1876. Harris Allan was reared in St. J3. is inan- aj^er of the branch of the llalifa.v liankinj; Company at .Sackville, N. H. ; Charles .\lli- son, born ( Jctobcr 5. 1864, died May 5, 1865; l<'rederick Arthur l.ovcll, born March 26, 1 860, is in charge of the job printiuLC dc|iart- ment of the Post rrintini; t'ompany at Sackville, X. H. ; .Mbei't 'i'hotnton. born August I, 1867, is a telegraph operator in the employ of the Postal 'rclegra|)h and Cable Ci>mpany, New York l."ity; Mary Louisa wa.s horn May 27, 1869; Frank .Allison, horn at Sussex, N.M. , December 22, 1870, married i'Mora S. Anderson, of Sackville, N. H., and is a member ol the law firm of rowell. Itcnnelt vS: I larrison. William II. Harrison is a Liberal Conserv- ative in politics, and both lu? and Mrs. Harri- son are members of the Methodist church. While liviiij,' in .St. John, he took an active ])arl in the educational and other interests of the Methodist church. He was one of the trustees of Centenary Methodist Chinch, .St. John, before the j;reat tire of 1877, and was for several years a member of the Hoard of Regents of the Mount .Mlison institutions at Sackville, N.M. Mr. ][arrison, the subject of this sketch, was a passenger on the steamship "Royal Tar," which was burned wh.ile on her way from St. John to I'ortlan;!, .Me., in Uctober, 1836. .\ large number of passengers were drowned, and he is iirob.ibly the only person living out of all who wi're on the ill-fated steamer. AMi;S K.NO.X, ship-chandler, St. John, was born in Rothesay, Buteshire, .Scot- land, in 1833, son of John and .Marion (Walker) Kno.\. Coming to .New Ihnnswick in 1855, he entered the employ of his uncle, John Walker, who established himself in busi- ness at .St. John in i.Sjo. and became an ex- tensive sbi|)-owner. .\ftei- the death of his uncle, which occurred in 187(1, Mr. Knox con- tinued the business, under the firm nanu' of John Walker & Co., until 1877, when his i 1 I I ! 1 m li i^H ; Mi I 1 ; : '< '1 ■ . i 1 : ,1 i 1 . I ^1* H • f ! 396 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW nephew, \\';,lker I'"irtli, was admitted to part- neishij). I'Tdiii that tiiiv; the firm oi Knox & l""irth carried on tiie l)u.siness until Mr. I'irtli's retirement in 1.SS2. h'or the ]iast sixteen years Mr. Knox l;as condueled tlie Iv.isiness alone, being pr(;|)rietor of (jne ol the leading ship-chandlery establi.ihments in the city. In 1S5S Mr. Kiiox w.is united in marriage with Miss Annie I'"arnier, wl, > was born in St. John, daughter of Richard i'"armer, a native of ^'nrkshire, iMigiand. The)' have had live chil- dren, namely: Captain James \^'alkei' Knox, who was born March 13, KS63, and died in Mong Kong, (.'hina, March 13, 1S97; .Marion, who resides at home; Richard, wli<) is in busi- ness with his father; John; and Annie Kno.x. CajHain James W. Kn(ix married a Miss Allen, and was the father of three children James Walker, Howe Allen, and Muriel. Richard Knox niarrietl Josephine Dick, and has two children lulith and I'ercy. .Mr, Knox belongs to the Masonic frater- nity, the Independent '.^rderof Odd h'ellows, and the boresters ; also to the Clan McKenzie and the St. y\ndrew's Society, antl was presi- dent of the latter for two years. lie attends St. .Andrew's I'resbyteiian church, of which he is a trustee. '.\;dci.i. i'.\iR\vi;Ariii;i-i ii.\t- J'lia.l), ship chandler, St. John, was born in .Springlield, .\.I5., .Au- gust 22. 1.S41, son of Henry Thomas and Sarah (I'"airweather) Hatfield. lie is of l.o)- alist ancestry, beini' a great grandson of Daniel Hathekl, w'.a) came fmm New \'aternal giandfather, was born in a town on the lludsin River, in New- York .State, where he was living at the time of the breaking out of the .\mericaii Revolu- ti(m. 'Then, with two of his brothers, Henry and liloomcr, he migrated to (^.-niada, where they ,-dl settled when \-ery yoimg men. liloonier Ogden located in Albert County, New Hrunswick. but the others for a few years m\ i --^1 ji niOGRArillCAI, REVIEW 3°' wiirkftl as farm hands in various parts a( what is now the Dominion ol Canada. Alter ills inarria;;o with Nani-y, (lau!j;htcr of John I'awcett, of Sackviilo, Wustmnrland (Jmnty, John ( )jj;dcn settled on a farm in this locality, where they hotli lived to a ripe old aj;'e. Hav- ing' heen a Loyalist, he received from the i'ji^lish ,i;'overiinient a ,L;raiit of live hundreil acr;s of land at River Philip, Nova Scotia, and an annual pension of ten |V)unds, as a reward for his liilelity to the crown. lie reared cij^ht children, si.v hoys and two daughters, Henry hein^;' the second son. Henry Ogdcn was horn at the homestead in Sackviilo. Learning the trade of a blacksmith in early manhood, he followed it until a few years |)rior to his death, which occui'red at the venerahle age of eighty-si.x years. Indus- trious and thrifty, guided through life by high moral principles, he was highly esteemed as a man and as a citizen. He attended the Meth- odist church, of which his wife, .Sarah, was a member. .She was a daughter of .N'ehemiah .;\yer, of .Sackville, and she preceded her hus- band to the better land, passing away at the age of si.\tv-nine years. Of their three chil- dren two are living — Amos and William. 'I'he latter married .Mice llarnes, daughter of liedford Harnes, of .Sackville, and has threi.' children — h'tliel, (Ireta, and Mary. Amos Ogden accpiired a practical knowl- edge of the common branches of learning in the .Sackville schools, and wliile vet a ycjung man e.\hibiteil great business capacity. He- gimiing the manufacture of lumber on his own account, be has since continued in that busi- ness with eminent success, and has also been largely interested in shipping from tliis port. .\ man of sterling integrit\' and high moral character, he has often been called to serve the public in places of responsibilitv, and as an official has always proved himself worthy of the trust reposed in him by his fellow-men. I'oi' fom'teen yi'ars he was County Councillor, ten years of the time serving as warden of the Cotmcil, and being also on many of the im- portant committees. In p(ditii's he is a firm supporter of the principles |iromulg.ited by the ('onser\ itive paity. Mr. Ogden has bi'cn three times married. I lis first wife, Mary Jaiu', daughter of George Black, of U(U-chester, N.l!. , died at the age of fifty-three years. .She bore him four children, ol whom but one is living, namely: .Annie, who is the wife of James R. .\yer, of .Sack- ville. and has two children — -Marjory and iJoris. His second wife, Jane, daughter of 'I'homas ("hri^tie. of Nova .Scotia, died at the age ol lifty-three years, lea\'ing no children. Mr. Ogden sid)sefpieritly married .Mrs. I'lliza Lewis, horn Barnes, daughter of .Silas Barnes, of Nova .Scotia. i ^Oll.\ lli;\m' II.XRDIXC, was hinn in St. John, J.muai)- J, iSi.S. His father was riionias Harding, and his paternal giandfalher, Willi, im Harding, the Loyalist, who came to New Jhunswick in i"N,i, ami settled in .St. John. .\fter linishiug his edu- cation at Horton Aiadem\, N.S., John Jlenry Harding went into the dr}-go(]ds business; and ii, y.' 302 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i n 1 ■-' i 1 li 1 t 1 i I i M ■r^ f:^j at a later poiind he was inv live ycais hdok- kccpur with Sohiiiion llurscy, a haiikcf aiui liiniber iiK'ichaiit. In 1X46 Mi-. Ilardiiij;' miiVL'd til Sin|i|)ei;"aii, N.H. , and, in riini|ian\' with William (i. Weir and the linn. Jn.sepii C'nnard, (if Miraniiehi, eieeted a liiinlier mill, whieh he (iperated lor three years. lie then removed the mill to Newea.stle, N.H. , wheri' ioi- the ne.xt ten years he earried on a lumber business anil kept a L;eiieial store; also built .several ships. In iS7ohe was appointed I'ro- vineial .Agent of the JJepartmeiit of .Marine anil I'isberies, and served until 1S94, when he was retired, and suceeeded by his son l''red- eriik. Mr. Ilarilini; was married in Septemlier, 1846, to Mar_\-, iiau;^hter of William Spurr, of UridLjetnwn, and sislei- of J. l)e Wolfe S|)urr, of St. John. lie has four ehildien livini;', namely: James Spurr, broker and commission merchant, of St. John; Charles Spurr; I''reiler- ick Johnson; and l-'.mma Amelia, wife of J. T. McHride, of Montieal. The f:;(ilden wedding anni\'ersaiy of -Mr. anci Mrs. 1 lardini; was cele- biated in I SijCi. kl('ll.\i:i. UN'.W, a successful brick inanufacturei' of J''ii'dei icton, \'n\k ('ount\, was born in Kin^s County, New Brunswick, in I •'^45, son ol Michael and Julia (O'Donnell) Ryan. Michael J'ivan, Sr. , was born in Tippeiary Coiintv, Ireland, whence he came to Xew 1)1 imswick as a \ ouul; man. DuiiiiL; the lirst years in his new home he followed larminj;, and later hi' took up the manufaiture of brick, at St. John. C"oming to I'"rederieton in i.Sjt, for three veais he made brick for a Mr. ]Moc';, a mason. His ri'maining )'i'ars of activity wi-re devoted to faiaiiini;. 1 Ii' died at eii^Iity- two years of aye. Ills wife was also a native of County 'rijiperary, Iridand. She died N'oimj;, leasing four children, of whom three are li\ ing. Michael R\an, the third child, was tpiitc youiii;' when the famih' came to b'ledericton. He was educated in the common schools of this place, one of his teachers beinij; Solomon Denton, and at the chapel schocd. lie subse- quent I v went to the I'nited States, where he engay;ed in lumbei' business until 1^7^. Ke- tiniiin;;' to l*"redericton, he entered into ])artner- ship with his brother under the st\Ie of Ryan liiolhers, and for nine years thc\- did a good business in the manufacture of biick. Michael subsetpiently i)urehased his bmther's interest, and has since earried on the business alone, lie makes a first-class article, and has supplied the biick for many of the lar;;e buildings in this \'icinitv, incliiiling the Xormal School, Citv Hall, the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and man_\' of the govenunenl buildings. He has a diploma and medal foi- brick and tile sent to the Colonial .\id Indian M.vhibitinn, l.oiuhju, in iSST). The lirst \ear he nianufai turi'd lour lumdied thousand by hand, but now, with the assistanie of sti'ani, burning five kilns a season, he has increased his annual production to be- tween one and Iwi) million 111 ick. In polities Mr. I\\aii is a (ioiiservat ive. In religion he is a niendiei of the Roman C'alholic chinch. ii .\iuii.\i:i. i<\,\\. It i^ it I !■ ^l li*. i irlP ^1 i^ ?' f M •( '^^ it illil 3'^ BIOORAPnrCAT, REVIEW 305 He belonjjs to various insurance orders, and is now one of tiie representatives for Welling- ton Ward in the City Council. In 1.S73 Mr. Kyaii was niairii'd at l''iederic- ton, N.K., to Miss Mary Rowan, of that jilace. J-'ive children, three sons and two dauj^hters, have blessed their union, namely: l-'rederiik James, wiio is in conip.uiv with Ills tatiu r in the jjriikyard; Arthur John, who is in the (huj; business in I'redei ictun ; Thomas; Annie; and Mary. «^*»* I.l'Rh:D MARKllAM, maiiaginn direc- tor of the S/iii Printing' Company (Linuted), St. JfjJin, N.H., was born in I-incolnshiie, I'.ngland, on l''el)ruary 26, i,S4i. .After icceiving a grammar-scliooi edu- cation, lie was emphned in tlie railwa)- and dock service until 18(14, when he sailed for the United States in the sleanisinp "liohe- niian." The voyage terminated disastrously, the vessel beiiii; wiecked near I'ortland, Me , on ]''ebruary 22 of tiiat year, at whicii time forty-two of the jiassengers weit drowned. Mi'. Markham was emi)loyed on the Grand I'runk Railway at I'ortland and J^oston for nearly two years, after which lie was engaged as clerk on the International ('iim|iany's steamer ".New Jhunswick," plying between Hoston, Mass., and St. John, N.H. In .Aiiril, 1866, lie look charge, for an Amei ican companv, of the Man- ganese iMines at Hammond \'alc, Kings County, X.H., wiicre he li\ed for twcnly-fivi' years, and where lie established a mining \ il- lage, which was named Markhamville. He succeeded in making these mines the most famous manganese mines on the continent. Mr. Markiiam was Warden of Kings County when the Mar(|uis of l.ornc and the rrincess Louise \isite(l New lirunswick, and piesented an address to them at Sussex. In i.S,Sc) he was ap|)()inted Senior Major of the biighth Princess Louise Ilussar.s, and in i.Syf) was gazetted Lieu- tenant C'olonel in the militia. He is vice- pie ident of the I'rovincial Rille .Association, and president of the Canadian Cavalry ./\sso- ciation. In iSiji he bought tiie St. John Dtiily Snii newspaper, and on the oiganizatinn of tiie Sim I'rinling Comp.my was a|)])ointed managing director. C(donel Markham is a I'asl I'resident of St. Cicorge's .Societv and a Knight Templar. He is \ ice-president of the iseystcme T'ire Insur- ance C'ompaii}' and a director of the Tictou Charcoal Iron Company. In p(ditics he is an active Coiiserxat i\e. In religion he is an Lpiscopalian I L- was married in November, \'A(\C), to .Naid.i, duu^liter of the lale John L. 'Tmnbull. II is family consi-ts of two sons anil four dau^hlers. '•TI;T1I1;N .S. H.M.L, ..f the whole- ^,_ J sale grocery firm of Hall iS; T'aii-- weather, Limited, .St. John, was born in Amia|)id is, N..S., in iSjCi, son of James and Jane (Thorne) Hall. His ancestors on both sides were Loyalists, who removed to thi' Maritime Tinxinccs immediately alter the close of the ..American Revolution, the Halls coming Irom Massachusetts and the 'Thornes from New York. 51 ' ' '■i 1 \' I m m It, 3o6 mOGRAPHICAL REVIEW w\ \ ^l \\\i Stt'plien S. Hall came tn St. Joliii in 1843, and, comnicruin}; liis Inisiness life a.s a inie his early manhood, and has been urged to aerept the position (il I'llder, but has steadily refused. While in Kiehibneto he was a trustee and the treasurer of the church. Although ninety-four years old, he is still h.ilr and active, and sa\s that he can saw wood. Mis memory, always reten- tive, is remarkable as regards names and cl.ites; and, with the exception of a slight deafness, he retains his faculties and strength to an eminent degree, being able to write with a firmer hand than man)' a one of half his years. •AMUIiL CROTllI'R.S, of the linn of C'idlhers, llrndersoii v^ Wilson, car- '^ "^^ riage manufacturers of St. John, ha.s been prominently identified with the business interests of St. John since 1.S52, and is one of the lepresuntative men of the city. He was born in St. John in iSjy. Ills parents, John and Margaret ('I'ate) Crothers, came to Amer- ica from the north of Ireland when young. John Crothers, who was a shoemaker by trade, died in 1850 at the age of rifly-.seven years ; and his wife, Mrs. Margaret T. Crothers, died at the age of si.xty. Of their thirteen children, three are living, Samuel Crotheis being the eldest. Mr. t'rothers received bis schooling in St. John, and when a young lad began work in the store of Kobi'it i'olley, who had a crockery- ware business. After lemaining there for a year, he entered the clothing establishment of C. M. (iardncr, for whom he worked the next two years. He then went to Hoston, Mass., and fiM' twd years served an apprenticeship at cnriage making with Adams & Smith, after- wards the firm of John T. Smith & Co. '{"be ne.xt four years he worked at his trade as a journeyman, and at the end of that time came hack t i • " 'N Hi ii ft" i ,11 !! f ' i! WII.I.IAM I'I-:TKKS. -4 i._ ■ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 3" ilrcn, iKiniel)' ; Iila J. 15., wIki is the wife nf II. C. Crcigliton; and ]\Ia,L;sio Thompson. I\Ir. Crtitiu'i's is a trustee of the ('(iiij;i"i'i;atioiial chuicli. ILL! AM I'I':TI:RS, whoiosalc leather dealer of St. John, was born in Hampstcad, Queens County, September 20, i, and set- tled upon a large tract of land where Upper Hampstead is now located. At one time he was the owner of Little Musquasii Island and a large of tract of upland near the hea 1 % , [ In if ::! :||||ll ff ^liirii Hi I U ^ i-l 313 BIOGRAl'llICAL KEVIKW lives in St. Jolin: ("icor^^c H. is :i resilient of Worcester, Mass.; and M.iry is the wife of C. I", l-'ker, nf F..n(lol|)li, St. John Connty. Mr. I'etcrs is a Ma>;istrate for the city and county of .St. John. He was eoniniissioned Captain in the (Jneens Connty militia, and was .\lderinan from Wi'llint^ton Ward seven years. In the I'Vee Haptist denomination, to wliieh he belongs, he has iield several imjior- tant and responsible ol'fiees, beiny; treasurer of the General Conference, and treasurer of ib.o Forei.n'n Mission Society for forty ye;Ms or more. Duriny a portion of the time ^Irs. I'etcrs also held the treasuiership of the Women's Aid I^'oreign .Mission .Society in connection with the denomination. Mr. I'etcrs is a mem- ber of the Waterloo .Stiect P'ree Baptist Church. He has held the office of Deacon in that chinch fv)r about forty-five years, and was superintendent of the Sunday-school lor thirty-seven ami a half years in succession. lli;i!i;k .\RNi)I,li, of the well- known fiin; nf \'i(inni iv .\i nnld, insiu'- ance agents, .St. John, was hmn in .Sussex, N.l)., on ( )rtol)er jc), I M40, son of Horatio Nelson and Marj;aret (icor^iana (Will- iams) Arnold. His grandfather, the Rev. Oliver Arnold, was the fust lector of the jiar- ish of Sussex: and his great ,14 raudfalher, \a- tlian Arnold, was a lespeclable phssician ol Mansfield, Conn. The amestiy of Nathan Aruidd is not kn(!wn with cert.iint;,. lie is thoiii;lU to be a j;iandson of lohn .\nndil, who was one of the fusi settlers of Manstield, Coini., and a proprietor and larj;"e land-owner of that town. John .AriKdd is supposed to have been tlesci..ided in the fifth or sixth de- Ljree from William Arnold, who was born on the twenty-fourtli day of June, 15S7, at Chesib bouine, in the county of Dorset, l''.nj;lanil, set- tled at Providence, K.I., in 1636, and died,-' Waiwiik, R. F., at an advanced af^e. " The famil)' of Arnold," it is said, '' is of great antinuity, haviny its origin among the ancient piiuces of Wales. According to a pedigree recorded in the College of .\rnis, they trace from ^'nir, King of (iwcntland, middle lit twelfth centiu)', who was |)aternally de- scended from Vnir, second son of Cadwallader, the king of the Dritons. ()li\er was a nanie of frei[uent recurrence among the iiostcrity of William Arnold, which fact seems to indicate that the subject of this sketch is a lineal descendant of the William .\rnold abo\e mentioned. Di'. Nathan Arnold married I'rudence Denisou, daughteicif Nathan Di'nison, of Wiinlhani, Conn., and the\- were the parents of nine ihildien. ( )f these at lea.st two brothers, .\nios and Ro>well, came to New linniswiik with Olixer. C)l i\er .\rnohl giaduated at \'ale College, New Ha\en, Conn., in 1 77'''. He came to St. John with other l.ii\alists in 17S.1, and tlrst ap- pears as secretars' to the directois of the town at the entranci' of the .St. Jnhn River. ( )n the ninth of Novendier, 17.^6, he mariied ('har- lotte, daughter of .Sleplien and 1-li/abeth Wig- gins, of Newburgh, N. \'. He subsei|iiently removed to Sussex, where lie beiaine tlu' first pastor of the Church of luigland, and inission- .^ Ac BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEVV 3'3 ar}' ti) tlie Iiulians. lie (lc|)aitc(l this life on y\piil Q, iS^4, ill the scventy-iiiiuh year of Iiis aj;e and the luity-tiiird yeai' of his niiiiisti)-. llis wife (lied on Xoveniher 2], 1.S31, nv;ci.\ sixty-five years. 'I'liey were tJie parents of seven children. Of tliese, Horatio Nelson, tiie sixtii eliiici and tile tliird son, who sneeeeded his father as rector of Sussex ])arish, was born in Sussex on December 23, 1799. lie entered Kini;s Col- lege, Windsor, N.S. , in 18(5, and after his graduation was for a time in charge of the {^rannnar scliool at h'redeiicton. In iSj^ lie was appointed S. 1'. (i. missionary at (iran- ville, N. S. ; and, four years later, he took his master's de};ree at Kinj;'s College, Windsor, N.S. All. Arnold's wife, Catherine, to whom he was married on October JO, 1S23, was the second daughter of the Rev. ])r. Cochran, vice- president of King's C(dlege. She died soon after and he was married on January 29, 1826, to Georgiana, fourth daughter of the late Thonias Williams, commissary and store-keeper at Annapolis Royal. In December, 1828, he removed to Sussex as assistant to his father; and, on the death of the latter, in 1834, he be- came missionary there under tlieS. I'.Ci. lie dieil on Decendier 8, 1848, leaving a family of fwc children, as follows: h'enwick Williams, who died shortly after beginning the practice of medicine in St. John; Horatio Nelson, the third child, whodicd in Australia; < ). Roswell Arnold, l'"si|., now of Sussex; Mis. Charlotte h'rith, of Cal.^arv ; and R. lleber Aimdd, of St. John. K. Ileber Arnold when eight )ears old came to St. John, where he received his early edu- cation. His first employment was in the ofTice of the Registrar of Shifiping, and for the twelve succeeding years he held a clerical position in the Hank of New Hrunswick. At the end of that time he formed a partnership with William Iv Vroom, and went with that gentleman to Montevideo, South .\merica, where he remained for three years. Both jiart- ners then returned to St. John, and have since been engaged in general insurance and shi|) brokerage insurance business. Mr. Armdd was married in 1S74 to Mar- garet .Ann Robertson, daughter of the late Duncan R.)bertson, barrister of St. John. Of the three children born of this union, one, a .son, survi'cs— Duncan Robertsoi! Arnold, a graduate of the Cniversity of New Hrunswick. Mr. Arnold is a member of the Masonic order. He and his family are members of the Church of l'-n"land. §OSi:i'H M. RUDDOCK, builder of steamboats and bridges and operator of a foundry, one of the leading busi- ness men of Chatham, \ M. , was born in St. John in 1842. a son of Andrew and I'hillis (Mills) Ruddock. His father was a native of Kinsale, Ireland, born about the first of the present century, Mr. Ruddock grew up in his native city and attended school there. He was then set to an ai)prenticeship with Harrison Allen to learn mechanical engineering, being the first of his family for four generations who had not !! 1 r- i \ '3 i f ■ f L^ii 3»4 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i\ \n ' i' s II 1 .1 » w ' 1 if , n ih bci'ii cn^ai^ed in sliip-buikling^. y\ftcr serving; six years as an apprenticL', lie went to Hoston, where lie remained eij^lit months. At the end of that time he returned to St. John, and at the opening of the iunopean and North Ainer- iean i^ailroad e'ltered the employ of that ci)m|)aiiy as mechanic in their machine shop at Shediac, N. H. After working there for two years he went to Nova Scotia and erected the crushing mills for the New Hruuswiek and Nova Scotia (iold Mining Company. He stayed there more than a year, and then, in 1862, sailed from Halifa.x as engineer of a Confederate steamer. .At the close of that summer his vessel was put out of commission, and Mr. Ruddock returned to Halifax. Shortly after he left for New York, where he entered the employ of the United States gov- ernment in the building de|)artment of the navy. lie worked at the .South I?rooklyn Machine Works, and assisted in building the "Nyaek," the ".Shawniut," the "Metacomet," and the "Mendota," men-of-war. When his services were no longer recpiired there, Mr. Ruvidock came to Chatham and engaged in the manu- facture of lumber. This he continued for live years, and at the end of that time he started a machine business. Subsequently, in i.SiSr, he purchased the Miraiiiichi I'ouiuhy, which was established by I'raser & Mason, and later operated by the Cunartls, now known as the Cunard Steamslii|> Company. He has since done an cxteniiive foundry business, employing a regular force of eighteen men and in busy times forty-hve. In May, 1.S65, Mr Ruddock was united in marriage with Miss Maigaret Jane Davidson, daughter of Horatio Nelson Davidson, of River I'hilip, Cumberland Countv, N.S. Three sons have blessed this union, all of whom are at jiresent engaged in business with their father. Charles Davidson, the eldest, who was born in Brooklyn, is manager of the foundry. Arthur ICdward, who was born in Chatham, N. H. , attends to the pattern depart- ment: and l!dwiii Nelson is book-keeper for the concern. Charles D. Ruddock married .\ddie Turner, a daughter of Colin Turner, of this place, ; nd has a family of thri'e children, by name — Oloff, Douglas, and Ada. Arthur !•;. Ruddock married Isabel l'"orbes, a daughter of Captain Hugh I'orbes, of Chatham, ami has one son, .Arthur I-'orbes Ruddock. Mr. Ruddock is a I'ast Master of Miranii- ehi Lodge, I"". A. M. ; Past Principal of the Royal Arch Chapter of Mascms; ami a charter member of the Royal Arcanum. Politically, he is an Iiidepeinlent. L-A.\TRICK :\I()R(;.\N. the oldest-es- tablished iliy-goods nier;:hant in the North I'.iui, St. John, was born in County .Armagh, Ireland, about the year i.Sii. When twelve years of age he went to I'-nglaud, where he served an appreiiticesliip to the linen weavers' trade. Later he was engageil in mer- cantile business in Durham, Pjigland. In 1855 he came to New Hrunswiek, and, settling ill .St. John, established his ]iresenl business ill the North Juul, then known as Poitland. d- II 1 i).\\ ID M( K(ii;i;k Ts, BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 3'7 l"(ir liirt)' li\i' years lu' lias been the leadinj; dry-goods merchant in that jiart of the eity, his large trade having lieen liuilt u|i solely througli his own enterprise and honest business methods, lie was aeciimpanicil to Ameriea by his sisters-in-law, Mllen and Margaret Robin- son, and his bidiher-in lau-, John Koiiinson. Margaret Robinson became the wile of James 1^. 1 logan, of St. John. Mr. Morgan married, at Wigton, Ijigland, Mary Ann Robinson, a native of Cumberland. They had live children, three of whom — lillcii, James, and Thonias — were born in iMigland, and two, I'Llizabeth and Harriet, in St. John. I'.llen is the wife of l''rank T'oster, of St. John, and Harriet is tlie wife of Joseph Harrington. Thomas is in the employ of ^Manchester, Robertson & Allison, of St. John. James, who is associated with his father in the dry-goods business, married, in 18.S7, JNIiss h'annie ('. Hayes, a dannhter of the late ]'a\- ward Ihues, of Si. John. She died [■"ebruary ly, iHy^, leaving tlirce liiildren — L'uthbert, Nannie, and Mdward. Mr. James Morgan is a member of the Catholic Mutual Hencvolent Association. Mr. Patrick Morgan is an old freeman of the city. He is a mendier of the Church of Rome, and attends St. I'eter's Church. M .WII) McROBI'.RTS, a leading citi- zen of .St. .\ndrews and owner of one of the finest farms on the St. Croix River, was born in .St. Andrews on the fourth (lav of I'V'bruarv, iSji;, his parents being (leorge and .Sarah (Ho\(l) .McRoberts, both natixes of the noith of Ireland. Mr. Mc- Roberts's paternal grandfather was a linen weaver. He emigrated with his family from the north of Ireland to I'ittsburg, I'a. Ceorge McRoberts, who was born in Helfast, came with his wife to .St. .\ndrews, and here fol- lowed his trade of cariienter anil ship-builder until bis death in i.Sfij. The Ikhisc that he built has since been rejilaced by the jdeas- ant and homelike dwelling in which his son David now resides. His five children were: I)a\id, (ieorge, Nellie, Margaret, and Jane. David McRoberts was educated in the dis- trict school of his native town, and then served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade with Mr. John Ho\(l, of .St. Ceoige. He has Worked at car])entering ever since, and from 1S50 to 1S54 was interested in ship building at Kohbinston, Me. He is a mend)er of the I'resb_\lerian church and p(]l it icall)' a strong Conservative. Mr. McRoberts married I.\(lia .\. I'ine, whose great-grandfathers on both sides (jf her house fought in the .\merican wai for inde- pendence, and subsecpiently settled in .^t. .Stephens. Of this union eight children have been born, as follows: l-'rcderick, l'!dwin Au- gust, Warren Herbert, Martin ]''ranklin, Leslie, Lemuel Roberts, .Mhertus William, anil Cb;ules. The first named of these served an apprenticeship, and is now a machinist and engineer in I'hiladelphi:i, I'a. He was edu- cate I in the St. Andrews schools. .Mi-. Mc- Riilierts is a man of inlluence in the com- h o 1 ttll l> ' 1 1 I ; i m - , II' I '- 318 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW is son (1 Nasc. nuinity in which he lives, and comniancls the conficlciKe of his fcllmv-citizeiis. Xinn' lU^UNSWICK XASI'., IJ.D.S., was boil) in Iiiiliantown, N.l?. , October <), iS^xj, and is tlic David 11. and llenrietla A. (iiarniiill) lie is a lineal descendant of Henry Nase, a native of Ciermany, who settled in Dutehess County, New \'orl<, in 172S; and bis };reat-j;reati,'randfather was Colonel llenry Nase, a l.ovalist wim came to New ]5iunswicl< immediatel)- after the American Revohition. His iiaternal j;randiiarents were I'hilip and I':iizal)eth IMary (llamm) Nase, the latter a danghter of David llamm, of W'estlield, N. H. [l-"or farther acconnt of ancestors see sketch of Philii) Nase on anotlier page of the Ri.\ ii.w. ] Da\id II. Nase, son of I'hilip and I'.jizabeth ]\r. (llamm) Nase, was born in Indiantown, I'ebruary ^, 1S4S. He was edncated in the St. John (irammar School. ;\t the a.!;e of si.\- teen he began the activities of life as a clerk in a grocery store, and later was in business with his father. For five years he conducted a line of horse cars, which he leased from the People's Stieet Railroad Company, but aban- doned that business to become a member of the firm of r. Nase & Son, and was later associated with bis brother, Leonard '1'. Nase. He with- drew from the tirm in i.SyS, and established himself in general mercantile business on Main Street, where be is carrying on a ])rofit- able enterjirise. lie was a member of the Common Council three years, and is now serv- ing on the School Hoard. In politics he sup- [lorts the Liberal jiarty. His wife, Henrietta, whom he married Deci'mber 2, I1S6.S, is a daughter of Alexander liarnhill, of I'leasant Point, Lancaster, N.H. , and formerly of Nova Scotia. Mr. and ;\Irs. Nase have two children living, namely: Harr\' Prunswick, the subject of this sketch; and Minnie (iibson, wife of M. H. J. I'deming, of the I'bfenix l''onndr\'. Harry Ihunswick Nase began bis e(hication in the pnblic schools of St. John, and coii- pleted his studies at W'olfville. He accpiired his tiist knowledge of dentistr)- with Dr. C. F. Godsoe, and after i)raetising bis pidfession as a travelling dentist for three years he entered the L^niversity of Michigan, where he remained two years. Then he entered the I'hilailelphia Dental College, from which he giaduated in the class of 1892-93. He practised in the I'nited .States two years, in Nova Scotia one \eai', and in 1890 opened his present office in .St. John, where he has acquired a lucrative business. On April 25, 1S9S, Dr. Nase was joined in marriage with Miss Minnie Hoo])er Peverly, of St. John, daughter of l''ulton Heverlv. 'IT.ey have one child, (ieorge ]3e\'erl)' Nase, born March 10, i S99. 'I'he Doctor is a member of the (lairetsoiiian .Society of Philadelphia. (Wr^ i:ORG|-. C. I'1;T1;RS, ilivision man- \r^J_ ager of tlie New Hrunswick Tele- phone Company, has been a resident of Moncton, N.H. , for the past thirty years, and during that time has been actively connected f BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 3«9 witli many of its iiiilustiial onti.'rpii.si.'s. Umn Scptemlu-r 7, 184^, in St. John, N.U., lu- is a son (if the late Cicorno 1'. i'l'tcrs, M.l)., and a j;nuulsiin of the Into Attoincy (icncral Charles I. rotcrs. Geori,^c I'. I'ctcrs took diplomas at iCdin- hnrL;h and (ilas,i;]ow, Scotland, and settled as a practitioner in St. John, X. U. lie there liuilt up a j;(>()d general practice, and for a number of years was in chari;e of the lunatic asylum there. Sub.secpiently retiring to his farm, which was in tiie suhurhs of St. John, on the Manawaj^onish Road, he was there en- ;4ai;e(l to some extent in a.i;ricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred when he was but fifty-five years old. Ills wile, whose maiden name was Margaret Clo])|)er, died very youui;-, leavini^ hut one child, George C. They were both members of the Church of iMigland. George C. I'eters was educated at the C(d- le^'iate School in I'redei icton, X. 15., and after leaving school was for several years one of the engineering staff of the Intercolonial I'lailway under the late II. G. C. Kctchum, C. li. In iHfn) he located in Moncton, where he was en- gaged in business of various kinds until 1X84, when he accepted his present iiosition as man- ager of the telephone system at Moncton. Fraternally, Mr. I'eters is identified with the Masonic oi'der, being a member of Keith Lodge, 1". & A. M., of Moncton, and of liots- ford Chapter, K. .\. M. On Octobei- 1, ti<('~, Mr. I'eters married I'diza, daughter of the late Hon. lUiss Hots- ford, I.C.C., of Monct(ui. Thev have ten children, namely: Louisa J. (wife of John H. Magee, of the Intercolonial Railway staff of Mcnctoii, who has three children — Marjorie, Maurice, and Bessie); Bliss Bostford, In- spector of the .South-eastern I'reight Associa- tion, I'rovidence, R.I.; Florence L. ; Mar- gueritte C. ; Claude \V., of the Bank of Montreal, Xew V;)rk; Brookes C, organist; .Agnes; h'annyC; Mary 1). ; and \'.. Byron \V. fWTu i;()k(;F WALT, the well known ship- V[^J_ chandler of Chatham, N'nrlluunber- lar.d County, N. H. , was born in Xewcastle, that county, in 1.S52, his parents being I'atrick and Barbara (Mitchell) Watt. His paternal grandfather, James Watt, was a native of Scot- land, lie came to Ameiica about iN::o, set- tled in the north-west, and subsequently fol- lowed farming. 1 lis gramlmother, Jane Watt, lived to reach the ad\anced age of ninety-three. I'atrick Watt, who was bcjrn in Abeideeii, .Scotland, was apprenticed to learn ihe drv- goods business in that city, but the family came across the water befoie his apprentice- ship had cNpiied, ami he came with them. I le entered the emplo)- of llendersen vK: .\llen in Xewcastle as clerk, and, having gained a good idea of the business, for which he hail an inherent capacity, he started for himself, and attained substantial success. lie married, in 1S47, Barbara Mitchell, a sister of the lion. I'eter Mitchell, well-known as the " L'alher of Confederation." Of the children of this union the following-named three grew to ma- tuiity: .\gnes J., now deceased, who maiiied ■ I V 'if'.' i lull m J I II I w .1 ... ■' 3»o niOORAPniCAL REVIFAV ilil^l ,] I 1^ 1 I? t i mh' Henry Mi},'ni)\vitz W'illiston, son i>( Jiid^'c VVilliston, of Nowciistlc; Williiim, wlio suc- ceeded his lallicr in hiisiiR'ss; ;m(l GeorfJic. Patrick Watt was Inr many years a tiusti'o (if St. James C'luiiili in Ni-wcastle. His (ieatli iii'iiniL'd in iiSrif). William Watt died in W'imiipci; in 1.^94. George Watt recciycd his ediuation at tlie (irammar SiJuiol in Newcastle (haying for liis teacher Jdhn Hardie) and at Hark ins Semi- nary. After leayini; sclioiil he entered into a Ijartnersiiiji witli his l)rother in Newcastle. In iSHothe store was Ijurned, and just alter tiiat iMr. Watt started the ship-ciiandlery wliieh he luis since carried on. He inherits Ironi his father a turn for trade and mercantile life, and li.is always Ijcen successful in his husiness undertakini;s. Mr. Watt was County ('oiui- cillor for two terms, and .\lderman of Chatham upon the orj;anization of the city. He is (irand Master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and secretary of the Ro)al Ar- canum. In 1S79 Mr. Watt was united in inarriaye with .Miss I'lli/.abeth Ci. Habherly, a daughter of Samuel Habberly, who came from I'Jigland to New York, and in i,S'6o remoyed to Chatham. Of this union one cliild has been born, ]'" ranees Agnes. Mr. Watt is Italian Consul for this iiort. rrsOl ON. ANDRIAV Gl'.ORGh: HLAHi, M.I'., and Minister of Railways and Canals for Canada, was born at Fredericton, N. H., on the 7th of .March, 1844, being a son of .Andrew and Mary Ann (.Segee) Hlair and of .Scotch descent. I Fe was edu- cated at the Cotlegiat'j .School in I'redericton. Subse<|uently he applied himself to the study of law, and, being called to the bar in .April, icSrij, has since most successfully practised his profession. In 1878 he entered the polit- ical arena, and at the general election of that year was returneil to represent \'ork Comity in the House of .Assembly of New Mrunswick. A petition having been filed against his re- turn, how(!yer, he resigned his seat, and on the issue of a new writ was re-elected on De- cember 14 of the same year. .\t the first ses- sion of the new House in l'"ebniary, 1H79, he was chosen leader of the oiiposition, tlun con- sisting of only si.x members besides himself in a House of forty-one. In the last session of that House, held in 1S82, the opposition, under his leadershi|), had increased to seven- teen. At the general election of that year, 1882, he was re-elected for his old constitu- ency: and in March, 1885, he defeated the Ilannington government, and was called upon to forTii a new ministry, which he succeeded in acconi|)lishing in one day. Un accepting the office of Attorney General, he again ap- jiealed to his constituents on M;irch 24, and was elected. .At the general election held in 1887 he was once more elected to the Legislature, and continued in office as Premier and Attorney General until 1896, when he ac- cepted his present office under Mr. (now .Sir) Wilfrid Laurier, who had been selected to form a government, and was returned as the member for (Jueens and .Sunbury Counties, I ') W |f\:. IliH , 'i •■] .1 ■; I m II I , 't i>i k i ' ! ■ i 'i ■ U'^ ' i: . 1 ,1. i ^. ---^^ r .S. ^. I.I. IdKl.s I. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW .V3 New Uriinswick, to the Cnnadian Parliament. 'I'lic linn. Mr. Ulair is a I.ilierai in pDljtics, anil in rclii;iiin an atlhcri-nt i>l liu' i'rcshyttTJrin church. lie was niarric the w idow of bldward I'iime.gan, late of .St. John, .ind has three sons I'idward, Ileiiis. and I'lioinas J. Margaret married Thomas Mullalv, and died leaving one s(jn, Joseph MuUaly. Idlen married John Warren (both deceased). Henry is a member of the firm of M. iS: II. (iallagher & Co. Alice is the wife of MiclKud R\aii, of the aho\e I'on- cern, and has one son, lulward J. Ryan. ]\IichaeI (iailagher was brought up on the homestead farm in Kings C(nintv. Locating in .St. J,n]|t| ' . i '1 I ii Jj I 'li m { \. V niOORAPinCAL REVIEW 329 I 8, and, after completing his general studies at the Charlotte County Giammar .School, he stud- ied law with Messrs. Hotsford and Wetn.ore, of I'redericton, and with Messrs. Charles Duff and Jeremiah llarmon Travis, of .St. John. He graduated from Harvard Hniver- sity Law .School with the degree of Haehelor of Laws, and later pursued a special course at the same institution. In October, 1S74, he be- came an attorney, being admitted as a barrister the following year, and practised his profes- sion alone in I'"redericton until 1878, when he removed to St. John and associated himself with W. H. Chandler under the firm name of Allen & Chandler, which lirni continued in business initil 1883. In April of that year he was apiiointed Clerk reme rli ->j^-. - his been was New tiic ves- was the ice- rinj;- niL't iiad o a li.i, I'wii •1\ ; .11-; H. J- ool vL'S un- i;ki;mi.\ii iiakkisdn. li !i <• H _T_/ >'■ Ul i:i';' 'N' i • lilOGRArillCAL REVIKW 335 Ll'kl':i) AUllUSTUS STOCKTON, I'li.D., D.C.L., l.f-.I)., n.C, mem- ber of the I'lovincial Parliament for the city and county of St. John, N. li., and a prominent resident of St. John, was horn on November 2, 184-', at Stiidhcdin, Kings Comity, N. H. His father was William A. Stockton, of Sussex, Kiuf^s County, and his mother was Sarah, daughter of the late Robert Oldfield, who came to this country from StockjKirt, ICngland. Dr. Stockton is descended on his paternal side from Richard .Stockton, who emigrated from Cheshire, luigland, jirior to November 8, ifJSf), settled on Long Island, N.Y., where he reiiKiiued for some lime, and suhseciucntly removed to lUirlington, .\.J., where he be- came the grantee of extensive tracts of land, much of which is still owned by his descend- ants. His son Richard removed from Long Lsland to I'rincelon, N.J., ami became the purchaser from William I'enn of six thousand acres of land, of which Princeton is now nearly the centre. He died at Princeton in July, i/ciy, at an advanced age, leaving six sons — Richard, .Samuel, Josepli, Robert, John, and Thomas. Richard Witham .Stockton, son of Samuel, was born at Princeton, N.J., in 173.1. He married December s, I75> Mary Hatfield, of Klizabeth, N.J., died May 8, 1801, and was buried at Sussex, Kings County, N. H. He served under the crown with the rank of Major during the American Revolution, and at tiie close of the war went witii the Loyal- ists to New Hruuswick. Richard Stockton, the signer of the Dt'claration of Indt'pendence, was a son of John, above named, ;md was therefore a first cousin of Richard Witham, the Loyalist. The latter left ten children, one of them a smi, Andrew Hunter, great- grandtather of .\lfred A. Stockton. Andrew Hunter .Stockton served the crown in the war of the Revolution, with the rank of Lieutenant, and with other members of the family emigrated with the United Lmpirc Loyalists in 1783 to St. John, then known as Parrtown. Here be married on April 4, 1784, Hannah Lester. The ceremony was performed by the Hon. (ieorge Leonard, and was the first marriage to take place in Parr- town. .Subsequently he removed to .Sussex, Kings County, where extensive grants of land were made to him. He served as a member of the quorum. He w;is born on January 3, 1760, died in May, i8ji, and is buried at Sussex, Kings County, N. H. He left three sons and one daughter. His second son, Charles Witham Stockton, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on April 4, 1787, and died on July i.:, iSfjQ. William A. .Stockton, above named, second son of Charles Witham, died at Sussex on July 3, 1890, at the age of seventy-six. He was married to .Sarah Oldfield on April 2, 1 840. Allred A. .Stockton was educated at the Acadeni)' and University of Mount Allison, -Sackville, N.H., graduating from the Uni- versity in 1864 with the degree of Bachelor of .Arts and as valedictorian of bis class, and three years later received the ^Llster's degree .,;1i ' UfA^Jl 336 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIKVV !■' : from the same institution. In iH(hj lie was graduated at V'iitoria I'liivcisity, Cohmirj;, Out., wilii tiic (li.';;ii.x' of MailKlor of I.aw.s. In |8S^ lu' iiicivuil tile ilojjrcc of Doctor of l'liiloso|)liy on e.NamiiKition from Illinois Wc'sleyan University. Tlic following vi'ar he received tlie dej^rec ol Ooctur of Civil Law from tiie University of Mount .\llison and j in 18.S7 that of Doctor of Laws in c(uirse from Victoria University. Kind's Colle;.ce, W'inil- sor, N.S., ill Jime, 1895, conferred on him the decree of Doctor of (. iiil Law. After studying; l.iw willi iiis uncle, the late ('. \V. Stockton, he w.is .ulinitted to the bar of N'lW Hrunswick in Trinity term, 1S6.S, and suhse- (|iieiitly was for some years senior nuMiiher of i the I'lrni of A. A. S: R. O. .Storkt( )f .St. John. That firm was dissolved in 1887, since which time Dr. Stockton has practised l.iw under his own name. 1 As an advocate and a si)eaker Dr. .Stockton takes hij,di rank. Altlioiij;!) actively eii,i,oaj;ed in the work of his profession and of public life, yet he has reiulen-d valuable services to his jirofession by cditini;, in 18S3, with very extensive notes, "Hcrton's Reports of the .Sti- preme Court of New Hninswick." He pub- lisheil a work on Ailmiralty Law in l.Sy4, containing; the new rules of the court and a ilii;cst of all reported Canadian admiralty cases, with an introduction on ^'cneral admi- ralty jurisdiction, and in 1.S98 a work on the "iMon.i.'.' Doctrine" and other topics. Dr. .Stockton was for some years an examiner for decrees at the University of Mount Allison in political economy and constitutional his- tory and in l.iw at Victoria University. lie is also lecturer in admir.ilty and shipping; and in ccnstitution.il history and law in the Law .School at .St. John, \, M., connected with the University ol King's ( , Windsor, N..S. He was for sonn- years , .nher of the Moard of Rej;ents of the University of Mount Allison and secretary of the board: president of the New Hrunswick Historical .Society; president of the .St. John Law .Society and of the Harris- ters' Society of New Hrunswick; and he is a men'.bcr of the Council of both of these socie- ties, lie has been a member of the Council of the .Society for the Prevention of C'ruclty to Animals from its organization, and k'f;al adviser and prosecuting; counsel and for a number of years Rei^istrar of the Vice- admiralty tiourt of New Hrun.swick, also a director and correspond' 'cretary of the .St. John Mechanics' Instit In June, 1887, he was .ip]iointed by the j;overnmcnt of New Hrunswick an advisory and honorary me'",!)er of tiie commission to report upon the amendment of the "Law and Practice and (,'onstitution of the Courts of the Province." Dr. .Stockton was opposed to the confederation of the Provinces under the terms of the Act of Union, but favored a union of the Maritime Provinces. He was brouj;ht up in the (dd school of New Hrunswick Liberals, and after confederation supported the Liberal ])arty in Doniiuion politics till 1891, when he broke with his party on the question of com- mercial union with the United States, hoKlinj; that such a policy was hostile to the empire. Since then he has in h'ederal [lolitics favored J- lUOCRAl'IlICAL KKVIFAV 337 tlio l.iliL'ral CoiisiTvativc |);iity. lie sup- ported niaiiliiioil suffrage, and thoujjlit it ini^lit lie e.\pedient ii) the popular interest to elect the Lieutenant (iovernor ol the diCferent Provinces by the people ol the i'rovince. lie docs not lavor tile aholition ol ihe Senate of Canaila. Me thinks tliat body is necessary as a cheek on hasty action in Icf^islation in the House of Commons, but if any chan^je is made in selection it mij^ht be by election for a specific term, either by a direct vf)te of the constituencies or by the I'rovincial Legislat- ures. He has always taken an active interest in public education, and has also frequently written for the press on different subjects. At one time he was one ol tlu' editors of the Mtvitinic Monthly and a<;aiii a corresjiondinR editor of /.<; Kii'iii- L'rili exist. For lumber of years Dr. .Stockton took an active i rest in military affairs, and at the time of I. union in i .S67 he held a commis- si(m as ( aptain in the I'rovincial militia. lie is a I'ast Master of the Masonic order and a member of tlu(irand Lodj;e of New Bruns- wick, lie is prominently identifkd with the temperance reform movement, and is one of the trustees of Centenary Methodist Church in St. John, of which also he is a valued anil efficient member. Dr. .Stockton was married on September 5, 1871, to Amelia l{., second dauj;hter of the Rev. Iluni])hrey I'ickard, D.I)., of Sackville, N.H. Dr. I'ickard was for over a cpiarter of a century president ol the educational institu- tions at .Sackville and one of the most promi- nent educators of the .M.iritime I'rovinccs of ('anada. D(ir(;i..\S .\rsriN, a promi- nent meiihant and shipowner of .St. John, was born in Canninj;, ber y, i.Sji, son nt lulward Winslow and Mary ( Winslow ) Miller. Ills paternal gr.indlather, .Stephen Miller, who was born in Ma.ssaehuselts in i/-/, was the lirst ol the lamilv to settle in New lirnnswick. Stephen M iller married .\pril Jo, \/<'^, llannah Dyei', (laii;;hter ol William and llannah ( llowland ) I >yer and step-ilau,:;hter of bldward Winslow, whomariied Mrs. Dyer alter the >leath of her lirst husband. Their ehildren were: I'enel-t op'', horn in I7''>.f; (ieorue, born in I'C^S- .Stephen, born in 1 7''>7 ; .San.h, born in 1770; i;ii/abeth Kent, born in '.7/2; I'.dward Wins- low, born at Milton, March S, I77,>; .Sanniel, hoin in 1775; Hannah Winslow, born in 1777; and l,uc\' Ann, horn in r77(). I^lward Winslow .Miller, first, was the si.vth child of .Stephen and Hannah (Dyer) Miller. He accompanied his parents to New Bruns- wick, where he ,L;rew to manhood, and spent his active lite, I'or more than thirty years he was iIi,L;h .Sheriff of \'ork County. He was a member of the Church of l!ni;laiul. ile died in l'"red<. ricton, Julv J.?, 1S47. His wile, Marv, whom he married Di'Ci'iuber i.j, l.Soi, died |, 11)11, irv 15, i>>4.i, ai;ed si.\ty-foiir ' years. She was the eldest (l.ui,i;hter of tlie Hon. lOlward Winslow. Her father w.is a liiK'al deseeiulant ol the dist iiiL;uished " May- flower" rili;rim and sometime (iovi'rnor of the i'lymoiith Colonv wlmsi' name he bine. Mrs. Mary Winslow .Miller was the mother of ten children —Ann, Marv l'"Ii/abeth, Cath- erine l.iitwveh. Haul), ill, Harris William, Chailes William, (ieor,L;e Went worth, Sie|)hen, Mary .Ann I'.li/abeth, and lvlw,ird Winslow (second), t hily three of these .i;rew to matu- rity, namelv: .Stephen, who w.is a p/rominont barrister at I-'redericton ; M.iry Ann l^li/ia- BIOGRAPHICAL Kp:VIK\V ^^9 lie Vi) <''■. IW, UT . beth, who niarriL-d Sir Jaiiu's Cart it; and lul- w..:(l Winslnw, second. SainiR'l Miller, a l>rothcr of Ivlw.ird Winsl.iw Miller (lirsl), was a well-known and [; and I'Jnma, who married William Marshall, of St. John. The father died at the age of seventy-three in 1891. The mother is still living, and retains much of her former mental and physical vigor. Charles William .Segee was educated in the schools of St. John. At the age of sixteen he began to serve an apprenticeshi]) of four years at the carriage manufacturing trade with Jacob l?acon, of Carleton. At the age of eigh- teen he enlisted in l-'eters liattery, organized to serve in the expected P'enian outbreak. In 1869 he started in business for himself in St. John as a contractor and builder, and this oc- cu|)ation he has since followed with the ex- ception of the years 1880 and i88r, which he spent in New \'ork City. In 1S70 Mr. Segee married Miss Charlotte Isabelle Warden, .1 native of (Jueens County and daughter of Ca])tain Isaac Warden, who came from Nova Scotia and was of Loyalist descent. Mr. and Mrs. .Segee have had five children, nani'.ly: Lillian ICthel, wife of G. K. Titus, of St. John; William Allen .Segee, who married Miss Julia Ramsay, and is residing in St. John; Charles Walter, who died in 1881, aged ten months; Laura I., who died on Christmas Lve, 1898; and Charles Stanley Segee. Mr. .Segee is a member of Peerless Lodge, I. O. O. v.; the Lncampment and the Can- ton: also of the Temple of Honor, the Good Templars, Sons of Temperance, and the In- dependent Order of I'oresters. Mrs. Segee belongs to the Good Templars and the Lodge of Rebeccas. The family atten.l the Water- loo .Street Haplist Church. r^Tc^x. Roiii-RT J. Rriciiii:. n.c, f— ■I I'idice Magistrate, and Judge of the ^— ' ( ity Court, -St. John, was horn in that city October 12, 1843, son of MaiuKiduke and Catherine (Hunter) Ritchie. Marmaduke Ritchie Ireland, in iS hie was born in Jielfast, Si I. Coming to New Hrunswick in 183:;, he resided in .St. John until his death, which occurred in 1887. His wife, Ca'h- erine, whom he married in 1837, died in 1807. She was a daughter of I-'rancis lluntcr, \,ho came from Kings Ctiunty, Ireland, in 1819, •t llti' '!s^f If 1! m ii m 344 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW the year in whieh slie was lioni, and settled uixjii a farm in St. John County. Kohert J. Ritehie obtained his early ecUica- tiou at the St. John Grammar .Scl)ool and Catholic Seminary. In 1861 he bej^an the study of law witli the late John G. Camiibell, Q. C. ; vas admitted an attorney in 1865, and as a barrister in 1866. Immediately entering into the practiee of his profession, he conducted a profitable j;eneral law business. In 1878 lie was elected as an indejiendent to represent St. John in the Provincial Assemi)ly, and was the successful candidate of the Liberal party for the same position in 1882. In the following- year as Solicitor (ieneilil lie was reelected by acclamation, and at the general election in 1886 he was again elected on the same ticket. He was a niember of the Hlaii' administration, in which he adniirablv filled the office of Solicitor (ieneral fron) 18S3 to 1889, and in the latter year he accepted the appointment of Police Magistrate and Judge of the City Court of .St. John. He received his appointment as (Jueen's Counsel from the Conservative (iovennnent. In September, 1877, Judge Ritchie married Mary .Short, daughter of John -Short, of .St. .Stephens, N. H., and a descendant of nortii of Ireland ancestrv. The)' have one son, l'.(\- nnind Short Ritchie. Judge Ritchie has served as president of the Irish I-'riendly .So- ciety, the e.xecutive chair of which his father once occupied, and was also president of the L'nion Clul). He is a meniiier of liie .St. John .School Board, the Lunatic .\sylum Counu't- tee, and the governing boanl of the Industrial School for Hoys ; is tli rector of the Horticult- ural Society, and vice-president of the Catholic Temperance .Society of America. manager of the 7^1 i:\RY A. AU.STIN New York Life Insurance Company for the Province of New Brunswick, was born in Canning, Oueens County, July 11, 1833. His parents were .Samuel and Aim (Marshall) Austin, the fornu'r of whom was born in St. John in 1792. His grandfather, Samuel Austin, .Sr. , who was a native of Virginia, and was of PJiglish ancestry, came from New \'ork with the Loyal- ists in 1783, followed the occupation of a builder here for many years, and was accident- ally drowned in 1829. He was a member of the Church of Lngland. He marrietl V.vii Ciabel, daughter of David (label, who was a native of l"rankfort-on-the-Main, (icrmany. I^leven children were born of this union, .Sam- uel, Henry A. Austin's father, being among the oilier ones. Mrs. h'.va tiabel Austin lived to the advanced age of ninety-si.\ years. Samuel iXustin, Jr., was brought up to farm life in Scotchtown, (Jiieens Count v, and was a prosperous farmer and lumberman. He died in 1842, and was survived by his wife, Ann, whom he married in 182S, and their three children - M. Douglas, Henry A., and Char- lotte Maria. M. Douglas .Austin is a prosper- ous merchant of .St. John. Charlotte Maiia was the wife of William Ross, of Woodstock, 'S.W. .She died in 1853. 'I'he mother died in 1875, ageil se\enl)-nine. She was a ilaugh- BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 345 I- UT of Joliii Marsliall, who came from Unston with the Loyalists. His parents came to America from Glasgow, Scotland. Henry A. Austin obtained iiis education in the common .schools of liis native town and at the Sackville Academy. Coming to .St. John in 1854, he entered the employ of Hastings ]?rothers as a clerk in the dry-goods business. He remained there eight )ears, and at the ex- piration of that time he went to Iiuliantown, where he was associated with his brother, M. I). Austin, in the general merchandise and shi[>i)ing business. In 1S77 he was obliged to withdraw from this lirni on account of ill- health, and for the next four years was unable to attend to business. I-'rom iSiSi to 1884 he was engaged in a real estate and mercantile enterprise in Manitoba, but a rei)ellion in that country caused a general dejjression in i)usi- ness, and Mr. Austin returneil to St. John. He then became manager of the New York Life Insurance Company for the Province of New IJiiinswick, and lias built up a \mj^c busi- ness in that line. In 1876 Mr. Austin was joined in marriage with Miss Amelia R. I'".aton, daughter of the late Aaron l'"aton, who for many vears was one of the leading business men of .Si. Joim. 'I'bey ha\e had two children imrn to them, lulna Laura and Ralph Waldo .Xuslin. The latter is in the employ of W . 11. Thome li Co., of St. John. Mr. .Austin is prominent in tiie .Masonic order, and has advanced to the Conmiandery. He was one of the oigani/eis of tiie lodge of tlie Indepeiulent Oriler of Otld l'"ellows at I'ort- laiul, and was its first presiding officer, was for many years a mendjcr of the Sons of Temper- ance, and a trustee of the Centenary Methodist Church. I le was a member of the I'rovinciu! Assend)ly from 1S74 to 1878. r^. i:()R(H': G()lH'Ri:V (ill.HKRT, \|^J. <,jC. , one of the most able lawyers of St. John, was born in that city, October 9, 1826, son of Henry and l^liza (Simonds) (Gil- bert. His first ancestor on the [jaternal side of whom there is any authentic record was John (iilbert, an I'jiglishman, who settled at Dorchester, Mass., about 1630. In 1637 he removed to Taunton, Mass., where he died be- tween May, i(')54, and June, iC>S7- H'^ ^^ill mentions other childien, one a son (iiles. His son Thomas returneil to Lngland in 1653. He was married, and he left his family in Taunton. Thomas (iilbert, second, son of Thomas, and grandson of John, married Anna lilake, of Milton, Mass., v\ho bore him eight children. One of these, Captain Nathaniel Gilbert, the next in line, married Hannah Bradford, daughter of Samuel Ihailford, of Duxbury, Mass. (a grandson of Governor W'ill- iam liradlord), and had a familv of seven chil- dren. Thomas Gilbert, third, son of Cajjtain Na- thaniel and Hannah (Uradforil) Gilliert, was born in lierkeley, Mass., and lived for some time at .Assonet. He served as a Colonel in the Uritish army, and in 1783 he came with other Loyalists to New lirunswick, receiving a grant of land at St. Mary's Hay. He later re- m^ K ', i :!■■;?;' 1 :' !=i Sii. ^ .,' - . i 1; : ;: i 'I li'l' 1. hi i' 1^ \ , ffrii" ■ ^ ■ 1 r ' ii 1; 34« BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW moved to (iagetown, N. H., and lived to an ad- vanced age. Colonel Thomas (lilhert, who was the great-grandfather f)f the subject of this sketch, married Mary Godfrey. lie had three sons and three daughters. One of the latter, Deborah, married .Samuel Scovil, of Connecti- cut, and she died in 1S39. The sons were Major Thomas, I'ert-z, and Bradford. Maior Thomas Gilbert, who lived in .Sunbur\' County, and died at the age of seventy-three, married a Miss Tisdale. llis son, Thomas NaMianiel, had several children, one of whom, Humphrey, went to Dorchester, N. H. I'erez Gili)ert, who resided at the iinniestead in Gagetown, had one son, Thomas, fourth, who was a member of the Assembly and the legislative Council. Thomas, fourth, had a son, Samuel Henry Gilbert, who was also a member of the Assem- bly. Samuel Henry had two sons, one of whom died young, ami the other went to Mich- igan. Bradford Gilbert, George G. tiilbert's grand- father, was born in Massacluisetts, A|iril 27, 1746. He was an early settler in St. John, where he carried on mercantile l)usiness as a member of the lirm of Giliieit & llaiiford, ami was a member of the ,\ssembl\' in 1796. He died January 16, 18(4. Ills first wife, whom he married jirevious to settling in New Bruns- wick, was Mary Tisdale, who died May 23, 1792. The children of that union were Henry and Thomas. Hradldrd (iijljert married for his second wife Ann Waters, who bore him two sons: William James, who was born in 1794, and died November 15, 1S63; and George Godfrey, first, born August 17, 1797. Henry Gilbert, father of the subject of this sketch, engaged in mercantile pursuits at the age of fifteen, and, becoming a prosperous mer- chant, lie continued in business until 1847, when he retired. He died July ii, 1S69. Henry Gilbert married \\\\/.:\ Simonds, y.l the Town Council and 1 1^95 97 I'ralernallv Lodge, \ Chai ter .\I. an< nd in i897-(>R Counril . oodstcii k Adodstock oini Regina, No. 652, I. II. I of whir' lie has been fina* ial ivi, _^_ '^ ! lUOC.RAl'HICAF, RF.VIFAV 35 « secretary since iSyo. lie is also connected with the ()ranj{e Association, heinjj a nienilier ol the Grand, Connty, Koyal Scarlet and I'ri- maty Lodj^es. lie is a nieniber of both the Methodist cinnch and of tiie (juarterly Hoard. Mr. Lind.say married Cedelia A., daiij^hter of Daniel Jones, of llod^d.m, Me. ; and they have one som, John 11. Lindsay. '.\KIL MROTlil'kS, of the City ^} Market, constitute one of the best known and most re'iable business firms in St. John. The iiartners are John and Daniel J. O'Neil, sons of James and Johannali (( )'Sullivan) O'Neil. John was horn in Ire- land in 1846, and Daniel in .St. Joiin in 1K54. lames O'Neil and his wife were natives of t'ounty Cork, Ireland, and came to this coun- try in I S49. 'I'hey reared six chiklren, namely : Patrick, 'vho dieil at the a^e of thirty- five years; Matthew, who is now retireil from business and resides in St. Jolm ; Mary, who is the wife f)f James Casey, i>( London, Ln^;- land ; Catherine, who is the wife of I'eter Clark, of Hoston, Mass.; Jolm; anil Daniel J. The father was a stone-mason, and worked at his trade in St. John. In 1.S54 he was at- tacked with cholera, which terminated fatally. 'I'he motiuM- died in 1M7?, at the a^v of tifty- eight. JdMN O'Nr.ii. was three years old when his parents settled in St. Jolin. lie was educatetl in the i)ublic schools, and after leavinj;' .school he entered the emidoy of James Driscoll as clerk in a grocery, and remained llieri' until he became associated with his brothers. 'I'liu business of O'Neil Hrotbers was established in 1868 by Patrick O'Neil; and at his death, in 1877, it came under the management of his three brothers, Matthew, John, and Daniel. In 1890 Matthew retired, an nublislier and stationer of well-known r .St. John, N.H., was horn on November y, 18^3, son of James and Rachel (iriscom (Murray) McMillan. He is a grandson of John Mc- Millan first, who was horn in Hallyniena, near Uelfast, Ireland, of Scotch parentage, and who came to St. John in 1822 and estab- lished the business which is still continued under the firm name of J. & A. McMillan. The first John McMillan, who died on l<"ebru- ary 5, i-t*' a-'jiwto, BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 359 Hoyt; George William, the subject nf tiiis sketch; Mary I'^lizabeth, who was niariied to William I'rovan; ICdward Le Haron, who dieil July 19, 1874; Blanche I'Mida Melvina; Ciiarles Ilcury, who resides at the homestead; Frank Forrester, of Greenwood, Hritish Co- lumbia; and b'.dith Seel)', of Boston, Mass. Mrs. I'.liila Snider Ketciiuni died on October 14, 1889, ami she and her husband were i)uried at Lower Norton Churcliyard, Kings County, N.B. Geori;e W. Ketclium vvas brought up and educated in Kings County, New J^runswick. Leaving the home farm in 1871, he came to St. John, worked in tiie store of Robert Fair at I'airville for aliout a month, and tiien was employed in Moore's Nail l'"aetory for two years. In 1873 he entered the employ of L & I"". Burpee & Co., dealers in iron and heavy iiardware, remaining with them and tJieir successors, I. & 1*-. R. Burpee, as a clerk until 1890, in which year he was ail- mitted a partner in tlie l.itter firm. On October i, 1879, he married .Mary l",li/- abeth Fairweather, a native of .St. John and daughter of Thomas h'airweather. Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum have iiad five children, namely: William I'ercy, who died August 8, iSSo, aged one month and eight days: Harold Ouintard, who died Seiitember 10, 1885, aged one year and five months; Mary Louise, born June 10, 1887; Jean Beatrice, born May 10, 1.S89; and George Francis, who died May 15, 1892, aged two months and ten days. George W. Ketchum is a membei- of liie Church of England. l^JmVARD BYRON WINSLoW, O.C, J a prominent lawyer of I'redericton, N. B., was born in Woodstock, N. B., in April, 1842, being the youngest son of John Francis Wentworth and Jane Caroline (Rainsford) Winslow. lie is a direct descendant in the seventh generation of lulward Winslow, who came to America in 1620 as one of the Pil- grims, and was the third Governor of the Plymouth Colony. lie has in his pos.session a silver tankaid bearing the Winslow crest beautifully engraved thereon, which his iinmi- grant progenitor brought with him in the "Mayflower." Tiic ancestral line, beginning with Governor ICdward Winslow, is as follows: lulward,' Josiah,-" Isaac,' lidwanl,' lulward,'^ John F. W. ,'' Ivlward Byron.' (See Davis's "An- cient Landmarks of Plymouth.") h'dward Winslow, born at Droitwicli, I'-ng- land. in 1595, married for his second wife, in 1^)21, Mrs. Susanna h'uller White, widow of William White. Their son Josiah, a native of Plymouth, was (nivernor of the colony from 1673 till his decease in 1680. He married PeneloiJC, daughter of Herbert Pelham, I'^sq. , and resided at Marshfield, Mas.s. Isaac Winslow, born in 1670, son of Gov- ernor Josiah, was married on June 26, 1700, "by Mr. Cotton Mather," to Sarah Wensley, daughter of John Wensley, of Boston. Ed- ward, born in 1714, son of I.saac and Sarah Winslow, married in 1741 Hannah Howland, daughter ol Thomas Howland and widow of William Dyer. A Loyalist, he removed with his family in March, 1776, to Halifa.x, N.S. I I IB' I ; i ■ JWLf. ' i jMwg ^w .iJi- ^aggWBura i 360 BIOGRArillCAL REVIKW ll 1 1 ' '/ ' Bt i n i' ■■ \: j™ Kdwanl, Jr., born in 174''), also a Loyalist, set- tled in New Hnniswick. Ho was a Jiulf^c of the Supremo Court. He married Mary Synionils, and had a large family of children, among them Thomas A. C. , an officer in the Teiitli I''i)ot, now the Lincolnshire Regiment; Mary, who married ICdward W. Miller; Sarah, who married Lawrence H. Rainsford; and John 1'. W. , father of I'^dward Hyron Winslow. John h'rancis Wentworth was horn in 1793, and dieil in 1859. He married Jane Caroline Rainsford, and they had the foilowingnamed children: Francis L., now living at Chatham, N.H. , manager of the Hank of Montreal: John C. Winslow (deceased), lately I'ostniaster at Woodstock, N. H. ; lulward, who died in in- fancy; Mary, now of Woodstock, N.H. , un- married; Mrs. I^li/aheth Rainsford Jacob, now deceased; Wentworth, of Woodstock, farmer; 'I". Hradshaw, of l'"redericton, secre- tary in the Department of Public Works, New J?runswick; and Iv Hymn, of h'redericton, bar- rister-at-law, whose name heads this sketch and whose personal history is outlined below. Mr. Winslow obtained his education in the common schools at Woodstock, the l<'rederic- ton High School, and the high school at St. Johns, (Juebec. Soon after he began the study of law in the office of the lion. J. J. l-'raser, afterward Judge of the Supreme (Huit of New Hrunswick and later Goveru'ir of the Province. In 1865 Mr. Winslow was ad- mitted an attorney, and very soon he became a partner with Mr. Phaser, the association continuing until the latter was jdaced upon the Supreme Court bench. In politics Mr. Winslow has been a leading Conservative, and has fretpiently taken an .ictive part in ad- vancing thj interests of friends, although never seeking office himself. He is a mem- l)er of the Church of luigland. Mr. v.. Hyron Winslow was married in 1871 to lunma li. ( )rr. They have eight children now living, namely: Wentworth Hyrou Winslow, manager of the Colonial ISank, Cidun.bus Avenue, New York City; Jasper A. Winslow, a clerk in the Hank of Hritish North America, Montreal: J. J. I'Vaser Winslow, Lieutenant in the Seventy- first York Infantry; ICli/.abeth Caroline Wins- low; Marguerite Winslow; P'. P",. Winslow, clerk in the Hank of Montreal ; R. N. Wins- low and R. II. Winslow, both at school. (RAMI'S I). DIXON, a highly respected citi/.en of Sackville, N.H., and for many years Collector of Customs at this port, was born in Sackville, N.H., Octo- ber 5, 1S19, a s(m of Ivlward Dixon. He comes of e.Nceilent pjiglish ancestry, his |)a- ternal grandfather, Charles Dixon, having been born March 8, 1730 (o'd style), at Kir- leavington, near \'arm, Ivist Riding of \'ork- shire, old luigland. Charles Dixon learned the trade of ,1 hrick- l.iyer from his father, with whom he worked until he was nineteen years old, and then fol- lowed his trade alone for ten years. He sub- se(|uently eng;iged in a paper-mill at Hatton Rudby, he conducted it successfully until 177J, when he eniigr.ited with his family to I i I . JAMliS 1). l)l\(i.\. 1 m i ' llh' It ' m 111 [ Lt K' hh - BIOGRAl'HICAL RKVIEVV 363 New niiinswicU. Localiiij; in Sackville, he invested a part of his money in land, buy- ing a tiMit ot twenty-live hundred aeres, on wiiicli lie earried on farming and merchan- dise to some extent until his death on Au- gust 21,1817. lie became prominent in pub- lie allaiis, and in 1775 was appointed Jus- tice ot the Peace, in 1778 wa nade Judge of Common I'lcas, prio, ,03' ' member of the legislature, v > aftt. -d Col- lector of Customs a niunber of years. On June 24, 17^)3, he married Si nina Coates, who died June 13, 1826. Jioth were mem- bers of the Methodist church. They had eight children, ICdward being the second son. lidward Dixon was born September 20, 177C), in Sackville, N.H., where, with the ex- ception of one year spent in siiip-buildiiig, he was engaged in general farming throughout the active period of his long life of eighty-nve years. His wife, Mary Smith, daughter of John Smith, of I'arisboro, N..S., died at the age of seventy-four years. They were the parents of ten chiUlren, of whom but two are now living: James I)., the sui)ject of this sketch; and William Coates. Doth parents were active members of the Methodist church. James 1). Dixon was educated in the Sack- ville schools, and has always been a resident of Sackville. lie has followed farming more or less during his .utive life, and is now liv- ing retired on a porli(Ui of the homestead which his grandfather wrested from the wilder- ness. In 1855 he was appointed Collector of Customs for the |)ort of Sackville, an office which he filled with credit to himself and the government for twenty-six consecutive years, being retired on a pension in 1881. In poli- tics he is a Liberal. In 1844 Mr. Dixon married liunice, daugh- ter of Cieorge Ulack, of Dorchester, N. H. I Their union has been brightened by the birth of six children, live of whom ari' still living; namely, Mary !•;., Samuel IC, Alfred H. , I'Vederick A., and Louisa C. Mary K. has been twice married, and is now the widow of the late Harmon Humphrey, of Saikville. Her lirst husband, Joseph Archibald, died leaving her with two sons, one of whom, Her- bert 1). Archibald, is living. .Samuel K. married Lnima Carter, of Westmoreland, and has three children, namely: Walter I., who married I'jnma Truman; James L. ; and Clarence K. Alfred H. married I'lorence I'reeman, of Amherst, N.S., and has four children — Leonard, I'.rnest, Clementina, and Herbert. b'rederick A. married Margaret Patterson. Louisa C. is the wife of the Rev. W. A. Hlack, ami has two children — I';ila L. and Carrie A. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon are active and valued members of the Methodist church. \'. WILLIAM CLHOPIIAS G.W .NOR. Horn September 25, 1855, in Chatham, N. H., of Irisli-Ameiican parentage. His family ancestors on both sides belonged to the early history of the Province. His father, Thomas Gaynor, a na- tive of Chatham, was educated in the grammar school of that town. His mother, a native of Newcastle, N.H. , whose maiden name was i 364 LlOCiKAl'lIICAL REVIEW t> Catherine Hucklcy, was educated in a yoimj; ladies' academy conducted at Newcastle by a Mrs. Merry. His first acf|uaiiitaiu-e with letters was made in a private scliool taught hy John Hamilton, of Newcastle. Thence he was transferred to the mixed school conducteil by the Sisters of Charity ot Halifax at New- castle in the later sixties. At tiie af;e of fourteen he represented this school in the public competition of the schools of Northum- berland County, and carried off several prizes, He tiien attended the Classical .School at Chatham known as St. Michael's Academy, where he pursued his classical and mathe- matical studies under teaciiers of exce[)tional ability. I lis pliilosopiiical and metaphysical studies there bej;un were sul)se(|uently com- pleted — a two years' course — in tiie Uni- versity of St. Jose|)ii. Here also he com- pleted his theological studies, holding at the same time tile chair of l-jiglish literature and rhetoric and the [irofessorship of the higher mathematics. Having C(niipleted his preparatory studies. he was ordained priest under a special dispen- sation from Rome, in his twenty-third year, on the 4th of Augu.st, 1878, by the Right Rev. John .Sweeney, D.I)., Bishop of .St. John, in the c:itliedral of that city. The first three years of his ministry were spent in Carleton, .St. John, and at Woodstock, until ill 1881 he was apjiointed to a newly erected mission at Debec, Carleton County. It was during his residence at Debec that he wrote the ])amphlet, "Papal Infallibility," in reply to the Rev. John M. Davenport, M.A. After a residence ol some years at Debec, his health failing, he was obliged to seek a warmer climate; and in November, |8,S7, he left for t.'alifornia. During his absence in the United .States he devoted himself princi|)ally to literary work, accejiting in 1889 the pro- fessorship of I'.it^lisli literature in the Ver- mont Institute at lUirlington. In 1890 he re- turned to New Itriuiswick, and became [iro- fessor of I'jiglish rhetoric and literature in the University of .St. Joseph. Here he re- mained until 1^1)^1, when he was again sent to missionary work, this time at .Sussex. In 1896 he was transferred to St. John to the Church of St. John the Haptist, Hroad Street, where he now resides. He is a member of the New Mrunswick Historical .Society, a con- tributor to the current magazines, a lover of outdoor sports; in politics a Liberal Conser- vative, and in sentiment intensely Canadian. Is ■^Jl'.NRN- CANlMI'l.D I'Rh'.STON, .M.D., for many years a leading med- ical practitioner of St. John, N. H., was born in New ^'ork on iMaicli 5, 1820. He was ;i son of Zephaniah I'reston, a promi- nent merchant in Hartford, Conn., and vice- presiilent of the Connecticut Mutual Life In- surance Comjiany. The I'reston family is of Lnglish origin, and has been prominent since early Colonial times. The Doctr)r took his degree of Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College of Hartford, Conn., and his niedioal degree from the University of New \'ork in i.S'44. He began the practice of t ( « KDUAKI) A. I'UliSroX. M.l). II r 11 iljll Ml ^ TH BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 367 his profession in Hartford, Conn., in 1844, but subsequently removed tn I'roviilence, \i.\. I'larly in iiis professional career he became in- terested in homoeopathy, made a study of its principles, and gradually applied them to his own practice, h'or a time he was asso- ciate editor of the Xortit Aincriiaii Joiinial of lloiiucopatliy, and while in that position he was called to St. John in consultation with Ur. Peterson. Subse(|uently, in 185.S, he set- tled in St. John, and in a short time built up a ]arjj;e and lucrative practice among the lead- ing families of the city. He was prominent in !^!psonie circles and in the fratern:' , ol Odd Fellows, lie was one of the first physi- cians hero to be apjiointed member of the New Hrunswick Medical Council of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Presto?, was married on October i, 1846, to Miss Louise (ireen, a native of New London, Conn., and a descendant of .Samu^d Green, of Canioridge, Mass., one of the first printers and publishers in New b'ngland. (See I'^liot's Indian liiMe, printed b}' .Sam- uel Green and Marmailuke Johnson, first edi- tion, \(iCi'i,.) Of this union seven children were born. One of these. George S. , died in infancy. The six living are: Henry (}., a physician of lirooklyn, .\. N. ; William C, who is a photograiiher in Troy, X. \ : Ivl- ward A., the well-known physician of .St. John; Alber L.. wiio is an insurance agent of Westerly, R.I.; Thomas .S., who is a mer- chant of Cambridgi.'port, Mass. ; and .Annie Louisa, wfi ) is principal ol :i kinderg.irten in Providence, R.I. Hr. Henry C. Preston died on July 13, 1893. His wife, wlio survives him, reside^ in Providence, R.T. Ivlward A. Preston, M.I)., was born in I'rovidence, R.I., on .September 7, 1854. He was only four years old when his parents re- moved from that city to .St. John, where his boyhood days wi;re passed. He accjuired his elementary education in the [lublic schools of .St. John, and afterward took a course of study at an academy in Hartford, Conn. His medi- cal studies were pursued for several years with his father and subsequently in Hrooklyn, N.\'., at Long Island College, where on July I, 1S79. he received the f IuhiIk'I'. Ill i>^35 lu' I)cgan liis mer- cantile career by establishing the tiiin nf which he is still at the head; and he has since carried on a most satisfactory and prosperous business, heiiii; at the present time the longest established merchant in \\'oodst(ick. llecai- ries a fine line of goods, importing directly from the manufacturers in the old country. lie takes a deep interest in local matters, and for several years has been a member of the Town Council. His lii'st wife, Melissa. daughter of ICnoch DeHeck, of Keswick, X.H. , dieil in earh' womanhood, leaving four of her seven children, nameh : I.ouisa, wife of I,. I', b'arris, member of the I'nA'incial I'ailiamenl from the parish of White Cove, (Irand I.aki', Oiieens County; Willian) Wallace; llugbli., a physician in Chipman, N. H. ; and Clarence, of liutte, Montana, CS. Hy his second wife, Chiisliana, daughter of Cajitain William Mc- Ken/ie, of Richmond, N. 15., he has one son, Charles M., a physician in I'hiladelphia, I'a. He attends tiie I'resbytcrian church, of which he was one of the trustees for tliirt\- )eais, and of which bis wife is a member. William W. Hay received a practical com- mon-school education, and suli-iipientlv as- sisted in his father's store as .1 ilerk until ICS95, when he was admitted into paitni'rship, the lirni name becoming Hugh liny iv Son. Mr. llay is independent in politics. i'or a number of years he served as County Coun- cilloi'; and in Jannaiy, 1M97, he was elected Mayor of Woodstock bv aiclamat ion, an oflice which he has tilled witii credit to himself and to the general satisfaction of his fellow-citi- zens, who have specially apiireciatcd the marked imjirovement in the public highways during his t„rm of office, I'raternally, he is a member of Carleton Lodge, I. (). C). F. ; of Meduetic )• ncanipnu'iil ; and of Court , I. ( ). ]'"., No. C>~,2. He is a Jusiicc of the I'eace, and is also a Coroner. Mr. Hay has been twice man ied. Hislirst wife, Sophia, daughter of the late Judson Harris, of Cornwallis, N.S. , died April 9, 1.S95. .She was a most estimable woman and an active meinber of the liap.tist church. She bore him five children, namely: Frederick I.auchlan, who was teller in the Hank of Nova .Scotia at the time of his death, in Woodstock; Arthur H., who graduated in llie class of 1899 in Atadia College, and w-oii the (lovernor's gold medal ; William C"arey ; liurpee Mcl.eod ; and Cassie L. ()n .September 2(), 1S97, Mr. Hay married Mrs. Henrietta Fli/.ibeth Marlev, daughter of Zebulon Jones, l'',sc|., of Ciicen- wick. Kings County, X.li. Mr. Ha\ attends the I'resbyterian church. loMAS Wlirn:, the veteran confec- tionei' of .St. lohn, president of the White Candy Compaiiw i,S'(;5 i.S(j(_), was born near Glasgow, .Scotland, ^^.ly 22, 1.S32. His father was Leslie White, a broker, who emi- grated with his family to New ]5ruiiswiek in 1845, and in the following \ear returned to .Scotland. < )n bis airi\al in this Province, young riiomas White went to l''rederictoii, where lu' was employed as a farm assistant for two years; and then, coming to .Si. John, he nioGRArmcAi, review 373 I worked for ("icor;;^ I'",. I'V'nety <>n tlic Daily yeivs for about two years and a half. After spciidinj,^ twelve niontiis in his native land, he went to the United States, and, Ineating in Maklen, Mass., resided there three and a iialf years. Returnini^ to St. John in 1855, he en- tered the ennfeitionerv business as an eni|)lnyee of Ale.xander Martin, witii wlioin he remained ten years; and in 18(15 lie establislied himself in the same line of trade on C'hipman Hill. J'"our years later he removed to (iermain Street, where he earried on business until his store, in conunon with all others in that loeality, was swejit away in the tire of 1X77, eausinj; iiini a loss of five thousand dollars. Durin;.; the year followint^ tiie great eontlagration be earried on business in a temjiorary building which he erected on King Sc|uare; and, after subse(|ucntly occupying a store on L'nion Street for a few months, he secured cpiarters in the I'rescott lUiilding on Charlotte Street, where he remained five years, or cnuil remov- ing Im the present location of the business on King .Street. ]'"or man} years he was on'.' of the K'ading confectionery (K'alers in New J?runswicl<. The inanufactory, which was for- merly carried on under the tirn\ name of White, ('aldwell & Co., was incm porated in nSijG as tiie White Candy Company, the cajjital stock being now owned b\' Thomas White & Sons. This concern, whicii is the second laigest of its kind in the Maritime l'r son of Thnnias and Charlotte V.. (Armstrong) White. The father is well known in St. John as formeih' president of the above named company. An acc(nuit of his early business life will be found in a sketch under his name upon another i)age of the Ri.\n;\v. After the completion of his education, which was acquired in the ind)lic schools of St. John, Thomas !•". White began to a.vsisl his father in l.uisiness; anil, having obtained a good knowl- In II li Hi -H 1' iMi* 374 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW [ill i!! < 1 w edge iif till.' cdiifcctidDci V lr;uk', he in 1SS7 (i|iciu-'(l :i store in l'"ic'(lcricton, wiicic he re- nKiiiiod two years. Sellini; out liis l)iisiness in tiiat city, ho returned to St. John, and, associ- ating himself with liis hrotiicr William, opened a wholesale establishment. .Some time later a partnership was loinied with 1"'. C. Caldwell; and, purihasing the eonfectionery factory for- merly earrieil on by J. K. Woodbury & Co., a successful business was inaugurated under the style of White, Caldwell & Co., with Thomas !■". White as manager. This enterprise was soon afterwnrtl merged into the White Candy Comiiany, with William Wheeler as president, 'I'honias ]'". White as manager, ami William White as supeiintendent. I'pon the retire- ment of iMi'. Wheeler in 1S95, Mr. Thomas White, the veteran confectioner, was elected jiresident. The cor|ii)ration is now employing from forty-fu-e to fifty hands, and its goods are sold throughout the lower Provinces. In 1SS5 Mr. White was joined in marriage with Miss Sarah Cochran, of .St. John. They have four children — Thomas Hamilton, Henry Wilson, Mcngaret Armstrong, and Jean Leslie. Mr. White was officially connected with St. Andrew's Lodge, 1. ( '. ( ). 1'',, now extinct, and has occupied the principal chairs of Pio- neer Lodge, which he joined in iSjtj. He also belongs to the Canadian ()ider of I'dres- ters and the ()iilei of Clan .McLen/.ie. ILLl.XM Al.l!i;Rr LOCKll.Xkr. Collector of Customs for the ]iort of St. John and e.\ .Mayni- of that cil}', was born in that city in 1S55, son of George A. and Ann (.Shaw) Lockhart. His paternal grand- father, Daniel Lockhart, who was of Scotch descent, was a native of Horton, N.S. He lived to be about eighty years old. He fol- lowed general farming during his active years, and served as .Magistrate. (ieorge A. Lockhart was born in Horton in 171^7. He was reared upon a farm in Nova Scotia, and, coming to St. John in 1827, was engaged in mercantile pursuits inv the rest of his life. He was I'olice ^Magistrate a number of years, and he represented Queen's Ward in the Hoard of Y\ldermen many terms. ;\nn .Shaw Lockhart, his wife, was a daughter of I'eter .Shaw, of ]''almoulb, N.S. ller ances- t(irs weie origii.ally from ^'(lrkshire, b'.ngland, and they lived in Rhode Island before their removal to No\a Scotia. She became the mother of seven children, namely: two who died in infamy; Lydi.i .\nn, wlvi married .Stephen Thiirne, i)i Jiridgetown, N.S. and is no lunger living; Jane C, also deceased, who was the wiie of Hewitt C. C^annneyer, of New \'oi k City; (Ieorge A., who died single; William A., the subject .if this sketcli; Jessie .\. .S., who married lirst l-'erdinand Cannneyer, and after his death married Herbert \'ail. Cicorge A. I.ockhait, the eldei', was a niemlier of the Masonic older and the .Sons of Temjier- ance. He dieil in 1S7J, and his wife died in ..S7,S. William Albert Lockhart pursued his early studies in the schools of .St. John, and com- pleted his education at the .Saikville Acadeni)". He was for ;i time eniido)i'd b\ I.ockhait & (1 i 1 B and aiul- nlcli Ho lol- ■ars, I in lova was I of )l)L'r 1 in \nn r ii[ CL'S- ukI, heir the wlio lied [1 is iVilO Jew flc ; isio /cv, ail. llL'f RT- in rly ny. & sUtii 1 ! l!! Il| I !■ KKDKKICK MUOKK. t.4 HIOC.RAIMIICAI, KKVIKW 377 ^\ ^ Co., (k'.'ilcrs ill li;its, caps, :iml liirs; Ixit a prospect (if s|)ei;(ly biisiiR'ss advancement in- duced him to accept a clcrksiiip in Ills father's store, and lie was stihsecpienlly aihnitted to p.irtiH'isiup, tiie linn name jjcciimint; (Icnrj^e A, Locishart vK: Sun. Attci- iiis fatlier's di'ali) lie rcliiu|iiisiie(i mercantile pinsuits in order to enj,'af;e in tlie |;eneral auction and hrokera;;e business, \vliich lie has condiicted with satis- factory financial icsuits. lie was a nicniiier of the Common t'ouiu il for six years, anil as Mayor d mill j,M he \ears iScSg yo he adminis- tereil the public affairs of the lity in a judi- cious and business-like manner, lie has also attended to the issiiiiij; of inairia;;e permits, li(pior liiensi's, and so forth. His ap|)oiMl- meiit as Collector of Customs bears the date ol March 31, lyoo. Ill I1S64 Mr. I.ockhart married for his Inst wife Mary V.. Lawton, daiinhtcr of James l.aw- ton. .She died in iS^;, leavinj;' one son, I''. A. I.. I.ockhart, M.l). , a member of the medical staff at Mai,'ill C'olle,i;e, Montreal, and ])riiicipal operator on the ^ynce(doi;ical staff of the Moiitieal (icneral lIos]'ilal. In 1 SfiS he married for his second wife Harriett .\. (iil- morc, daughter of Samuel and .Sarah C. (iilmore, of St. .Stephen, .\.H., and a step daughter of the lion. William I'.lder, I'ro\in- cial .Secietarv. 'I'lie children of this union are: lulitli .\lberta, who died at the ai^e of eij;hteen years; William .Alexander; Mdwin Hyard, who is studvinj;' for the Methodist min- stry at I'nivcrsity I'ark, I'ortland, Ore. ; Alice M. ]•;. ; ISealriie ,\ilcen; ;(nd (ieor^e Al!)ert I.ockhart. .Mr. I.ockhart has advanced in Masonry to the Coimiiandery, is a member of the .Sons of 'i'emi)erance, and formerly beloii};ed to tin: In- dependent ( )riler of Odd l'"ellows. Kl'DI'lRICK MOOKi:, an extensive s Imr.ber manufacturer, farmer, and stock - raisi'i' IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 SiillllM ill IM 12.2 m '~ ,l!i 40 2.0 |i8 1.4 IIIIIL6 V] ^ /2 m e". s'm c-l f the Hugh who came to Nova Scotia in i8i8. Matthew Kerr w.is trained in agricultural pursuits, which he followed in Coinwallis, N. S., during his lifetime. His wife, Eunice Ivlls Kerr, was a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (i''atoii) Ells, both of whose parents were New Enghuul jieople who settled in Nova Scotia about 1760, and who were of the sixty original grantees of the township of Corn- wallis, granted by King George II. Matthew and Eunice Kerr were the parents of Samuel, of whom a separate account will be given; Martha, who married Rufus Huntley, of Stewiacke, N. S. ; Lydia, who became the wife of Robert Cox, of Stewiacke, N. S. ; and Bessie, who married Jedediah Loomer, of Kingsport, N. S. Mrs. Eunice Ells Kerr died in 1855, and Matthew Kerr married for his second wife Annie Bigelow, ilaughter of Justus Bigelow, of Medford, N. S. By this union there were the following children: Erank, Erederick, Jessie, Olivia, and Grace. The father, Matthew Kerr, died in December, 1896, at the age of seventy-eight years. His second wife pre-deceased him five years, dying in 1891. Samuel Kerr was educated in the public schools and high school at Canning, N. S. Subsecjuently, for four years, he was engaged as teacher (class one) in the jiublic schools. Then he was successively employed as clerk and book-keeper in the offices of several mer- cantile and manufacturing establishments. Coming to St. John in 1869, he took a course of stiidy in the .St. John Commercial College under Mr. A. H. I^aton, v.ho had founded two years previously what is nov.' the oldest estab- lishment of the kind in the Maritime Prov- inces. Upon completing the course, he was invited by Mr. IvUon to become a teacher in his institution. This offer coinciding with Mr. Kerr's inclinations, he accepted it, and held the position until the destruction of the college in the great fire if 1877. Subsequent to tiiat event, Mr. Kerr continued the business as proprietor, and has been thus engaged up to the present time. His son, Sidney L., is now fi,?l! |( '' Id n.\ { • ,. 1 i ii 1 IJ 1 38° BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW r Hf III' associated witli liim, haviiif;^ charge "1 tlie sliortliaml dcijartnicnt. The p'k'ii of work outlined for the students in this institution is a most adniirahle one, and is worthy the attention of all those intending to enter ni)on a business or commercia) career. It is fully described in a hnndiiook issued annu- ally by the proprietors. Jirielly, it includes both tlieoretical and practical tiainini; of a most tiiorough kind, adiipted t(j the denianils of any branch of business or commerce. Its lead- ing features are a thorough drilling in accounts and commercial calculations, daily practice '.i actual luisiness transactions, the student being supplied for that nurjjose with a ca|)ital am- sisting of engraved college bnnk-notes, and merchandise, bank stocks, etc., in the hape of printetl cards of various kinds, which he uses the same as if engageil in actual business; book-keepi.ig in all its brandies; instruction in banking, wholesale luisiness methods, busi- ness customs, joint-stock accounts, commercial law, business penmanship, correspondence, |)ractical grammar, s|)elling, shorthand, t_\|ie- writing, etc. Altogether, the college is a model one of the kind, and a credit to the city in which it has accomplislieil a useful mission for so many yeiu's, as well as to its ])ropiietors, Mr. Samuel Kerr & Son. Mr. Kerr was married to Miss Sarah Hlenk- horn, a native of Canning, N. .S., and ilaughter of James Hlenkhorn, edge-tool manufacturer of that |)lace. His cbildien are: iMuiicc, the wife of D. A. McLcod, of St. Joim ; Sidney, who has been already mentioned; l-lvn, the wife of S. W. Milligan, of St. John; and Arthur, stenogra[)her in the offices of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway Comjiany, St. John. Mrs. Kerr died in 1881. Mr. Kerr is a I'res- byterinn, and a member of the session of St. David's I'resbyterian Churcii AMKS J. .McC.AI'FKi.W, lea importer, .St. John, was boin June 17, 1849, in Ikooklyn, N. V. J I is father was con- nected with the whol^.sale tea business in New York City for many years, and he himself after completing his studies in the common schools of I^rooklyn began the activities of life as an employee of a tea broker and repacker in New York City. He first came to New Urunswick in 1863, and was clerk in his uncle's store in Florenceville for a year at the end of which time he went back to New \'ork. Returning to New IJrunswick in 1866, he entered the em- ])loy of Thomas R. Jones, of .St. John, in 1S67; and in 1S68 he became (hat merchant's travel- ling re|)resentative on the North .Shore of New 15runswick, remaining in that capacity until May, 1876. Dining the ne.xt two years he was travelling salesman on commission for l^vcrett & Butler, dry-goods dealers, and for Logan, Lindsay & Co., and J. H. Halfrv, wholesale boot and shoe merchants. 'I'hese funis, having curtailed their business on account of heavy losses by the great fire of 1877, he withdrew from their empltiy; and in 1878 he estaljlished himself in the wholesale tea business, which lie has carried on successfull)' to the present time. He is an extensive im[)orter and an expert judge of China, India, and Ce)lon teas; and I 111 " BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 3»' his personal acc|uaintaiice with merchants throiigliout the I'rovinccs lias enabled him to build lip a large trade. In September, 1873, Mr. McGafTlgan was united in marriage with IMiss Lizzie Davidson, daughter of William Davidson, of Tracaf ICdward C. Gooden, and also some other families in this town, have adopted the original spelling of the name, Goodwin. AMIvS H. PULM<:\, for many years the leading painter and decorator of St. John, was born in Dover, ICngland, in 1837. Coming to St. John at the age of thir- teen years, he at once began to serve an ;ip- prenticcship at his trade. In i.Sfio he went into business for himself, Jind i)y means of in- dustry backed by capability, soon succeeded in building up a lucrative trade, becoming the leading house painter, decorator, and sign painter in the city. Among the buildings that he worked on are the city hall, the post- office building, the railway station, the P.irlia- ment building at I'redericton, besides nearly all of the better class of buildings in the mari- time provinces, as well as many in Port- land, Me. He was married in iSflo to Miss Sarah A, James, a daughter of Humphrey James. Her father, now deceased, was formerly a shoe manufacturer of St. John, to which place he came from the north of Ireland. lught chil- dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pullen; namely, Clara S., Sadie A., Frederick J., Ida May, Jennie A., l']lvira H., James H., and Walter C. Clara S. is the wife of J. Harry Pepper, of Philadelphia. Sadie A. is the wife of A. F. de I'orest. Frederick J. died at the age of twenty-eight years. Iila May is the wife of Dr. A. A. Lewin, of Helle Isle. Flvira II. is now Mrs. A. P. Paterson, of St. John. Walter C. died at tiie age of three years and seven months. Politically, Mr. Pullen was a Liberal. He accepted the nomination as provincial candi- date at the last general election in 1894. He i'l 386 nrOORAI'lIICAL REVIEW M h Us !.1S I't \ 1.1 all I [ ¥ ; ill was a mcmlicr of llitiernian I.odj^e, A. I*". & A. M. ; of the Now Urunswick Cliaptcr, R. A. M.; and cf ihc St. John luicamiinicnt, K. T., of whicli ho was Provincial I'lior, being a thirty-second degree Mason. He also belonged to the I. O. O. I', anil to the Union Club, and was president of St. George's So- ciety for two years. He was a vestryman of Trinity Churcii. An ardent sportsman, he was considered the best shot for woodcock in St. John. His death occurred Se|)teniber 25, 1897, and was widely regretted. His wife died a few years previously. James H. I'ullcn, Jr., born January 3, 1876, was reared in .St. John and educated at the Collegiate School, Windsor, X.S. At the age of fifteen years he began to learn the trade of painter and decorator under his father, and in 1S96 was admitted to i)artnership with him. On his father's death, in 1897, he .suc- ceeded to the business, which he now carries on successfully. He was married November 8, 1898, to Miss Lalage L. Hunii, a daughter of Charles II. liunn, a contractor and mason of New \'urk, in which city Mrs. I'ullen was born. Mr. rullcn is a member of the A. I'". & A. M., Albion Lodge; of the I. I). O. b'or- csters, Court La Tour, No. 125; and of St. George's .Society. s ANH'.L KI;RGUS()N, Collector of Customs at the jiort of Chatham, N.IL, was born near Campbellton, Restigouche, N.H., April 30, 182O. He was educated at Perth and .Aberdeen, Scotland; and, returning to his n;itivc Province, he sti'died law in the offices of Chipman Hots- ford, l';s(|., Campbellton, and George Hotsford, Ls(|., I'"redericton. Being admitted an attor- ney in 1848 and called to the bar in 1850, ho engaged in the pnictice of his i)rofession in Campbellton and afterward in Chatham, N.I5. In July, i860, he received the appointment of Registrar of Pmbatos for the county of North- umberland. (Jn .March 27, 1865, he was appointed by the New Mrunswick government Deputy Treasurer and Controller of Customs at the l)ort of Chatham, which office he has contin- ued to nil till the present time under the stylo (since confederation) of Collector of Custonis. Mr. Ferguson took a deep interest in the volunteer militia movement, his first commis- sion being as Lieutenant with rank from Feb- ruary 24, i860. On .September 21, 1870, he was gazetted first Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventy-third Haltalion, which he largely as- sisted in organizing; and on July 10, 1874, he was permitted to retire, retaining rank. Since 1855 he has boon an active member of the Highland Society of New Mrunswick at Miramichi, of which ho was for a number of years the treasurer and afterward president. A warm adherent of the Presbyterian church, he has ;ilways taken a deoi) interest in everything affecting that denomination; and on the Hoard of Trustees of St. Andrew's Church, with which he was connected, he fre- quently sat as chairman. In 1855 he was married to Miss Catherine feillf. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 387 nd ; hi- ils- « WI»W w,*»^ww ; ! . t 388 lUOGRAl'MICAL REVIKVV on the 13th of April, 1826, respected and re- gretted. His widow, whose (leatii occurred in 1 8^)1, survived him for thirty-live years. Their four sons were: John, horn in 1807; Thomas, born in 1810; Alexander, born in 1814; and William, born in iSiC). John, the eldest son, after simie years of mercantile life, removed to a farm in the vicinity of the city, and was cpiite successful in his agricultural pursuits. lie married Miss Ivli/a Dickson, of Kinj^'s County, New Urunswick, and had four children — James, Charles, Joseph, and Kathcrine. James mar- ried Miss Amelia Blanche I'airweather, of St. John, and died January 4, 1867, leavin;^ a widow and ' "o children — l';ii/al)cth and Christinia, wno now reside in .San Francisco. Charles married a daughter of James G. Melick, of Norton, Kin;^s County, by whom he has a family liviuff in that place; namely, William D., Gei^rge, Herbert, Maud, and Catherine. Jose])h is now resident in St. John. Katherine married Fulton Heverly, of Fredericton, and had a son, George I'Vancis Beverly, merchant, of St. John, and a daugh- ter, Minnie, wife of Dr. H. Nase, dentist, resident in the same place. Alexander, the third son of James McAvity, was a lumber merchant. He married Isa- bella, a daughter of William Dunham, who was a son of one of the Loyalists, original grantees of the city of St. John. At the age of thirty-three years he died in 1847. His wife survived until 1894. Their children liv- ing arc: Annie, wife of David H. Waterbury, of St. John; Emily, wife of Robert 13. Gil- mour, of .St. John; and a son Thomas, who went to California, and has not been heard from for several years. Mrs. Waterbury has three sons — Harold, David H., and A. L. Palmer Waterbury. Mrs. Gilmour has four children — ICinily Reed, ICdnah \\'., Robert C, and John U. Gilmour. William McAvity, the fourth son of James, was a merehant, and was a partner with his brother Thomas for several years. He mar- ried Annie, daughter of Captain Joseph Hamm, and died in 1859 a widower, leaving no children. Thomas, the second son, whose descendants are the most numerous of those who bear the family name in New Brunswick, or of all who are sprung from the common ancestor, James McAvity, was born on the 17th of March, A.I). 1810. He was the member of the family who attained the most distinction in the busi- ness world and as a public officer in the affairs of the city of St. John. After having received the best education the schools of that city afforded, he began his business life, when quite a young man, in the hardware establish- ment of James Hendricks, who was a promi- nent citizen and business man in the early days of the rising town. As successor to Mr. Hendricks, Mr. Thomas McAvity established the now widely-known house of T. McAvity & Sons, hardware merchants, brass founders, etc., one of the largest and most successful firms in Canada, having an international repu- tation. He took |)art in many of the financial, social, and charitable movements in St. John niOGRAPHICAL REVIKW 3«9 111 1(1 as (liirinj; his day, was a mcnihcr of and identi- fied with several ol tiie public societies and institutions of the city, and was for many years a vestryman of Trinity Church. I'or some years he sat as a memher of the Com- mon Council, and from 1859 to 1.S63 was Mayor of the city. Not only his course at tiie Council Hoard, but all his acts as a citizen j;ave evidence that he ever had at heart tlie welfare of the whole people. The general recoj^nition of this fact was jirohahly the prime reason of his popularity, for he was reserved and undemonstrative in manner, and few besides his intimate friends would be aware that, notwithstandin;; his practical nature and occasionally somewhat austere bearing, he possessed great depth of feeling and tender sentiment. As an illustration of his watchful interest in civic affairs may be mentioned his inde- pendent action when, in 1850, an attempt was made by some persons in the community to have the historic "Old Hurial-j^round " par- celled out in building lots, on which occasion he stood out alone against all the other mem- bers of the Council. At one time an attempt was made to run a street through the grave- yard ; at another, to give a part of it to the temperance societies of the city as a site for a hall. The Common Council actually voted in support of that pro])osal, with but one dis- senting voice, that of Thomas McAvity. While he desired the advancement of the cause of temperance, he yet hail to say that other suitable lots for the projioscd hall were obtainable, without desecrating the old God's- acre, and he for one would not consent to such desecration. The vote was passed, however, but the disapproval and resentment of the |)eople were so (piickly and unmistakably shown that the Common Council had to rescind the resolution forthwith; and so the now beautiful little park was saved to the citi- zens. Thus Mr. McAvity had always a keen perception and ajipreciation of the ideas and real desires of the community. In public office he was free from ostentation and moder- ate in manner, but firm of purpose; and bis term of occupancy of the chief magistrate's chair was creditable to himself and bciiefuial to the city, lie was a sincere friend, a good man, and a truly worthy citizen. His ileath in December, 1S87, evoked an expression of real regret in all classes of the community. He had married on July 16, 1835, Isabella .Sandall, svho was of Loyalist descent, and a lady whose qualities of mind and heart endeared her to every one who had the pleasure of her act|uaintance. Her death occurred on the loth of January, 1886. Their children were eleven in number, si.\ sons and five daughters. The daughters were: Mar- garet .Sandall, wife of W. ( ). .Stewart, of Hampton, Kings County; Catherine Annie, who died unmarried in 1882; Isabel, wife of lulwin N. .S. .Stewart, of St. John: Hannah Amelia, wife of F. G. Hlizzard, of .St. John; and ICUa ICliza, wife of (i. Herbert l-Mood, of St. John. The sons are: James Hendricks, Thomas, William, John Alexander, George, and .Stejihcn .Sinnott, all of whom are resi- dents of St. John, and are connected with or t I I ! i li ,^!^ ., \i 41 1 i ' I , iteii 39° BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 1 I I i 1 employed in the l)iisiiic.ss of T. McAvity & Sons. Janu's ilenilricks McAvity, the eldest son (if 'I'lionias McAvity, was born on the fif- teentli day of Seiiteniber, 1838. He has Ix'en twice mairieil: first, on June ,?2, 1865, to Miizaheth Jane Stevenson, of Savannah, Ga., U.S., who was born on January 8, 1841, and died on April 8, 1874. Hy her he had three ciiililren; Ada Isabel .Stevenson, born Aii- t;ust J I, 1866, who was married September 30, 1896, at Trinity Church, .St. John, to I'rank K' 'on Came, formerly of Maiden, Mass., r.ow of Montreal; James Lupton McAvity, iiorn Oc- tober 8, 1867; and Thomas, born November 2, 1868, died iJecember 7, 1869. b'or his second wife he marrieil at I.ifcoln, Me., U..S., on June 12, 1S77, Hlla IClizabeth Ayer. Uy her he had four children, namely: Alice Rebecca, born on May 12, 1878; iMiiiiy .May, born March 5, 1880; Norah Clifford, born Decem- ber 7, 18S1, died Septen-.bcr 24, 1882; and Mar„'aret Francis, born March 20, 1887. Mr. James 11. McAvity, tJK oldest member of tlie present firm above mentioned, was the founder of its business in the manufacture of brass and other metal work, and has always taken an active interest in tiiat jiarticuJar de- ]5artment. He has been imeresled in the pro- duction of wood ciiemicnl fibre, wood pi'lp, and paper in the State of Maine. He is a Justice of the Peace foi .he city and county of .St. John, a warden of Trinity C'hurch in the |)arish of .St. John, and a mend)Lr of tiie .Madras .School Hoard. Thomas, second son of Thomas McAvity, was born on .Septi'mber, 21, 1843, and is the head of the e.\istin,^- firm of T. McAvity & .Sons and a first-class man of business. On July 12, 1866, he married I'^lizabeth Annie, only child of the late t'aptain James Haddon, of St. John, and has liiree cl.ihhen, namely: a son, Harry II.; :■ ' two dauj^htcrs, 1^1 la Louise and I'lthel. Mr. Thomas McAvity is ;i warden of .St. Johii's Church, in the parish of .St. Mark, is a director of William I'arks & Son, Limited, and is one of tlie leadin;.; citizens of St. John. William, third son of Tiiomas McAvi'y, was born on April 29, 1846. He niarriiil on Uecendier 28, 1889, Annie .Sclwyn t^oliins, of Hoston, Mass., but has no children. John Alexander, fourth son of Thomas Mc- Avity, was born on November 10, 1851. On November 5, 1879, he married Mary I'.., daugh- ter of William H. llum|)iiiey, of Yarmouth, Me., U..S., and has live children, namely: Lleanor Louise, born in 1881 ; Allan (ictchell, i)orn in 1882; Mabel Lldridf^e, born in 1885; Thomas Malcolm, born in 1889; ;md Lmma Catherine, horn in i8()2. (ieorge, fifth son of Thonvis McAvity, was bo. .i on July 21, 1853. He married on I'eb- ruary i, 1887, Ida Marguerite Mills, and has three children; namely, Ronald Armstrong, (ieorge Cliiford, and Rosamond Hertha. .Stephen .Sinnott, sixth, son of Thomas Mc- Avity, w.is born on June 20, 1857. He mar- ried on September 15, i88i), Janet Rankine, of th-' city of St. John, and li.is two sons — Percy Douglas and 'Thomas .Alexander, both of teiuler 3ears. MM BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW The (lescer.clants (if Thomas McAvity diroiigh his tl;iii>;thters are the followiiifj: chihlrcii of Margaret S. , wife of \V. C). Stewart — namely, 1*" ranees Isabel Stewart, Maria Louise, William (Ulbiir (deceased), Margaret Amelia, Thomas IIcAvity, J. I'ercy I.ee, and J. Westra Harnes; ciiildn.Mi of Isabel, wife of K. N. S. Stewart — namely, {•'red Stanley Stewart, luniiia L. (who is the wife of V. J. G. Knowlton, of St. John, and has two children), lulith Stevenson, Nora Isabel, and George Harold Stewart; chil- dren of II. Amelia, wife of I'", (i. Hlizzard — ^ Agnes Isabel Blizzard, Mary Humphrey, Cjeorge McAvity, Winifred, and Dorothy Stewart; child of I'llla ICliza, wife of (}. Her- bert I'Mooil — Carson I'"lood. There are thus now living (a.h. 1S99) about fifty descendants of James Mc.Avity and Cath- erine, his wife, who came from Ireland to .St. John, N.H., A. 11. 1818. "^C^/Tl.I.IAM DOX.M.l) '-LANR1X, \^Y^ H.A., M.l)., CM., ul Woodstock, N.li., was bom there, Decembers, 1864, a son of l'"rancis Ranlvin. James Rankin, his palcmal giaiulfatiicr, was born Scptendjcr 2, 17S7. in Meains, Lan- cashire, -ScolI .;vl. and died December 26, 1870, in New liriuiswicU. In 1829, soon after his marriage with Marian l'"eiguson, of Dun- 1 ip, Si-dtland, James R.uikin came to .America. He had nine children: James, of Seattle, Wash. ; .\gncs, wiio is the widow of James Jaivis, and resides in Tnii|ua)-, Scotland; Robert, of Liverpocd, ICngland, a member of the lirm of Rankin & Gilmore, one of the old- est and most extensive mercantile lirms of that city; y\le.\andcr, of London, iMigland; Helen, deceasLii, M;irian, deceased ; Arthur; I-'rancis; and John, also a member (»f the lirm of Rankin & Gilmore in Liverpool. I'rancis Raiikiii was born Ma\' 17, 1841, in the parish of Northampton, N.I?. Locating i, liie town of (iiafton, he purchased his present estate. He married Catherine J., daughter of the Ri .-. William Donald, D.D., a I'resby- terian clergyman of St. John, and lhe\- bec;nne the parents oi foui- childien, of whom three are still living; namely, William Donald, Annie Marian, and Catherine M. The Rev. William Donald was born in lianffsbire, .Scotland, in 1806. He was educated at Mariscluil College in Abertleen, frmvi which he graduated with the degree of Master of i\rts, and in which he subseipiently studied thccdogy. He came to America to take charge of .St. Andrew's Chun h in St. John, X. H. l'"i)r tuentytivo \c.us, or until his death, in 1871, he retained this jias- lorate, and w;is recognized as one of the most liromincnt and able clergymen of the I'tovince. The degiee of Doctor .if Divinity was conferri'd upon him in 1849 by (Juecn's College, Kings- ton, Ont. \\c married .\nn Milne, of Hunt- lev, Scotland. William Donald Rankin received his prelim- inary education in the Woodstock Grammar School, and af'"rward entered the University of New Ihunswick, from which he graduated in the class of 1886 with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts. He then attended medical lect- 1»| >' ». I ■ III: !■* ""1i \W\ i92 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW li l: urcs at the iMlinlniiyh University, Scotlancl, and in iSyo graduated frtini that noted institu- tion with the dej;rees (if Doetor of Medicine and Master in SMri;erv. The followini,^ )ear Dr. Rankin rettniied In \\'..iidstini<. He he- loiij^s til tlie Halifax iiranch of tiie l^rilisli Medical Association, and is a niemiier of Woodstock Lodge, I'". & A. M. Dr. Rankin married Jennie, daugluer of l'"raneis 1'. Siiariie, of this city; and thev have two ciiilihen L'ranclin Sharpe and ALujorie. The Doctor attends and sujiiiorts the Anglican Church. fsTfOHN O'HRIKN, M. !'.!'., of Nelson, X.H., a general merchant and dealer in lumher, was born in Nelson in 1847, son of John and Mary (Alward) O'lkien. His father, a native of Waterford, Ireland, emigrating to New Hrunswick, became one of the early settlers of Nelson, building one of the first houses in that place. He was a farmer by occupation. He was first married in thir. country to a Miss O'lkien, by whom he had four children. .Subsetiuently he mar- ried for his second wife Mary Alward, a na- tive of Kilkenny, Ireland, who also bore him four children, the eldest being the subject of this sketch. The father died at the age of eighty-five years, his wife passing away at tlu age of seventy-eight. John O'Hrien. second, in his youth ac- (|uired a Knowledge of mercantile business, working eight years as clerk for Mr. (ieorge Hurchell. In iS/ohe established his general store in Nelson, where he has since done an e.vcellent business. He also deals largely in lumber, having a crown license to cut his lumber. He owns the old family homestead, and he has enlarged the estate by purchasing the adjacent farm of the late Richard Sutton, at one time Surveyor-general of the province. Mr. O'Hrien has been largely engaged in public lite. He was County Councillor for many years, and has also served as Warden of the county. At the general election in IcSqo he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, and was re-elected to the same office in 1892, 1895, and again in iUgg. He is a member of the Catholic Mutual Henevolent Association, and is president of the Nortlv.iir.lierland Agri- cultural Society, in which he takes a lively interest. Mr. O'Hrien married Miss Lillian Mc- I'eake, of Fredericton, a daughter of the late Patrick Mci'eake, a merchant and at one time Postmaster of that city. Mr. and Mrs. O'Hrien have two children — John MePeake and Joseph Leonard. I L LARD (). WRIC.HT. Secretary ^^' and Treasurer of the county of A\- bert, New Brunswick, son of the late Rufus Wright, is a well-known citizen of Hopewell Cape, where he was born November 19, 1852. His paternal grandfather, William Wright, removed when a young man from Nova .Scotia to l!o|iewell, N. H., and from that time until his decease was there em|iloyed in tilling the soil. William Wright's first wile, Lucy Stevens, bore him but one child. Hy his sub- I! .! JOHN ()'1!Rii;n. I ' ■; i'^ fill ■aMfciiifc.il. "H BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 39S sequent marriajje with Sarah, daui^hter of James Clark, of Nova Scotia, he had eight children, two of whom are living; namely, l"!lizabeth and Mary Ann. I^lizabeth, widow of the late Winkworth Hrewster, of 1 lopcwell Hill, has one child, William, who married Florence Moore, and has two children — Julia and Herbert. Mary Ann, widow of Captain David Stiles, has five children — -Mary, Lucy, Henrietta, .Sarah, and Isabel. Hugh, who is now deceased, served for forty-three years as Collector of Rates for the parish of Hope- well. He married Rebecca Fearbury, and five children born of theii union are living, namely: Eliza, wife of Leander Flliott, who has one child, Mabel 1'^ ; W'ilmot: Lucy, wife of Hueston Stewart, who has one child, Robert 11.; Alice; and Rufus, Jr. Rufus Wright was born in Hopewell, anil for many years was an important factor in the development of its industrial interests. A shoemaker by trade, he built uji m extensive business, which necessitated the employment of a large force of hands; and until his death, when but forty years old, he was one of the leading shoe manufacturers of this locality, and was likewise pniminently identified with its shiiiping trade. A man of true Christian zeal, he was an active member of the ]5a])tist church, and for a numiier of years served as Deacon. He married Mary M. Calkins, daughter of James Calkins, Jr.; and she is still living, making her home witii her only child, WillardO. Ikr paternal grandfather, James Calkins, .Sr. , was horn in Horton, N.S., but in early life became a resident of Hopewell, where he engaged in general farm- ing until his death, at an advanced age. His wife, whose maiden name was j^lizabeth W'ickwan, lived to the age of ninety years. ( )f their seven children James, Jr., v as the third son. James Calkins, Jr., succeeded to the occu- pation to which he was trained, and spent his seventy-six years of active life on a farm in Lower Hoi^ewell. ( )f his union with Ann Wells si.x children were born, three of whom survive, namely: Lliza, widow of Joseph Calhoun; Asenath A., widow of the Rev. K. F. Foshay; and Mary M. Mrs. Calhoun has two children — Annie H. and Whitney K. Annie H. Calhoun married Henjamin Hray, and has two children living: Artluir H. ; and Ivah J., wife of Willis C. Neweomb. Whit- ney K. Calhoun married Carrie McNichols, and has three children - William C, W., and Josejih. Mrs. l'osh;iy also has three chil- dren; namely, the Rev. Herbert J., the Rev. Milford, and Mary Olive. Willard (\ Wright was a pupil in the pub- lie schools of Hopewell Cape until he was twelve years okl, when he went to Carleton, city of -St. John, where he pursued his studies for a while. On his return home lie shipped before the mast as a sailor, and during his life on the ocean made many voyages to foreign countries, going the latter [lart of the time as mate of the vessel. Twice he suffered ship- wreck, once off the coast of the West Indies anil once on the American coast. After these hard experiences Mr. Wright decided that life on shore was preferable, and in order to w m ''■a L'l'l In i I T m' =^i ■^ I li M I ' h^i m ^' I \' l!f 39^ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW better prepare himself for his future career he entered the college at Wolfville, N.S. , from which he graduated in 1878. He subse- ciuently taufjht school one term in Hillsboro and a year in Hopewell, when he resijjned to accept in 1879 his present ])osition as Secre- tary and Treasurer of the county, with his office at Hopewell Cajie, the shire town. His lonfi; term of service in this capacity is speak inj;- evidence of the ability and faitiiful- ness with which he has discharged his various official duties. He is also Deputy Registrar of Deeds, a Justice of the Peace, and I'arish Courts Commissioner. l''raternally, he is a member and the financial secretary of Demoiselle Court, I. O. R, No. 1 54O, of Hopewell. On October 1, 1883, Mr. Wright married Sadie Hurgess, of Nova Scotia. They iiave had si.^ children, of whom five are living; namely, Mary ]•;. , Maggie C. , Rufus S. , WiUard W., and Leopold. M ANIi:i, JORDAN, O.C, was born J, ■ in the city of St. John, N.H., on July 31, 1845, and was a son of Daniel and Isabella (W'ilmot) Jordan. His ancestors on his father's side were natives of lulinburgh, Scotland, who came out and set- tled in America, and subscciucntly came to Nijw lirunswick with the Loyalists in 1783; and on his mother's siilc one branch of his an- cestors were of direct descent from tiie "men of the 'Mayflower.'" Mr. Jordan's father was born in the city of St. John in 1798. After obtaining a common-school education, he en- tered into mercantile life, at which he re- mained until the i'rovincial Savings Hank was established in St. John, when he was aj)- pointed the cashier in that institution, and continued as such until such bank became a Dominion institution arid placed into the con- trol of the Dominion government. He was appointed assistant receiver-general under the new management, and remained in such office until his retirement in 1870. He died May I, 1872. His wife, Isabella, was a native of Kredericton, in .said Province, and was a daughter of William Wilmot and a sister of the Hon. Lemuel Allan Wilmot, at one time one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Province and subsequently the first Provincial Governor of the Province under confederation. An ancestor, Lemuel Wilmot, was a Hritish officer in the Revolutionary War. Isabella W'ilmot Jordan died on Januaiy 3, 1874. She left her surviving son, Daniel, the subject of this sketch, and one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Wilder Daniel, widow of the late T. W. Daniel, of St. John. Having comideted I'lis course in the gram- mar school of St. John under the late James Patterson, Ph.D., Mr. Jordan, at the age of seventeen years, began the study of the law in the office of Mayard & Thomson, was admitti'd an attorney in P'ebruary, i8f>7, and a barrister in the following year. In 1 ,S68 (.Mr. Bayard having died) he became a partner of Mr. .S. R. Thomson, O.C, his former principal, and continued as such for several years. After the great fire in St. John in 1877, Mr. Jordan l^'S r ' Ji In A i 1 1 ' ; 1 1'^ 1 ! i i fi: ,ii; ARCHIUALU C. h. lAl'l.KY. >t'i« i BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 399 removed In Krcdericton. and after success- fully practising; there for seventeen years re- turned to St. John, and is now residing' i" SackviUe, N.H., where he is transact in<,' a hu-f^e and lucrative business. In 1891 Mr. Jor.lan was appointed by the Dominion gov- ernment a (Jueen's Counsel, and in iHi)9 he was ai>pointed to the same position by the Provincial government. He is president of the barristers' Society of his native Province, and has been one of its e.\aminers for a num- ber of years. In December. 1S92. Mr J"''ve stated; :ind Mli/a married (leortje Otly, .son ot CajUain Allen t)tty, Captain Allen Otty, K.N., was a son of William and Sarah (Alien) Otty. lie .saw much service in the Napoleonic wars, and also nerved against the United States in the War of iSij. He marrie2 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and in 1872 he went to .Scotland as emigration agent for the Dominion of Can- ada, lie was appointed harbor master for the port of Newcastle in 1873, police magistrate for the town of Newcastle in 1877, and ship- ping master in 1893. All these olFiccs he holds at the present time (September, 1899). ^ jjljj mv) Hi j li i ft m; h II li ! ,i i! ■ii ^f t f 404 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW He is chairman of the Hoan! of Trustees of St. James' i'resbyterian Church, aud is presi- dent )f the llij;hlantl Society of New Hruns- wick at Miramichi. Mr. Niven married in i8f)5 Jean Harris, daughter of (ieorge Ha-ris, l-^sq., who came to Xew Hrunswick from I'ictou, N.S. , in 1824. Mrs. Niven was horn in (juel)CC, and is of Scotch descent. 1 Icr ancestors 'cmovcd from Pennsylvania, their orii^iiial iiome in Amer- ica, to Nova .'icotia in 1775, at the outbreak of tlie Revolutionary War, and were amcn^- the earlier settlers of I'ictou. llcr paternal grandfather, Thomas Harris, was Sheriff of I'ictou County for twenty years, and the office has been held by members of the family ever since the county was organized. Mrs. Xivcn's mother, whose naniC in maidenhood was Catherine Hay, was tiie daughter of .\n- dre"' 1 Lay and a native of Miramichi. Andrew I!..y was born in Scotland, and his wife, whose niaiilen name was Laing, was also of a Scotch family. 11 i^ mother was a .Stuart. Mr. and and Mrs. Niven have no cliiidren. (^AMlfS l'. IIA.MH.TON, proprietor of ,^'1 llamilton's Mills, an e.Ntensive lumber manufacturer, St. John, was born in I'ortlanil, Me., in October, 1839. He is the son of Charles llaniilton, the veteran lumber manufacturer, who also is a n.itive of Port- land, and wa:i born in January, 1813. At the age of fourteen Charles Hamilton entered the lumber business o;, the Saco River, and later became .1 prominent saw-mill owner. He afterward operated mills on the Androscoggin and St. Croi.\ Rivers, and in 1870 he purchased the I'etrie Mills in St. John. He carried on a large business for a period of twenty-live years, the greater jiart of the time being in partniMship with his son; and after the mills were burned, in 1892, he relinciuished the cares of business. Charles Hamilton retired from the lundiur n; niufaclur- ing industry after ha\ ing followed it continu- ously for si.xty-eight year.s, and well ileserves the title of veteran, which has been ajii)lied to him. He is still vigorous and active, both physically and menially, and bids fair to mingle with his numerous friends anil ac- quaintances for n)any years to come. He m.irried Miss Adeline Dunn, of Portland, .Me., daughter of Moses Dunn. Her father was the rejire; entative of a highly rei)Utahle New I'aigland family. He lived to be ninety- four years old. Mrs. Hamilton died in 1878, leaving one son, her only child, James K., the subject of this sketch. James \'. Hamilton entered the tlour and grain business in Portland when he was a young man, and followed it until i8()i. Meing then appointed Paymaster in the United .States Navy, he served u]ion the Mississippi River for three years during the (Mvil War, and was afterward staticned on the Paeihc coast, where he remained about ten years. Resigning his commission in 1874, he joined his father in St. John, and continued with him as a partner until the destruction of the plant in 1892, as mentioned above. He bas rebuilt the mills since that time, and for the |.\.Mi:.S I'. II.WIII.I ON. . '1 ■', r 5 TT ' • ': •■*'"- ;. I ii ' l! I I f i': BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 407 past four years he has conilucted business alone. In 1.S72 Mr. Hamilton was united in mar- riage with Abl)ie Russell, of Portland. They have one son, Charles Russell Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton possesses the confidence and good will of his business associates in his adopted city, and is highly esteemed by a large circle of friends in the United States. He is a member of the Masonic order, and be- longs to Albion Lodge, No. i, St. John. ^OHN MKXZIK.S, of Newcastle, in- spector under the Canadian Temper- ance Act, was born in Miramichi, Northumberland County, N.l?., in 1835, son of John and Mary Ann (Forsythe) Menzies. His father, a native of Dumfriesshire, Scot- land, came to New ikunswick in i I 'i iH^IAtti I 111! ill^ iilil! 408 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW early Loyalist settlers of the jirovince. Mr. and Mrs. Mcnzies are the parents of four chil- dren, namely: Mary Jane, the widow of George Rogers; Allen, a resident of the State of Nebraska; lulward, who resides at the homestead; and Harbara, who is the wife of Watson Shepparil, of the State of Nebraska. Mr. Menzies belongs to the Order of Orange- men, Lodge No. 47, of Newcastle. Politi- cally, he is a Liberal. ILLIAM KILMY RKVXOLDS. The St. John suspension bridge is unic|ue amoig great public structures in hav- ing been originated by one man, primarily as a matter of personal cunvenience and at his own financial risk. That man was the late William Kilby Reynolds, who was also the originator of the St. John .Street Railway and the .Shore Line Railway, that connects St. John with St. .Stejihcn, on the borders of Maine, and is likely to be the slKjrt route between the Maritime Provinces and Poslon. Mr. Reynolds was a native of Pembroke, Me. lie was desccndeil from Robert Reynolds, one of the early Pilgrims who sougiit a home in New I-lngland, wIk was an inhabitant of Boston in 1632, was a freeman in the year 1634, and died in Boston in April, 1659. Robert Reynolds owned the lot on Milk Street now marked as the "liirthplace of l'"ranklin " ; and it was in the Rc\nolds house, while Josiah P'ranklin was the tenant of Robert's son Na- thaniel, that Heiijamin P'ranklin was born in 1706. The names of descendants of Robert Reynolds are found as active jiarticipants in King' Phili])'s War, the lievolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the great Civil War. Xathaniel Reynolds, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was living at Fort Cum- berland, N. S., when the Revolutionary War began; but, sympalhi/.ing with the revolted colonies, he espoused their cause, removing bis family to Maine, where they settled at Pembroke. His son Jonathan married Persis Wilder; and one of the sons b)' this marriage was William Kilby, who was born at Pem- broke, July 5, 1810. Owing to tiie condition of that part of the coimtry in those times, the boy received a very ordinary education; but he early showed himself to be jiossessed of great natural ability. He was a born me- chanic, with remarkable inventive and con- structive talents; and he was prompt with new ideas in whatever he undertook. \\'hcn a mere youth he carried out the largest building con- tracts in that part of Maine, including some large churches and the stone dam at the Pem- broke Iron Works. Of regular habits, be .soon acquired the means to enable bim to engage in more exicnsive ojierations; antl in the year 1844 he [)inchaseil tiie large mill ]iroperty at Lepreau, \.\\., removing with his wife and family to the city of St. John. He bad then been eleven years married to Caroline M. l)e- lancy, of Londonderry, X.S., a grand-daughter of James Woodman, one of the well-known pre- Loyalist settlers of liie townshi]) of Conway, St. John, whose lands were in the vicinity of what is now the village of l'"air\ille. Residing in St. John, it was the custii/7r Tclcgraf'h during; the l)o- niinidii election campaigns of I1S91 and 109^ and as a writer of local historical sketches for some montlis after the close of the latter cam- paigii. In July, 1S9.S, Mr. Reynolds began the ]nil)- lication of the ,\Vu' A'/v/w.sti'/V^' Magazine, a monthly devoted to the histoiy of the Maritime I'rovinces, of wliich i)iil)lication he continued to he the editor and proprietor until his aj)- poinlmeiit to the pui)lic service and removal from St. John made it necessary to relinquish to other hands what had been a labor of love to him. While Mr. Re\iiolds had taken an active part as a writer in the general elections of re- cent years, he had no personal political ambi- tions; but in the Provincial election of Feb- ruary, I1S99, he was selected as one of the candidates on the governnieiit ticket foi' the city of .St. John. The result of his candidature was the consolidation of the Catholic ^'otc for the ticket and the election of his three col- leagues in what had been for \ears an opposi- tion stronghold. His colleagues, however, could not bring to him a support such as lie brought to them ; and he was defeated liy the strongest candidate of the ojiposition by a nar- row margin of twenty-three votes in a total of thirty-si.N hundred. Mr. Reynolds had for nian\- years prepared the guide books and tourist literature of C!ana- dian goverunienl railways; and in April, 1899, he was ajipointed press antl advertising agent of the Intercolonial Railway, with headquarters at the general offices in Moncton, in the duties of which ])osition he was engaged until the close of the year, when he resigned in the interests of the constituents who supported him in the I'rovincial election. Returning to St. John, he established '/'/w /■'irciiiait, a non-parti- zan paper in the interests of the Cat Ik die peopK', and in May, 1900, transferred it to the JMce- nian Publishing Conipan\', he continuing as editor until his retuin to the govermnent rail- way service later in the same year. Among much other literaiy work which he has doiu' in the past, he has dealt extensively with the re- sources of his native ])rovince in various pub- lications. Among those of recent date are a guide to the big ganie resorts of New Pruns- wick, issued by the I'mvincial government, and the official descrijilion of New ]?riinswick in "Canaila from Ocean to (Jcean" (Toronto, 1899). In addition to a number of campaign pamphlets, he has written and i>ublished "Old- time Tragedies" (1S95) and a sketch of the life of the Rev. William Donald, IJ.l). (1S98), imblished by the faniil)- of that clergyman for private circulation. He has now ready for the press a book entitled "True Pirate Stories, " and is gathering material foi- a history of St. John and a "History nf the Cathidic Cluncli in \ew Prunswick. " Mr. Reynolds was formerl)' very active in Masonic woik, having taken a large number of degrees and having held office in most of the bodies. He retired honorably from the frater- nity in 1S94, when he was received into the Catholic Church. He is a member of the New Piimswick Historical Society, has held official positions in the A. (). H., and is past president m \w ^Jttti- li ' 1 ■ if .1 1 5 )i ■ Cai'TAIN THOMAS K. ANDKKSON. V BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 4»S iif tlio llibcriiian Kni>;lils. I Ic is unman icil, and liis address is St. Jolm or Moiictdii. N. M. [AiTAiN iii.oMAs Rni:i:.si': an- I)I':KS(1\, iif Sackvillc, N'.H., is a lypiial rt'iircscntativf of tlidsc hardy and coura^a'iiiis men who have assisted in de- velopin^i tlic commercial resources of the I'rov- inces, and made possible a close intercourse anil a lar^^e interchani^e of ^mikIs between iiome and foreign poits. He was born in .Sack\iile, i-'cbruary t,, 1.S40, son of Titus and Jane (). (iiuhner) Anderson, and is of the fourth gen- eration in descent from Thomas Anderson, Sr. , the louuder of the taniily in New Brunswick, who was one of the pioneeis of Sackville. Thomas Anderson, Sr. , was ixirn in l-ingland about the middle of the eighteenth centuiy, and there grew to manhood, a resident of York- shire, blarly in 1772, in the town of \'ork, England, lie married Mary Redburn, and shortly after this young couple came to this country in comjiany with ("barles Dixon, of whom fuilher mention is made below. They lived with Mr. Di.xon and his familv at Sackville lor a while; and then .Mr. Anderson bought land on Cole's Ishnul, where he engaged in general farming the remainder of his active career. His life covered a period of more than ninety \ears. His wife also at- tained a good old age. It is not known how many daugiiters they reared; but they had three sons, of whom Thomas, Jr., the Cajitain's grandfather, was tiie second in order of birth. Thomas Anderson, Jr., was born in Sack- ville, and there spent his eighty-se\en years of earthly life, industriously and successfully employed tlie greater part of the time in agri- cultural pursuits. Of his marriage with I.ucy Stone (he sons and an etpial number of daugh- ters were born. One of his sons, Charles, is still living. Hoth Thomas .Anderson, Jr., and his wife were Maptisls. Titus Anderson, their third son, the father of Ca|)tain Anderson, was born on Cole's Island, Sackville, X.l!., July 5, 1S05. bol- lowing the sea from his early manhond, he soon became master and owner of a coasting- vessi), and was always afterward connected with sailing-vessels, either as an owner or master, or both, having had several new vessels built lor him. He was shipwrecked, and lost bis life on the Slh of July, 1.S70, being then about si.xty-five years of age. He married M...ib 24, iS^o, Jane Oulton Hulmer, daughter of Charles 1). and bllizabetb (Oulton) Hulmer, and the eldest of a family of five sons and four daughters. Her father, Charles Ibdmer, was the eldest sun of (ieorge Hulmer and his wife, Susanna Dixon Hulmer, the latter being the eldest daughter of Charles Dixon, one of the first of the I-lnglish inunigrants who settled at Sackville. Charles Di.\on, as we learn from the Dixon genealogy compiled by James D. Dixon, was born at Kirkleavington, in the b'.ast Riding of Yorkshire, l-jigland, in 173(3. On June 24, 1763, lie married Susanna ('oates. On March 16, I77_', with his wife and four children, be sailed fnjm I.iver|)ool in the ship "Duke (jf \'ork," bound for .Nova Scotia. Amon;' his iii id '?]' m rill. 1 ' : 4i6 BIOC.RArniCAL REVIEW ■ i [ fcllow-passongcrs were Thomas Aiulersdn, Sr. , and l)is bride, as nici\ti(inc(l al)<)ve, and (icnrj^c Miilnicr, then a lad of twelve years. Keaihinj{ {'"ort Ciunherland on May 2i, Mr. Di.xon there fduiul a tiiii|icirary restin^-plaie for his family, and in June removed with them to Saikvillc, where he had hoiij^ht a tract of land — twenty- live lumdred aires- - for two hnndred and si.xty |iounds. Jletter educated tlian many ol his neij;;hl)ors and exjierienced in hnsiness, he became an ac- tive, useful, and influential citizen, holding the olbces of Justice (jf the I'eace and Jud;;e of the t'ommon I'leas. He was a devoted .Meth- odist in religion, and his house was a home for the carl) .\rethoiiist preachers. lie died in 1817 in his eighty-eighth year, and Mrs. Di.xon in iS^f), at the same age. Their de- scendants, the posterity of their eight chiKhcii, are numeic > and are widely scattered. Susanna, their tiiird child, born in I'Jigiand in I yC)j, married George Mulmer in 1 7.S4. Charles Di.xon Hulmer, eldest son of (icorge and Susanna, manied in 1 .S09 I'ili/.aiicth Oulton, of Westmoreland, and settled at .Sack- ville on land given him by hi.s grandfather Di.xon. Industrious and enterjirising, he suc- cessfully engaged in farnnng, also to some ex tent in lumbering and milling. lie died in iSr)4, aged seventy-seven years ; and his wife, I'Llizabeth, died in 1.S70, aged eighty-three. Mrs. Jane ( ). Ander.son was born May jo, iSio, and died October S, 1895. She was a woman of line character anil a member of tlie Hapti.st church. Siie bore her husband six children, nameh : (ieorge; Ammi C; l';ii/.a- beth, who died of whooping-cough at the age of eighteen months; Charles M. ; 'i'homa.s K. ; and Gaius. l)f these only the two younger are now li\ing. (iaius Ander.son married I'.inma A. Keillor and has four children : lunma Ruth and F.ucy Jane, twins, iiorn March .^i, iii()6; Hubert G., born August 15, 1870; and Minnie .Mice, born January i, 1S7.?. Ca|)tain (icorge Anderson, tiie eldest of the family of Titus Anderson, was a ship-builder and master mariner, lie died at bis home in 187.5, at the earl)- age of ffirtytwo )ears, leav- ing his wife (Arahel Ayer), three sons, and a daughter. The mother, who was tiie young- est child of Jesse Ayer, survived her husband only seven years. Captain Ru])crt Titus An- derson, the eldest of their family, has followed tiie sea since bis boybond, and is at |>resent master of the steamship "('omlor." of W. K. Grace's line, running i)etween New York and Valparaiso, lie is unmarried. The seconil in this family is Cajitain I'jnest Lawrence Anderson, at present master of ship ".\i'- mcnia," belonging to Messrs. Ta) lor Urothers, of St. John, \.M. , the sanie tirm with which his uncle has been so long connected. Cap- tain l-anest married in 1890 Jessie b'ord, daughter of Alexander I'ord, Msq., of Moncton, N. H. They have two children. C^ajitain George's third son has, like his brothers, al- ways followed the sea. lie has an I'jiglish ship-master's certificate of competence, and has occasionally been in connnand, but at the present writing is chief ollicer of the steamship "Madiana," of the (juebec .Steamship Com- il jei m\h ' ii ; i, ^ w 1 >l m\\ \ m !l I i I: . 1 1 \ i'i 1 i I i i U.. . - |i i.irs I.. i\(iii:s. ^ niOGRAPHICAI. REVIEW 419 paiiy, sailing out of New Vorit. Mc is iinniar- ricil. Tiie fourth and youngest surviving child of Cai)tain George is Carrie H. R. Anderson Peters, the wife of George Peters, ICsij. , of St. John, N. H., and mother of two hoys, one horn on i'ehruary 22. iSyj, and the other i'"ehrnary 22, 1899. Aninii C. Aniierson, second son of Titus, was a stone-mason and hrickla_\-er, heing tiie onl)' one of the family who cliose an occupation that kejit liini on land. An excellent mechanic and highly respected hy all who knew him, he became the owner of a good property. He died in 1S85, aged fifty-two years; and his wife, J'.lizabeth, daughter of C. Dixon Hulmcr, died in 1891. They had two daughters, botii of whom ;!ied in girlhood. Captain Charles M. Anderson, tlie fourth child of Titus vXnilcrsoii, became master of a sailing-shi|) when quite a \()ung man. lie was a successful shiiimaster, having had com- mand of several new shi|)s, the last of which was named after his wife, "Bertha Anderson." He died in New Zealand, at tlieageof fift\-eight years. He was twice married. II is fust wife, Mary Wry, second daughlei- of the late Isaac Wry, bore him two children, the first of whom died in childhood, and tiie second, Marv, is maiiied and living in New Zealand. He mar- ried for his second wife Bertha Dixon, young- est daughter of tiie late John Dixon, of Dor- chester, N. ]!. ( )f this union weie born five children, fiuu' of whom are li\ iiig. Thomas Khei'se .Andeison, tlie fifth child of Titus and the special subject of the present sketch, completed his education at Mount >\lli- i son Academy when seventeen years old, and then, yielding to the fascinations of seafaring pursuits, embarked as a sailor. Proving him- self a skilful mariner, he was made master of a vessel in 1862; and from that time forward he was engaged ])rincii)ally in foreign trade, in his voyages frecpiently visiting ports in C^liina, Jaiian, tlic Philippines, and on the we.st coast of Y\iiierica. l-'rom 1866 until his re- tirement from the sea in 1892 Captain Ander- son continued in the employ of tiie firm of Taylor Brothers, with whom he is still as.soci- ated, having large interests in \arious sailing- vessels. His record as a successful shipmaster it would be hard to excel. He never made a voyage without it resulting in a dividend for the ship-owners, never stranded a \essel or iiad 1 loucii the ground, nor \'aried from the voyage for repairs or stores — in short, never went into a port in distress. And his integ- rity, no less than his seamansiiii) and business ability, has been always recognized by his employers. Captain Anderson married Ruth I'.. H. Cole, daughter of Rufus Cole, of Rockport, N. B. , formerly for several years Deputy Collector of Customs. Mrs. Anderson aceoinpanijd her husbind on a voyage sliorllv after their mar- riage, and in a few months died at sea. §l'l.irS I.kGI'.XDRI'. INCHl'l.S, of I''redericton, N.B., ex Secretary of Agiiculture, is a native of Dunkeld, Perthshire, Si'otland, and was hcirn in 1824. [1:1 J! 1 . i I 11 ^!i m 420 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i ( w ; 1 IW Records which liave unfortunately been lost c:)iitainccl the family genealoj^y for two hundred and fifty years, and revealed the fact that the Inches are a branch of the KolKitson family of Scotland. The origin of tlie famil\- name of Inches is somewhat in doubt, but it is gener- ally believed by its members that, as their an- cestors lived upon the river Tny and inhabited the intervales or narrow stretches of allu\ial soil along its banks, called in Scotland inches, the name was deri\ed from that peculiar local idiom. On his mother's side Mr. Indies is a descendant of tiie Smalls, who were large landed |)roprietors. He deri\ed his middle name from A. I.eCicndie, an oiricer of \apo- leon's army, wiio, while a prisoner in .Scot- land, fell in love with his jiaternal aunt, and married her. Mr. Inches's father was a business man of I'erthshiri', \viio emigrated with his family in 1.S34, and settled in St. John. lie engaged in eonnnerce, hut died soon after his arrival, a comiiarativel}' )(umg man. Julius Le("ien(lre Iiu'iies came tn \iw Ihuiis- wick with his parents at tiie age of ten years; and, when
l(ling that posi- ti(H) for s' me time he entered the ciowii land office, beginning as assistant, lie died at seventy years of age. Ten children were born to William I'"raiiklin and I'^lizabeth (Newell) ' Odell. (Iharles Odell, the yoimgest child, received his education in the iiublie schools, including the Collegiate .School and King's ColleLie, If : . , I BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 491 Frcdericton, and j^raduatcd fniin tlie lattiT in 1847. He then went to England and studied enginceiin',^ with i\fr. Roberts, a clerk of the I'jiglish Hoard of Works in Ireland, and was afterward employed on the hoard for two or tliree years. Returning iionie, he assisted in making tiie preliminary surveys for the Great Western Railway, the Grand Trunk Railway, the Intercolonial Railway, and a line of rail- road in Ohio. Mis death occurred on May 27, 1898, in the seventy-second year of his age. Mr. Odell's fust marriage was with May- nard Grange, by whom he had two children: Florence ^lary, wife of William (i. King, of Kngland, now residing in Maine; and George Grange, who is a civil engineer in South America. In 1867 Mr. Odell married Sarah Kinnear, daughter of the late John D. Kiiinear, Judge of Probate for Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. They had live chil- dren. Those living are: Georgicna /"dythc, wife of Charles Heath Gwilt, of Montreal; and Mabel Newell. Mr. Odell was independent in politics, lie was a member of the I'rovincial .Society of Christian luideavor and of the Church of I'jigland. R1';1)1:KICK v. R11:1), one ol the ^5 leading merchants of Moncton, N.H., is carrying on a flourishing business as the head of the .'uterprising linn of I'". 1'. Ried & Co., wholesale grocers. A son of the late William i". and Catherine (Stiles) Ried, he was born Ajiril Jd, 1861, in Hopewell. Albert County, N. H. William Ried, his paternal grandfather, rounded out a full fourscore years of earthly life. He was a farmer and also a mill owner and operator. He married a Miss Faster- brook, who also lived to a ripe old age. Hoth were people of eminent C!h'-istian character and faithful members of the Haptist church. They reared ten children, of whom Dri.xy, wife of George Harnes, is the sole survivor. William T., son of William Ried, learned the trade of a carpenter in .Sackville, N.l?., the town of his birth, and was subsequently engaged as a builder and contractor in Moston, Mass., for a number of years. Returning to New Hrunswick, he located in .St. John, where he died while in the prime of life, at the age of forty-four years. An honest, in- dustrious man, he met with a good share of success in his business, and was everywhere respected for his sterling qualities. He was connected by membership with the Haptist church, while his widow, who is now a resi- dent of .St. John, is a I'resbyterian. Of her three children but two survive, namely: I'red- erick 1'., the special subject of this biography; and Henry (i. The latter married Mary Titus, of .St. John, and they have three children — DonaUl R., I'"rederick R., and Clark. I'Vederick 1'. Ried obtained a practical edu- cation in t':^ schools of St. John, and was afterward employeil for four years in an archi- tect's office in that city. 'Ihen entering a general mercantile establishment, he remained with the firm as book-keeper for a while, and subse(iuently travelleil as a connnercial s.iles- ill' 0! 1 , 15. ;l i;!|! 422 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PI 1 ' 1 I 1 i ! 1 1 j i I i man for a few years. In 1891, forming a co- IKirtncrshii^ with Mr. John \V. Y. Smitli (of wliom a brief sketch may i)e found on another |).ige of this work), he established tiic firm of which lie is the senior mcml)er, and embarked in business as an importer and a wliolesale dealer in staple and fancy groceries, l-'ortune has evidently smiled ujion him, as in the few years that have since elapsed he has built up a substantial trade. I'olitieally, Mr. Kied is a Conservative. I'raternally, he is a Mason, belonging to Keith Lodge, !•". & A. M., of Moncton; and in 1893 be served as an Alder- man. On l''cl)runry 14, 1893, Mr. Ried married Mary I-., daughter of William !''islier, of Fredericton, N. H. 'I'hcy have two children, namely: Catherine S., born June i, 1895; and I'Vederick A., born November 17, 1896. Mr. Ried attends and liberally assists in sujiport- ing St. George's Anglican Church, of which Mrs. Ried is a communicant. RIAll RUIU>:RT 1 1 AN.SOX, ex-Mayor of Woodstock, N.H., is actively iden- tified with the business interests of the place as a leading meat and provision dealer. He was born Ajiril \C). 1850, in the (larish of St. Patrick, in the vicinity of .St. Andrews, N. H. , which was also the i)lace of birth of his father, I!lisba iianson. lie is of iMiglish ancestry, his paternal grandfather, John Hanson, having 'l^een born in I'jigland. Jolin Hanson emigrated to this country when a comparatively young man, ami settled in .St. Andrews, N. H. , wlure he was engaged as a farmer until his demise. Mlisiia Hanson during his entire active life carried on general farming and stock-raising on a somewiiat extensive scale. He married .Margaret Ann, daughter of Richard Carlow, of Charlotte County, New Hrunswick, and they iiad a family of nine children, as follows: Samuel, of Houlton, Me.; Frederick, de- ceased; Arthur, of Woodstock ; Caroline, wife of William McAllney, of St. Stephen, N. M. ; Nevin, deceased; ICIizabeth, who died in childhood; Uriah Rubert; b'dward, of .St. Stejihen; and Minerva, now Mrs. Rierstead, of .St. .Stejihen. Hoth parents were members of the Hajitist church. Uriah R. Iianson grew to manhood in .St. Andrews, and while a boy became as familiar with the various duties of the farm as he did with the contents of his school books. In 1868, before attaining bis niajority, he opened a store of general merchandise in Richmond, N.H. , where he continued five years. Dispos- ing then of bis business in that locality, he became clerk in a general store at Houlton, Me. On leaving Houlton he came to Wood- stock, where for four years he was engaged in the wholesale produce trade. In 1882, at the time he was left a widower, he closed out his business, and lived retired from active pur- suits for a year. Being then elected Town Marshal, he served four ye.irs, and was subse- quently County Inspector under the .Scott Act for three years. In 1891 Mr. Hanson estab- lished a wholesale and retail fruit business, which he conducted four years before ;ielling. i^l 1 1 , j 4^.'''^ - . BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 423 In the si)rinj^ of 1897 lie again resumed busi- ness by opening iiis [iresent meat market, wiiich is one of the largest and best equiijped of any in town, and has since won an excellent trade. Politically, IMr. Manson is a Liberal and an influential member of his party. He served three years in the Town Council, and in 1893 was elected Mayor of Woodstock, a position which he filleil with commendable ability. Fraternally, he is a member of Court Regina, I. O. F. Mr. Hanson married for his first wife Esther Jenkins, of Iloulton, Me. She died in 1882. He then married for his .second wife Isa- bella, daughter of Francis Johnson, of Wood- .stock. IJoth Mr. and Mrs. Hanson are mem- bers of the Baptist church. They have three cKildren — I'^thel, Marguerite, and Frank. (SHAMES IIANNAV, D.C. L., editor of the Daily Ti-lixivfy/i, -St. John, is known to present-day Canada as one of the best among her historians and journalists. He is first and foremost a Canadian, and all his thought and study has been given to his native land. He was born April 22, 1842, at Richilnicto, Kent County, N.15 , wliere his father, the Rev. James Haniiay, was the i'resbyterian minister. His mother was in maidenhood Jane Salter, of Hants County, Nova Scotia. His father was of an old Scottish family, be- longing to Sorbie, in Wigtownshire, in which county he was born. James Hannay, the critic and author, and friend of Thackeray, was of the same family. The subject of this sketch was educated at New Kilpatrick Parish School in Scotl.and and at the St. John (N.H. ) Grammar .School. He took up the study of law, and in October, 1866, he was admitted attorney of the Su- preme Court of New Brunswick. In October, 1867, be was admitted barrister, and in March of the same year he was appointed official re- porter of the Suprenv Court of the I'roviace, an office that he held until 1873, He pub- lished two large volumes of rejiorts covering the decisions of the court tluring this period. Not finding the practice of law congenial to his tastes, he early abandoned it for the pro- fession of journalism. I'rom 1872 to 1883 he was associated with the late Hon. William Elder in the editorial management of the .St. John Tihgi-dpli. In the latter year he went to Montreal, where he occupied an editorial chair on the Montreal llciald for a year and a half. Then for a short time he made the United States his home, and was employed in various capacities on the Brooklyn /uiq;/(\ passing through the stages of general writer, literary editor, and associate editor. In 1888 he returned to St. John to assume the editorial chair on the staff of the .St. John (iazcttc, and in 1893 accepted the chief editorship of the .St. John Tilii^rapli. He has thus had a continuous connection with newspaper work covering a c|uarter of a century. In the discharge of his editorial duties he has combined a wide knowledge of affairs with a virile yet graceful pen. He is 11, i \^\■ 424 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW t' i I iliil: !i quick in perception and rapid in composition. Optimistic by nature, he believes in support- ing first that which is l)est for his native country and in losterin;;- with his pen every- thinj; which is in her interests. Mr. Hannay has successfully entered various fielils of liter- ary endeavor, writini; now an easy, tlowin'j, and spirited ballad, now an exi^ustive historical work, now a bri-^ht and racy maj;azine article or story. When quite a young man he wrote ])oems over the i/inii dc plume of "Saladin" for the St. John Courier and other papers. Later he wrote a number of ballads relating to Acadia, describing picturesque incidents in its history. When Stewart's Qiiartir/y was established in St. John by George Stewart, he became one of its best contributors, sujiply- ing sketches and stories in a lighter vein. His first effort historically was a series of sketches of the early forts in New I?runswick. This was followed by "The Captivity of John Cyles among the Milicetes from 1689 to 1698," which he published in 1875, with an introduction and annotations by himself. The same year he wrote a history of the city of St. John, N.I5. All this time he has been preparing the work whicl) afterward made his reimtation as an historian. No good history of Acadia under the French regime had yet appeared. Murdock's work was more in the nature of a record of events than a history, and Camp- bell's and Ilaliburton's were the product of insufficient research, lie had therefore been for some years busy in the libraries upon a history of Acadia, and in 1879 it appeared from the publishing houses of J. & A. Mc- William, .St. John, and Sampson Low & Co., London. The work was favorably received by the ])ublic, and obtained the high commenda- tion of the reviewers; and well it might, for it possessed the (pialities essential to both an historical and literary work. It is an elabo- rate and sch(darly production, its pages siiow- ing the research of the historian, the judicial cast of the thinker, and the grace of the litte- rateur. An incident in connection with this work shows the value of ]iL;rseverance. It was to have ap|)eared in 1877, but the great fire came to St. John while it was in the hands of the publishers. The sheets already printed, the manuscript, and the author's valuable library were destroyed. All that remained were a few proof sheets, and tlie work had to be almost entirely rewritten. His next historical work, his "History of the (Jueen's Rangers," appeared in tlie .St. John Sini in 1883. Then his historical labors ceased for a time, but were renewed in the projection of three or four more important works. These are: the "History of tlie Loyalists," which ran through the 'J\/(xnt/>/i during 1894; "The Townsliii) of Mauger- ville," lately published in tlie first volume of the New Hrunswick Historical Society; the "History of the War of 1812" and the "Life and Times of .Sir Leonard Tilley, " the latter published in 1897. These works form a library of great value, especially with respect to the history of New Hrunswick. They give a consecutive story of that Province from the earliest times down to the present, dealing as fj: il'^ mIM' Mc- Co. , ;1 by mla- lor I ill! abo- lOW- cial tte- this It reat incls ted, iblc ncd 1 to ' of St. jors the :ant the n/!i)3, leaving one ilaughter, Alice Arm- strong. Alexander M. Rowan is a member of Hibernian Lodge, l*". & A. M. He attends St. Luke's Church, ami has served as a vestry- man. In 1898 Mr. Rowan erected a three- story and basement brick block, the lower part being used for his business, the up])er rooms being let to tenants. LIVER 1:ARL HURDKN, an es- teemed merchant of I'redericton, en- gaged in selling farm imiiements and machinery, was born in Miramichi, N.H., iirl:' l| 428 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW ill II if » 1 \ \ 1 ■ December 3, 1830, son of (Oliver Karl, Sr., and I'Miza (McCloml) Hunlcn. His j^ranclfathcr Munlcn came to New Hrunswick in 1783 with the Loyalists, laml- ing at St. John. The government tendered him a j^rant ot one hundred acres of land, but he refused it and took up a farm at Seven ( )aks Creek. I.at"r he removed to (jueens- boro, where he died. His wife, Ruth, lived to be over one hundred years of ajje. Tliey had four sons and two daughters, the sons being Thomas, William, Oliver I'^arl, and George. Oliver ICarl Hurden, Sr. , was born on the St. John River, lie was a shoemaker hy trade, and ne also followed lumbering quite e.xtensively for a number of years at Mira- michi, where he was engaged at the time of the fire. He and his wife, lilizabeth, had four boys and three girls. Oliver Ki\r\ Hurden, the second cliild, was educated in the schools of Kingsclear. lie then went into the woods with his father, tak- ing a hand at whatever was needetl. Later he carried on a farm, engaged in tlie lumber business on his own account, and did teaming. In April, 1869, became to I'redericton. He has continued to engage in lumbering and teaming, and in the sjiring of 1895 he starteil in the business of selling farm implements, machinery, fertilizers, harnesses, carriages, and so forth. lie is doing a thriving busi- ness. He buys in carloail lots from (;ntario, and has a wareroom on I'IkluLv Stiuare. In politics he is a Conservative. On March 14, 1899, he was elected Alderman by the largest majority ever received in Fredcricton. He is a member of the Free liaptist church, in which he lias been Senior Deacon a number ol years. He is an earnest temperance worker. On October ro. 1854, Mr. Hurden was joined in marriage witii Hannah Augusta, daughter of John Sanburn. I-'leven children, eight sons and three daughters, have been born of tiieir union. A son, ()liver Miles, a wood-worker, and two daughters — Fmily and Adeline — have passed away. James ]•'.., the first-born, is in Worcester, Mass., in an in- ventor's shop. Isaac C, a merchant tailor, is in business in Marysville. J. W. H., a carriage-maker by trade, is employed in b'red- ericton. Wilfred is a barber in Fredcricton. Archilaus C. is an express agent at W oodstock. Weldon is a druggist, but for three years has been in business with his father. Ida K. lives at home. Harry !,owell drives a team for his father. M WliJ WILLIA.M JACK was born li) 1 "" the J5th of l-'ebruary, 1785, at Cupar, l'"ife, Scotland. When about fourteen years of age lie renuived to tlie West Indies, where a wealthy uncle lesideil, and at which place it had been his intention to per- manently settle. .Some time after his arrival, he was taken seriously ill with a lever, and for a time liis life was despaired of. Tlianks, however, to his vigorous constitution, and the careful nursing which he receixed, he com- pleteh' recovered. Wiiile at the West Indies he .saw nuicli that u BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIKVV 4 -'9 was aiita{,'onistic to iiis sense nf propriety and moral rectitude, and soon he^'an to look about for an opportunity to renv)ve to some more desirable locality. 'I'be ,Sal)bath was not ob- served, tlu' nnl\' notireal)le dist inct ion between Sunday and a week day bein- tiie sij;iit of the Hritisli ensif,n hciisted at the tort near where he resided. MnaJly, he met with a sea cajitain who was master of one ol the vessels owned by I'ioliert Pagan, of St. Andrews, and wim gave sueii an cnthuiiiastic account of the i)iisiness outlook, and of the many desirable openings in that town for a ymnig man, tiiat lie decided to take pa.ssage with him. St. Andrews was then, on account of the luml)er trade and the sliii)ping and otJier attendant businesses, quite an impor- tant port, as many as eighty .square-rigged ves- sels liaving ln'cn known to leave tliere at one tide. This was, of course, during tiie Ameri- can Uevolutinnary War, wiien vessels njuld only leave under convoy of a Hjitisb man-of- war. On llie arrival of llie vessel at St. .Andrews, he liad no money left Imt a "cut (|uarter," which was made from a silver dollar cut into four i)ieces. Carrying his valise up to Mr. I'.igan's olbce, he made ap|iiication to tliat gentleman lor employment. Mr. I'agan was much taken with his maimer and apjiearance and immediately engaged him as a clerk. He remained for .some years in Mr. Pagan's em- |iloy, being linally taken into partnersbii). The silver piece above mentioned he retained as a memento all his life. Mrs. J. T. Nevill, his daughter, informed the writer that her father t(dd her th.it the lamily of Jack was of J-'rench origin, that sev- eral members fought in tlie wars of the Cru- sades, and that the family name was originally spelled " |acc|ues" David William jack w.is a man of jiolished and courtly manners, very much of the P'rench style and type, tall ami erect in his bearing, and of fine physicpie. His brother, .Mexander, who was surgeon of the "Shannon" at the time of the i-ele- brated battle between the "Shannon " and the "Chesapeake," outside of Moston Harbor in I Si,?, weiU into ilalilax with his vessel when she put into that [lort after the b.utle, with the prize and prisoners, in order that the wounded might receive pro|)er attention. Owing to the number of wounded which Alexander Jack had ujion his hands, he was unable to leave the "Shannon" to pay a visit to St. .\ndrews, as he desired. Accordingly, ])a\id William Jack made a visit to Halifax, then a very arduous undertaking, and visited his brother (.n board the "Shaiuion. " A caimon ball of small calibre, picked up during tlie battle by Alexander Jack, is now in the jjos.session of Isaac Allen Jack; while his gold watch-chain, some of bis college ex- aiuination pajiers, and a small pincushion made of a fragment of the weddiu"; ihess of Alexander's Grandmother Jack, aie now in the jKissession of the writer. David William Jack was twice married, his fust wife, to wiiom he was married Decendier 10, iSio, being Rebecca Rus.sell Wyer, who was born July jj, i;,S,S, and died at St. An- fl iiJ i ii 430 BIOORAI'IIICAL REVIFAV (Iri'ws, Jiimiaiy jo, iSjS. SIu' was a (l:iiij;hter (if Colonel I'liciMKis W'yt-T, a native of Cliailcs- town. Mass, , and of Mary Hunt, liis second wife. Hy tiiis wif had nine eiiildren, as fol- lows: W'illiaii 1 Se|)teini)er J/. iSii.diid October I, iS.Si,, 'riinnias. born May i(>, 1S13, m. i^sS. KiiWARD Wykr, of Scotland =!^ Ki izaiikim Johnson. I I II). 1701. WllT.IAM WVKR =^ Kl.KASOR JK.NNI R. A seii captain I Jack married Mary Wycr, his fust wife's sis- ter, by wlioni he had seven children, as f(d- low.s : Mary Keheeca, horn Novendier, 21, iM.^o, died Deecnd)er 9, I1S50; Maria and Jane, twins, horn March 15, ilaction of the people of the counlr)' which gave them birth. Holding positions (jf great ti i ii| I BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 435 i importance in the times of the so-called "family compact" and of irresponsihle f;ov- einment, it would l)e safely said of them that thcv never violated the tiust which was placed in them, and that, in jiassing away, lliey left behind them a record such as ;'.ny man might proiiilly claim. The gravestones of many of the Jacks, W'yers, I'agans, I'arkers, and I'otes are in the old C!hn''_h of luighuul liurying-ground at St. Anchxws. Hugh Johnston, Sr., was the second son of William Johnston, who resided, first in Or- dignhill, then at Mains of Halvonie in Mort- lock, and lastly in Hurnerooks Rothes, where he died August 12, i/'.Scj, aged seventy -four years. He married Isohel Hepburn. Ik- was the great-grandfather of the writer and was a native of Murrayshire, .Scotland, troni whicli place he came to .St. John about the year 1784, in a vessel owned by himself, and laden with tlie merchandise with which he commenced business here. Among the h'ree Masons he was one of the founders of St. John's Lodge, formerly a member of St. Ceorge's Lodge, No. 19, Maugerville, and one of the original members of (.iarleton Royal Arch Clia|iter. In the latter body he was fust .Scribe, or I'rinciiial J. He repre.sented the city and county of St. John in the I'rovinciai Legislature for the long term of seventeen years; was one of the founders of Saint ndrews Church, a member of the Huilding Connnittee, and one of the first Llders thereof; an incorporator and one of the first directors of the Hank of New Hruns- wick ; a member of the old Friendly Fire Club; a I'ort Warden of the city from 1S16 to 1S29; an Alderman of the city for 180.S and many succeeding years. Johnston's wharf and slip, west side of Water .Street, received their names from him as the owner. He carried on a large mercantile and im- porting business, in which he was very suc- cessful. W. ]'". Hunting, in his "History of I'ree Masomy in New Hrunswick," from which the foregoing information respecting Hugh Johnston, Sr., is largely taken, speaks of him as "always sustaining a high character for in- tegrity and strict business piinciples, " and as "a faithful friend and an enterprising and useful member of the community." On December 11, 1.S15, a public meeting was held at the City Hall, Market .Scpiare, y and St. John, ])ublishe(l in the August number of the Xrw /tn/z/suiiii- Mtignzinc for the present year, 1899, to have been one of the owners of the steamer "St. John," which was the earliest steam craft to cross the Jiay of I""un(ly. She was schooner- rigged, ha\iiig foresail, maitisail, and jib, and made iier first tiip on Wednesday, July 4, 1S27. In a second article published in the same number of this magazine, an account of the celebrated "Fishery Quarrel " is given by the Rev. W. O. Raymond, in which Hugh John- ston, .Sr. , together with (jeorge Vounghusband, endeavored to mediate betwi^en Messrs. liazen, Simonds & White, but wit'-out success. He atldressed a conmiunication to the three parties named, dated June 9, i in apamjihlet on the Thurburn.s, i)ub- lished by Lieutenant Colonel I'. A. Thurburn, in London, Lngland, in 1864. Hy this second wife Hugh Johnston, .Sr. , had six children, as follows: jiaihara, born .Se|)- tendier 12, 1807, married Colonel .Sir Charles Levinge, at one time Governor of lulinburgh Castle, younger son of Sir Richard Levinge, Hart., of Nock Drim Castle, Comity of West T ^ BIOGRArHICAL REVIEW 437 i Mcath, Irclaiul ; Jdliii, Ikhii March 9, 1809, manicd I'll iza Anderson, dicii April 29, 1858; Charles, born October 2, 181 r married Sarah Hendricks, of St. John, and was ajipointed llit;h Sheriff, 1847, died May 4, 1858, without issue; Isabella Thurbinn, born January 19, i8r5, married Ajiril 2\, i8;t6, to Robert Young, solicitor, of Mli;in, Scotland; Mar- garet, born June 21, 1S18, married Robert Wilson, of iJurnhouse, Ibnffshirc, Scotland, and is still living (October, 1899); James, born I'Y'bruary 20, 1822, died y\pril 9, 1823. The Hon. Hugh Johnston, fifth son of Hugh Johnston, Sr. , fatiier of Annie Carmichael Jack, was born April 3. 1790, and was a man of strict integrity, keen business intellect, great legislative ability, and of generous and i)enev- (dent disi)osition. He was, as Hr. William Hayard recentl\- reniaiked to tiie writer, Ijy far the leading man of his day connnercially and socially in the city of St. John. He was at an early age admitted a partner to the firm of lltigh Johnston & Co., of which his father and uncle were the senior jiartncrs, and was alile to retire from active commercial life at the age of thirty-eight, with a fortune of twenty thou- sand pounds. This he invested largely in real estate, a consiilerable poition of whicii is now held by his descendants. On January i, 1828, he joined St. John's Lodge of b'ree Masons. He was a nicndier of the IC.NCcutive Coimcil ot New Ibunsw ilk, under llie a nended consti- tution, from .August 15, 1S37, t( I'ebruary 16, 1842, from March 21, 1843, ti January 31, 1845, and from l'"ebruary 5, 1846, to May 22, 1848. He was also a member of tiie House of As.sembly for Queens County in 1839, and of the Legislative Council; a Justice of the Peace; a trustee and vice-president of the City of St. Joim Savings Hank; a director of the Hank of New Hrunswick ; a director of the St. John Water C'omiiany; a Trustee of Schools, I'ortland; a director of the New Hrunswick Mining Company; a director of the St. John I'ublic (irammar Scbm.., anil was in many other ways intimately comiected with the earlier history ;uid commercial |)rogress of tiie city of St. Joliii. In 1835 an act was passed t:i incoiporate the St. John Hridge Company, with a capital slock of twenty thousand jiounds. The site chosen was about a cpiarter of a mile below the iirescnt susjiension bridge, and Colonel Thomas Wyer and the Hon. Hugh Johnston weie among the incoiporators named in the act. This bridge was not a success, and before its completion fell into the river. The Hon. Hugh Johnston was twice mar- ried. His first wife was a daughter of the late Judge Hliss of New Hrunswick. His second wife was Harriet Maria Millidge, second daughter of Thomas Millidge, Jr., and grand- daughter of Thomas Millidge, who was Sur- vey!■ •''el'- I d. , 1816. 20, 1831. I in. June .VI, m''. | ! | Wil.t.iAM Jack =^ Maroarki- S.mihi llrcii Jomnsion - .Ann f;ii./.i:\N(?) Thomas Mill, iikik, Jr. - Sarah Simonhs. 1). Jan 4, 1756. d. Nov. 29, 1829. Hailieof Cupar, Kife, .Sciitlaiul. r Daviii Wii.i.iam Ja( k Kkihiia Ki sski.i, Wver. b. Dec. 17,17(11. I). Aug. 12, 1776. d. Kel). .(, 1805. d. Aug. 21, 18.5S. b. Oct. 2, 1777. d. Sept. 11,1857. I). I'eb. 25, 1785, al ('u|)ar, I'ife. Ii. July 22, 17.SS. Hon. Iluiai Joiinsicin Harriii Maria .Mii.i.id(;k. 1). .\pr. 3, 171)0. d. Apr. 13, 1.S50. b. Ajir. )o, i,So.(. d. Sept. I, 1881. IIknry Jaik Annik ('\rmi(|iah, John.ston. 1). May 1 1, |82.|, d. (Xt. 28, 1884. I). Dec. 17, i8.|o, d. Nov. 20, lS,S2 DAVID Kl'SSKM, lACK. rl' ill the .\',-u' /Iniiisi.wci- .U,iX(i::/ui; coninieiicin^ ] Of resolute character, sinewd and enleriiris- with its initial nuniher, dated July 1, i.SijS. iiiy, he was, as Mr. Raymond says, posses.sed of llere many valuable letters and documents, ' a \'i;;()rous constitution, as is seen in the fact, hitherto unpuhlished, are j^iveii tn the public, that, in spite of the hardships and privatimis aiui the story of their lives related in a contin- ; nl' liis eail\- life in .St. John, he survived all uous manner fur the first time. Did s|)ace 1 his contemporaries, as well as every official permit, the writer wmikl desire exceedingly to ■ and appointee of the crown, at the lime of the m 44» BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW t ! ^ ^ I or^anizntion tif tlii' I'roviiue, and i-'VLTy inonilicr of the first I'rovinciiil I,cj;islaturc, and (|iiictly tk'partcd this life at iiis old residence at Port- land I'oint, l'"el)ruary 20, 1S31, at the |)atri- archal age of ninety-six. DAVin RUSSELL JACK. AITIIOKITIKS CONSl'I.TKI). l.nyali.sts of America,!)) I.orcii/o S.ihiiie; Citnealo- jjics and lOslalos of L'liarlcstown, by Thomas Wyiiian ; I li.sloriial Skflcli of Cliailesto'vn, liy Josi.ili UarllctI, M.U., 1S15; History of the County of Annapolis. Iiy \V. A. CahiL'k. edited l>y A. \V. Savary, M..\.; History of Nova .Scotia, liy lieaniisli Murdoeli ; .\cw Hrunswick Maj{azine. articles liy Kev. \V. (). Kaymond ; Collec- tions of .N'uvv Hrunswick Historical Society; .New Hrunswick .\lnianacks, puMished liy II. Cludih iS; Co. and others; I'ree Masonry in New Hrunswick, by W. V. Hunting; ; Kootprints. by J. W. Lawrence; Loyalist Centennial .Souvenir, published by New Hrunswick His- torical Society; Scottish Nation, by William Anderson; The Thurbiirns, by Lieutenant Colonel K. A. V. Thiir- burn; New Hrunswick. by .Abraham (Jcsner; i;nj;lish Surnames, by C, W, liardsley, .M..\.: Kecords of Kej;- istrar (leneral, lMinliur;;h. Scotland; History of St. John, N.H.. by 1). K. J;ick. m {•ni'lR McI'ARLANK,* of the firm of Mfl-'arlane, 'i'lidmiison & ;\nders(>n, was iiiirn in Diuigjass, ^'ork Coiiiity, N.JV , son (if IVter and Ilekn {(Iraliani) Mi- ]''ai]aiie. His father, I'eter McKarlane, Sr. , wa.s born in Aijjyle, .Scotland, lie learned the black- smith':! trade in Cilast^nw, .Srotlai.d, and after lie came to America he worked in St. |ohii and hitcr in b'lederii ton. At Douglass a .shop was i)iiilt !))■ tiic citizens as an indiiicmcnt lor him to locate tliere, and he carried on business in that |)Iace for .sometime. He died at si.xty- eight years of age. He was a member of the I'resbyterian church. His wife, Mrs. Helen (iraham Mcb'.irhine, who was born in Rockby- shire, Scotland, li\cd to be se\enty-foiir. They were the parents of five sons and a daughter — (ieorge, Walter, William, Alexan- der, Margaret, and I'eter. (ieorge Mcl"'arl;»ne resides on tlie old iiomcstead. W iiiiam Mc- l'"arlane is a furniei-. y\lexander, a black- smith, died at about twenty-eight years of age. I'eter, the youngest child, ;K(|iiired his edu- cation in the common ;md liigh schools of I''redericton. lie then learned the iron moulder's trade, at which he was was ed;icated in the schools of Kings County; and a'ter teaching for several years took a special cour.se in literature and natural science at Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca, N.V. Returning to St. John, he was engaged for several years in journalistic work on the />,i//_y .\'i a'.v, first as reimrter and afterward as the night editor of that paper. He resumed te.iching in iS;.?, and r(n- nearly t'venty-fivj years occupied various positions on the teaching staff of St. John City. He was for nine years jirincipal of the V'ictoria and Girls' High School, the high character and efficiency of which he maintained and in- creased. He has been a member of the I'ki- vincial Teachers' institute of New Ihunswick ever since its formation, contributing papers to it and otiierwise taking an active part in its |)rocecdings. He al.so took a prominent part in organizing the Dominion I'.ducational Association, of which he was one of the first board of directors. At the first meeting of this association in .Montreal, in iS();,, he read a pajier on "Ideal .School Discijiline, " and at the Halifa.\ meeting, in i.S(jS, another on "Nat- ure and Literature." He served on the Do- minion History C'ommittee on Manuscripts from |H(J4 to i.S(jr>. In 1S.S6 he was chosen editor of the New Hrunswick Jonnial of Hdii- (■(itinii, with Inspector W. S. Carter as asso- ciate editor. At the end of a year this was merged into the luiiiuUioiia/ Ri-i'ic:^', with Dr. A. H. MacKay editor for Nova Scotia and Dr. Anderson editor for i'rince Ldward Island. Mr. Hay has had entire control of the business and editorial management of the A'tTvVr.' from the date of its foundation in 1.S.S7; and in 1 S(j7 I he gave up his p(jsition as teacher in order to devote himself more c(mii)letely to eduiational journalism, of which he may be said to be the lounder in these I'rovinces. In i.S(jS Mr. Hay began the publication of a series of (piaiterly leaflets on "Canadian History." The series is not yet comi)leted. ]\Ir. Hay has devoted his s|)are moments for manv years to the study of the botany of New Hrunswick, in which he is a recogni/.ed author- Wi Hi I i '■ 444 IJIOORAF'HICAL RKVIKVV \ I '■ 1 ! \ \ k 1 1 1 , ' 1 1 ■ ( 1 ity. 1 lis variniis |ia|iois cm this sii'iji'it liavc l)i'i'n piiljlishcil, iliic'lly in the lUillclin nf tlic Natuiiil llistiiiy Smicty dl New Unmswiik and in tlic I'nui'cdin^^s nf lliu Knyal Sdiicty (il I'.mada, and i'ini)iaiL' the fidhiwinj; aniiin}{ Dthers : "New Unniswiek I'lora " (a series of papers on tin- |il.ints dl the St. John and its tiilmtaries, tlie Kesligoiielie and Nepisi;;iiil ) ; "llisttiry ol Jintaiiy in New lirunswick"; "Marine Alj^a- of New Hninswiik, with List. ' lie was elected tn reliiiu>hip in tlie Royal Society in |S()4, and is a member of Section l-'oiir, 111 wiiich seition he is now (1900) secre- tary, lie is a menilier of the New Mnyland Untanicai Clui) nf linslon and secretary for New lirnnswick of tlie Hotanical Clul) of Can- ada, has been twice president of the Summer School of Science of the Atlantic I'rovinces, and for the past four years has been the presi- dent of tlie Natural History Soi-iety of .New Urnnswick. Mr. Hay holds the (K'i;iee of Hai'helor of Philosophy fioni the Illinois WesU'van I'ni- versity and the de;,'ree of Master of Arts {/ui)/<'i/s iiiiisn) from .\iadia rniversitw In 1876 he married l'"iaiues .\nnetta llartt, daii<;hter of the late Jar\is W. Haitt and sister of the late Professor Charles I'red. llartt. I.KSON .M. /NHRNKV, ■ ^^., a -i vounj; 'hn, ' was born ;y, N.Jl. , March 24, I \ the Hon. ( Uven and ly (Mc.\ .)) MUnerney. Hi paternal grandfather, Daniel Mclnerne\', emi;;rated with liis fan)ily from County l.ouf^ford, Ireland, to New Urimswiik, when Owen was a small boy. His maternal f;randfather, Daniel MeAuley, was in the jjood old clays one of the foremost ship buildi'rs in Ni'w Hrunswick. The Hon. ( Iwen Mcliu'rney became a pros- perous merchant, acipiired considerable promi- nence in public affairs, and w; s electectober 2H, 1.S50, a son of the late Joseph I-". .Allison. He conies of gooil Irish stock, his paternal grandfather, James Allison, having been born and brought up in the luiierald Isle. Immigrating when a young man to Canada, James AUismi located at Ciornwallis, \. .S., where he subsecpiently bought land, from which he iniproved a good farm. There he spent his remaining ilays, profitably eng.iged in general agricultural pursuits, but making a s[iecialty of fruit-raising. He took .111 intelli- gent part in the management of local affairs, and for many years serveil as Justice of the •■ ,'lan(l. lie married Margaret ilutchinson, who i)(>re him seven sons and one daujihter. Of these children Joseph F. and William, the fifth and sixth sons, were twins. Another son, Charles 1'. Allison, who died in 1858, was an unusually successful business man and a prominent citizen of .Sackville. I'rom the larjj;e property which he accumulated he founded the educational institution named, in his honor. Mount AULson University, and at his death bequeathed to it a larj^e amount of money, lie married Milcah Trucman, of I'ointe du Hute, who died leaving no children. Joseph F. AUi.son was born at Cornwall is, N..S., on the home farm, and remained there until he was twelve years old. Going then to .Sackville, N.I!., he entered the store of the lion. William Crane, a leading merchant of the town, with whom he sul)sec|uently formed a partnership, becoming junior member of the firm of Crane & Allison. On the death of .Mr. Crane, in 1S5;,, the junior member of the firm, with his brother, Charles F. Alli- son, who at one time had been a partner in the concern, were made coe.\ecutors of the Crane estate. Joseph I'. .Allison purchased the interest o( his late partner in the busi- ness, and from that time until his own death, in i,sr)3, when but fifty-six years okl, carried on a very extensive and satisfactory trade in general merchandise. He was a most loyal liti/.en, active in town affairs, a CJmservative i)i his political views and a member of the Church of ICngland. He married Mary, daughter of Oliver Cogswell, of Cornwallis, N. .S. .Seven children were born to them, and these three are now living: Francis; James Frederick; and Cassie, wife of Alfred T. Par- sons, of Brooklyn, N. V. James I'rederick Allison, after taking a course of study at the Mount Allison Acad- emy, completed his education at Ilorton, N. .S. At the age of sixteen years he entered the grocery store of ".iarriner A. Wood as a clerk, a position which he filled six years, [n 1.S72 he embarked in business on his own account in .Sackville by opening a store cf general merchandise, which he conducted several years. In 18S5 be became accountant for the New Hrunwick and Prince Fdward Island Railway Company, with which he was con- nected in that capacity until appointed, in 1893, Postmaster of .Sackville, an office which he is filling most creditably and satisfactorily. Mr. .Allison was married September 8, 18S1, to Louise M., daughter of the late Major W. Peverley Robinson, of St. |ohn, .\.H. Their union has !;een blessed bv the birth of three chiklren, two of whom are liv- ing, nanuly: William Heverley, born June 22, 1884; and Mary Gretchen, born January to, 1889. I!. Mr. and Mrs. Allison are mem- bers of the Cliurch of luit'land. .AMi:S SMITH .\TKIXSON,* a promi- nent citizen of Albert, .Albert Comity, X.H., has been very active in promot- ing the various enterprises inaugurated to ad- Nance the welfare of the town and county in li I , ^ M: ' m ill {*'] \f m 454 BIOORArillCAI. REVIEW ; I ■ I if i I i i i ': i '■ i ^ 1 i . j. If m which lie resides, and is well known in mer- cantile, political, fraternal, and religious circles. lie was born October 2\, 1849, at Ha\' \'erte, Westmoreland County, N.H., a son of Thomas Atkinson. t)f his paternal j^raiid- father, Christopher Atkinson, very little is known, except inj,^ that he was for years a very influential citizen of .Saikville, X.l?. , wiiose l.irye farm includi'd tJie present site of the Mount Allison Institution. C!l)risto|)her was twice married, and liad children by each wife; but wli()m he married is unrecorded. Ills son, Tbonias Atkinson, was born at Sackville, X.H., wliere lie lived until cominy of aj;e. Then removing; to the town of Albert, he there established a j;eneral store, which he manajjed alone until I1S70, when he took into ec[ual partnership Jiis youngest son, James Smitli, tiie lirni name from tiiat time until his ileatii beiny 'I'liomas .Atkinson & Son. He was a Liiieral in politics, and was a member of the Methodist clunch and of its official board. lie married Mar\-, daughter of William Oulton, of 15ay\'erte; and of their five chil- dren three are livinj;- — Richard H., I'iuebe A., and James Smith. Richard 11. mairied .Ada, dau-hter nf Dr. W. Hardy, of lioston, Mass., and has two thilchen, namel)-; William II., who mairied .Mice ,M., dauj;hter of Thad- deus ]•;. l'"rien(l, of Jirookline, Mass. ; and Caroline R., wife of diaries Wadsworth Lowe. l'ho;he A. is tiie wife of Donald M..Sta\', of St. -Andrews, X. H., and has three cbildien, namely: William 1'., who mairied Lillian Trites, of Momton, ami has two children; Alberta, wife of .A. W. Scott, of Moncton, who has three children William, Victor, and Charles, and Aliie, wife of Lilward Ld- wards, of Moncton, who has three ihildren — X'ictor, Nora, and Hathaway. James Smith Atkinson attended the Char- lotte County Grammar Sciiool several terms, after which he completed his education at Laton's ComnuTcial C(illc,i;e at St. John, N.Ii. <)n le.iviiiL;' school he bej^an iiis mercantile career as a clerk in a dry-j;oiids house at .St. Joiin, where he continued live years. Return- ing; in 1S70 to Albert, he became associated in business w'lh his father as junior member of the linn nf 'riiomas .Atkinson & .Sdii, and after the death of the senior member of the linn conducted the business alone until the f;dl of iScjf), when he sold out, and is now attend- in;;' to his oilier interests. He is a Conser\a- tive in poliiits. l-'or a numl)er of terms he has ser\ed as .Selioo' Trustee and as secretary of the .ScliiMil I'oard, and has also been Juslici,' of the IV'ace. IK' is also president of the Hopewell Cemetery .Association, of which he w;is line iied visitors,' and his name seldom ajipeaied in the news- paiiers; hnt, sonieiuiw, without seeking' |)o|)n- lariU. lie was populai' with tiie )(nin^' and thi' old, heiause of his unol)trusiveness and Ids tendi'f eonsideiatiiiii lor the leidin;;> ot those with whom he lanie in mntait. Tiie j;ravcs of such men are not often marked hy fjreat moinnnents, \et it eannot he douhted that they 'sleej) well,' nor lan it he douhted that llu' world is a little hetter and n)nsi'(|Uently a little happier heiause they ha\e lived." Olil.R r |.\Mi;S l!()\l) was for nianv vears a prominent eiti/.en and one ol the most enterprisinj;' and prosper- ous husiness men of I'ennfield, Charlotte ('(iuntv, N. H. A man of sterling' inte;;rity, honest and upii,i;hl in all of his dealini;s, he had the esteem and conlidenee of his fellow- men; and his ileath, which oeenrred June |S, I S<^7, left a v.u alley in the eommunity tliat I'.innol well he tilled. lie was horn in the palish of IV-nntield, ( haihitle Count)', in I.S4(), heini; one of the t wn i hildreii of William and Margaret Hoyd. His father, who was horn and reared in County Antrim, Ireland, emi- grated to New Ihimswiek when a young man, and loialed in I'liinlield, where he resided until liis deeease, at the a.i;i' of lilty-live years, .\Ir. l!o\d ohlained a piaetieal eommnn- school edueation in I'ennlleld, and at the early age of eighteen years went into the lumheiing business on his own aeioiml. lie sueeeeded e\en heycjiid his expei lal ions, and sodii en larged his nper.itions hy opeiiiii;; a elolhing house and a store ol geneial merchandise. I o the stock which he tirsl put into his estahlish- ineiit he suhse(|Uc'ntl)' added a eoiniilete line of farming iinplemeiits ; ami he took the ageiie)' for the s. lie of wagons for .Miiiehie & Co. and for li. K. DeW'olfe, and fur selling farmers' tocds for M'Xiitt, the general agent in St. John. 1 le also eanied on general fanning to a eonsiderahle e.\tent, making a spec iail)' ol stoek raising and dealing. In all of his oper- ations he prospered, ;nid it is needless to .say was always kept hus)-. In politics he was a strong suppoitei' ol the Conservat i\ c paity; and he look a deep inteiest in the nianageiiient of public- alfaiis, although he jiersistenlly de elined olFue. lie was an active member o| St. (ieorge Lodge, V. ^ .\. ,M., No. I _', and did uracil to iiromntc the welfare nf that order. lie was a ineinher oi the Chun h of l'',ngland. .Mr. liojcl married (ieoigiana, daughter of David and Maiy Jane Mil'arland, their iiiiinii being s(deinni/ed Xo\emher 22, \^f)l. 'I'heir oilh' child, .Maggie Isabel, is now the wife of W. II. .\kerly, a son of I'enjamin .\keil\, who was born in Cornwell, N..S. Mr. and Mrs. Akerl)' have live ciiildreii; namely, ''I m m Mk. \Mi \li;. K()l'.l-:iartner lie became bv purchase the s(dc ownei' f the business. .Soon afterward lie icconsti acted the saw-mill, and built a mill for the manufacture of oatmeal, but in 1S89 sold out the entire plant. In i\ the society orj;nnize(l !))' that piiliiii'al party. l'"raternall\', liie Dmtur is a nieii)l)er arui I'ast Master of the All)ert Ma- sonic Lodge; a mcinl)er and secretary of the Canadian Home C'ircle; and a iiieinl)er and treasurer of .Sju'imdy Court, A. (). !■". , of Al- liert. lie is also a CniMitv Coroner. On April 11, 1S71, 1 )i'. Murray married Hariiet M., daughter of \V. V.. McKoheit, Al.l). , ot Colchester, N. .S. , and tiiey iiave two ciiildren- Wilfred I'itt and .Alder Cordon. The Doctor and Mrs. Murray are active mem- bers of the rresbytcrian Church of River- side, N.H. irs^rrCH GALLAGUI':K,* a member of tiic firm of Cial higher brothers and also (if that of John Callaghcr & .Sons, Wooilsloek, .\.l!., was horn January 27, 1S54, at retcisville, (Jueens Count\', X.H. , a son of Joim and Ann (Mc(iovern) (iallagher. 1 lis iiaternal grand|)arents, Lawrence and Isa- bella (McCann) (jallagiier, were born and reared in Ireland, tiie former in County b'er- inanagh and tiie latter in County Tyrone. John (iallagher was jjorn in County l'"er- managh, Ireland, in .November, 1NJ5, and in 1S29 came with bis parents to New lirunswick. They settled on a farm in .St. John County, and he there g;ew to man's estate. On leav- ing school, lie engaged in f.uining, and tiuis continued until iS.(7, when he located in Woodstock. In 1^77 lie engaged in monu- mental Work on his own account, and has now the largest business of the kind within a radius of twenty miles. His wife, Ann, was a daugh- ter of Ilugli Mctiovern, of (Jueens Count)', New Urunswick. liiey had ten children, of whom nine grew to )ears of maturitv, namely; Isa- bella, now f his ton ohildron (loorgo was the second son (ieorgo C!ani|) was born .\pril iS, 1791, on tho home f.irm in Jomsog, and there hdlowod agrii-ultui'o until bis doatii, which oeeuried May II, l(S5o. lie married Mary I-'orris, who was born July Ji>, i.Soi, it (irand I,ako, Oueons County, and died June S, 1896. She was a member of the liaptist eluiroh, while ho belonged to the .\nglican iliurob. ()l iboir cbildron eight grow to adult life, as fidlows; John JanioH, Rebecca }., (ieorgo W. , Sarah I'".. , Rachel, Mary, Abiathar, and .Maria. John James Camp, whoso birth oconrn'd l)e- combor 4, iSkj, still li\is on the aiuoslial homestead, and is hold in high I'steom through- out tho community as a man of sterling in- tegrity and upright tharaotor. lie married Mmma, daughter of John and I'rudenie (Hayes) McCurdy, ot Ncjiton, .\.H. She was born in 1S25, and died in()ctober, iSS^. 'I'hoy wore the parents of ton children, of whom seven are now living, as follows: John MoC, of Wood- stock, X. M., who married .Saiah Smith, of St. .Andrews, and has so\'en ohildron; (ieorgo R., M. 1). , an active pr.ict it i >^^V ^' t* ^e % 4PX .% IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) i.O S4I||^ IIIII2.5 i 50 «i' IIIM 2.2 I.I '■ tm 1 2.0 1.4 1 1,8 1.25 1.6 — 6' V] <^ '^1 /f/ ey W ^^ # V//. O 7 Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ^<^ i 478 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW cafe, where lie chanced to meet tlie engineers before referred to. Inviting tliem to become his guests at dinner, he served them sumptu- onsl)- with wine; and, when he found tiiat they had inibii)ed a sufficient (|uantity of li(|ui)r tf the town of Albert, Albert County, is an ex- tensive lumber rlealer and manufacturer, the junior member of the firm of C. S. & I. C. I'rescott. He was born November 2, J 861, in I'ennfield, Charlotte County, which was also the birthplace of bis father, Joshua I'res- cott. His grandfather, Jesse I'rescott, was born in Mount Vernon, Me., August 28, 1791, and died February 11, 1885, in I'ennfield, N.B. A resident of Maine until 1815, Jesse I'rescott came then to New Brunswick and settled in Clharlotte County, where he bought timbered land, which by years of unceasing toil he im- proved into a conifortaiile homestead. Coming from good I'uritan stock, he inherited both the mental and physical vigor of his ancestors, and in his adoptctl home exerted a wide-felt and lasting infiucnce. On May i, 1820, he mar- ried Sarah, daughter of John Knight, of I'enn- field; and of their seven sons and one daughter the following named children are now living: Catherine, wife of Tobias Mealey, of Minne- sota; Joshua, father of Isaac C. ; Moses, who married Alice Chaffee; John, whose first wife, Sarah Dinsmore, died several years ago, and who subsequently married Mmma, daughter of Deacon Kelley, of Calais, Me. ; and Jes.se, who married Abigail \'oung. Both Jesse I'rescott and his wife far outlived the allotted span of earthly life, he attaining the venerable age of ninety-four years, while she died at that of ninety-three. In 1831 both united with the Baptist church, making a public profession of faith, and were afterward among the most ac- tive members of that organization. Joshua I'rescott was liorn in 1825, on the old home farm in I'ennfield. When a young man he opened in that town a general store stocked with merchandise adapted to the coun- try trade. He afterward establishe' f ifii I ! BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 48J having conic to New Urunswick from Stamtonl, Conn., in 1783, witli iiis wile and family. Fylcr Dil)l)lcc was a lawyer by iirofession, and for several years after settling here was a commissioner fur the colony of loyal immi- grants. I'"bcnczer Dibhlee was born in Stamford, CniiM., in 177,?. When a young man he car- ried the mail on horseback between l-'rcderic- ton and the parish of Norton for a number of seasons, lie afterward innchased land in the parish of I'etersville, Queens County, and there improved a good farm, lie married I'Mizabeth .Secord, of Kings County, by whom he had eleven children: Mrs. Caroline Under- bill, deceased; Samuel, deceased; Mrs. V.Wa Wallace, a widow, wlio lives in Sunbury County, New Urunswick; Mrs. Sophia Record, deceased; William Kyler, the special subject of this .sketch; Mrs. Ann I'lewelling, de- ceased; Isaac, deceased; Charlotte, widow of Joim Stockford, who resides in the parish of Ilampstead, Uueens County; Sidney All)crt, deceased, late of tlie parish of Tetersvillc and at one time Coroner of (juecns County, who had two children — William and Annie; Jane, decea.sed, who was the wife of the late James Smith; and Margaret, who is the widow of the late James Jones and lives at Lancaster, St. John County, N. 1$. Both parents were mem- bers of the Church of Lngland. William F. Dibblec received such educa- tional advantages as were affordetl the boys of his day and generation, and until twenty years of age worked on the home farm. Coming to Woodstock, he worked in the lumber woods a few years, and then became a clerk for Jolui Walter Hedell. A year or two later he ac- cei)ted the jiosition of travelling agent and collector for Robert Rankin & Co., with whom he remained two years. .Starting then in busi- ness for himself, he engaged in the manufact- ure of lumber uiUil 1S70, when on account of ill health lie gave up all active work for seven years. In 1S77 Mr. Dibhlee, in company with his son, J. '['. Allan Diliblee, under the present firm name of W. !•'. Dibhlee & Son, embarked in tiie hardware business in Wood- stock; and by their untiring energy and enter- prise tliey have developed one of the largest wholesale and retail trades of the county, their store being the leading one of the kind. They liandie all lines of hardware, including carriage stock of all kinds and agricultural implements; and they deal also in bricks, lime, phosphates, and so forth. In their Woodstock store they emjiloy five clerks and a teamster, and they also have a branch store at Ilartland tliat is well patronized. Mr. Dibhlee, when a young man, was Lieu- tenant in the Woodstock Cavalry Company, of whicli he was later commissioned Ca|)tain. lie served as a member of the first Council of the town of Woodstock, and subsec[uently filled the same ofTice several terms. r"raternally, he is a memi)er of Woodstock Lodge, V. & A. M. , of wiiich he is Past Master; is Fast Deputy Grand Master of the (irand Lodge of New Urunswick ; and is Supreme Grand of the Royal Arch Chajjter of Scotland. He is a member of the Church of luigland, in which he was warden of the parish church for .seven years. M't I M i :■■) i 4 Ml' .1-^ 484 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW •■■' : i Mr. Dibbleo first married Anna (lill, clau|;ii- tcr of Captain Anthony Harlvcr, of St. Mary'.s, York Connty, N. H. Of the chilchcn l)orn of this union two arc now living;, namely: Georj;e \'()unj;-, of Fretlcrictun ; and J. T. y\Iian. Mrs. Ann G. Dibi)lee died in October, i86(v. Mr. Dibbiee subseeiueutly married Margaret Jai'c, daughtei of iVter Ck'iiients, of Woodstock. J. T. Allan Uibblee was born October 20, iSifi, in W'lMidstock, wher, he was brought up and educated. When a lad of fourteen years he entered the ha.dware store of .Smith brothers, with whom he remained three years, in the mean time acquiring a good knowledge of the business. Going then to St. John, he was in the em])loy of Adam' Young, a hardware merchant, until he formed a partneiship with his fatiier as junior member of the iirm with which he has since been connecteil. lie is a man of excellent judgment and business ability, and is one of the directors of the Wdod- s'ock Wood Working I'oinpany ami the presi- dent and manager of the Wooilstock Can iage Company, lie ranks high as a Mason, being Past Master if Wo.ulstock Lodge, 1-". S; A. M., Past District (jrantl Master of the Granil Lodge, and a member of Woodstock Chapter, \i. A. M. lie also belongs to Iw.nhoe Lodge, K. of P. In Dominion politics he is a Liberal Conservative. Previous to 1 Sijo he served five years in tlu Town Council and one year in the County Council. In i S()o be was elect jd Mayor of Wooc'stock. and ser\ed so acceptably to all concerned that he was r elcct''d to the same oOice the succeeding year. In itSoj he was elected t" the I'roviiicial Parliameiu lor a term of three years, and in 1895 re-elected for a similar term. He has serve';//(.(•, ran as op|)onents, and were elected by a large majority. A petition ag;unst the elec- tion was then filed; and Messrs. I'owell and Steeves, after filling their seats in the House during one .session, resigned. When the new election to fill these vacancies was called, Mr. I'owell was again elected, but Mr. Steeves was defeated. In 1892, in the general election, Mr. I'owell was again elected to the same position, this time with a flattering majority, being the second at the poll; but his three colleagues, Judge W. W. Wells, Mr. Milan- son, and 1". W. .Sumner, were defeated. He remained in the local Legislature until tiie 49- niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 11 > i i|!i in elevation of the Hon. Josiah Wood, IVI. P. , to the Senate, in 1895, wlic;! l.c was urged hy the Conservative Committee to resif;n liis seat in the hieal House and become candidate for the vacancy in thi: House of Commons. He ac- ([uiesced, and in Auj;ust, 1S95, was elected by a majority of ei^;ht hundred votes. Durinj; his first term in tlie House of Commons he was a very jirom incut advocate of a remodelled Lej^islature in ^Manitoba, takinj^- a stand upon that (luestion that drew down u])on him the ojiposition of a large number of his constitu- ents, with the result that in the election of 1.S9G he was returned to the House with a majority of fifteen only- On June 26, 1878, ]\Ir. Towell married Mary A., daughter of the Rev. George 1'. I'ayson, a Methodist minister. They have two children ■ — Lena and Ralph. AMllS VKNNKR RUSSELL, an en- terprising boot and shoe tlealer of .St. John, was born in that city, August 2, 18C2, son (jf John and Mary (Keltie) Russell. He received his education in the public schoids of .St. John, and at the age of fifteen years began his fust industiial experience as clerk for \inccnt & McFate, remaining with the firm for nine months. y\t the end of that time he removed to the North luul, then Port- land, to take charge of Mrs. T. A. Vincent's shoe business, which he conducted subse- quently for si.xteen years. In 1895 he \n\v- chascd the business, which he now carries on, doing a thri\ing trade. His store is one of the best stocked, and his business is one of the largest in St. John. Mr. Russell was married, T'ehruary 15, 1893, to Miss Lizzie Gray, of rorlJand, daugliter of William and iMina (Scott) Gray. He has two children — lulith and Muriel. Mr. Russell is a prominent member of the I. C). O. !■"., i)eing High Auditor of the order in New Urunswick. He is a schoid trustee for the city of St. Joim. r^T i:\RV A. WHITNKY,* a former j^H Mayor of Moncton, N. B. , is now liv- ^— - ing in that city, retired from active business pursuits. Descended from sturdy New ICngland ancestors, he was born I'"ebruary ir, 1834, in .St. Stephen, N. li, a son of Herick W. and Lucy (Hall) Whitney. His great- grandfather, Reuben Whitney, was born in that jjart of Portland, Me., tiiat was formerly called I'"almouth, and there grew to man's es- tate. RcuJK'n liecame a pioneer settler of Joncsville, Me., where he engaged in farming and lumbering during the remainder of his life. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Weston, bore him several children, of whoni their second child, Lpliraini li. , was the grand- father of Ileiuy .\. Whitney, the special sub- ject of this sketcii. ICpbraim 15. Whitney, whose birth occuned in 17^)9, was the llrst white child born in Joncsville, Me., where be sjicnt his long and busy life, engaged chiefly in lundjering and mercantile [nirsuits. He died in 1857, at a venerable age. He was for many years one of H i IS one ol >5. i«93, ii^litor 1)1 Ikis two Km SSI' 1 1 <>• I-'., in New the city JAMKS \. KISSKM.. , m ' I'll I I ! I ly ''I I'! 'I i\ ) Ik I ■] BIOGRArmCAL REVIFAV 495 the most i)iiiii)iiuiit liti/.cns ol tliu town, and ill 1810 represented tin.- I'.iistern District of the Stale in the (ieneral Court. Hy Ids wife, Sarah, who was a daiij;hter of JClliaii Allen Noyes, he had a family of thirteen children. Herick W. Whitney, son of Miihraim H. , was horn in Jonesville, IMe. , where he spent his early years. .Soon after attaining; his ma- jority he settled in St. Stephen, N. H., in which place he made his pcrniancnl home, re- siding there until his death, at the age of fourscore years. An energetic, progressive man, he carried 011 for many years an exten- sive and profitahle husiness as a lumher manu- facturer and dealer, and was nimihercd among the influential citizens of his locality. In politics he was a Conservative and in his re- ligious helief a Universalist. His wife, Lucy Hall Whitney, was a daughter of William Hall, who was a cousin of the late Neat Dow, of I'ortland, Me. 'I'hey became the (lareiits of si.\ children, of whom three are living, namely; Henry ;\., whose name hegins this sketch; Horace, who married (iaratielda I'almer, of Baring, Me., and has si.\ children; and Charles T. , who married a Miss .Starkey, of St. John, N. H., and has si.\ children. Mrs. Lucy ]\. Whitney outlived her Inisband, passing away at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. Henry y\. Whitney grew to manhood in St. .Stejihens, and obtained a practical education in the public schools of that |dace. In 1857 he removed to Monctoii, where he has since resided, and, until his resignation after a con- tinuous ser\ice of thirty-live years, was en- gaged in railroad work. He was first con- nected, when hut eighteen years old, with the St. Croi.\ & Penobscot Railway, and was sub- sequently an engineer on the Luropean & North American Railroad for several years. During tlie latter p.irt of the time he served as mechanical superintendent of that road. In piditics Mr. Whitney is independent. He has always taken a dee|) interest in town affairs, and, besides having served as .School TriLstec for fourteen years, was Mayor of Moiicton in 1X(J4. He is a Mason, belonging to Union Lodge, !•■. & A. M., of Portland, Me. Mr. Whitney has been twice married. His first wife, Margaret Lindsay Whitney, a daugh- ter of Alexander Lindsay, of St. John, N.H., died at the age of thirty-two years, leaving one child, Margaret, who is now the wife of Will- iam Cowding, of Moncton, and has two chil- dren — Mary W. and Henrietta L. Mrs. Margaret Whitney was a Methodist in religion. Mr. Whitney subse(|uent]y married Ileiiiietta I'llliot, daughter of John Llliot, of Lngland, a grandson of Lord Ileathsfield. The second Mrs. Whitney died when fifty years old, lea\- ing two children: Lucy A., wife of John H. Harris, of Moncton, who has one child, John W. Harris; and Harriet .S. Mrs. Henrietta K. Whitney was a member of the v\nglican church. (s^UIIN WALKLR,* the oldest established merchant tailor in Woodstock, N.l!., is a typical re[)resentativj of the thrifty Scotch citizens of the Provinces. He was '! i'l 49* BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW Hi ( ! 'i If f ." iti'l ti l)iiin Aiij,'u.st lo, 1S35, ii) Aberdeen, Siotlaml, :i son ()[ I;inies \\';ilker, Jr. His paterniil grandfather, James Walker, Sr. , a lifelong resident of Aberdeen, was gardiner for the Diike of Athol. James Walker, Jr., was born and e' l.nKC.K K. COUI.THAKl), M.I)., a \{^J_ widely-known physician residing at Fredei icton, was horn there, August 24, |S.}<^, son of (ieorge and Maria (Hanselpaiker) Coulthard. The Doctor's paternal and maternal ances- tors came respectively fmm Scotland and Hol- land. The records show many instances of longevity on both sides. Ills great-grand- father Coulthard, born at (Iretna Ciieen, on the borders of .Scotland, in 1766, died in 1S41; and ills great-grandmother Coulthard died in ( )ntario, aged ninety-threi'. His grandfather Coulthard died at eiglily-eigbt ; and his grandmotlu'r, a Miss HIack before mar- riage, lived to be fourscore years of age. Cicorge Coulthard, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1 )umfrie-;shire, near Hridekirk S'illage, .Scotland, in 1S15. When five years old, in June, iSjo, witii liis father and grandfather he came to America, his father settling in York County, wiiich was their subsecpient home. His father and grand- father had acipiired their living by tilling the soil. He, however, chose a mercantile career, 61! ta.UKCK K. COll.l'IIAKI), M.\). m : i i^l rl IS BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 499 and for years did a successful business in Frederictfiii as a l)()()t and siiou merchant. He was a man of c|iiiet, unassiimin;; character, a merr.Ijer of the Methodist church, and one of those who assisted in rebuildintj the present edifice. Mrs. Maria II. Coulthard was of Dutch descent. Her grandfather Hanselpacker came here from Albany, N.Y. , in 17S3, with the Loyalists. Her father married a l^liss Halmain of Loyalist descent. Mr. Coulthard died in 1888, aged seventy-three. His wife died at seventy-one years of age. They were the pii:o"ts of four cliildren, two of wiiom died in infancy. George Iv Coulthard in his boyhood and youth attended successively the Fredericton Grammar School and the University of New Ikunswick, receiving the degree of bachelor of Arts from the latter in 1S68. Four years after, having graduated from Harvard Medi- cal School in 1S72, and having served a year in the lioston City Hospital as house surgeon, he was registered as a physician. He begari his professional jiractice in Fredericton in 1872, I)ut after eighteen months proceeded to take a post-graduate course at lulinburgh (Scotland) University; and on completing the same he resumed Ids practice in I'"iedericton, where he has since followed it continuously. Dr. Coulthard is connected with the leading medical organizations of the country, Ijeing a niend)er of llic Hritisli Meiliial Association, the Canadian .Medical Association, the Mari- time Medical Association, the New Urunswick Medical As.sociation, and the ^'ork County Medical Association. He wa.-? presiilent for two years of the Council of Physicians and Surgeons, New l^runsv. ick, president of the New Brunswick Medical Society in 1895, and vice-president of the Maritime Medical Asso- ciation for New Hrunswick in 1896. He is a trustee of tlie Victoria Hospital, and has been on the Hoard of Surgeons since its incorjiora tion. l'"iir a year and a lialf In- lias been chairman of the Fredericton School Hoard, and he has been a member of the board .some eighteen years. He is secretary of the I'ro- vincial Hoard of Health and Chief Health Officer of the |)rovince. .Since 1885 he has been a mendjcr of tiie University of New Hrunswick Senate. Dr. Coulthard is also largely connected with fraternal circles, being a member of Hiram Lodge, 1'. & A. M., of l""re(iericton, of the Indeiieiuleiit Order of Odd I''ellows, of the Royal Arcanum, of tlie Inde- pendent Order of I'oresters, of the Home Circle, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Since 1875 he has been a member of the Methodist church and since 1878 one of its Hoard of Trustees. Dr. Coulthard was married in 1882 to .Annie C. Hunter, daughter of tiie late James Hunter, a mill-owner in .St. Jolin. They have one daughter, Gertrude, wiio is attending the l'"redericton Grammar .School. -*.»•»» ||^j()H1:RT NICHOLSON, I\I.A., M.D.,» 1 popular phjsician and surgeon of Newcastle, was iiorn in Chatiiam, N.H., in 1865, son of John R. and I'dizabeth (Richie) Nicholson. His paternal grandfather \ I . 1 ' !| 'III'' ]'■ ! ■ ii '' ■ W : ^ m I < : 111 11" [ I Soo BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW f was Robert Nicholson, a native of Dumfries, Scotlaiul, wlio ciiiigrated \vit]i liis family to Halifax, N.S., and tw') years a^'er his arrival removed to Miramichi, N. H., setllin.g in Chat- ham. Robert Nicholson was a tanner and cur- rier, and followed that occupation in Chatham for many \ears. His wife, in maidenhood Anna Osborn, was a native of Enj^land. They were the parents of twelve childien, of whom seven <^w\v to maturity. John R. Nicholson was horn in Dumfries, Scotland, and came with his parents to New Brunswick when tiuite a child. He was reared in Chatham, and became an accountant, which occupation he followed during his life. He was a prominent Drangeman and an ardent supporter of the temperance cause. His wife, ]'!lizabeth Richie Nicholson, was a daughter of David Richie, and was born near Glencoe, Scotlaiul. Tiiey were tiie parents of eigiit children, of whom James, a physician, died at the age of thirt)- years, after liaving practisetl his ])rofession for some years at Hathurst. Charles is a resident of Malone, N. V. Usborn resides in Newcastle, N. H. Sarah J. is the wife of (ieorge Urown. John R. Nicholson dieil in January, 1898, at the age of eighty- nine vears. His wife dieil in June, iS(j8, at the age of eighty-eight. Tiiey iuid been mar- ried siNty-tive years. Robert Nicholson, tlie direct subject of this sketch, was educated in the [lublic schools of Newcastle and in the university at I'rederic- ton. He began his medical studies under the direction of H. A. l"isii, M.D., of Newcastle, and subsequently attended the medical depart- ment of the University of New York, at which he graduated in 1887. He then spent a year in the further study of his p. )fession in the iiospitals of London, luiglaiul. Then, relum- ing home, he began practice in Newcastle early in 1889, and has since remained a resi- dent of that place. He has won an excellent reputation, and has a good practice that is steadily increasing. He is -^, member of the I. O. O. !•. Dr. Nicholson was married in 1894 to Miss Margaret Russell, a daughter of M. Russell, of ^."cwcastle. He has one child, Sarah D. e)JON. LKMUKL J. TWKKDIK,* of Ciiatham, I'rovincial Secretary of New Brunswick, is of Irish extrac- tion, his father having been a native of I.ei- trim antl his mother of County Down, Ireland. He was born in Chatiiam, N.H. , November 30, 1849, and his educatiori was obtained in the grammar schools and at I'resh Academy. Making choice of the legal jirofession, he was called to the bar in 1871 after the usual course of study, and at once entered into jirac- tice. He has since been conspicuously iden- titied with public affairs. He v/as first elected to the House of Assembly at the general elec- tion in 1874. l-"our years later he was an un- successful candidate for the sanie office, but was re-elected at the general elections in 1886, 1890, 1892, and 1895. He was sworn a mem- ber of the J'lxecutive Council and ai)i)ointed ourveyor-general on February 3, 1890. On : ■ 1 1 ; 1 ' ■ 1 V ! : ■'* i , : i 1 1 sill iS ;'IMli i I n ■ irjii; :ii» ; < ' lilo.MAS \\\I.KI:K. M.I). BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 503 the rcorgani/.atidii of the -ovcrnmcnt in July, 1896, he became Provincial Secretary. In his political opinions he is a Liberal Conser- vative. Mr. Tweeiiie was manietl December 6, 1876, to Agnes, daughter of the late Alexander Louden, l'"sc|. IIOMAS \VALK]':R, M.D., a well- ''t the age of twenty-two years, lulward S. is tiie priest of the Roman Catholic church, whose name appears at the heail of this sketch. James died on June 27, 1896. Mrs. Susanna B. Murdock, the mother of these children, is still living, and enjovs a re- markable degree of mental and i)h\sical vigor. KORGK KDWIN FAIRWKATHKR, barrister-at-law and insurance and real estate agent of .St. John, N.H., was born in 1833, son of Josejih and Jane (Whittaker) Fairweather. He is a descendant in the fourth generation of Thomas l'"airweathcr, who removed from Connecticut to Long Island, N.Y., and thence, in 1783, with other Loyal- ists, to New Brunswick. Thomas Fairweather settled in Norton, then known as Yankee .Shore. There he followed farming on the Kennebaccasis River. He was three times married: first, to a Miss Ray- mond, by whom he had one son, William by name, who married Nancy Dunham; second, to Deborah Ketchum, by whom he had ten BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV S07 chiUlren — Thomas, Henry, Hannah, Sarah, S.imucl, lulwin, Fanny, Deborah, Cliarles, and James. 'I'lie second Thomas, j^randfather of George I'^dwin Fairweather, was six years ohl when he came with his fatlier's family to New Brunswick. Ho was a life-long farmer. His wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Dixon, bore him nine children, as follows: Joseph, father of George K. Fairweather; Susan, who married Charles De Forest; Julia Elizabeth, who died unmarrioil; Nancy, who married Israel Iloyt Foster; Deborah, who died un- married ; Thomas, who married Iktsey Ket- chum; Samuel; lulwin, who married Isabella l""airweather; and Angeline, who married (]. F. VVhelpley. Joseph Fairweather, son of Thomas and Lydia, was reared on his father's farm, but upon attaining his majority he came to St. John and engaged in the lumber and West India trade, which he followed successfully for many years. lie served as magistrate, and for nineteen years was a member of the Common Council. 1 1 is wife, Jane, bore him the following-named chikheii: Julia Klizabcth, who married Henry F. I'erley, C. F. ; George Fdwin; Thomas Wellington, now deceased; I.ydia Jane, who married Charles Walker, C.lv, both of whom are dead; Arthur Clar- ence; Joseph Sydney, ileceased, who married Hetty Lewis; Louisa Adelaide; ICdmuud Walker Head; Susan ICmma; and Henry llel)ert. Joseph Fairweather died in 1876, and his wife died in IcSqi. George Edwin Fairweather's early life was spent in trade. In 18C1 he was ajiiiointed Deputy Common Clerk, and for tiie thirteen succeeding years held this jwsition with credit. He also studied law, was admitted as a barrister in 1875, and since that time he has given his attention largely to his profession. In connection with his law practice, however, he is extensively engaged in the insurance busi- ness ami in real estate jperations. Among the insurance companies he represents may be named the following: the London and Lan- cashire of Liveri)ool, the Ailna of Hartford and the llartforil Fire Insurance Company. He is also geni-ra! ajjent for the Canada Life Insurance Company. Mr. Fairweather was married in i860 to Emma, daughter of the late Richard Titus, a prominent shii)-builder of St. John. Mr. and Mrs. Fairweather are the parents of five chil- dren, namely: lulgar Hamilton; Mary Annie, now deceased; Walter Cardwell, deceased; Carrie; and Grace Lang. The first-named of these, who is in business with his father, mar- ried Grace Caldwell, and ii.is a family of four children — Edith Douglas, George lulwin, lulgar Darrell, and Harold Bryant. George Edwin Fairweather publisiied, in 1895, a book of original poems, entitled " I'he Stone Cluueh Hell," in memory of his son, Walter Cardwell, who died November 17, 1894. ILFRED T. JONES,* a skilful and enterprising farmer of boundary Creek, Westmoreland County, N. 15. , was born December 18, 18C1, in the parish of Moncton, h l» r^ I 1 1 i Ik ' 1 ! Jii! ffilh < il So8 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW a son of the late Abel Junes. His ;;raiul- father, Solomon Jones, was also born in Moiu- ton, X.U., and diirin},' his active life of sc\enty-thiee years was enj^ajjed in tilling the soil, his homestead farm beinj; one of the best on Steeves Mountain. Solomon Jones married Marj^aret I.utz, who attained the venerable aj^e of ei;;hty-foin- years, liotli were valued mem- bers of the Haptist church, t)f which he was for many years a Deacon. They had a large family of children, of whom eleven j;rew to adult life and si.\ are ) et livintf, as follows: Matilda, Rosanna, Clinton, Kate, Maria, and Solomon. Abel Jones, second child of Solomon and Margaret, was born on the old iiomestead on Steeves Mountain, where he lived until twenty- three years old. Locating then at Houndary Creek, he purchased the lanil now owned and occupied by his son, Wilfred T. , and by dint of persevering toil, wise management, and thrift succeeded in clearing and improving a comfortaljle homestead farm, which be man- aged until his death, at the age of sixty-three years. He married Catherine, daughter of Kphraim Steeves, of Moncton ; and she sm- vived him, and is still living on the home farm with her son. She belongs to the Haji- tist chinch, of which her husband was an active mendier and for a number of years a Deacon. Siie has seven children living; namely, I.eander, Calvin, Wilfred T., Lphraim, Dora, Cecil, and lifTie. Wilfred T. Jones obtained a practical edu- cation in the common schools of Moncton, and since the death of his father has had the entire care of the homestead |>roiierty. lie has one hundred acres of land, much of which is in a gootl state of cultivation, and is carrying on general farming with very satisfactory results. On March iS, iSiX", Mr. Jones married Clara I.., daughter of William Stee\es, of Salisbury, N. H., and they have (jue child, (Gordon W. , born in March, 1S97. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Salisbury Hap- tist church. T^HARLKS L. CARTI':R,* an active and I J| able busines- r,'in of Hopewell Cape, ^ — " Albert County, N.H. , was born in that town, January 26, iiS/o, a son of Captain Iknjamin T. Carter. He is of substantial I'jiglish stock, his great-grandfather, Thomas Carter, having been horn and bred in York- shire, England. When a young man Thomas Carter emigrated to Canada, and, locating at Dorchester, N.ll, there married a Miss Sid- dall, who bore him a large family of children, of whom Christopher, grandfather of Charles I,., was the seventh son. Christopher Carter was Ixnii in Dorchester, N.H., and there jiassed his life, which ex- tended to the scriptural limit of threescore years and ten. Learning the mason's trade when young, he followed that occupation for many years, and assisted in building many houses in that vicinity. He married Barbara McKenzie, who survived him a brief time, dying at the age of seventy-four years. In re- ligion they were strict Methodists. They be- came the parents of eight children, four sons I' CHARLKS L. CAKIKK. I fil in T [ V I ! ill II 11 UIOGRAl'HICAL REVIEW 5" aiul four (laii{;litoiH, ol wlmni aic now living: Captain Hcnjaniin 'J'.; Duncan, wim inaiiicil Jam- I'alint'r, (if Dorchester; Jane, wife of Alexander Taite, of Moiicton, N, H. ; Ilattie, wife of Ainsley Keiver, of Moncton. Captain Henjamin 'I', Carter was born July 19, 1S44, in Dorchester, N. It. ; and the days of his bojhood and youth were passed in that town. 'n 1X62 he went to sea as cook on hoard a coasting-vessel, and within a few years had workeil his way through the different grades to the position of master of tiie craft in which he sailed. In this capacity he made many voyages to foreign ports, and after a successful seafaring life of more than three decades retired in 1S1J4 to his old home at Hopewell Caiie, where he is now enjoying a well-earned leisure. He married for his first wife Julia, daughter of J. ICdward Di.xon, of Hoiiewell Cajie. She died when hut twenty years old, leaving one son, Charles I,. Cap- tain Carter subse((uently married Althea M., daughter of Nathan M. Bennett, also of Hope- well Cape. Of this union there are no chil- dren. In politics the Captain is independent, voting according to his sincere convictions, re- gardless of party ties. In November, 1897, he was elected as a Councillor of Albert County, and he is serving also as one of tlie School Trustees. Charles L. Carter obtained the rudiments of his education in the schools of his native town, after which he took a course at the St. John Commercial College, St. John, N.ll The en- suing two \ears were spent in the employ of L. Hi & Co., wholesale boot and sho dealers at Moncton; and he then resigned his position to try seafaring life. .Shipping be- fore the mast, he sailed for Australia and the l''ast Indies, and had a long and satisfactory trip going anil returning. On his second out- ward voyage he was made third nuite of the vessel, and during the trip iiome was raised to the rank of mate. A short time later he re- ceived his master's pajiers ; but, insteail of taking charge of the ship, he deiided to stay asiuire and establish himself in business. Accordingly, in 1896, he opened his present store at Hopewell Cape, with an excellent stock of general merchanilise, and has since carried on a thriving trade. In the same year he was appointed Postmaster, an oriicc whiiii he is filling most acceptably. On April 4, 1S95, Mr. Carter married Net- tie, daughter of Jolin W. Sulis, of St. John, N. H. ; and they have one chilil, Winifred St. John, born December 29, 1896. Mr., and Mrs. Carter are members of the Haptist church at St. John, N.H. , and Mr. Carter is a member of Demoiselle Court, No. 1546, I. O. l-"., of Hopewell Cape. §AMI':S JOSIvI'II KAVI-:, for many years an eminent lawyer of the I'rovince of New Hrunswick, was born in Surrey, Mngland, on July 23, 1.S14, secontl son of James and Sarah (Cox) Kaye. He came to Canada in early manhood, and jnusucd his law studies with tiie late .Moses II. I'crley. On the 4th of l"'ebruary, 1841, he was admitted attorney, and in 1843 was called to the bar. 1 1 : !; ft. s 1 i \ ■ h .1 : ! H: 'i i * ' II FTTT ^1- I* i lllilll m •I i (t ■ S': mOGRAPHICAL REVIKW He received the rank of Queen's Counsel from tliu I'rovincir.l i;()vcrnnient in 1S73, and in tlie same year also from the Dominion govcrnme'it. Mr. Kaye's deatli occurred on June ig, \^i)2. The following- estimate of his ]ej;al character, as furnished by Mr. Justice barker, is perhaps as disci niinaiinji and as valuable as -mythinf; that has been written concerning; him. Juilge B < -ker says : — 'As a lawyer Mr. Kayc was always a great worker, lie never 'gambled ' with his cases, he took no ri.sks whicli it was ]v)ssible to avoid, and he provitled for contingencies to which other practitioners would liave given no heed, so inilikely were they to occur. His knowl- edge of law and legal principles was most ex- treme. He read or had reail to him all the legal literature of the day; and he became easily the leading eipiity lawyer of liis time in New Urunswick, and pri)l)ai)]y in the Maritime Provinces. He, however, rai-ely took part in the trial of a cause, and never went on cir- cuit. And, alliiougli he rather avoided even arguing ca'^cs befoie the court, when lie did his statements weie always lucid, his reasons were generally sound, his arguments always logical, and his manner always earnest and c'nt alone fell uncomfortable. "Mr. Kaye's most appropriate position for judicial work was in a court of appeal. 'I'Mrst inipressiiins ' and off hand opini(His are as un- necessary there as tbe\- are out of place. There is no obstacle in the way of the niosl deliberate action in a court of last resort; and there have been few lawyers in the Province better etiuipjied than was Mr. Kaye for a final determination of those varied questions which result in litigation, or whose judgment upon them under such condiliims wonhl have been more readily accepte 1 ^, ■■'! ' I i. Jr JOHN 1!. C.KIIAKS. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S'7 seventeen years of wedded life, leaving five children, llis present wife was before mar- riage Lina Faulkner, of Kings County, and was formerly a missionary on the Congo River in Africa. Mr. Hale is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity and of the Independent Order of For- esters. He attends the Free Haptist church, and contributes liberally toward its support. fOHN I5R00KF GRIEVES, for many years the genial and popular proprietor of the Waverley House, in Frederic- ton, N. ]?. , his native place, was born on Au- gust lO, 1848, and died on December 12, 1894, at forty-six years of age. He was of Scotch extraction. His ancestors emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, and later came from Ireland to this country. Williams Grieves, father of John Brooke, was a farmer by occupation. He also ran a ferry across the St. John River before the bridges were built. The Waverley House was established by him; and, after he had con- ducted it for many years, he gave it over to the care of this son. He had many friends. John Brooke Grieves, the eldest son of his parents, obtained his education in the public schools of I'"redericton, including the collegi- ate school. He tlien learned cal)inet-making, whicii he followed some time; and later on he became a clerk in a grocery store. When he was twenty-five he became the manager of the Waverley House, and remained in char'^e , as long as lie lived. Since his ileparture it has been conducted by his widow. Mr. Grieves was Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Assembly for ten years i)rior to iiis death, and made many friends throughout the province. On the day of his funeral the government offices, banks, and stores were all closed. He was widely known and beloved for his numer- ous kindly and charitable deeds, many of which were known only to the recipients of his bounty, lioth Mr. John B. Grieves and his father were prominent Orangemen; and he was a member of Hiram Lodge, 1'. & A. M., in which he held office. He was an attendant of the Trcsbyterian church. In 1S74 Mr. Jolm B. (irieves was united in marriage with Ruth, daughter of Abraham McKeen, of Bright, York County, N. B. , where the McKecns were the first settlers. Abraham McKeen did a large lumber business, and also kept a .store. He was a Justice of tiie Peace. He liied in his sixty-second year. Three children were born to .Mr. antl Mrs. Grieves; but only their daughter, Annie May, survives. Siie is the wife of Harry lulward Dewar, a decorator, of Fredericton, and re- siiles with her widowed mother. She has one son, John Brooke (irieves Hewar, born July 5, • ^97- HOMAS ni'L.XN, dealer in meats and ejd pro\isiiins, .St. John, was boin in .Sus- sex, October 15, 1S53, .son of I'eter and Bridget (Caulfield) Dean. His father was born in Ireland in iSoo; and in May, 1828, he emigrated to New Brunswick, coming in the vessel conuiiandcd by Captain .Allen Mc- If i: i : li.| i I m r •' r ' 11^ 1 ]' ,- son, Georj;e (iiifTith Ilnyward, grandfather i)f Sanuicl llayward, was a farmer by occupation. He resided in Sussex, Kinj,'s County, and there in addition to carry! nj; on farming he built and ojierated what was long known as llayward's Mill at Dutch Valley. He reared a family of four .sons and four daughters. He was one of the organizers of the Liberal party in an atteni])t to divorce jiolitics from the old church, and made a haid fight for good govern- ment. He withdrew his membership from the old church, antl assisted in organizing the Methodist church in Sussex. He and his wife lived to a good old age. David llayward, alxive named, grew up on his father's farm, and followed agricultural pursuits tiiroughout iiis life. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of l^squire Samuel McCully, who came ironi .Shepody, and whose family were neighbors of the Haywards. This union was blessed by two sons and four daughters. The daughters were: Marion, now deceased; Susan; Abigail; and IClizabiiii, deceased. The son, William H., is also deceased. David llayward died at tiie age of eighty-seven years, and his wife at the advanced age of ninct)-four. .Samuel llayward engaged in mercantile business for himself when only sixteen years of age at l']>per Sussex. After continuing tiiere for some years his health gave out, and he was obliged to give up. He went West, and for two years lived among tiie Rocky .Mountains seeking to recover his lost vitality. In 1S70 he came to this city, and became a member of the lirm of Warwick, Clark & Co., hardware dealers. l-'our years later Mr. Warwick withdrew from the comi)any, and the name of the firm was changed to Clark & Hayward. Three years subsecpient to this Mr. Clark retired, and Mr. Hayward carricil on the business under the name of .S. Hayward & Co. until 1895, when the business was put into a joint stock company and incorporated as The .S. Hayward Company. Mr. llayward has since been president of the company, which is one of the largest hardware concern.^ in the Maritime I'rovinces. Mr. llayward was married in iS74to Miss Margaret Ryan, a daughter of James Ryan, Msq., of Studholm. H.XRI.ICS MKRRITT HOSTWICK,* r of .St. John, wh(desale provision mer- hant and one of the leading lumber manufacturers and dealers of Xew Hrunswick, was born in Kingston, Kings County, X.H. , June 25, 1833, a .son of Jared and Mary A. (Adams) l^istwick. Jared Hostwick, who was born in Kingston, N.l?., Xovember 3, 1794, was a son of Isaac l^ostwick, who was a native of one of the more southern colonies now forming a part of the United .States, born May 27, 1760. Isaac was married in New Jersey, November 18, 178J, during the Revolutionary War, to Tamsan Cable. At the close of the war, with his family he came with the Loyal- ists to New Brunswick, landing on May 17, 17S3, at a point now forming a part of the site of the jiresent city of .St. John. He set- tled on a tr.ict of land in Kings County, and 1 ' m ih 41 1... ill 1 i i\ V 1 i: Iff ' ft ii: Ft-i 5" BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW with his wife brouglit up a large family of chil- dren, of whom the following is a brief record: Mary, who was horn October 17, 1783; Han- ford, horn September 21, 1785, who married Mary Seeley, November 7, 1822, and died August 13, 1865; Hannah, who was born Oc- tober 19, 1787; Sarah, horn October 23, 1789, who died February 15, 1820; Clarissa (twin sister of Sarah), who married Daniel Crawford and died August 15, 1816; Thomas, born January 31, 1793, who married March 22, 1832, Miss Harriett Hottfain; Jared, father of the sul)ject of this sketch, tiie date of wiiose nativity has already been given; Ann, born l'"el)ruary 11, 1797, who married October 18, 1820, (ieorge Prince, and died in March, 1882; Jane, horn December 29, iSoo, who married William Whiting, I'ebruary 24, 1832, and died September 11, 1887; Hiram, born Janu- ary 6, 1 80-, wlio married Mary Richards, March 15, 1836, anil died January 15, 1854. Isaac liostwick, the lather, died at Kingston in 1808. His wife survived him six years, d)iiig in 1814. Jared Bostwick was reared to farming |)ur- suits, which he foil ) wed during his life. He was married in W.'stfield to Miss Mary Adams, a native of Greenwich, born in 1807. Their children were as follows: Isaac S., born December 8, 1829; IClizabeth, born May 27, 1832; Charles Merritt, whose name ajipears at the head of this sketch; Daniel Hiram, born March 25, 1835; John Neville, born December 26, 1836; Margaret Jane, born October 12, 1839, who became the wife of W. D. Fowler; Thomas Bradford, born December 12, 1842; James Jared, born June 11, 184-; and Martha Adams, born June 12, 1848, who married Hiram I'owler. The father, Jared Bostwick, died at Kingston, December 4, 1857, six years after the decease of bis wife, which occurred December if), 1851. Charles Merritt Bostwick was brought up on iiis jiarents' farm, and received his education in the district schools. At the age of twenty- five years he went to St. John, where he found eniidoyment as clerk in a mercantile establish- ment. In i8f)5 he opened an establishment of his own on Water Street, where he has since conducted a large and lucrative business in wholesale groceries and provisions. He has al.so become (me of the most extensive .umber manufacturers and dealers in the Province, owning a large tract of timber land on the Salmon River in St. John County, and ship- ping his jiroduct chiefly to lunopean markets. He is also one of the largest real estate owners in St. John, the Dufferiii Hotel having been his |)roperty for over twenty-two years. Mr. Bostwick was married in Amherst, N. .S., August 6, 1867, to Miss Mary O'Donnell, a native of Amherst, born December 26, 1836. They iiave had tliree childicn — C"harles Mer- ritt Bostwick, Jr., I'^lizabcth, and (luy O'Don- nell. Charles M. Bostwick, Jr., born March 23, 1870, was educati'd in Germany, and sub- sequently engaged in business with his father, with whom he is still associated. Flizabeth, born May 7, 1872, was taken ill while 11/ route to school at Toronto, and died January 29, 1S90. Guy O'Donnell, born June 28, 1879, was educated at Rothesay, N. B. , and is now !■ ii( ■■!; ' I* -M ■• BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S>3 clerk in ;i mercantile house. An Anglican in religion, Mr. Hostwick is vestryman of the St. John (Stone) Church. lie is a member of the St. George's Society. [I'lom No. J of a .'Allies iif l.taflets on Can.uliiin History issutd liy llic piil)lisli(;i.s of the /■.i/ii,itlioiiiil A'rriiu; .St. John, N.ll.j GI'NIIKAI. COFFIN. \]\ I. .M.Il'.N |.\( K, !).(•. I,. LL the old ami many of the young citi- zens of St. John, N'.H., iKive heard of ("icneral Coffin; and few tourists liave tiavelKil on the River St. John with- out having had their attention called to the site of the Coffin manor at the foot of the l.oni;- Reach. Hut yet there are very few persons, even among those who live near the General's old home in the I'rovince, wh(» know anything of him except his name and tiie tradition as to his place of residence. Trior to the lire which, in June, 1.S77, con- sumed the greater part of St. John, including Trinity Church, there was in the latter build- ing a mural tablet whicii heljied to keej) the memory of the departed soldier alive. Upon this was inscribed the following: — Sacred to the memory of (ioncral John ColTiti and .Anne Mattliews his wife one of the liist settler.s on the River Saint John in the year 17S4 and nntil the time of iiis deatli wa.s a menil)er of tlie I,ej;isl,itive Council of lliis province ever emlcavomiiif,' to increase the ajjri- ciilliiral and commercial interests of the province: he died .May iS, 1S3S in tlie S5 year of his age. This tablet is erected to liis memory liy his surviving chil- dren. It is to he regretted that the writer of this was api)arently imable to recognize the fact that the unity existing between husband and wife is not generally ajiparent in the discharge of duties in the Legislature or of a public char- acter. The inscri|)tion, in addition to its dis- regard of grammatical rules, is inaccurate as to the tiate of the death, which occurred on the twelfth, not on the eighteenth, day of May, although the latter might well have been de- sired by a Loyalist of New Brunswick as a fit- ting time for entering into re.st. ' The ColTins were in ])ossession of Alwington Manor in Devonshire, luigland, from the time of the Norman Con([uest ; and it is still held by their descendants. Many members of the family have occupied cons|)icuous positions or distinguished themselves in many ways. In 1529 one Sir William Coffin, having discov- ered that a certain priest hatl refused to btny a corpse imtil the only cow of the deceased was deliverei! to him as a burial fee, caused the cleric to be placed in the gra\e, and to be nearlv, if not entirely, covered with the e.\- huined soil. Instead of being punished for this ecclesiastical offence, the knight was en- abled to effect through his infiuence in I'arlia- mcnt a needed change in relation to biuial fees. Upon the restoration of the royal family ' flip reiinins o( Oener.lI C"i)ITm lie in the t.'Inircli of Kn^land I)iiri.(l- HiDiind, WeMtielcl. .1 I)eautifiil spot on a tiill overlooItinR the St. Jolin l I ■ l f I S»4 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV f 3' rr Lit ..I: il Cdliincl Tristram Coffin, then Governor of I'lynioutli, wild liad r(ui;;lu a^jainst the crown (lurinfj the war of tlie rcl)ellion, embarked for Ameriia and settled witli his family at New- l)ury|)ort, Mass. lie left his only daughter in Mnylaiul, to secure, if possihle, his inheri- tance. She married a Mr. I'ine, who took the name of Codfin; and tlicir descendants, the I'ine-C'oirms, are in occupation ol thi' oid estates to-day. Nathaniel Coffin, of the American branch, was a merchant possessed of sinne means, and Cashier of Customs at Huston, Mass, ]le took the side of the irown durini; the .\mci ican Kovolution, suffered j;reatly from loss of prop- erty, and was never reimbursed, lie had foiu' sons .Tnd several dauf,diters. The eklest son, Naliianiel, a successful lawyer, havin^i, with his brother next to him in a^e, assisted in cutting down a liberty jude, was oblij;eil to .seek safety in tli{,dU from 15oston. The fourth son, Isaac, died a Hritisii ailmiral and baronet in 1S39, ;it tile je Age of eighty-two years. John, tiie third son of the elder Nathaniel and the siibject of this sketch, was born in Hoston in 175''). lie took to the sea at an early age, and eviiu-ed such aptitude for his calling that he became a master niaiincr wiien he was but eighteen years old. In 1775 iiis vessel was employed as a transport, and, having on board the greater |)art of a regiment and also Cicneral Ho'vc, reached Hoston on the ijtli of June. The lroo[)s were landed under Hunker 1 1 ill; and, the battle bearing that name having commenced, the Colonel invited the young sailor "to come up and sec the fun." He promptly accepted the invitation, and, armed with the only available weapon, a tiller, soon secured the musket of an American sol dii'r, whom he had felled to the earth, and used it to good effect. Indeed, his courage anil capacity were so conspicuous on this occasi-" that (iencral (iage, to whom he was presen at the close of the action, made him an luisig . on the licld, and soon after he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, lie ii.ul beiii jircjuiiscd by Sir William Howe that, if he woukl go to New York and raise four hundred men for the ;oyal service, they should be placed imder his command, lie raised and commanded a com- jiany in the King's Orange Rangers about the beginning of the year 1776; and he .served in this corjis until 1778, when he exchanged into the New \'ork Volunteers. lie took part in the battles of Lohl; Island in 1777, of Cerman Town and Saint Lucie in 1778, of Bri.r (Jreek in 1779, and of Camden in 1 There are no extant details of his e.xploits . these; but in the accounts of the battles of Hampton, I lobkirk's Hill, and b'.utaw .Springs in 17M1 his heroic conduct is fully recognized and described. In his obituary notice in a St. John paper it is also stated that he had taken part in the battle of Savanna!) and in liu' action at Cross Creek. Colfm's c.i\alry, which derived its name from him as its leader, was generally dreaded and often avoided by the revolutionists, and ten thousand dollars was offered for the head of tlie obnoxious ofiiccr. In 1781, when attempting dining war to enjoy ti.e delights of l(jve at the home of William Matthews, St. John's Island, Charleston, he UlOGRAnilCAL REVIEW S>5 was tracki'il 1)\- tlic I'liciny, and diil) avoided bcinj; captmvd by Knucaling liiiiisclf liencatli tlio li(>(ii)-skii ts (jf till' daiif^liU'r of liis Iki.^i, Miss AiiiR' MaltlK'ws, wlio siil)sc(|iiciitly l)c- canic his wife. ( )n one occasion, when mak- ing' one n[ many loiays, he xisited a house where a weddinjj was al)out to he hehl, and, havin;^ been funiislied liy tlie proprietor with sii|)i)lies for liis eorps, on l)einj4 invited, re- mained for tiie festivities and darned witii tiie bride. .\l tlie elose of tiie war lie liad reached no hi;;her rank than that of Major; and it is .supposed that his jironiotioii was opposed in e(insc(|ncnce of his having exposed the coward- ice of a natuial son of fieorge III., and thereby incuired the ill will of that ninnarch. Lord Ciirnwallis, Lord W'illiani Howe, Lord Kaw- don, and the Mar(|nis of Hastings exerted themselves to overcome the obstinacy of the kiii,^-, but to no purpose. In May, 17S4, Major Coffin with his wife, two children, three black met uul one black woman, arrived in New Mruiis k, anil pro- ceeded to occiip)- the property ., ady nien- tioneil, wliicli be named Ahvinj;ton Manor after the f.amilv seat in h-ngland. 1 1 ere he comnienced a career of usefulness which only teiminated with his life. He was at different periods a member of the Assembly and of the Legisiati\e Council, superintendent of Indian schools, and chairman of (Juarter .Sessions. ' He imported stock and seeds and improved agricultural implenunls, not only fur himself and bis tenants, but In distribute among his ' In the St. Jnllli t!iizfttt' uf .April i6, i;.).), is the folluwing p.iriiKniph : " C'nI. John ColVnt, ttf this Province, is .appointed a Itrigidier-general to cuiu- mand on the NevvfoiiiHll.ln(l SLllion." neighbors. Nor were his henelits limited to the Province; for in iSji the Massachusetts Society for rronioting .Agricnltiiie thanked him for "a line stud horse of the light cart breed," and made him an honorary mendier of the association. In 1 So^ Colonel CofTin went to Lngland, and was presented at court, where, with his handsome face and fine figure, six feet two inches in height, he seems to have made a lavorable impression upon the mind of the king.- He was offereil, but declined, a regi- ment; hut in 1812 he raised and obliiined cominaild of a body of si,\ hundred men, which, under the name of the New Hriinsvvick l''en- cible.-i, served to |irotect the rroviiue during the absence of the One Ilimdied and I''ourth Regiment in Upper Canada. I'rior to 1.S29 he nuule several visits to Lngland, always re- turning to the Province with the spring. He had ten children, of whom eight lived to matu- rity, his eldest son dying in iiS'sf), a Cieneral in the Koyal .Artillery, and two of his sons having att;iined in ihe Royal Navy, one to the rank of .\dmiral, the other to that of Vice- Admiral. Sidiine, in "Notes on Duels and Duelling," states that in a duel between Colonel Campbell, of the British service, and Major CofTin, at New \'(irk, in i7iS\5, llie latter was wounded ill the groin. ' In the same work a cai tel fiom 2 The St. Jiilin tutzfttfol I>ecetnber to, rSo.i, has Ihe foltowinf; : " AnionK the ui.uiy milil.ny promotions that have Lately tikcn place in iMiKhind, we .lie pleased tu liiid the ii.iiiies ot < ■olunels ('otliii and ArnisIronK. both of this I'roviiite, who are advanced to the rank of Major-jjeneral." M In Fehniary 25. 1707. a duel was fought near Kredericton hetweeii Colonel John ColTin and James (ileiiie. in which the latter was slightly wounded, 'riie St. John iiitzelff, conimentini' on tile incident, says; " The contending parties on this occasion behaved in e\eiy point with the strictest honour and distinguished themselves as gentlemen and men of valour.'' t.l ' Hi 11 \4 i I i 5^6 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i) il r 5 ' n the latter forvvanlc'il and addressed in iSi8 to Ii()l)Cit Parker, Coniptrnller of C'usionis, St. John, N. H., is set out as follows: — St'i; — 1 have tlic honour to coinimiiiicato the follow- ing note received from your son N'evil last Sunday morn- iny;. 1 am not in the habit of entertaining young gentle- men at this iiiioinviiii'iit place. l!ut. sir, harboring no ■;'in I I r i I S28 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW N.U. Adam Scott died in i.'Iv'> '^t^cd nincty- eiglit years; and his wife, Janet Scott, died in 1S84, at the aj;e of ninety. y\ithur I. 'I'luenian received his preliminary education in the common scliools and at Am- herst Academy, Amherst, N. S. ]'"rom 1868 to 1872 he attended Daliiousie College and University at Halifax, N. S. , completing a four years' arts course, and graduating with the degree of bachelor of Arts, with honors. He received tiie degree of Master of Arts from the .same college in 187S. After leav- ing college he taught for two years under a grammar-school license in the puhlic schools of the city of Portland, N. 15. , and from 1876 to 1879 held the in^portant jiosition of sujierintendent of the public schools in that city. Subsequently resigning the position of superintendent, Mr. Trueman engaged in the stud}' of law in the (itlice of I'ugsley, Crawford & I'ugsle\-, was admitted an attorney June 17, 1880, antl enrolled as a barrister June 20, 1881. On his admission as attorney he be- came a partner in the firm above mentioned, the style of wliiih was then ch.niged to I'ugs- ley, Crawfonl, I'ugsley & Trueman ; and atter- wart! he was a partner with the lion. William I'ugsley, under the firm name of I'ugsley & 'rruenian. Since 18S5 Mr. Trueman has prac- tised by himself. On Ajiril 4, 188^, he was appointed reporter of the deci; ions of tiie .Su- preme Court of New Brunswick, and held that office until December, 1894. During that peiiod he published ten \olumes of \er\' valu- able reports. In December, 1894, Mr. True- man was appointed Judge of Probate for the city and county of St. John, which office he still holds. In 1899 he was created a Queen's Counsel by the Province. In 1890 he received the degree of Haehelor of Civil Laws from the University of New Brunswick, and in 1895 that of Doctor of Ci\il Laws from tlie savie university. He is lecturer on wills and ex- ecutors in the Law .School in St. John, in connection with King's College, Windsor, N. .S. Jud;i;e Trueman has continued to take great interest in educational matters in the Province and elsewhere. In 1896 he was appointed chairman of the Hoard of School Trustees of .St. John by the government of New ]5runs- wiek, which position he still holds; and he is one of the governors of Dalhousie College and University, Ilalifa.v, N !'.. P'or some years Judge Trueman held a com- mission as Cajitain in the Sixty-second St. John I'"usiliers. In religion he is a Presby- terian, and for several _\ears has been a mem- ber and chairman of the Hoard of Trustees of .St. .Stejihen's Church in the city of St. John. He was elected an elder in t'.-.e same church in 1887. In politics he is a Liberal, and at the general election in 1892 was one of the candi- dates for the city and county of St. John in support of the Provincial govcmient, but was defeated. An active l'"ree Mason, he has held most of the principal offices in the Masonic orders, and is now ComnKuuler of the New Hrunswick Sovereign Consistory, thirty-second degree, and a member of the (irand Council of the .Sovereign Creat I'riory pf' I' I h'' "■. i| i ■i i ; CKORCl'; A. Ill; rilKKI >(. KIN. M.l). 1 1 fli BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 529 'riucniaii niairicd Margaret K. MacMillan, clilest diuighter of the Hon. John JMacMillan, I'ost-ofTice Inspector for New Hninswick. lie has six children — John MacMillan, Joseph Douglas, Mary Alice, iXrthur Ilarokl, Janet Agnes Gertrude, and lulith Kathleen. rm^ i;ORC.I': A. IIICTHKRINGTON, V^X ^I-IJ-. I- M. (Dublin), superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at .St. John, was born at Johnston, Queens County, N. H. , March 17, 185 t, his parents being James Grier- son and Mary Jane (Clark) Iletherington. His paternal grandfather, who was born in {■Jiglanil, left his native land about seventy years ago to make his home in New 15runswick, and, settling in St. John, established there a merchant tailoring business, one of the first enterprises of its kind in the then young and small city. Dr. Hetheringlon's mother was a native of New Brunswick, and came of New luigland Loyalist stock. George A. Iletherington, after receiving his elementary education in tlie schools ot iiis native town, attended the Normal .School in St. John, wliere he was granted a teaciier's certificate, and afterward taught school for a sliort time. I-"ollowing that, he attended for two years the Haptist Seminary at I'redericton. He then siienl two years in the nieilical department of the University of Michigan, one year of which was employed with a special course of study. While prose- cuting his studies tlvre, he was appointed residint i)hysician of W'a.shtenaw County Asy- lum, which position he held for a year, at the same time continuing his studies at the uni- versit)'. After completing the jirescribed course, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, in the Cclieve tJKit he had not tlien, or perhaps later, learned the art of living within his means; and, al- though his income at tiiis time ajipears to have been limited to his half-pay — ninety-one pounds per annum before iiis embarkation lie expended three pounds, liftcen shillings, sixpence upon a drcssing-bo.x, sixteen pounds of P'rench h:iir powtler, and other toilet acces- soiies. He commenced the practice of law in the spring of 1785, his office hours being fiom 8 .\. M. till 3 I'. .M. Jonathan .Sewall, the younger, who afterward became Attorney (Ien- eral and Chief Justice of Lower Canada, entered as Mi'. Chipnian's student at this time. V< '^^i_ moGRArmcAL review S3« and was admitteil an attornL'v Ironi liis office. Stephen Sewall, brotlier of the eml)ryo Chief Justice, also studied law till he became an attorney under the Solicitor General ; and tlie jiarents of tlic \'ouiij; men came to reside in St. Joliii, wliere their fatiier died in ijy''). In 1785 Mr. CliiiinKni was selected as one of the govern- ment candiilates for the city at the first ^^eneral election for the Provincial Legislature, and after an exciting and even riotous contest he and his fellow-nominees for the city and count}- of St. John were duly returned. On the 24th of October, 1786, he married IClizabeth, the eUlest daughter of William llazen, one of the first grantees of St. John and in residence there before the huiding of the Loyalists. Shortly after his marriage Mr. Chipman purchased a plot of ground on Union Street, at the northerly end of Prince William Street, im which he erected a commndious iiouse, in which he subseiiucntly resided. 'I'liis building is still standing, and possesses inter- est not only as the home of .1 leading Loyalist and his son during their lives, hut as tiie tcm- poiar)' abiding [ilace of the Duke of Kent and also of the Prince of Wales. Whether Mr. Chipman failed in courting popularity or suf- tcrcil from supiiorting measures not generally approved by his constituents is not apparent, but at the second general election he was returned for Northumberland County instead of the city of St. John. He does not a|ipear to have had a leaning; to jiolitical life, ami in a letter written alioul tiiis time he jilainly intimates tiiat he had sought election pari!) fr(jni deference to the wishes of his friends and partly in tiie unfulfdled hope that he might secure the speaker's chair. lie for a short time acted as Attorney General, but his appointment to the office by the governor was not confirmed by the crown. In 1796, however, his .services and abilities were sub- stantially recognized by his being selected as agent and counsel for the crown before the commission created to determine the true boundary between the Uriited States and New lirunswick, and was paid nine lumdred and si.xty pounds sterling per annum for his ser- vices. As the labors of this commission were continued for two years and nine months, and he was allowed to draw his half-pay as De|nity .Muster Master-general during this period, one would suppose that he fared belter than most of his contemporary lawyers in the I'rovinee. Yet in iiis letters he complains of poverty, aUliougii lie liad managed to increase the area of land about his dwelling to such an e.\tent that it comprised a substantial block. On the other hand, as in 1.S02, he strongly protested, on behalf of himself and iiis brother practi- tioners, against tlie passage of an act which increased the jurisdiction of justices' courts from tiiree iiounds to five pounds, which de- pri\ed Iaw)er.s of costs under the scale of the Supreme t,"ourt wiiere amounts to be collected were under the latter sum, it certainl)- would seem that the practice of law in New liruns- wick was not tiien remunerative. Indeed, from a statement in a letter from Mr. Chipman in iSt)8, it appears that his animal iurome did not then exceed two hundred iiouuds. In 1806 he was maile a Legislative C(JUUcillor; and in ' 1 1 \-n ill m' nv I 'i ♦ id S3' BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i8og, although somcwhiit (lisaiipointL'd in not hcing appointed Cliief Justice, he became a i'uisne Jiidj;e of tlie Sujuvnie Couil. It is a somewhat stiikin<;- tribute to iiis capacity and fidelity that lie was again in 1814 emiiloyecl l)y the crown in tiie sanie cai)acity as l)efore, and appeared before tiie second commission to settle the international boundary, under the terms of the treaty between Cireat l?rilain and the United States of America. In 1823 Judge Chipman, alleging as reasons his aj;e and jihysical inlinnity, ajiplied for leave to retire from public service; but before any action was taken upon his reciuest an event occurred which directly affected his intentions. On the 27tli of March, in the last-mentioned year, Major-,i;cneral .Smyth, Lieutenant (jov- ernor of New Urunswick, after a sliort illness, died; and on the istof Ajiril following a meet- ing of the Council was held to consider what should be done uiider the ciicumstances. The lion, (ieorge Leonard, the senior member, was not jiresent ; but a letter from him was read, in which he stated that, owing to his age and feebleness, he declined to act as administrator. The lion. Christopiier Hillop, then in his eighty-si.xth year, the next in seniority, wrote, claiming the right, and summoning tiie mem- bers to attend before him at .St. John, but failed to appear at this meeting, which took place at I*'redericton. Those who were jires- ent, wliile not disputing this claim, came to the conclusion that it was necessary to act promptly, and, with Judge C'hipman's concur- rence, selected him, as the senior member jiresent, to administer the affairs of the I'rov- ince. A somewhat li\ely conflict ensued be- tween Mr. Billop and the administrator tU /acfo, and prochunat ions were issued by each; but the Ihitish government, while acknowledg- ing the right of the former, declined to inter fere with the action of the Council. Mr. President Ciii|iman presided at a session of the Legislature, which opened on the 21st of January, 1824, when he must have been greatly gratified, not only on account of his personal honors, but from tiie f;ict that his son, who subseipiently distinguished himself as Chief Justice of New Brunswick, was presented for ap|iroval as s[ieaker of the House of Assembly. It is not improbable tliat the mental and physical labors of the last )ear of bis life were too great for one who really needed rest; but, be that as it may, the end came on the 9th of h'ebruary following his hajijiy e.xiierience last mentioned. Judge Chipman possessed an interesting and ])leasing personality and abundance of natuial and acquired jxiwers. Iiis abilities were [ler- haps greater thaii his contemporaries always perceived, and grc 'ter than posterity, speciail)' at 1 1 acted by the attainments of his iiriliiant son, has thought proper, as a rule, to concede. |j|l)\V,\Rl) JACK, lioni at St. Andrews, X!I^ N.li., April 2S, 1826, died Decem- ber 31, 1895. luiward Jack was the sixth sini of Da\id William Jack, originally of Cujiar- I'"ife, Scotland, later of St. Andrews, liy his lirst wife, Reiiecca Russell \\'3er. His father 1 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 533 for many years was Collector of Customs at St. A ml rows. l-'-dward Jack was educated at St. Andrews, but never took a collegiate course. He studied law and was admitted an attorney Octolier 14, 1847, and a barrister June 13, 1850. lieiuf;- an ardent student of nature, he shortly after being admitted gave up the i)ractice of law and became a civil engineer, and in pursuit of his occupation gained an intimate knowledge of the un.settled i)arts of his native rrovince, its woods, streams, and minerals, its animal life and its unbounded resources, which knowledge he endeavored freely to distribute where it might do the most good. His contributions to the press were highly esteemed, and if col- lected would fill many volumes. The follow- ing, among other subjects, were dealt with exhaustively by him: forestry in its various branches; the mineral wealth of New Bruns- wick, its development and iiossibilities; the protection of our forests and the i)reventinn of forest fires; the crown lands; jiractical chem- istry as beneficial to the huslKUulman ; tlie wild animals of tbe forest and the game fish, their liaunts, their habits, and their preservation; local histor) , the various Indian tribes of Noitli America, their origin, folk lore, lege'ul.s, and destiny; our university, and the im[)rove- nieiit of educational lacilities; international game protection. He was the wiiter of a number of lectures on various subjects, among which tbe follow- ing were delivered at the .St. John Mechanics' Institute, in their regular annual course, at the dates named: Jaiuiary 29, 18;;, on "The River Tobicpie " ; and on December 3, 1883, upon "The Interior of New Hrunswick; or, l""ive Weeks in the Home of the Moose, Cari- bou, Heaver, and Hear." His knowledge of woodcraft and forestry were so extensive that on many occasions' he was emidoyed by wealthy cor[)orations and individuals to select tracts of timber lands outside the limits of his native Province and he travelled for tiiis purjjose through several of the .Southern .States of America. While so em|iloyed he was on one occasion offered a remunerative position with the Korestry De|)artment at Washington, I). C. , which offer be declined, as its acce|)tance in- volved a change of his allegiance. In 1884 he rejiresented the Province of New Hiunswick at the l'"orestry ICxhibition at Ivlinburgh, while there acting as juror and receivin;; as such a bronze niedal. besides having made a very complete stuily of forestry, be was well versed in mineralogy, geology, chemistry, and botany. In languages he was master of Latin, Creek, French, and German, and bad a lesser knowl- edge of ltali;ui, SiKUiish, Hebrew, and the languages of the Mic-mac anil Maliceet Ind- ians. To the native Indian be was ever a kind friend and protector. OfawaiMii heart and kindl\' (iis])osilion, he always sought to help others, often at the ex- pense of bis own comfort or future prospects, on one occasion resigning a lucrative jiosition with the Crown Land Deiiartment of New Hiunswick in favor of a younger brother, who was the father of a family and then withonl means of support. In his later years he nr.ide l-'redericton his home, where he lived in com- 'i| '■ ■ I "I ) 'J ni m 1 ■I ,, !' I I ' li 534 niOGRAPHICAL REVIEW parative lotiiciiK'nt. On taking up a bot'k of his upon "Hcrkc'lcy," by A. Campbell I'rascr, i.L. 1)., shortly after bis dcatb, tiie writer tiiund underseorcd by him the following pas- sages, which ai)tly describe his disposition and tcniperameiit : "1 am not in love with feasts and crowds and \isits and late hours and strange faces and a hurry of affairs, often insignificant. I*'or my private satisfaction I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem. "The evening of life 1 choose to pass in a (jiiict retreat. Ambitious projects, intrigues, and iiuarreLs of statesmen are things I have formerly been amu.sed with; but no\'. they seem to be a vain fugitive dream." Mr. Jack was never married. In bis later )ears, being a total abstainer, be took a warm interest in any legislation baving the promo- tion of the cause of total abstinence in view. J''or many years prior to and at the time of his death he was an J'"lder of St. Paul's Presby- terian Church at b'redericton. A man of pro- found religious belief, he met his end calmly and fearlessly, going tlown into the valley of the shadow of death in the sure and certain bo[)e of a glorious resunect ion. M m A\II:L \V. AIcCORMICK, proprietor J, . of the X'ictoria Hotel, .St. John, was born in .St. Stephen, N.H., Septem- ber 4, 1.S30, .son of John and Ann (Trafton) McCormick. The father was a native of Gla.s- gow, .Scotland. When fourteen years old he came to New Hrunswick, and resided upon a farm near St. Stephen with his uncle until his uncle's decease. Inheriting his uncle's property, he was engaged in general farming for the rest of his active years, and also cairied on Unnbering operations upon the .St. Croix River, lie married Aiui Trafton, daughter of Joseph Trafton, a nati\e of Massacliusetts. Nine chililren were born of this union, and eight of them grew to maturity, Daniel W., the subject of this sketch, being the eldest son. 'The father died at the age of eighty-four years, and the mother at seventy-si.\. Daniel \V. McCormick resided at the parental home until si.xteen years old, when he was apiirenticed to a millwright, and learned the trade, lie fidlowed it as a journeyman in New Hrunswick some six years, at the expira- tion of which time he went to Minnesota, and was engaged in the same occuiiation until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in Company A, iMghth Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantrw .\fter serving one year in (pielling Indian disturbances upon the fron- tier, his regiment joined the Army of the 'Ten- nessee. He later went to North Carolina, where he remained until a shoit time pre\ioiis to the close of hostilities, and was i)resent at Lee's surrender at Ajipomatto.x, Va. , in 1865. Returning shortly to New Hrunswick, he re- sided upon the home farm about two years, and then located in .St. .Stephen, where for the ne.xt live years he was engaged in the livery busi- ness. Leasing the Watson House, he en- tered the hotel business, and carried on that hostelry until the spring of 1877, when it was Ijurneil, thus causinir hmi to su ffer a severe ltt;:J I ll , ), :|'^ m DAMKI. \V. .\1( LOKMUK, ft f{li 1 M^UH \ t 1 ! i i 1 1 ! f JP^IIBTi ■ l^i 1 1 mi i. y BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 537 ,! ■ JJ 'I ■ s 1 loss, lie ,sub.sc(|iKiitly Icasiil ilio Nchcmiali Marks property, which he named Queen Hotel, anil conilucted it until the jjassage of the Scott Act in 1S79, when he closed tlie house, and, con)ing to St. John, opened tlie New X'ictoria Hotel. This property he .sold .some lour years later, but, retaining the name, apiilied it to another house on Prince William Street; and, disposing of tliat property, minus the name, he in 1S1S7 leased and remodelled the Waverley House, which, under tlie name of Tile Victoria, he has made extremely popu- lar with the travelling public. In June, I.S74, ]\Ir. !\IcC(irmici< was joined in marriage with Mrs. .Sarah A. Rudge liail- lett, daugiiter of William Rudge. She wa.s boui in ICiigland, and came to this country when eight years old. The ciiildren of this union arc I'annic 11. and Nellie R. Mr. McCfnniick belongs to the Masonic order. He is vice-[)resident of the .St. Jolni l''.xhil)ilion Association, holds the same office in the Victuallers' Association, is a treasurer istrict, Fasteni Di- vision, of tlie Western Union I'ele- };rai)h Company at St. John, was born in Gloucester County, New Ihunswick, Marcli lo, I.S50, a son of James, and Mary A. (Cidlins) Dawson. His ])aternal grandfatlier was Rich- ard Dawson, who came to New lirunswick from Ireland among the early settlers. Rich- ard was a farmer, and lie also operated a grindstone ipiarry. lie lived to about ninety years of age, Ijavin^ 'icen the father of a large family. James Dawson, born in Gloucester Coimty, New Brunswick, in 1815, was the eldest son of his parents, ilc spent his earl\' life on his father's farm, hut subse(|uent ly leaiiied the carpenter's trade, whiih he followed thereafter as his sole occupation. His death occurred in 189.S. His wife, Mary, was the only daughter of the late David Collins, o£ St. John. They were the parents of three children, namely: David C. , the eldest; J. Arthur, who resides in St, John ; and Jane, who also is a resident of .St. John. The mother died November 25, 1S77. David C. Dawson was leared in his nati\e citv of .St. John, and recei\ed his education in the public schools. On June 19, 1865, he be gan to work for the American Telegraph Coni- [lany as a messenger, which position he held one year. He was then promoted to the posi- tion of clerk. About a vear later the company was merged into the Western I'nion Telegraph Comjjany, and iMr. Dawson was for a time clerk of this company in their .St. John office. Transferred then to the office of the superin- tendent, he dischaiged the duties of chief clerk until 1884, when he was given the management of the company's office in Halifa.v, where he remained imtil 189J. U|)on the death of Su- perintendent R. T. Clinch, Mr. Dawson was recalled to St. J(}hn and |iriimoted to the posi- tion of superintendent, whiih he still holds. He was married in January, 1882, to 1'" ranees, daughter of the late John Dawson, feverett Hubbard, born in November, 1825, at one time a farmer, who went to Australia, but who, subsequently returning, spent the rest of his life in his father's office; George Canning, born in 1827, who was educated at King's College, Fredericton, took part in the Crimean War, studied medicine in .Scotland, and returning to St. John entered his father's office, where he remained until his death; J. S. Holes, born in 1829, who was a merchant, a member of the firm of De Veber & .Sons and a member of the Dominion I'arliament; Mary Holes, born in 1S31, who is the widow of R. 1'. Starr; Dudley Woodbridge, who died in in- fancy in 1833; and Nathaniel Clarke, who also died in infancy. The father of these chil- dren, 1-everett H. De Veber, was a magistrate for many years. He was church warden of Trinity Church, afterward St. John's (.Stone) Church. His death occurred I'ebruary 12, 1876. His wile died in November, 1866. William Hubbard De Veber obtained his elementary education in the grammar school conducted by James I'atterson, LL.D. In ii I! I'll'' F 1 ' i ■ t 1 ak^ Mr I III iy'^^ii ' 542 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW June, 1S39, he matriculated at King's College, P'retiericton, where after the regular course of four years' study he took his degree in June, 1843. Then, returning to St. John, he was there licensed as lay reader by the Rev. Archtleacon Costor, Kcclesiastical Com- missary, and assigned to the parish of Simonds under Canon Harrison, where he remained two years, or until the arrival of 15ishop Medley in June, 1845, when the late James Disbrow was appointed as rector. He was ordained Deacon by Hisho[) Medley in St. Ann's Chapel, I'redericton, May 30, 1847. On September 24, 1848, he was ordained priest and soon after appointed mis- sionary at Upiiani, Kings County, and St. Martins. lie performed arduous service in this capacity for eleven years or until Sep- tember, ;859. Then, at the request of the parishioners of St. Paul's Church, Portland, he was apiiointed rector of that parish by tiie bishop, bis predecessor having been the Rev. Dr. l.ee. subseq;iently rector at l-'redericton. '!'lie ciuirch at St. I'aul's had been erected some years previously, and endoweil by the late Cjiief Justice Chipman. In 1868 the church, which had been in use until that date, was abandoned, and the .s'-hool-house was licensed, the regular services of the parish being continued there until .August, 1871. JJuring this time the present church was erected, and consecrated August 16, 1871, by Hi'^hop Medley, there being i)resent at the consecration nearly all the clergy of the di' > 'se and many from Nova .Scotia and from the Uniteil .States. On the day of ilic consecra- tion Mishop Medley appointed him a canon of Christ's Church Cathedral, Frcdcricton, and he remained there until his retirement on ac- count ot ill health in October, 1893, after a period of service of thirty-four years. Canon l)e Veber was married September 26, 1854, to Miss Mary E. Paddock, a daugh- ter of the late Dr. Thomas I'addock, of St. John. ller father was a son of Dr. Adino Paddock, who came to New Hrunswick with the Loyalists; and her mother was in maiden- hood a Miss McLellan, of Portland, Me. Of this union there were five children, of whom three are now deceased, namely: Arthur W., born June 24, 185^), who died in May, i860; Herbert, born in 1859, and one, the young- est, who (lied in infancy. The two living are: William Herbert and Alleyne Wood- bridge, the latter born December 19, 1865. William Herbert De V^eber, who was born August 27, 1862, uKirried Harriet M., daugh- tei of the Rev. Richard Mathers, of the Wiggins Or|)han Institution, and has two chil- dren — Herbert Alleyne and Doris. He re- sides at lower Woodstock. HARl.MS I', Kl\Ni:Ak, a retired merchant of St. John, X. H., was born in that city, March 31, 1830, son of Harrison (i. and Maria Kinnear. His father was born in New Hnmswick, .Septem- ber, 179S, and his mother was born in West- morland County, New Hrunswick, in 1803. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Kinnear, c.iine from l,cin (I li Charles, John, Mar<;aict, Mary, Sarah, and Rebecca. Marj^aret iiiarriLtl Gcorye Corey, Mary became tlie wile of Tlinmas Masciii, Sarali married Coles Car])eiitor, and Rebecca died yoiin^. Charles Robinson was born No- vember 13, 1780. lie died November 17, 1.S64, at the a^c of eij;hty I'luir years. 'I'jie wife, Mary .Sutter Robinson, died March i, 1 868, in her eif;hty-sixth year. James Sutter Robinson, .son of Charles and father of 'I'homas \V. , was born in (jueens County. When a \ounij man he left the home farm, and after trading on the river for a time came to .St. John, where, with his brother Thomas, he established a mercantile business on South Wharf, subsec|ucntly moving from there to North Slip. They were amoii};' tlie largest dealers in West Imlia gnutls in the Province, and were also jirominently identilied with the shipjiing interests. In 1828 he mar- rijil Miss Mlizabcth Merritt, daugiiter of Cil- bert l\oi)iiisiin Merritt. Tiiey had a family of nine children; Charles C. , Giliiert .M., John J., James I.., Thomas William, Robert .S., Mary, l-llizabeth, and one daughter wiio died in infancy. Charles C. Robinson, who was a sea captain, married .Sarah A. ]'"airweather, and died in 1868, leaving eight children, (iilhert M., an accountant, married Lucy W. .\. .\)niar, and had two children, lie dietl in 1866. John J. was a seafaring man, and died in iSCtj. James 1,. married I'lli/a- beth C'urran, and resides in lioston. Robert is born August Jcj, 1845, and IS now asso- ated with his brother in business. wh (J was i)oin 111 1S38, resuies in M: thi;- ry ity; and ]'-lizabeth died at the age of eighteen. The father died in 1872. The mother died January 9, 1889, at liie age of eighty-two years. Thomas W. Robin.soii was educated in the public schocds of .St. John. After the death of his father he engaged in the ware- house business, in which he has continued ever since. November 19, 1S6C, Mr. Robinson was joiiH'd in marriage with Miss .Sarah J. I'stey, daughter of ' miuel U. I^stey, of .St. John. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had ten children, and have been bereft of four — ^Thomas, Frank, Mabel, and an infant. The six now living are: lulith, Ciilbert M., J.etitia, I'llizabeth, I'Lthel, and Jennie. —♦••••-♦— TT^ll.XRl.l'.S MILI.IsR, lime and lumber I J| manufacturer, .St. John, N. R. , was ^^ "^ born in llollis, York County, Me., April 14, 1858, son of Henry Usher and Sarah Klizabeth (Merry) Miller. His paternal grand|iareiits were Nathaniel and Mary (Wood- man) Miller, the former of whom was a pros- jierous lunilierman of lIollls, and tlie maternal grandfatiier was Colonel Josiah Herry, of Hu.\- ton, Me. When a young man Henry Usher Miller assisted his father in carrying on lumbering operations. .Soon after iiis majority he went to Mllswortli, Me., where he was for a time asso- ciated with his brother, Nathaniel J., in the same business; and he was later in partneisiiip with (ieorge Ciray in lumherin:ii/.alK-th, iiul lumber N.B., WIS ;ounty, Me., Usher and His paternal Uary (W'ood- 1 was a imis- ihe maternal Iciry, "f I'nx- L'sher Miller )U luniberinij; ity he went to r a lime asso- iel J., in the in partnersliip at CMianuook. le, in conniany BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S4S wilii C. 1'". Woodman, establisbed tlie well- known firm of Miller & Woodman, witii which he was as.sociated for tlie rest of his life. He died May 15, 1.S97. He married in 1848 Sarah Mlizal)cth Herr). 'I'iiey liad throe sons, namely: James; Charles, the suljjeet of this .sketch; and Harry. Charles Miller was nine years (dtl when liis parents removed to St. John. After ac(|iiiring his elemeiitaiy education he attended the acad- emy in Sackviile, N.l!., and his studies were comideted in l'"redericton. His first industrial undertaking was the establishment of tlie lime burning business, w^hich he is still carrying on. In 1891 he engaged in sawing shingles, and since 1894 he has manufactured all kinds of domestic lumber on cpiite a large scale. His business ability is extremely beneficial to the city, and personally lie is highly esteemed for liis upright character. In 1883 Mr. Miller was united in marriage with ^liss Helen Tapley, daughter of x'\rchi- liald Tapley, of Indiantown, and a representa- tive of a higlil)' reputable family, whose an- cestors were I.oyalist.s. Mr. and ?tlrs. Miller have three sons — Henry Usher, (leorge T., and I'raiik I.. Miller. k()R'r!lKUl'. 'riie numerous braiulies )f tliis family in New Brunswick are -' all descendants of Jose|)h Northrup, who was one of the first settlers of Milford, Conn., in iC),i9, coming probably from Voik- .shire, luiglaiul. Josei)ii Noithrui) (first), married Mary, daughter of Krancis Norton, Jr. In January, 1642, he united with the l-'irst Church in Mil- ford. At his death, September i i, 1669, he left eight children, four of whom were sons, named resi)ectively .Samuel, Jeremiah, John, and Joseph. Tlie youngest son, Joseph (second), baptized August 9, 1(149, died in 1700, leaving four children. His wife's name is not known. Jose|)h (thirii), eldest son of Jose|ili ajjove mentioned, was baptized in (Jctober, 1689. He settled in Ridgelield, Conn. He married .Susannah Roberts, November 20, 171,1, IkuI a family of seven children, and died at tlie age of eighty-four years in 1773. His third child, hili, was born May i, 1718. His wife, Abigail, whom he married on Janu- '")■ 3, '7.i9. bore him si.\ children. Henajah, liftii ciiild of V.W and Aiiigail Norlhnip, was liorn March 27, 1752. He mar- ried Sarah Keeler. Accompanied by his family, he moved to New Hrunswick in 1783 with the Loyalists, of wiiom he was one. He settled in Maugcrviiie, Simiiury County, on tlie St. John River. The higii freshets the ne.\t sjiring caused them to remove to the hills at Kings- ton, Kings County, where he secured lot num- ber six, fronting on Kingston Creek (then called Portage Co\e). His first wife, .Saraii, died July 17, 1812, ami he was married again on l'"ebruary 24, 18 14, to Rachel I'"owler. On May 17, 1838, he died at the age of eighty-si.\ years, leaving fourteen children, one hundred and eighteen grandchildren, and one hundred and eleven great-grandchildren. His sons were: Zadock, (iamaliel, William, first, Will- 1 ![l i ^' - ) S4f' BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW I.'! ' 1^ i| 'h!| 5 . i' iam, second, John A., VM, Ik'njamin K., James 'itur^'cs, and David. llis ciglith son, James Stui;;cs Xortlmip, was born at Kingston, September i, 1795- lie married Susanna Cox on January 8, iSiS. lie lived on the homestead, and died Novem- ber 25, I1SC5, at the age of seventy, leaving ten children. The sons were: ]'".li .S. , James !•;., Daniel D., I'hilo A., Walter \V. , Harvey 11., William H. These sons all married, and each had a family. Daniel D. Northnip, fourth son of James S. and Susanna Xorthrup, was born .August 30, 1S27. lie married llaiuiah .S. Whiting (of Loyalist descent) on Jannai)' S', 1.S52. They are both living at this date, antl also nine of their children, who numbered eleven in all. The sons were Herbert 1^. W., Charles V.., Isaac II., Horace K. Herbert ]■'.. W. Xorthrup, eldest son of Daniel D. and Hannah S. Northrup, was born August 23, it>55, in Kingston, Kings Count). In iS/iS he removed to .St. John, N.li. , and engaged in the grocery business on South Wharf. He died June iS, 1894. Isaac 11., the tliird son of Daniel D. and Hannah S. Northrup, went to .St. John, N. H. , from Kingston, Kings County, in 188,1, and engaged as clerk with his hrothei', Herbert v.. \V. In 1893 he succeeded him in the gio- cery business on South Wharf. He has built up a trade of large and -onstantly increasing iragnitnde b\' industry, integrity, a thorough knowk'dge of the iec|uirements nf the markets, and by giving his personal attention to every branch of his business in its minutest details. No one questions but that his future will be not only successful but creditable to himself antl the city. AJOR JOHN W'ARD was born in I'eekskill, Westchester County, N.Y., in 1752. He was fourth in descent f'om Andrew, fifth son of Richard Ward, of (lorleston, .Suffolk, ICngland, who came to America in 1632. Major Ward's father owned an extensive jiroperty on the Hudson River. He was a stanch adherent of the crown during the Revolutionary War, hut was precluded by age from taking an active part therein. On the outbreak of hostilities John Ward and three brothers — Moses, Henjaniin, and William — joined the "Loyal /Xmerican Regi- ment," John with the rank of Lieutenant, Moses with that of ICnsign, and William as a private. During the war John was frcc|uently in action, and on one occasion, when storming the American entrenchments, was sc\erely wounded. He had a friendly intimacy with the unfort- unate Major Andre; and, when Andre went U[) the Hudson in the "N'ultuie, " sloop (it war, on his ill-fated mission to (ieneral lienedict .Arnold, Lieutenant Ward was in command of the escort that accomjianied him. At the conclusion of the war he came to I'arrtown, miw .St. John, N.li., in tharge of the rear guard of the regiment and the women and children, with the brevet rank of Major. They landed at the Barrack Point, Lower :■: ,vill l!C liiniscU born in County, is fourth RicliLud iiul, will) Wards ,' on the adherent ary War, an active >hn Ward imin, and can Ke^i- ,ieutenanl, Uiani as a {ret|uently 1 storm in j; severely he unfort- ,ndie went Diipiil wai', il Hencdict onmiand of ic came to (. liarge of Uie wiimen < of Major. lint, Lower BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S47 Cove; and, no accommodations beinj; provided for tlicni in the way of buildings, they passed the winter in canvas tents, thatched with spruce bouyhs. 'I'he winter was rigorous; and, owin^ to want of proper shelter and jirojier food and clothinj;', many men, sick and debili- tated from wounds, and many women and chil- dren died. Major Ward's son, Juiin Ward, Jr., was born in a lent on the iStb of Decem- ber, 17S3. Major Ward removed to Sussex X'alley in the sprin-,' of 1784, and settled at Ward's Creek, which was named after him; luit be remained only a short time, returninf^ to .St. John in I7 long and eventful career :^ — • I5(;kK1;N SlRKKT, I.dNlHlN, June 2<), 1S4J. J/r ifiuir .SV>-. -()l)servins; willi srcat ploasurL' your respected name at the head of sijjTiatures attaclied to the very uratifyiiif; achhess which I lately had tlie hcinor to receive from the city of -St. Joliii . . . 1 aiUlress you. my dear Sir. iiid-vidiially as tlie l-'ather of the interestiiiL;. im|)ortanl. ami loyal I'rovime with wliich it was my happiness to be loiij; iiuimately con- nected and in which I shall feel ever deeply interested. Well m.iy I e.\|)ress these sentiments to you. lor you are a personilication of that staunch loyalty which has ever distinfjuished .\ew I'lrunswick, a successful prosecutor of that industry and those commercial pursuits wliich have formed New lirtniswick to an improved condi- tion . . . .\nd with greatest respect for you i)ersonally. my dear Sir. and for your character, I may most safely and appropriately embody in this letter all I would say of re.spect and attachment to those whose names arc a.s.so- f ::. .Ji^ 't- :|! f 11 ; .f f' B 548 HIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW t'iated witli yours in the address wliicli conveys to me and mine the very aj^reeahle assurances that you and those whom we so faithfully recollect do iu)l forget us. lielieve me. my dear Sir, Nours most sini erely, lldWAUl) |)()1<,I,AS. Major Ward died at his resilience, eorncr (if Kin;; and (iennain Streets, November 5, 1846, in tlie ninety lourtli year of his a<;e. The following is tlie conclusion of an obituary notice iJubJished at the time: "Thus, full of years and honors, has de- jiarted one who has led an iad)lemished life, anil who carries with him to the ^rave the highest esteem and nxist profoimd resjiect of the connnunity, to whom his noble and vener- ai)le appearance, bis strict integrity, and ami- able disposition ba\ebeen lou'; familiar." §()liN .S. CLIMti a retired business man of .St. John, vvas born in Helston, Cornwall, I'lngland, July 1.), iS^i, ^^on of bibn .Saunders and Amelia Cliino. lie served an apprenticeship of seven years at the printer's trade in I'enzance, later became fore- man ol the' (d'lice, and subsecpiently was em- ployed for a short tinu' on llu' Mtiiiihii^ /\i.\f, London. in iSrij; he emigrated to .\nierica, and, settling in St. John, entered the employ of J. & A. MciMillan, with whom he re- mained four years. At the e.\|iiration of that time be established himself in the photograph business, which he cairied on with pros|ierous results for thirty-ii's father, was hroughl up in St. }"\\u. When a young man be engaged in the lumber trade, and in connection with that employment he carried on the shipping business until his deatii, which occurred in 1S5S. He was active in his en- deavors to impiiive the moral atmosphere ol the community, and took a special interest in the tem|)eraiice cause. His wife, Catheriiu', who w.is born in Truagli, county Monaghan, lie- land, daughter of 'rereiice McKenna, came to this country at the age of si.\teen years to live with an aunt. .She became the mother of five children; namel\', John C. , I'hilip, Agnes, Annie i\., and Mary. Joiiii C. is the subject of this sketch. His jiersonal history is given ■: '"W. I'hilip is a sea captain. Agnes mar- . .11 mics Gcrow, of St. Joiin, and .Mary died at the ge of aliout biur years. Mrs. Catherine l""erguson died in 1.S96, aged eighty-two years. John C l''erguson went to live in the coun- try when he was a year old, and remained there about se\'en years. His education was ac(|uired umlei' the direction of Messrs. Mgan, Campbell, and Duval. When thirteen years old he began to serve an apprenticeshii) of five years at the carriage painter's trade, which he followed for ten years, first with Crolhcis, I'rice, & .Shaw, and later with Price & .Shaw. Coing into mercantile business on .South Wharf in 1867, he was sul)sec|uenll\' as- sociated with James V.. .Masters, and lost lieavil\- in the contlagrat ion of 1S77. He afterward conducted business alone until 1.SS5, when he made a tour of the Western .States and visited many of the large cities. In 1887 he accepted an appointment in the governmc'iit ser- vice as assistant to John X. Moore. He was later transferred to his present department and advanced to the position of excise officer anil food inspector. In 1872 he was a member of a delegation sent to ( )ttawa for the purpose of ad- justing some important railroad matters, and has ])erformetl similar tliity in other directions. Ill [■■H m I m ■mm \' 55° UIOORAI'IIICAI, REVIFAV lie sc'ivt'd as an AhKrman liom 1S71 to I.S7.S, ami as I )i'|)iity-May()r lor two years. . . . Mr. I'"i'ri,^iis()i) was i-niinccted with IIil- viiliintecr nuiveniL'iit at its iiucption. lie served liir a time as a nuinlier n( the I'liiue nl Wales Hattery el Artillery in St. Jnlni, llealsd nave atteiiti(ii) to literary matters, ediilrihiitinj; ti) periixlieals ami ac(|uirii)n con.sideraMc ri'|iii- latiiii) as a leetiirer, having in'i'upied the plat- liirm ill variipiis (it iis in till' .Maritime I'mviiiees dealing with liisli, I'leneh, and nther liistnrir, iS'lj, son of Thonias and (leorgianna (Thompson) Hustin. It is said that his p.ilernal ancestors were .Normans, and entered T'.ngland in the train of William the t'onqueror, some settling in the north and some in tiie southcin |iart of the coimtry. Among the earliest pnjgenitors of the family in America was 'Thomas llu-^lin, who was bom in North Candina in 174,^ lie had a brother whose given name is not now known, who re- sided in \'irginia both before and after the KeV(dutionar\' W.M. 'Tboni.is liustin served an apprenticeship to his ste|) biotbcr, Christopher liird, a builder ol Ni'w N'ork. In bis early youth he owned a sla\e letl to him by bis father. 'The slave, who was \cry fond of his littli' master, and was hired out tor his benctit, was accidentally drowned. .Shortly aftci the beginning of hostilities in the Uev(dut ionary War, 'Thomas liustin joined the royal army in New ^'ork under (ieiieral Hiirgoyne. < )n one occasion, while he wa> in tlu' general's tent, a shell came through the canv.is. lie was considerably frightened; but, the fuse going utb, he woiked ei;;ht \ears in .S. 1\. T'oster's shoe store. Subse(|uently he went to the I'nited .States, and was employed in the harness shop of his brother, W. II. Hustin, in lioston lor seven years. Returning to .St. John, be started in the provision business, but in 1854 was seized by the cholera, which swept over St. John in Jime of that year. After a year's siikness he went to sea with bis brotbei-. Captain H. Ji. Hustin, rcmainiu!; with him tour years, dminj;' whitb time be visited I.iverpo(jl, London, Jamaica, Australia, .St. Helena, Madras, and C"alcutta. L'pon his retmii home he opened a grocery store, and after selliiif^ out this busi- ness he was employed for some time in the Stephen Hrimdage & Lordly furnitme store. Ill i8f3fi he accepted a position in the custom- house at St. John. He was Alderman for the city of St. John for the years 1863 and 1866. He is a Mason and a mendiei- of the .Sons of Temperance. He is also connected by mem bership with the Methodist church. On March 13, i8(jj, he married Cie(ir<;ianna 'Thompson, daughter of Michael Thompson, the ceremony bein^' performed b)- tlie Rev. Mr. Murras. He M ,">*t 5S,2 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW III iKis had ei!;lU cliildicii, all born in St. Jolm and all liviny sn.vc (inc. Their record is briefly as follows: Stephen Uli/ard, born De- cember 26, 1S62; Koa Louise, born I'ebrnary 14. i'SG5; (.'h.auitte isabelle, born December I ^, 1S6.S, who married Norman 1 liitciiinson ; Thomas Howard, bcvn N(.venii)er I, 1S70, who (lied (if dipht.icria in IH/S; Caroline C'reij;h- ton, bf.rn l'"el.iiary 25, 1S74; Hester Zaidce, born Ma) 6, 1SS3; and (lladys, born January 15, iSS;. Stejihen Hlizard Huslin, I'lc eldest son c'. 'IT. Mi^is slu(ii(.'d law two years witli C. A. Stockton, but was compelled t(^ al\uuion his studies on account ol ill health. He then worked a year f( '• R. I'. McGivern, coal mer- chant, and sui)si,'|uentl\' for a ^imilai lcui;th of time in tiie ofrice •:! the I\uly Sun. Seckiuij; to recover Ins iie:!'!|i, lie went to sea lor two years ii. the \i'ssels ol an uncle, 1'. R. C'reij^h- ton, (lurinp; whic'i time he touched at lialti- morc, Rotterdam, New \\^xV, 1 .iwrpool, Rio de Janeiro, .San I''rai:,'isco, and Amsterdam. I'pon returning; !o St. John he stndii'd !;;« ,or one \ear in the ilTice ol V.. 'I'. ( . Kiu^wles, i^s(|., ,{11(1 suhse(iuently loi- one )car .\ith Dr. A. A. .Stockton and t(vas an -\.'^;li can and a mcnihci of .St. James' Church, S;. John, N.H. , in which he held the oHic es of chun.'h warden .nid , upci intcndcnt of tlu Sab batii-school. lle\ -i married in iS;S to Sarah Ada. s, dau;;hter of I'ccliaiiab and Mary Chap- ma'' .Adams, ''."heir famil\ lonsisted of three daughters and five sons. •r of Tliomas wo children : o, 1894; and [oward liai- mcnihcr.slii]i Odd l'\-llows, :\c, Car-iulian llistoi)' So- Chili. In K'f I'ost master s Ixiin Novcni- i., his paionls i) Willis. In ols of Halifax lowk'dj^c wliiili piivatc .study. ,s .S|)cnt in tlii' c was vu'iy suc- ho was widely al lu' was unii- a fnuiblo and record himself 1 [c also took icrs, and was ;. Asscnihh' froi 1 »as an v\.'i;li is' c;iunch, S;. I the ofTii OS of •nt of the .^ai) p l,S;S to .Sarah md ^^ary C'hap- isistL'd of thu'c K. 1.1. Kill Uli.l.ls. ill % w : .• r \ j 1 i i ' 1 MH i i ( I Jl ^■'il 1 i II : 1 I 1 ' ! ; 1 1 » 1 '■ 1! !■!' if'' '''I fll '1^ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S5S His son, ]•]. l.L' Rdi Willis, of whdiii ;i pm- trait appears on a i)cij;hboiiii,!^ P^gi^ "f t'li'' vnliinie, is woll known to the travelling public as a [irom incut hotcl-kccjicr, having been for a number of years proprietor of the Hotel Dufferin, St. John. He is now located at Sydney, Cape lireton County, X.S. , where he is conducting a hotel. Pos-sessed of much of his father's ability and of a jileasant and genial disposition, he is widely popular, and his suc- cess in life is practically assured. I^l-yrj'.R CAMl'lUa.L,* a well-known ^"^ business man of .St. John, dealer in stoves antl other heating apiiaratus, also in jilumbing, was born in this city, 1S42, son of Peter, Sr., and Ami (l)ouglas) Campbell. His jiarents were natives of Perthshire, Scot- land, and his father was born in 1.S12. His grandparents were John and Margaret (Mc- Laren) Campbell, the former of whom died in early manhood, leaving three small children to the care of their mother, who laboreil dili- gently and faithfully to lear them in a way that would enable them to begin life fo|- them- selves in an advantageous manner, 'i'he sons, i'cter, Sr., and John, completed the shipsmith's trade in Dundee; and Peter, Sr., who came to New lirunswick fust, was afterward followed b\' John, his sister Jeanette, and his mother. I'hc latter was a sister of the 'ate Pelei -Mc- Laren, who came to St. John in iS;;, and en- gaged in the business of a .-ihiiismilh. I'eter McLaren died in 1X64, \\r was the father of three ihildren, namely: Johr, Robertson, who dii.'d at the age of thirt\-three ; Jane, who mar- lied John ('am])bcll; and Jeanette, who mar- ried, and died in 1890. Peter, .Sr. , and John Campbell were in the employ of their uncle until his retirement in 1S42, when they suc- ceeded him in business, under the lirni name of P. & J. Campbell. Their shops on North Street were burned in 1849; and, moving to the LTnion Street dock, they carried on an e.\- tensi\e business in ship-iron work. They later removed to the site now occupied by the electric light station, and remained there until retiring from business in 1.SS7. John Campbell is still living, antl resides upon a farm in l?loomfield. He married his cousin, Jane IVIcI.aren, and has four children John A., Peter ]•'., Jane, and lunma. Peter 1"^ Cam|)bell is a llorisl on Dock .Street, .St. John. i'e'cr t'amphell, .Sr., was in his ea.iy years a member of a .Scotch military company. He was prominentl) identilied with the .St. An- drew's Society, and belonged to the Deacons' Court of .St. James' Church. His death oc- curri'd in 1896. He married Ann Douglas, a native of Perthshiic and a daughter of Robert Douglas. Her father emigrated with his family to St. John in 1817, and was en- gaged in farming here for the rest of his active period. 11 is childien were: Daniel, John, Robert, Lllen, Jane, M;ny, and .Ann, ot whon, the ouK' one living is Robert. Jolin Douglas died in 1854, and Daniel live.'o\a Scotia for some time, and then went abroad and sjient a year in further jierfecting hei' musical education under tuition of some of the best teachers of Germany. She married the Rev. M. A. Mac- Lean, pastor of the ]iai)tist church of North .Sidney, N. S. IMr. MacI.ean was born at X'ictoria Cross, I'.L.I., in 1.S71, In early life he taught school for a number of \ears in his native ])rt)vince, and afterwaril took a four years' course at .Acadia College, Nova Scotia, wheie he graduated at the head of his class. lie subsequently spent two years at Chicago L'nivcrsity, and then took a theological cour.se at Rochester University, New York, where he graduated in 1S9.S. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson's other children — James !•"., Lena H. , and Cussie M.,- -aie still living under the parental roof, and are aged niiicleen, si.xteen, and eleven years respectively. OSi'-.i'II W. McALARY,* of St. John was l)(]rn in Cambridge, (Jucens County, X.H. , in I 863. His iwrents were James and I'liebe (Ilcustis) McAlary, the father born in New lirunswiek in iSj^. Mr. McAlary's grandfather, James McAlarv, who came from the north of Ireland, settled in (Jucens Count)-, where he followed farming and lived to an ad- \aueed age. lie married a Miss Clark, and they brought up a family of five children, of whom James was the fourth-born. James McAlary was reared to farm life, and is still following that occupation. lie is a Deacon ol the l''irst liaptist Chuich in Candiridge. Ills wife, whom he married in I cS6o, is a ■<9 it SS8 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW (laughter of Samuel Ilcustis. They have had throe children — Joseph W., Alice, and l'"red- crick W. Joseph W. Mc'AIary aci|uire'l his education in tlu; conniion schools of Cambridge, S.U. At the age of eighteen he went to St. John, and entered the cniidoy of James Watson, with whom he remained until the hitter's death. He then continued witii Mr. Watson's sons, who had succeeded to the business, as ac- countant and manager of the mercantile ile- partment, which position he still holds. He is also the owner of several coasting-vessels. In iSSS .Mr. McAhuy married Miss Ada iXrmstrong, ilaughter of Joim Armstrong, of St. John; and of this union there are two daughters — Hazel and Helen. After her death Mr. McAlary married for his second wife, in October, itSij/, Miss Maggie W. ICasterbrook, daughtei- of Joim 1'. hlasterhiDok, of St. John. Mr. Mc.\Iar\' is a nu'mber of the Imlcpen- dcnt Order of (j(;od Templars. He attends tiie Main Street Bajjtist Church, of the Sunday- school of which he is treasurer. l.\kl.i;S .\. CLARK,* proprietor ol a thii\ing grocery store in .St. John, was born in that city in iSjS, son of Charles and Barbara Clark. His fat!ier was a native of (Iranville, .Annapolis County, \.S., and his motiiei' was boin in St. Joim. His grandfather, James Clark, came to New Hruns- wick with the I.oyalists in 1783, and was a farmer. James was the father of five children — James, Daniel, ICdnumd, Richard, and Charles. Charles Clark, who was born in 1S14, remained at home and assisted his father upon liie farm until reaching the age of thirty years, when he came to St. John and engaged in business as a caijjenter and builder, which occupation he followed for nearly twenty-tive years. His death, whiih occurred in 186.S, was caused by an accident while be was erect- ing the l.saac Burpee building, which stood upon the site now occupied by the Canadian Drug Company's store. ilis wife, Barbara, whose UKiiden name was Bowen, and whom he married in 1S53, was the widow of Captain John Beck, master of a coaster lunning be- tween St. John and I'hiladeliihia. She died in June, 1S9S, in her eighty-seventh )ear. (^f her tirst marriage thei'e were two children: John Heck, a prominent nieiihant of St. John, who died in 1S.S5; and .Augusta, who is the widow of Sidney H. I'atteison. The only child of her second union is Charles A. Claik, the subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark attended the Methodist l';i)isco|)al clunch. After com|)leting his education in the grani- niar schools of St. John, Charles .A. Clark be- came a cleik in the store of his half brollu'r, John licck, a connnission merchant on -South Wharf, and remained there mitil the store was destroyed by fire in i^vS. He then engaged in the grocery business on Charlotte Street, subse(pientl_v leniuving thence to the noith end of King Sijuaie, and in |S(J4 settled in his |)resent location in the City Market Building, where he is eairying on a i>roritable business. In 1894 Mr. Clark was united in marriage .I> tl BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 559 with Miss ICmnui McAlpiiie, a (laiij;hter of Davitl IMcAlpino, puljlishcr of tlic St. Joiiii Directory. Tiicy liavc two cbiUlreii — lunma Jean and liarljara lahcl. Mr. Clark is a niciii- bcr (iT tile .^^as(lnil.■ onici-. He l)clon^s to liic Salvage Corps, and is cai)tain of tlic fire police. In his religious belief lie is a Methodist. i\CA;/ II. I.I.AM FRICDICRICK IIARRI- .SON,* a wholesale i;rocer of St. John, was born at Sheffield, Sinilniry County, X.H. , in 1830, son of the Hon. C'harles and Mary (lUiipee) Harrison, his mother beiii};' a daugh- ter of one of the earliest settlers of Sheffield. The Harrisons first settled in Virginia about i(')7o; and it is from this branch of the family that William Henry, ninth President of the United States, and e-x-T'esident I'e'ijamin Harrison are descendi'd. The first ineinber of this branch to achieve iicit(jriety was Jienjamin Harrison, father of William Henry Harrison, who in 1781 was elected Ciovernoi- of \ irginia. Nearly a bundieil )eais after this portion of the family came to Virginia, in 1 jC)/, two brothers, Charles and James Harrison, came out from County .\iitrim, Irelaml, to join the descendants of the first settler; but at the time of the Revolutionary War lieiijamiii Harrison with his family sided with the Americans (he being one of the signers of the Declaration of Iiule])eiideiice), while Charles and James re- mained lo\al to the Hiilish side, and obtained commissions in the imperial luniy under Sir Henry Clinton. In 17.S3 these nvo brothers came to New Urunswick WMth the Loyalists; and in the following year Charles Harrison was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the mili- tia of Sunbury County by Covernor Thomas Carlcton, and with his brother James settled at .Sheffield. Charles died unmarried; and James married Charity Copertluvaite, a (jiiak- eress from I'hiladelphia, and died in 1806, leaving five sons and four daughters, one of whom was Charles Harrison, the father of the subject of this sketch. William l""redcrick Harrison came to St. John in 1S51. He, with Mr. I'rice, estab- lished the carriage factory now carried on by I'riec & Shaw. A few years later he withdiew from tlie iirni to enter into partnershi|) with his brother, Jeremiah Harrison; and the two carried on a large wholesale provision business until a few ye;irs ago, when the partnership was dissolved. ;\Ir. Harri.son married a daughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel Tujiper, of Woodstock ; and they have live children now living — Charles, William, Lama, Hertram, anil Waller. ILLIAM H. I"t)WLl':R,* miller, .St. John, was boiii in Sackville, West- morelaiul Comity, N.l!. . in 1S4J, son of (iecnge and Rebecca (Hicks) I'"owder. His father, who was born in baiglaiul about the year 17S3, served an a]ii)renti(eshi|) of seven years at the tamier's and currier's trade. Coming to New Hrunswick in iSij (.11 board of a privateer, he hn-ated in .Sackville, where he resumed his trade, and for nearly a quarter of a century was manager of a large tanning and currying busi- 'T'-'T w 560 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW l|i i 1^^ I ness carried nn by James A)cr. He died in 1S7S. His wile, Rebecca, was of Loj'alisl an- cestry. Slie was a sister of Hyle anil Read Jlicivs, who reside res|iectively in Dorchester and Sackvilie, and are i)r(]S|ieroiis fanners, (.icorge and Rebecca I''owler were tlie parents of eight chihhen; namely, I'llizabeth, .S:iraii .Ann, Mary, Josiah, Amos, (ieorge, William II., and Read. Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Tower, is no longer living; .Sarah .Ann is the widow of James Cole; Mary tlied at about the age of twenty years; Josiah died at twenty- two; i\mos, at twenty-eight; Read died in 1S95; George is residing in .Sackville. Re- becca I'owlcr, the mother, died in 1S47. Huth liarents were members of the Hai)tist chinch. William H. Fowler sperit three years in learning the tanner's and currier's trade, and subsequently ser\ed an apprenticeship of four years at the carriage-maker's trade, doing to Massachusetts in i.^lj, he was for the succeed- ing ten years engaged in the carriage business. In 1S75 he returnctl to New Hrunswick, and settled in .St. John, where for the ne.vt three years he was engaged in the wool trade. lie then went into the (lour and feed business, and in iSSj purchased a piece of property at .Marsh bridge, formerly used for manufacturing |Hir- poses, and, putting in a set of gri>t-mill ma- chinery especially for the grinding of corn meal, lias conducted a successful business continuously to the present time. His mill has a capacity for grinding one hundied ;md eight)' bushels in ten hmus, and he is one of the best known mercluiut millers in that locality. In ;\Iarch, 1H70, Mr. Fowler was joined in marriage with Miss IMargaret I'ierson, daughter of Captain John I'ierson, of this city. The)' have had eight children, live of whom died in infancy. Those now living are: Margaret, y\le\ander, ;uul William Leopold. Mr. I'"owler is a Master Mason, and belongs to Hibernian Lodge. He attends the Baptist church. II.I.I.XM .SUMMKRVILLI'. ,MOR- RLSON, M.D., a homojoiiathic phy- sician of .St. John, N.H. , was born at Wilmot, Annapolis, N.S. , .September 20, 1849. His parents were Daniel and IMargarct (Campbell) Morrison, natives of the north of Ireland, and his remoter ancestors on both sides were .Scotch. His i)rofessional studies were pursued in the nu'dical dcpaitmenl of lioslon Univer- sity, where in iiSS. I'HIJLN FOWLKR, a well-known and highly respected citizen of , was born in Hammond Vale, Kings County, N.H. , in 1N23, .sini of .Xnimon and Mary (Taylor) b'owler. lie is a grand- son of Weeden I'Owlcr, first, a Loyalist of 1783, who settled or the grant of land now comprising the I'owler homestead in French Village, Kings County, N.I?. The f.ither of the tirst Wecdcn I'owler not being a Loyalist, he remained in the States, and in 1.S12 Ammoii l-'owler, his grandson, started to visit him. ()n account of the pri- lii 1 i 1 S6a BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW vatfcrs tlicii filliiifi the ocean waters, however, he could not fuul any vessel to take him from New Hninswick; and lie started up the St. John River. Arriving; at Mayorville in Sun- hiiry County, he met Miss Mary Taylor, with whom he straightway fell in love. Two years later he led this lady to tiie altar, and she suhsei|uently became the mother of his thirteen children. Ci this large fnmily four died in infancy. The nine who grew to maturity were: I'^lizaheth, Jemima, ICllinor, Weeden, David, (ieorge VV. , Justus, Mary, and Judson M. IClizaheth married Charles I'arker, of St. John, Jemima married William liowser, of Sackyille, and I'.llinor married I^dward 'I'aylor, of Maugerville. All these, and also IJavid, George \V. , and Justus, are deceased. Mary married Thaddeus Scribner, of Kent County. Judson M. resides in St. John. Amnion I'owler was a Deacon of the Haptist church for many years and one of its most de- voted .and consistent members. His death oc- curred in 1.S72. His wife ilied in 1S74, at tlie advanced age of eighty-three. Weeden I'owler, son of Ammon, was reared as a farmer's boy, and received a common- school education. He was then apiirenticed to his cousin James Hamilton to learn the tanner's and currier's trade. After complet- ing his ap|)renticeship he established a tan- nery in HaniTnond, and there for many years he carried on an extensive business. I'or sotnc years past he has been engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. He was first married in 1853 to Miss Harriet I''owiies, of St. Martins. She bore him the following-named children : David J., who resides on the I'owler home- stead, and is Councillor for the parish; ICd- mund H., who i.s in business in Vancouver, H.C. ; (ieorge W. ; and Weeden C, the last named of whom is in business in Dawson City, .\. W.T. Mrs. Harriet I'owler died in 1X67. Mr. {''owler subsequently m.irried a daughter of the Hon. George Ryan, of .Stud- holm. She bore him one child, Harriet M., now the wife of A. H. Robinson, superintend- ent of the llavelock Railroad. The second Mrs. h'owler died in 18.S6, and Mr. l''owkr subse(|uently married Annie Cahill, of .Sack- ville. Mr. h'owler has always taken a warm and active interest in all matters [lertaining to the administration of local affairs, and has held every ])()sition of jMominence to which his fellow-townsmen could elect him. He has served as Parish Court Commissioner, being the oldest magistrate in the county. h'rom early manhood he has been an ardent advocate of tem])erance, and neither he nor his father ever tasted intoxicating licpiors. Politically, he is a Conservative, and in religious faith a Kaptist. George W. P'owler was born in Hammond Vale on I'ebruary 24, iSflo. His rilucalion was received at Dalhousie University, Hali- fax, and at I?oston Ihiiversity. He wav >,nad- uated from the last-named institution in June, 18.S4. In the following (Jctober he was ad- mitted to the bar in New Urunswick, and a year later was made barrister. He began the jiractice of his profession in -Sus'^ex, where he has since been in business. He is a temper- 'I' ler hnnie- irish; 1^1- /ancoiivcr, ., the last n Dawscm cr (lied in marrioil a II, of Stud- ianiet M., upcrinteml- riie sccdiul Mr. Fowkr II, (if Sack- \ warm and ininj; to the nd lias held ) which his n. lie has .ioner, bein;^ unty. From cut advocate lor his father I'olitically, ^ious faith a ill llaiiinioiul lis I (hicatiim versify, Hati- lle wa? '^rad- iitioii ill June, ur he was ad- iiswick, and a lie he^^an the ssex, where he c is a tcniper- mOGKArillCAL REVIEW $63 ancc man and a willing worker in hehalf of the [luhlie advancement. l-'or four years he served as a member of tiie IMimicipal Council and for three years as a member of the local legislature, lie is a member of the Order of Orangemen. Mr. George W. h'owler was married in July, 1897, to Miss I'Uhel (i. Wilson, daugh- terof Captain J. C. Wilson, of the Allan Line of steamers. lie lias one little daughter, Gladys W. ^AMIO.S C. KDHllRTSOX, who was for some lime connected with the Tortland kolliiij; Mills, was hoin in Ihidgctowii, N. S. , being a son of the Rev. James and Mirca (Hansard) Robertson. The Rev. James Robertson was a native of .Strathsay, IVrtlisliire, .Scotland, born in 1S02. lie was ediuated at King's l"(dlege, Aiierdeeii, where in iSjT) he received the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1S56 tiiai of Doctor of Laws. On December S, iSj.S, he was elected a mem ber of the Northern Institution U>v the promo- tion of science and literalnre in Inverness. lie was ordained a piiesl of the C'hnich of iMigland i)y Iiislio|) .Skinnei', of .\berdcen, at .St. Andrew's Chapel in that cit\', jmie S, iSj(j, iiaxing pre\iiiiisl\' scrsed in deacon's ordeis as assistant at MeikellicM, near hnerness. In iSjc) lie came to Xcwfoundland as missionary of the S. 1'. ( i. In 1832 he came to Hridgctowii, where he Idled the office of rector of the then undi\i(ied parish, al- though he was not formally appointed until 1S37. In 1S54 he removed to W'ilniot; and he died at Middlelon, January K), 1S7S. | K' was a |irofound general and scienlilic scholar as well as tlie(dogian. In 1M35 he received a silver medal from the .Mechanics Institute, Halifax (J. I.eander .Starr, president), for the best essay on the ,\ppliial ion of .Science to the Arts. He was the author of an able treatise on infant liaplisni, besides other pamphlets and essays. His wife, Mirca, was the youngest daughter of .Major Hansard i>{ the .Si.vlyniuth Regiment of I'oot, and a sister of the wife of tlie kite Archdeacon Coster, of l'"redericton, N. li. James C". Robertson after coming to St. John beiame coniu'cted with the Harris .Allan Coin|)aiiy, and siibse(piently he accejited a re- sponsible |iosition with the rortland Ridling Mills. H.\RI.i;S i:i)WARI) I.MOX.NRI) .\R\'IS, insurance agent and ad- juster of (ire-insurance losses, one cif the leading eisi/cns of St. John, .\.H., was born in .St. John, on July 17, 1X4(1, son of Ivd- ward I.iilw\(he and Lllcn Maclean (Leonard) Jarvis. A full account of his family ancestry is given in the sketch of W. M. Jarvis, wliicli precedes this. His fatiier, lidward l.iitw\clie Jarvis, was boiii in St. John in 1S07, and on attaining his majority went into business with his father as a ])artner. His marriage took jilace in 1S3S, his wife being a daughter of Charles lulward Leonard, who rcnio\ed from .St. John to Sid- n A v^, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 IS IIIIM iim 1^ 6" 2.0 1.8 U III 1.6 i Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14S80 (716) 872-4b03 •A I d. 5^4 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW \] ncy, Cajic Hrctoii, where he was collector of customs for many years, aiul where Mrs. Jarvis was born. In I1S50 Mr. Jarvis removed to St. Johns, Newfoundland, and there cnj,'aged in the insurance business, antl was appointed Colonial A. D. C. lie took great interest in military matters, and while in New J^runswick was Lieutenant-Colonel of the O. N. li. R. His death occurred in Newfoundland in 1S7S. He and his wife were the parents of four chil- dren; namely, Isabel Maclean, Charles I-l. I.., I'^Uen Caroline, and Mary Nutting. Mrs. Jar- vis survived her husband about si.\ months, dying in the spring of 1879. Isabel Maclean Jarvis married William 15. Bowring, e.\-Lord-Mayor of London, Lng- land. Ellen Caroline Jarvis married C!harles Wesham, Lieutenant in Her Majesty's .Si.\ty- second Regiment. .Mary Nutting Jarvis mar- ried Henry I'".. Hay ward, of .St. Johns, N. !•". Charles L. L. Jarvis was reared anil edu- cated in .St. John, N.H. , and in St. Johns, Newfoundland, antl upon leaving school en- tcretl his father's office, where he remained until 1865. Returning then to .St. J(ihn, he was made general agent, in the spring of 1806, of the Queen's Insurance Company, which company he has now represented in New Brunswick for upward of thirty years. He is also general agent for the Insurance Company of North America and adjuster of fire insurance losses, and has served as president of the New Brunswick Hoard of Fire L^nilerwriters. Since 1895 he has been \'iccConsul of the Republic of Brazil. Mr. Jarvis married, in 1S67, Annie Ellen Leonard, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mc- Ghee, who at the time of his death was rector of Sus.se.x, N.B. The five children born of this union arc: Lsabel H., l'"lorence A., l{thel II., I'".dwaid L., and Murray Maclean. IHUTENANT-COLOXEL GEORGE J. MAUXSELL,* Commander of the Royal Regiment of lanadian Infan- try, the companies of which are stationed at Regimental de|)ots in London and Toronto, Ont., at St. Johns, P.O., and in P'redericton, \.B., has been connected with the military service of Great Britain and the Provinces as a commissioned officer for the larger [lart of his active life. He was l)orn of distinguished ancestry, August 2$, 1836, at Bally-Wil- liam House, Rathkealc, County Limerick, Ireland. His father, George Mcares Maunsell, whose name is found in "Burke's Irish Landed Gen- try," was Justice of the Peace at Mally-Will- iam House, where he married a daughter of the Rev. J. Stopford. Her father, according to "Burke's Peerage," was a son of the Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, and a direct descendant of Lord Courtown. George J. ]\Iaunsell received his preliminary military education at Sandhurst Royal Military College, in which he passed his final examina- tions in May, 1855. Being subsequently ap- pointed to the l'"ifteenth Regiment, he was with it at various Mediterranean stations dur- ing the Crimean War, when the regiment was sent to reinforce the troops engaged in active -..i-:,i; 11 lifc^_d BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S6S service. Uuiing the following two years he travelled extensively in Soi'Miern luirope, more especially in Spain, through which he i)asse(l on foot and on horseback. After his return he took a course of military engineering in 1857 at the Royal College at Aldershot, and when there was employed on tlie staff, (^n November 27 of that year he was promoted from the rank of ICnsign to that of Lieutenant. In the winter of 1858 and 1859, Lieutenant Maunsell further advanced his knowledge of military tactics by an attendance at the School of Musketry, from which he received a certifi- cate of *he first-class on January 26, 1859, and a few days later, l'"el)ruary 10, was ajipointed In.structor of Mu.sketry. On March 12, 1861, he was gazetted Captain of a company in Her Majesty's l-'ifteenth Regiment, and for some time afterward was Acting Adjutant, and In- structor of Musketry at the h^ighth Battalion Depot. In January, 1864, Captain Maunsell came to New ]?runswick via Ilalifa.v. The Civil War in the United States was then Hearing its close, ar.d Captain Maunsell accompanied the Army of the I'otomac in the sjiring campaign of 1865, and at the capture of Richmond, \'a. , was temjiorarily attachetl to the staff of Gen- eral Grant. On November 22, 1865, he was made Adjutant-general of the New lirunswiik militia, and, in aiklitinn to organizing com- panies, was called U[)on to assist in defending the western frontier of the I'rovince during the I'"enian invasion of 1866. iXfter the ])assage of the milit.u')- act on January 1, 1869, Colo- nel Maunsell was ga/ctted Deputy Adjutant- general of Military District No. 8, New Jirunswick, and between 1S71 and 1880 he was entrusted with the charge of the tactical brigade camps at I'redericton, Woodstock, and Chatham, and also took a course of study and obtained a certificate at the I'inyal Arsenal, Woolwich. On April i, iSSr, Lieutenant Colonel i\Iaunsell assumed command of Military Dis- trict No. 4, and in ;u!dition to having charge of brigade canijis at Ottawa anil lirockvilie was at the hcatl of the Infantry School of Instruc- tion at Ottawa, where he had his i)ea(k(uarters. On July 21, 1883, he sailed for England, where, for ])urposes of further instruction, he was atlaclied to Her Majest\-'s forces at Aider- shot; and while thus engaged he visited \-ari- ous places in Belgium, Germany, .Switzerland, and I'"rance, and several of the i)attleficlds of the Franco-German War in search of informa- tion connected with his iirofession. In No- vendier, 1883, he returned to Ottawa, and on December 31, 1883, was appointed Com- mandant of the .Sclioi.I of Infantry connected wMlh what is now liie Royal Regiment if Cana- dian Infantry. On May 16, 1884, Colonel Maunsell, still retaining command of the school and corps with which he was connected, was reajipointed Deputy Adjutant-general of District Xo. 8, New Brunswick. In May, 1885, the Colonel organized a temiiorary battalion, comjiosed of the school corps, six militia comijanies of New Brunswick, and two I'rince I^dward Island niililary companies, and wilii liicm started for inmiediatc service in the North west territory; T rl S66 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW lili but on the eighteenth ilay of that month was ordered into camp at Sussex, where he was to await fiuther orders, and seven days later lie received tlie tliani^s of the authorities. Tlie C()mi)anies, tlieir services hei\ig no longer needed, were then sent to their local headquar- ters. In 1896 Lieutenant Colonel Maunsell was appointed Inspector of Infantiy for the eastern division of Canada, which comprises the provinces of Uuehec, New l?runswick, Xova Scotia, and Prince lulward's Island; and he has since been commissioned Lieutenant- colonel of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Infantry, with headtpiarters at Fredericton. On August 9, 1862, Colonel MaunscM mar- ried Miss Mooney, one of the older daughters of the late l-". I''. Mooney, J. I'., I). 1.., of "The Doon," J'ings Count) , Ireland. He has four sons and three daughters. The eldest son is a Captain in the ICighth Feginient, P. L. Cav- alry, in New Prunswick, and the eldest daugh- ter is the wife of J. W. de Courcy O'Grady, of the Hank of ( )ttawa, Montreal. Colonel Maunsell has been a coninnuiicant of the P'pis- copal church since his early youth. ll^yailR CLINCH,* of St. John, a gen- eral insurance agent, was born in St. (ieorge, N.P. , January 7, 1855, son of Peter and Sarah J. (Wetmore) Clinch. His great-grandfather, the first ])rogenitor of the family in America, an Irish gentleman and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, came to this country when a young man, and, at the breaking out of the American Revolution, re- maining loyal to the Crown, joined the Royal P'encible Americans, in which he served first as Lieutenant and later as Captain. At the close of the war he settled ;.t St. (ieorge, Charlotte County, N. H. , where the goxernmcnt granted him a large tract of land. Tliere he formed a military comi)any, which rendered efficient ser- vice in the suppression of pfipular outbreaks. Peter Clinch died in St. George at the age of sixty. lie was a member of the first Council before the present form of Provincial g ■'■ern- ment was inaugurated. Patrick Clinch, son of Peter, received a gooil education, and became a man of jiromi- nence in Charlotte County. He founded a newspaper at St. Andrews, known as VV/r Pro- viihialist, ser\ed in the Provincial Legislature, and for many jears was Inspector of SchooLs. He lived to he eighty-four years of age. His wife, whose maiden na..;e was I-Ileanor Davitl- son, was of Scotch ancestry. Peter Clinch, son of Patrick, and father of the present Peter Clinch, grew up in St. (ieorge, where he became an attorney. He married Sarah Josephine, a daughter of the late Abraham Wetmore of that place, and of Loyal- ist descent. 'J'hey iiad five children, four of whom are now living, namely: Marion !•'. ; I'ilizabeth W. ; 1). Carlton, tlie well-known banker of .St. John (see sketch, page 167) ; and Peter. Pet( r Clinch, the direct subject of this sketch, came to St. John when fifteen years of age, and for a time was in the employ of W. II. Thorne. In 1875 however, he entered the insurance office of Louis Almond, with whom BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 567 S ^orn- 'le remained until lie cngaj^ed in business for iiimself in 1883. Mr.. Clinch represents the Northern Fire Insurance Company, the British lunpire Company, and the I'.mployers' Liabil- ity Company, all of London. He has been secretary for the Hoard of Underwriters since i8So. Aside from business, Mr. Clinch takes p-eat interest in athletics. In 1876 he won the first club rowing scull race, and repeated the victory in each of the four succeeding years. In 1895, in company with Menry Gil- bert, he won the double scull race, lie also takes an active interest in horse racing. He is a member of the Loyalist .Society. /?TTlHI-:RT BR1':\VST1':R,* Collector of V^J Customs for the port of Harvey, Al- i)crt County, N.B., was born in that county, September 3, 1830, a son of James Brewster, and grandson of Nathaniel Brewster, both life- long residents of this section of the Province of New Brunswick. Nathaniel Brewster was a thorough-going, prosjierous farmer, whose iiomestead property was greatly improved Ly his years of earnest and practical toil in pioneer days. Me mar- ried Annie Pearson, who bravely faced the trials that beset their pathway through life's journey, and in death was not parted from him, their bodies being laid to rest on the same day. They were the parents of six children, three boys and three girls, of whom James was the second son. James Brewster was a shipwright by trade, and was also extensively engaged both in com- mercial and agricultural pursuits. While liv- ing at Hopewell Cape, he was one of the lead- ing merchants there, and built up a remuner- ative trade. He subsequently settled in Harvey, where he was for many years a promi- nent citizen, being actively identified with its public affairs. ]''or a long time he served as Magistrate, was also Collector of Customs at Harvey, and for years was Judge of Common Pleas. In politics he affiliated with the Con- servative jiarty. He married Rebecca, daugh- ter of John Calhoun, of the United .States, and they became the parents of fourteen cliildren, of wliom six are now living, as foU.uvs: Jane, wife of Rufus Piper, of IIoulKm, Me.; Re- becca, wife of Asahel Wells, Ivsq., of New York; Annie, widow of the late Harris B. Calhoun; James, of whom there i?; here no special mention; (iilbert, the sul)ject of this brief sketch; and Charles, who married Mary, dangiiter of Cai)tain James K. Wells, of Albert County, New Brunswick. Neither of the par- ents are living, tiie father having died at llie age of fourscore years, and the mother at the age of seventy-one years. Both were members of the Bapti.st church. (iilbert Brewster obtained his education in the schools of Albert County, after which he learned from his father the trade of a ship- wright. Becoming a skilled and expeditious craftsman, he followeil that vocation for many years witii eminent success, working both in Canada and in tlie United States. In 1S85 he was ajipointed Collector of Customs for the port of Harvey, a position wliich he has since held. A man of .strict integrity, public- '1 '. , S68 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW spiiiteil and Ijoncvolciit, he is held in hiyli regard tiirouj^hoiit the eomnuniity. As a true and loyal citizen, he takes a genuine interest in everything cakidated to further tiie well- being of the town and county, and though not an aspirant for political honors he has for a number of years served as Justice of the I'eace. On January ly, 1.S54, Mr. l!rewster married Amelia, daughter of Captain James I'^. Wells, of Harvey. She dietl April i, i0 actei' a large business, was dissolved in 1883; and Mr. McKean immediately engaged in business alone. At tlio present time he is one of the must extensive dealers in the city, haiuiling nKinui'attureil lumber to the amount of about one million dollars annual!)'; and be ships cargoes to ICurope, Africa, and y\ustralia. In 1873 Mr. McKean was joined in marriage with Annie J. McGiver, daughter of the late R. P. McGiver, of .St. John. They have tiiree children — Mary I-"., William Kirk, and George R. Mr. McKean is a Master Mason, anil be- longs to New l^runswick Lodge. |i(IL\Rl) lIOCKb'.N,* for many years )ne of the leading merchants of Chatham, N.B. , was born in l,is- keard, county of Cornwall, b'.ngland. 'I'he following facts in regard to Mr. Ilocken's life and business career are taken mainly from an oliituary published in a local iiaper at the time (if his death, which occurred in his seventy- seventh year. Mr. llocken "came to Chatham, .September 22, 1 841, as accountant in the customhouse of the port, when the late Mr. Wright was collector, under the imperial authorities, and the custom-house was at lUishvillc, (piite near the present residence of Judge Wilkinson. i)n the 11th October, 1846, he was ajjpointed Sub collector at Hathur.st, and on the 24th July, i>^48, he was appointed Controller of Customs and .Navigiition Laws at Richibucto. " He "ceased to be an imperial officer October 21, 1850, and engaged in business at the stand he occupied at the time of his death." Success- ful in business, he left a substantial fortune. Among the principal bequests outside those to members of the family and other relatives were two tiiousand dollars to the Diocesan Church .Society, ! 574 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW June 23, i8«6, with Jean M. Simpson, a (Liiij^htcr of Captain VV. Simpson, of St. John; and tJR' (inly iliild of tliis union died in in- fancy. Mr. Lordly's first wife died in May, 18S7; and in Jaiuiary, iSy.^, lie married for hi.s second wife listher A. Woodley, daugh- ter of John Woodley, of St. John. They have one son, Guy .Sterling. Mr. Lordly helongs to the Canadian Order of ]''oresters, •.••^4 . I, I' k !•: 1) DO DC !•:,♦ carpenter and huihler, .St. John, was hum in liic parisli cif I'phan), Kinj;s C'uunty, N.I5., in iS^o, a son of Isaac A. and Charlotte Harnard (Uphani) IJod{;e. His paternal grand- father was one of the Loyalists of 17S3 who came to New Urunswick. Isaac A. Dodge learned the hlacksmith's trade, which he fol- lowed for a time in Kings County. At the time of the Canadian Confederation he was railway station master at Hampton, N. H., and was also serving as Magistrate. He became a resident of .St. John in 1X^9, and, resuming his trade, was engaged in general hlacksmith- ing until his death, which occurred in iS-j. His wife, Charlotte, hecame the mother of nine children; namely, Charles Cutler, h'rancis L. , (ieorge .Sylvester, .Sarah J'Mizaheth, James Upham, William Allen, Charlotte Havelock, Nathaniel, and Alfred. Charles C. - resides in l'"airviile, N. M. George .S. resides in St. John. William A. is a resident of Manches- ter, Mass. James Upham Dodge resides in the United States. Nathaniel died in child- hood. The mother (lied in '895, The parents were I'^jiiscopalians. Alfred Dodge accompanied his jiarents to .St. John when eight years old, and his eduia tion was completed in the schixds of this city. y\t the age of nineteen he began to serve a four years' apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade with Henjamin Rider, and, having become an e.\|)ert workman, was employed as hireman f(n' eight years. Since starting in business for himself in 1891 he lias erecteil se\eral fine residences, including that of the Rev. H. L. McGouan on rriiuess .Sticct and that of Mr. R. Ratcbfonl. He has also jiut up a number of substantial buildings for business piu'iioses, and is regarded as an able and reliable builder. Mr. Dodge is a niember of Albion Lodge, v. & A. M, ; New Ihiinswick Chajjler, Royal Arch Masons; and De M(day Commandery, Knights Templar. He also belongs to the Knights of I'ytliias, being Past Chancellor of the lodge in this city. (^AMLS A.NDb'.R.SUN,* a representative citizen of Church I'oint, N.15. , engaged in tish |)acking and limibering and in looking after his varied shipping interests, was born in this place mi Jaiuiary Ji, 1S51, his ])arents being Joliii and Margaret (Loggie) Anderson. His paternal grandfather, James Andersmi, first, was born in .Scotland, but came fnini that country and settled at Church I'oint among Jie pioneers of this region. He was engaged in fishing and in the cultivation of the soil. His V' ) l\'' BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV 575 1 1 cuts wilV, ill m;ii(lciilini)(l a Miss Murray, was a na- tive of I'liiue I'idwanl I land, and l)<>rn nf Scottish parents. She was ilie niotlier of seven ciiildren, of wlioni Joiin, above named, was the youngest. John Anderson engaged in farming and fish- ing with iiis fatlier in early boyliodd, and in maturer life became a successful lumberman, merchant, and fish packer. His wife, Marga- ret, who was the daugiitei- of William Loggie, one of the old settlers on the Point, bore him three sons— James, William, and John — and one daughter, Mary J. The daughter is now the wife of Donaid I.oggie, of (^luirch I'oint. .Mr. John Anderson was an Pildcr in the I'res- hyterian church. II is death occurred in 1S74, and that of his wife in I1S7C), she being then sixty-two years of age. His sons, James and John Anderson, form the firm of J. W. & J. Anderson, extensively engaged in milling, lum- bering, fish jiacking, and mercantile business, they having succeeded to the business estab- lished by Loggie & Anderson. James Anderson obtained his education in the common schools of his native town. Much of his time during boyhood was sjient in assist- ing his father in business, and since the death of the latter he has given his undivided atten- tion to furthei- developing it. The reputation sustained by the firm to-day fully accords with the traditions nf the old firm, in which honor- able dealing was the first consideration. In October, 1887, Mr. yXndersou was joined in marriage with Miss Kate ICllen Peterson, (laughter of Alfred Peterson, of Chatham. Of this union si.N children have been born. Mr. Ander.son is a Justice of the Peace. I'or two years he was a mend)er of the C!ounty Council. lie holds membership in the I. O. !•'. , and is financial secretary of that organization, lie has been Postmaster at Church Point since 1877. Politically, he is a Liberal. MNSl'OKI) W. WILLIAMS,* .ship and tugboat owner, .St. John, was born in ( jueens -County, New Brunswick, in 1855. si. John when a boy in 1835; and, coming here the second time in 1839, he entered the emjiloy of his brother, J'lseph, Jr., a commission merchant and auctioneer, with whom he remained about seven years. Moving to I'redericton in 1846, he carried on the same business there for five year.s, or until 185 1, when he again located in .St. John and ojiened a furniture 'tore in the old Ward Huilding on Germain Street. He has occu])ied continuously since 1859 his i)res- ent salesroom at the corner of (ierniain and Churcii Si. jets, and has been identified with the furniture business longer than any other dealer in the city. .Some time in the fifties he engagctl in the manufacture of furniture, establishing a factory on Waterloo .Street, which was subsequently burned. Resuming business on Sidney .Street, his factory, ware- house, and salesroom were destroyed I\Tarch 31, 1863, in another conflagration, which was made memorable by the fact that the fust steam fire-engine ever brought to .St. John was then used for the first time. He occupieil the reconstructed building until 1864, when he removed h s manufactory to Rothesay, and was located there until 1869. b'orming a copart- nership .vith Jonas Howe, the firm purchased tiie propcrtv now known as Howe's furniVurc factory. His factory was again burned in 1873, and, bei.ig rebuilt, was swept away in common with all others in that locality during the disastrous fire of 1877. Dissolving his partnership with ^Ir. Howe in 1878, he en- gaged in manufacturing in the same building in which his salesroom is located, remaining there some three years, and then removed his shops to a building near the .Stanley .Street BIOGRAPHICAL IlEVIEVV 577 bridge, where in i8«t he was visited by his old enemy, which for the fifth time laid his factory in ashes. His characteristic jjcrsever- ance continned unabated; and, resuming? man- ufactiirin,t;- in Haley's Hnildini; on Hroad Street, he remained there until leasing the Electric Light Building in 1.S9:!. In 1897 he sold his manufacturing business to the Lordly Manu- facturing Company, in which he has an inter- est; and he can now be found at his salesroom on Germain Street, where he has been located for the past forty years. On January i, 1848, Mr. Lordly married for his first wife the eldest daughter of Charles Brennan, who served in the American Revolu- tion, and came here with the Loyali.sts in I 78 V He was a son of Major Matthew Bren- nan, who for many years held a responsible position in the office of the Provincial Secre- tary. She died in 1878; and in 188:! he mar- ried for his second wife Mary, the third daughter of William l'"ennety. He is the father of six children by his first wife, namely: Sterling, manager of the Lordly Manufacturing Company; Charles, manager of Manchester, Robertson & Allison's {'"urniture Department; Walter A., who manages the upholstery de- partment for the .same concern; Arthur, a salesman for the above-named firm; Henry H., a gKuUiate of Cornell University, manager of the American Light Company in the Maritime Provinces and in charge of the salt works on Prince lulward Island; and Georgiana, wife of (leorge bred bisiier, of St. John. Mr. Lordly has taken an important part in developing the industrial resources of the city. and was formerly a director of the Mechanics' Institute. - LLICN (). 'vXRLP:,* barrister, of St. John, is a son of .Sylvester Zobeskie luule, Jr. His mother was in maidenhood INIiss Catherine McC.ill Otty, a daughter of Captain Allen Otty, R.N., and a grand-daughter of Andrew and I'".li/.aheth Irans Ciookshanks, who were Loyalists. Mr. I'^arle is a descendant of Justice ICarle (second son of Sylvester luule), who came to New Bruns- wick from New Jersey at the close of the American Revolutionary Wai'. Justice l':arle held a Lieutenant's commission (dated New York, December 18, 1781) from Sir Henry Clinton in the New Jersey 'Volunteers, under General Skinner. His i)rother lulward, who held a Captain's commission, came with him, but afterward returned to New York. vXfter coming to St. John, Justice l^arle drew a city lot, and afterward went to Grand Lake, Queens Countv, N.B. He was married in New York to .AiHiie Lawrence by Hi.shop ^b)()re. Their son, .Sylvester Zobeskie llarle. M.D., late of Kings County, married Maria Hayburn. (5 I iToMAS H. HLAIR,* manager of the (j jl New Brunswick liranch of the Bank of Nova Scotia and a highly esteemed citizen of .St. John, is the youngest son of Robert and Mildred (.Anderson) Hlair. Robert Blair was born in Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, in 1820, but came to this country with his mother when about fifteen years of age, his fatiier, ;i . S78 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW li! ■m! I William IJlair, having died. The mother, who was a very superior woman, on arriving in New l^runswick, settled in St. John. Here Robert soon lieeame self-supporting, finding emplov- ment at various i.'. S. Josepli Saunders Claris, fatlier of Joseph Sut- ton Clark, was liorn in Carleton, St. John County, and received his collegiate education at the college at Sackville. After his gradua- tion he .started in business with his father as a .shipper of groceries and as a lumber manu- facturer and dealer. After llie death of his father, who passed away at the early age of thirty-two, he succeeded to the entire business, which he managed most ably for many years. He was highly respected an a citizen, and was a member for several years of Carleton Lodge, !•'. & A. M. In liis religious belief he was a Methodist. He married Jennie, daughter oi James Jackson, of Halifax, N. S. ; and they had two children : John Clarence, senior mem- ber of the late firm of Clark, Kerr & Thorne, hardware merciianls in St. John; and Joseph Sutton. Joseph Sutton Clark received his early edu- cation in the common schools of St. Jolm, and at the age of sixteen years began a lour years' ai)i)reuticeship at tlie drug business, serving tJie fust two years with W. C. R. Allen and ihe last two wilii Mr. McDermod. Passing his liual cNaminalions in 1.SS6 and receiving a first class diploma, he settled immediately in St. Cieorge, where before he iiail celebrated the twenty-first anniver.sary of his birth he established himself as a druggist; and since then he has built up a most flourishing trade in that line. A few years ago Mr. Clark, with ciiaracteristic energy, started a fish business at Lepreau.x, Charlotte County, where he also built a .sardine factory and started a canning indu.stry. A man of keen foresight and good judgment, be has met with more than ordinary success in all of his undertakings, and is rec- ognized as an able business man by his fellow- townsmen. l'(ditically, he is a Liberal and an advocate of free trade. He is a member of .St. George Lodge, !•'. & A. M., and of the Chap- ter No. 12, R. A. M. lie attends the Metii- odist churcii. Mr. Clark married Helen, daughter of A. Judson and Adelia Seeley, of .St. George; and they have three children — Joseph Leonard, Helen, and Jackson Sutton. ILLLXM WVSl'".,* commission mer- ciiant and dealer in furniture, a prominent business man of Chatham, N.B. , was born in Stirling County, Scotland, in tlie town of Grangemouth, on i''ebruary 12, 1S33, son of Henry and Maiy (Walker) Wyse. Henrv Wyse emigrated in 1S34, arriving in the town of Douglas, N.H., on May 12. He engaged in the bakery business there 1 few montiis, and in tlie sjiring of the fidlowing year moved to Chatiiam and settled on Water Street, where he carried (M1 a bakery and a 'M 38o BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW fe ; hotel for some five years. Removiii}; to Duke Street at the end of that time, he continued the same line of business tor the next five years. lie then closed out the hotel, hut he manaj;ed the bakery as lonj,' as he lived. h'or some time he was Captain of the Volunteer I"'ire Company. Ilis death occurred when he was al)out eighty-one years of aj;e. Ilis wife survived liini four years, and died in 1S91, at the age of cij,4ity-four. They had ei;;ht chil- dren — Mary, William, ]\Iar<,faret, Henry, John, Andrew, James, and ^\nnie. Mary, the eldest child, was born in .Scotland in iS^2. .She married .Mexaiulur Loudoun, a well-to-do mer- chant of Chatham. Margaret, who was born in 1837, married Thomas Phillips, a black- smith of Chatham. Henry is a baker, and re- sides in Newcastle. He married for his first wife Mary Ann Nicholson and for his second wife a Miss McMasters. John, wlm is a baker by occupation and lives in Hoston, married lilizabeth Rennie, of Chatham. Andrew, also a baker, is married and is living in Chicago, 111. James is engaged in mercantile business in Chicago, .\iinie died in 1S69, at the ;ige of twenty-one years. William Wyse was brought up in Chatham, and received his education in the public schools here inider the instruction of Mr. James Miller. In 1S51 he went into a mer- cantile establishment, where he remained for about three years and a half. The firm then failed, and he was thrown out of employment. He made use of the opportunity to travel through the States, and after his return he .spent a number of years in the employ of Alexander Loudoun. 1 le subsequently went to I'"ox Island and engaged for a while in can- niiij and preserving salmon. Later on he went into business on his own account as a dealer in dry goods and groceries. He also canned lobsters, which he exported to the Hritish market. At the time of the agitation over the (piestion of confederation he took an active jiart in jiolitic.-i, and was a strong sup- porter of the late John A. McDonald. He held the office of Inspector of l-'ishcries under Mr. McDonald's administration, from iSfiS to iSyo, but, having a disjiute with IMinister Tupper in regard to the payment of a small sum to a fishery warden and writing indepen- dently about the matter, he was dismissed from his office. Up to that date he continued in the grocery business. In 1891 he established the furniture business, which he has since conducted successfully. i\Ir. Wyse is a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity and of the Royal .Arcanum. In iH.S6and in iScj.S he was Com- missioner of Roads, anil during his term of office did much to beautify the roads of the town. He has also taken a strong interest in the public park, and for twenty-five ye.us has exerted his intluence toward making it one of the most beautiful s|)ots in New Brunswick, as it undoubtedly is to-day. Mr. Wyse was first married to Elizabeth Marshall, a sister of Robert Marshall, of St. John. .She died in iiS(J4, having lieen the mother of two children, both of whom died in infancy. In 11^65 Mr. Wyse married Lmma Peters, daughter of Clharles J. Peters. Of this union have been born three sons and a daugh- \\l BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW S8. tcr, namely: Clifford W., who is in the poultry i)iisiness at Black River; Hcrnard W. , who is a book-keeper in Brooklyn, N. V. ; lulward H. , wlio is an electrician and resides in Chatham; and Florence. Mr. W'yse has been a trustee ol St. Andrew's I'resbyterian Ciuireh ever since its establishment. ||j^4()1{1-:RT KI';RR,* who spent the clos- ing years of his louj;- and useful life in .St. Andrews, N.B. , retireii from aeti\e ])ursuits, dietl at his late home in June, iScjo. He was born in County Antrim, Ire- land, in 1S17, a son of the late John Kerr. John Kerr eniij.;rated from County Antrim, Ireland, where he was reared, to New Bruns- wick, and with his family located at first in St. Andrews. Soon afterward he bouj^ht un- improved land in Bocabec, about fifteen miles from .St. Andrews, and, buildin!; u|) a i;ood homestead, was there enj^aged in };eneral farm- inn- until his death, lie was a member of the I'resbyterian church, and in ]iolitics was a Lib- eral and a l'"rce Trader. He married Mary .Stewart, who bure him seven ciiildren. Robert Kerr was but a little boy wlien be accompanieil his parents to /Xmerica, tlie long and tedious voyage being made in a sailing- \essel. After leaving school he was engaged in agricultural pursuits on the old homestead, and also learned the trade of a carriage-builder, which he carried on very successfully until his removal to .St. Andrews in 1S79. A man of much force of character, industrious and ])ru- dent, he accumulated a coni|)etency, and .spent bis last days in the (piiet enjoyment of the fruit of his early years of hard labor. He was an active member of the Churcii of iMigland. In his politics he was a I.iiieral and an ardent believer in free trade. .Mr. Kerr married Mary Jane, 'laughter of John and Mary llerbison. Mrs. Kerr was born in Ireland, but in I>S58 emigrated to St. .Ste|)hen, N. B., where she lived until her marriage, when she settled in l^icabec. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr reared four chiklren, namely: Mary, who lives with her widowed mothei- in .St. Andrews; Jennie .Stewart, who graduated at the Normal .Scluxd in l'"redericton, and is now a teacher at St. Andrews; .Margaret Ann, also a graduate of the l'"redericton Normal .School, who is now teaching at MImsville, N. B. ; and ^Madia Mliza, a music teacher in St. Andrews. I.i:XANDHR A. WATSON,* book- seller and stationer, St. John, was born in .Selkirk, Scotland, .Sejiten)- ber 12, 1S2S, son i)f John Watson. In early life lie was employed in the manufacture of tweeds; and, emigrating to America in 1S54, be located in St. John. lie was engaged in various kinds of business here until iS"", in which year be entered his present line of trade in comjjany with his sons, and shortly after- ward suffered a total loss by the conflagration of that year. The firm reopened on Union Street, but later moved to the store at the coiner of Lhiiou and Charlotte .Streets, where they are now carrying on a profitable business. ISBi ( I i I i- ■ I ill!!!! i 1: ' ( ■J, 1 ^W: S8= niOGRAPIIICAL REVIEW Mr. Watson niairiocl Aynes Sterling, a na- tive of (lalasliicls, Scotlanii. Two of tiicir cliililion cliiil in infancy. liio li\in^ are: Agnes, John A., William ("■., Margaret 11., Susan K., Annie, Clara, Robert .\., and Oscar. William (i. VVatson is in company with his father. Margaret II. is the wife of John H. Andrews, of St. John. Susan K. is tiie wife of William l'. MacDonald, of New York. Annie married l'"rederick C. Melick, of .St. John. C'lara and Robert are residing in this city. Oscar is assistant night manager of the Associated I'ress in New ^'ork City, and also a medical student at tiie College of ,1'hysicians and Surgeons. John A. Watson was born in 1S54. He was reared in this city, and completed his educa- tion under the guidance of a Mr. Miller. l'"rom 1S70 to 1S7S he was employed in the West India goods business; and then, estab- lishing himself in the same line, he continuetl in trade until selling out in 1SS2. I*'or the past fifteen years he has been engaged in the lithograph business with the Maritime Litho- graph Company. Mr. Watson is one of the most ])rominent Masons in the city, and be- longs to IMiion Lodge, !•". & A. M. ; Carlton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; the Council, Commauder\-, and other bodies subordinate to the Consistory; and has taken the thirty- .secoml degree, Scottish Rile, lie is Past Deputy (irantl Master of the Cir.uid Lodge of New Brunswick, 1-". & A. IM. ; Last Deputy High Priest of the Crand Chapter, Ro\al ;\icli Masons, of which he is now Crand .Secretary; is Grand Master of the Grand Council, Royal and .Select Masters; is a member of the Royal Order of Scotland and other bodies connected with the fraternity. He is Past Chancellor of New Urunswick Lodge, No. i, Knights of Pythias, the first lodge of that oidcr organized in the Dominion, and a past officer of the L^ni- formed Rank. He also belongs to the Inde- licndcnt Order of bdresters and the .St. Andrews Society, and was one of the organ- izers of the .Sahage Corjis. A.Ml'S Db: WOLI'P: SPCRR,* a lead- ing citizen of .St. Joiin, N.H., was born at Round Hill, Annapolis, N. .S. , in 1S20. His ancestry is carefully traced in the record given below of the .Spurr family of Nova .Scotia, Annapolis Royal, kindl)' fur- nished by a 'lu'iiiber of that family: — "The e.\tensi\e impro\einents which the l'',rencli traders had made on the borders of the Anna|inlis River became, after their expulsion from the country, an object of attention to the people of the ()Id Colonv ; and in I/T^ and I/Tjs five hundred of these renioveil thither and obtaineil a grant of the townshiji of Annapolis, where they were soon joined by a number of others. Among them was the head or founiler of the .S[)uir family of ,\ova .Scotia. " I'rom reliable sources it appears that there were two brothers who originall)' came from luigland to hoston, .Mass. One of them, Michael S|iuir, came to .\nnapolis Royal, N.S., ai)iiut tin- year \~C'4 or i/f>-,. He was married; and his eldest son and daughter, it is said, accompanied him. 'i'hey were born in f!'' BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 583 Hoston. -^Thcy were AbrulKini Spinr aiitl Mrs. Hartcaiix, antl both resided with their parents for some years on the Spiirr farm near Annapo- lis. The daughter after her marriage removed to Hear River. Abraham Spurr was the grand- father of Edward, Robert, and Job Sears, all well-known citizens of St. John. About the year 1810 or earlier he removed to Clements, some four or five miles from Digby. His wife was of I'rench descent, a Miss I.e Caimy, who.sc sister was married to the elder Judge Ritchie, father to Chief Justice Ritchie. Abraham Spurr died about the year 1817. Mr. Julward Sears, of St. John, has a full record of his children, from which it appears that of a large family there are now living the following named: Mrs. H. Hunt; Mrs. Sales; and Abram Spurr, Jr., the hitler on the farm at Clement. " either children were born to iNliehael Spurr after his removal to Amiapolis, his sons being, besides Abraham, already named, Michael, Jr., Sheffey, and Thomas. The last-named, who was the youngest, resided during his life at Round Hill, a few miles from Annapolis. The daughters were, besides Mrs. Harteaux : Mrs. Harris, Mrs. b'ritz, and Mrs. Sent. "Michael Siiurr, Jr., had three sons by iiis first wife— Isaiah, IClijah, and William. Of these, IClijah lived many years, and in the end died at St. John. One of his daughters mar- ried a Mr. Robinson; another married a Mr. Frost, master carpenter and owner of the I'ark Hotel; and a third married the Rev. Mr. Addy, pastor of the Methodist church at i?ri};ctlicr valued at (jiic lumdicd and thirty (hdiisand dollars, from Robert Rankin & Co. (In coninioni'in^;- o|icialioMs on the river, Mr. fiii)son saw at onee that the ]iiinei|)al ohstriie- tion to he nvereonic was a larjje hooni hchi hy a mile or two of piers, lie immediately com- nieneed the construction of dams, and increased the river facilities so miiih that no driver has ever yet been "hinij; np " on the stream since he took possession. lie also had his lands carefully exi)lored and surveyed. .Some of these he [)urchasetl at public auction from the crown; others he bought from the New Uruns- wick and Nova Scotia Land Conipaiiy, and be has tiius ai'C|uire(l all the most valuable land (nearly one hundred and seventy thousand acres) on the river. .Since he came to Marys- ville he has cut fnll\ si\ hundred million feet of lof;s into deals on the Nasbwaak River. He has also a mill at HI ickville, on the Can ida I'/istern Railwa\, that employs thirty men and cuts about live million feet of lumber annu- ally, a jiroperty which he bouj;bt from the Messrs. barley. The deals .ue brought by rail to Gibson, and there, with the prmluct of the Marysville mill, are placed upon lighters spe- cially built by Mr. (iibson, and towed to .St. John, wheut'e the larj;c hunbcr is sent to I'.ng- bnul and the shingles and laths are shi[)ped to the I'nited .States. Mr. (iibson employs thii'ty men at l^lackville in lumbering, ninety men at Marysville in the saw-mill, sixty-five in the lath-mill, and thirty-sc\en in the new shingle-mill, which is one of the finest in Canada. .At the boom there are twenty-five men and on the stream in the s|iring about three hiindreil and eighty men in his service. His lundier-mills are fully c(|uippc(l with the latest improvements in labor saving machinery. The fame of Mr. Gibson's cottonniill ha.s gone throughout Canada and beyond, it beinfj the largest single mill in the Dominion. It employs at present five hundred hands, but coidd accommodate two and ;i half times as many. It was built from bricks manufactured by him within a stone'sthrow of the slructme, and at il.s completion in 1S.S5 was fitted with the latest machinery, some of which has already been replaced by that of more modern construction. It is lighted by electricity from Mr. Gibson's own (l\namos; and near by is a splendidly e(|uii)ped machine simp, where machines are built or repair d by skilled work- men. 'I'he whole plant is ampl\' proteited against fire by b)'drants or ])ipes and an abundant sup|ily of hose. English experts re- cently declared that this mill smpassed in its e(|uii)ments the vast majority of baiglish ccjtlon factories. The brickyard is still in operation, and keeps from twenty to thirty men busy. To the large nimiber of wooden tenement- houses built for his workmen Mr. Gibson has added nearly fifty two-story brick houses, each to acconmiodate two families, besides several dozen large boarding-houses, so that probablv the operators in no other factoiy town in Can- ada are so well boused as those in Marysville. Not a drop of intoxicating liipior has ever been sold in the place, and iii other ways the best interests of the community are carefully sss IlIOCRAPHICAL RF.VIKW i '■ '.!■ Hu;ii(lcil liy liini to wlinm the town .iiid its iiuliistiics owe their hirlh. The tnwn h;is hail a .steaiiy fjiowlh, and is still (jrowiiij;. The t.vd lar^'e stores and a line hiitel were luiilt by Mr. (iil)S(iii. The Mcthddist eluirch, witii its line interior finish, handsome frescoes, and stained-Klass windows, was also erected hy him at a cost of njnvard of fifty thonsand duliars. The orj^an placed in it was his {.■;ift, and the salary of the organist is paid hy liiin. He also ;;ave the site for the Anglican church. In the town there are also three other churches — the Jiaptist, the l'"rce Comnuniion Haptist, and the Refornied baptist. Tliere are also fine .schools, a public liall, a public skating rink, and a brass band of twenty |)ieces. \'arious fraternal organizations, including the Odd 1 'el- lows, the I'oresters, and the Sons of Temper- ance, are also represented by lodges. In addi- tion to his other benefactions, .Mr. Clilison has presented to the town a new public ball, a large public lii)rar}', and a line site for a trot- ting [lark. It has been the rule of his life to provitlc his employees wilii every possible facility for comfort, culture, and legitimate amusement. The steel railway bridge across the rivd-, the Canadian biastern Railway, and the (libson brancii of tJie Canadian lacilic Railway, all owe their existence in a large nieasurc to his energy and public s|)irit. Although i)ast threescore and ten, .Mr. Cib- scjii is in perfect health, due to his splendid constitution and to the fact tlint he .ives wisely and observes tiie laws of temperance and regularity. lie is always at his post, and will federate no neglect of duty on the part of those around him. A man of kindly and gen- erous impulses, many persons and causes have profited by his benevolence without knowing the source. When he has done with tiiis lile, his niouMnunt will i.e the town that his genius called into existence, and the record of a life of honorable toil and service to his fellow-men. These few facts in regard to his life and career were largely obtained through the kincl- ness of Ml, .\. M. lielding, o| tiie .St. John PhHy Sun. DWARU 'f. TRrri'lS,* Taymaster of the Inteiiolonial Railway Company, is a well-known and higiily esteemed cili/en of Moncton, N. H. A son of Abel (i. Trites, he w.is born on li\e home farm in I'etitcodiae, N.n., in 1.S44. He comes of substantial I'^ng- lish stuck, his paternal giandfather, Lewis Trites, having been born and brought up in England. When a )onng man Lewis emi- grated to .America, and, b.i\ing located in New Hrunswick, reieived fiom the Imperial (iovern- nient a tract of wild land at what was then called "'I'he Mend," but is now more familiarly known as Moncton. A man of great enterprise and energy, be cleared a large portion of his grant of land, on whii.b be was subsecpienti)- engaged in tilling tiie soil until his demise. Of his eight children, three are now living — Abel (i., Trunian, and Lliza. Abel (i. Trites was born in Mniicion foin- score years ago, the third child of his parents. During iiis boyiiood and youtii be took p.ut in the pioneer labor of improving a farm, ami soon became familiar with the various branches BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIFAV 589 lly and jii'ii- caiiscs luivo out kiU)\vinK' ilh lliis life, at liis ^I'liiiiH 111(1 111' a lilt." S IclliiW-llU'll. his life ami iol\ the kiiiil- Ihc St. John ,'master of the Company, is a u(l cili/en of Ci. Triles, lie 11 I'llileotliac, ihslaiitial I''.nf;- Ifather, Lewis bronj^ht up in n Lewis ciiii- located in New ipcrial (loveiii- what was then more I'amiliaily Micat enterprise poitiiin ol his as subsecpiently itil his demise, c now living — I Mnneton four- .1 III' his parents. he took part in ni^ a farm, and varions hranehes of aj^rienltme. When ready to settle in life, he removed to retiteixliae, where lu' l)oii>;ht land, and eontinucd in the pursuit in whieh he was reared. As a farmer and stock raiser he has been very successful, and now, with his aged wife, is spemlin;; his declinin;; days in comfort on the homestead whieh he has built u|) by years of unceasing tcdl. llis wife, whose maiden name was Sarah I'ngslcy, was born in I'enoljscoan, N'.H., a daughter rm i.i fifty led Mercy, riymoiith, of Steplicn "ranilsDii of dill, was a h Colonist, the "Ann" ^^h anil bis inds for the nds, and ro- they arrived He was one wn in 1 76 1, r anionj; the 7, 177^'. -^"^1 ilrs. Deborah born in Leb- ily S. '751. h his parents ipril 6, 1774. Caleb Rand. cir remaininj; 17, 1S32, and 1 lowing lines .0 his wiirtb : d'fectionatc in moral in his rlings — trails Ir. Newcomb's in Cornwallis, 1 l-'ebruary 17, as a seafaring ni])builder and ighter of Davitl Lyons, their union being solemnized April 8, 1 8 19. She was one of three .sisters that mar- ried three brothers. Slie was Jjorn in Corn- wallis, and there died in early womanhood, March 16, 1.S25. Her widowed husl)and mar- ried for his second wife, October 17, 1827, Charity Grant. She was horn at Weymouth, N. S., October 7, 1807, a daughter of David Grant. Charlton Newconib" was born March i, 1830, in Cornwallis, N. S., and was there edu- cated. In early manhood he removed to Wey- mouth, where he learned the shipbuilder's trade, and subsequently became quite a large vessel owner ami also an extensive farmer. He was prominent in social and business cir- cles, and was for many years a leading mem- ber of the J5aptist church, which he served as Deacon, and was also suiicrintenilent of the Sunday-school. His death, on October g, 1897, was mournetl by many friends, (^n De- cember 20, 1854, he married Rachel, who was born in Weymouth, August 24, 1831, daugh- ter ()'■ I'.noch Grant. Imvc children were the fruit of this union, namely: Georgiana, born No\eml)er 3, 1856, now the wulow of tiie late Captain J. S. lirooks, and residing in Wey- mouth; Augusta, born August 24, 1S59, who is the widow of the late Captain Gortlon J. Ross, of Lynn, Mass. ; iMuma I'"., born July 25, 1S61, now the widow of l'"reeman Nichol, late of Weymouth; Daniel Watson; and Charles Alfred, born September 2, 1868, who is a resident of Lynn, Mass. Daniel Watson Xewcomb was educated in the common schools of Weymouth, and subse- quently was employed as clerk in a general store for a year. In 1881, after returning from a [deasure trip to ICngland, he entered the em- ploy of the St. John and Maine Railway Com- pany as telegr;'ph o[)urator, a [losition which be resignetl al the end of si.\ months to become assistant station agent at St. Stejihen, N.H. , a station on what was then the New Brunswick and Canada Railway, but is now a part of the Canadian I'acific .system. In November, 1883, he was transferred to the despatcher's office of the New Urunswick Railway at St. John, where he lemained until the road was taken by the present management ; and he was ai)])ointed in March, 1897, to his present responsible position, with headquarters at Woodstock. Tiiree hundred and seventy-five miles of this roail are under his direct supervision, and, it is needless to say, are thoroughly cared for. Mr. Newcomb married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Caird, who emigrated from Scot- land to St. Joh'i, N. 1?, and they have one child, Marguerite. Fraternally, Mr. New- comb is a mendjcr of 'Inion Lodge, K. ol 1'., of St. John. He attends the I'resbyterian church, of which Mrs. Newcomb is a memi)er. HOMAS HILYARD,* iiave ,!;iven their attention to the repair- inii of vessels, the lumber manufacturing busi- ness, and til their property ii\terests, which consist nf timber lands, shipiiing, etc. In 1S76 Henry llilyard married Miss Theresa McDonald, daughter of Arthur :\Ic- Donald, a ship buikler of this city. The)' have one sin, C.eorge. Mr. llilyard has been tpiite active in nnmi- cipal affairs, and was Mayor of the city for one yeai-. He belongs to the Independent Order (if Odd h'elldws, and has occujiied the jirin- cipal chairs in the local lodge. He is a prom- inent churchman, and a Warden of St. Luke's Chinch. ''CHU/iI. STIRLING,* brass founder and ^Ys_ linisher, of St. John, N. li., was born in that city in 1864, son of James and Rebecca (Uoak) Stirling. James Stirling was one of the most pioniinent contractors and Iniilders in St. John, to which place lie came fidni his native town of Galashiels, Scotland. Among some of the more important buildings erected by him may be 'cntioned the govern- ment post-office building, St. Andrews I'resby- .crian ciiurch, tlie railway passenger station, Calvary Ciiurcli, tiie \'alley Church, Cushiiig's mill, and the Gushing residence on Oueen's Street. His work was all done by contract from foundation to finish. His wife, Rebecca Doak Stirling, a iiati\e of Iieland, came to New lirnnswick with hei- mother's family when a child. Her mother's brother, William Doak, estahlished the first brass foundry in St. John, it having been located on Water Street, on the site of the jiresent foundry of the sidiject of this sketch. .Mrs. Stirling's father died in S94 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW Irclaiul. Mr. and Mrs. Stirling were the parents of four cliiUlren: Kosanna, wife (if John Hauer, of St. John; Jessie May; James, a harness-maker of St. John ; and W. 1 1. , whose name begins this siif the "NiaK- iivcntor and tuies a large larket in all \n excellent one of tlic INDEX. BIOGRAPHICAL. A. Allan, Harris Allen, Jolin Can)|)l)ell . . Allen, Thomas Carleton . Allison, Jamus Fretk-rick . Ahvard, Silas Anderson, James .... Anderson, Josiali J. . . . Anderson, 'I'lionias Klie-se Appleby, .Stephen ISurpee .Arnold, Oliver Roswell Arnold, R. Ileber . . . Atkinson, James Smith Austin, Henry A. ... Austin, M. Douglas . . . liaird, George F. . . liarber, James . . . liarker, Frederic K. . Harlow, Thomas . . iiarnliill, William . Harry, Thomas . . Bates, J'.dward Haxter, James McCirei; llayard, William Hebbington, John, Sr. lieer, ICdwin Bond . Henson, Joseph lilaek lllack John .... lilaek, Joseph 1.. . . IJlair, Andrew George 2i;2 A72 33' 450 47 574 55^' 4>5 ,S9| 3'2! 453 344 337 i 4801 202 I 59; 280 I 128 1 82 25s 102 37 2.;o 1 1 1 263 461 237 320. Blair, Thomas B. . . . Borden, Robert Allison liostwiek, Charles Merritt Bowman, William Henry Boyd, Robert James . . Brewster, Gilbert . . . Brown, James .... Burden, Oliver I'^arl . . Bustin, Stephen li. . . Camp, Wellington Campbell, I'eter Carritte, De Blaviere Carter, Charles I.. Chipnian, Ward Christie, Ale.xander Clark, Charles A. . Clark, Joseph Sutton Clark, William . Clarke, Clement I'eckli Climo. John S. . . Clinch, I). Carlton Clinch, I'eter . . Collin, General Coll, James . . . Coll, Michael . . Colpitis, Robert . Colwell, Frederic C Colwell, William . Connell, .\llison Harlow Connell, Heniy .\uguslus |'A(;b 577 585 521 271 458 5'>7 275 427 55° i Connolly, 'I'homas Connors, James F. . ' Coulthard, George I'.. Crandall, Joseph . . Crothers, Samuel Currie, James Russell Gushing, AUston . . Gushing, Andre . . 471 555 561 508 53° 247 55S 578 168 66 548 167 566 523 275 275 143 352 18s 488 476 Daniel, John W Dawson, David C. . . . Dean, Thomas .... de Forest, George Sylvester de Forest, Harry Wenman Desmond, Francis J. . . De V'eber, William Hubbard Dever, Patrick .... Dibblee, William Fyler Dickinson, J.imcs Duncan Dickson, S. Z Di.xon, James D Dod.i;e, Alfred Doherty, William . . . Dnnl)ar, .Mexander . . , Dunn, Albert T Dunn, Klbridge Gerry . , Dunn, R. C. John . . , F.irle, Allen O Kmmerson, Henry Robert 227 233 496 >S7 308 256 •57 156 246 53S 5'7 323 324 152 53« 487 480 67 200 360 574 573 44'; 87 289 28s 577 14 auJBj... eaHgwwwawBi 596 INDEX ! i[ I; Fairweallier, Arthur C. 55 Kairweallicr, Gcorf;e ImIw n 506 I'oMcty, (iforne I'.ihvaril -5 Kergiison, Daniel . . 3«' Fcrfjiisiin, John C. . . 549 IMiiIey, Joseph .... ^5i h'ish, Cliarle.s IC. . . . 254 Fislier, Charles . . . 146 Fleiiiinn;, James . . . 402 KlewelMii};, I'rank 11. . J.34 Flood, John .... 325 Forster, John Baker . . 208 Fowler, Josiah .... i3'^ F'owler, Weeilen . . . 5'>i Fowler, Willi.ini II,. . 559 Fraser, Donald . . . 4'ii P'raser, John James . . 3° Q. H. Hale, Frederick II. . . Il.dl, Stephen .S. . . . Haiiiiltoii, James I'. . . Hamm, Joseph 1!. . . Hamm, M.Utliias . . . Hannay, Jame.s . . . Hanson, I'riah Kuhert . Harding, Charles luhvard Harding, John Henry . ( Gallagher, Hugh . . . 4(16 Gallagher, Michael . . 3-f- (laynor, James . . . 28 1 Gaynor, William Cleopha.s 363 ( ieorge, Charles \V. '37 (;eorge, William F. . . 276 Gibson. Alexander . . ,86 Gilbert, George Godl'rev 345 c;ilbert, James S. . . . 237 Gilbert, Thomas . . . 88 Gilchrist, John . . . 28f> Godsoe, Frank Amos . 207 Gooden, Kdward C. . . .3S2 (liiodwin, .\rtluir Leslie 368 ( iordon, John James 158 CJrieves, John llrooke . 5'7 513 305 404 26 1 98 423 422 I 12 30' Harrison, Jeremiah . . . Harri.son, William Frederick Harrison. William Gray Harrison, William Henry Hartley, J. Chipman Hatfield, Samuel Fairweatlit Hay, George l|)ham . Hay, William Wallace . Hayward, Il.irvey I'. Hayuard, S.imuel . . Hayward, William H. . Hetheririglon, George .\. Hevnor, ( lideon . . . Hickman, William . . Hilyard, 'I'honias . . . Hocken, Richard . . . Holly, James .... Holstead, Alfred K. . . Humphrey, William F. Inches, .Andrew Small . Inches, Jidiiis l.cGendre Inches, I'eter Kohertson J- Jack, David Willi, im . . Jack, lulward Jack, Isaac .Allen .... Jack, William lirydone Jarvis, Charles I'dw.ird Leon Jarvis, William .Mnnson . Johnson, John .Mercer . . Jones, Andrew II. . . . Jones, ICdward Charles . . Jones, Frederic A. . . . Jones, Cleorge West . . . Jones, Oliver Jones, Thomas K. ... Jones, Wilfred T. . . . Jordan, Daniel rd K. Kaye, James Josi ph . Keast, John W. Kennedy, Iklwaiii J. 332 559 j IW 293 201 296 443 371 146 518 145 529 i 584 I Si 591 569; 71 194 74 99 419 33 428 532 9 117 5''3 27 571 '25 67 462 299 12(. 42 507 396 1 5" 272 187! Kennedy, James .... Kenney, Frank Lincoln Kerr, Robert Kerr, Samuel Ketclunn, ll/ekiel li.irlow . Kelcluim, (ieorge William Ketchum, Kich.ird Henjamin Killam, Amasa Kmer-son . Kmgdon. Ilollingworth Tu Kinnear, Charles F. . . . Knapp. Charles F. . . . Knight, Leonard I!. . . . Knowles, ICdivard T. C. Kno.\, James Le Lacheur, John . . . Leonard, W.dter F. . . , Lindsay, John .A Lockhart, William Albert Lordly. .Albert J Lordly, Sterling I!. . . . I.ovett, Arlliur Welleslev . M. Mabee. Alfred A. . . . Macdonald, Charles .Abner Mackenzie, William lirouard MacLean, Arthur i!. . . .Maher, Joseph 1). ... .Maltby, Richard I M.tltby, Thomas .... Markham, /Mfred . . . Marshall. Robert . . . ALirven. llliss A Maunsell, ( ieorge J. . . ,\Lixwell, I lenry .... Maxwell, Robert .... McAlary, Joseph W. . . Mc.Alpine, ICdwin II. . . McAvenney, .Andrew I'rancis McAvity Family, The . . McCormick, Daniel W. McDonald, James (1. . . McDonald, Montesquieu . Mcl'arl.Mie, I'etcr . . . McGafligan, James J. . . Mcluerney. James I'eterson "73 339 581 378 80 35« 248 34 10 542 188 84 121 295 212 267 349 374 576 573 3«' 354 195 20() 13'' 179 44S 447 "'7 I3'S i"3 5''4 I In; 249 557 "S> 208 3V 534 466 107 442 3,So 444 ElB INDEX 597 I'AciK 173 1 . ■ • 339 58. 378 ow . . • 80 ill 111 . 35« ijaniin 248 on . • 34 1 Tiilly 10 542 . 188 . 84 L". . • 121 . . 2.JS • • • • 212 267 349 lljurt . 374 576 • 573 sley . . • 3«i 354 '95 20(< '3'' 17') 44'^ 447 i''7 138 K'3 5''4 [6.; 249 557 15' 208 3'<7 534 466 107 442 380 444 McKeari, (Jeorge . . . McKeowii, Harrison A. McKeown, lli/.ckiali iMcLaiifililin, John I'. . Mcl.fllan, David . . . McLcinl, ICzckitl . . . iMclA'dd, Jdlin .... McMillan, John . . . McKol)crts, David . . McSweeney, GcorjjL' McSwecncy, I'dcr . . Men/ies, John .... Merritt, (labriel . . . Miller, Charks . . . Miller, lulwnrd Win.slow Miller, Henry I'sher Mitchell, Teler . . . Moore, Frederick . . Morgan, I'atrick . . . Morrison, William .Sonime Mullin, Daniel ... .Murdoch, Robert A. Miirdock, luhvard S. . Murdock, William . . Murray, Sulher Corhcit Murray, Robert . . Myers, William Frederick rAr.8 568 250 253 '32 105 568 106 352 3'7 '76 '75 407 191 544 2 20 242 ;77 3'4 560 170 215 505 180 4^'5 rx> 212 I'alnier, Acalu.s l.ockwood 18 I'almcr, Charles Arthur 20 I'atcr.soii, Robert liis.sell 149 I'ear.son, (leorne Nelson 120 I'eck, Charles .\. . . . 570 I'eck, John Lewis . . '35 I'eters, Charles 11. . . 2O2 Peters, Georj,'e C. . . 3'« Peters Ilurd .... 61 Peters, William . . . 3" I'owell, Henrv A. . . 49° Prescott, (leorge D. 484 Prescott, (;ideon Knight '3' I'rescott, Isaac Clayton 479 Preston, Ilenrv Canlield 364 Prince, John .... 76 Pugsley, William . . 537 Pullen, James H. . . . 3«5 Purdy, John Dean . . 144 N. Nase, David II 224 Nase, Harry ISiunswick . . . 318 Nase, Philip 12 Neill, James Steuart .... n/) Newcoinb, Daniel Watson . . 5.S9 Nicholson, Robert 499 Niven, John 403 Northrup Family, The .... 545 O. O'P.rien, John 3<)2 D'Connell, David 239 Odell, Charles 420 Ogden, Amos 300 O'Neil, Daniel 351 O'Neil, John 351 Otty, (leorge O. Dickson . . . 400 Otty, Henry I'hipps 186 I Uiintoii. William .\. Randall, Fdward Clark Randolph, Archibald Fitz Rankin, William Donald Rankine, Thomas . . Raymond. William K. . Reynolds, James . . . Reynolds, William Kilby Reynolds, William Kilby, Ricliey, James . . . Ried. Frederick P. . . Ritchie, Robert J. . . Rubertson Coini)any, The J Robertson, (ieorge . . Robertson, James C. Robinson, Ale.\ander Robinson, ClilTord W. . Robinson, James . . . Robinson. Thomas Willia Rowan, Joseph . . . Ruddock, Joseph M. Ruel, James Rhodes Russell, James Wniier Ryan, Michael . . . 216 72 2S'* 39' 152 81 468 40S 4" 457 421 343 357 ISO 94 526 543 427 3'3 45 492 302 8. .Sandall, Fred 262 Sangster, ( ieorge Robert ... 17 .Saunders, William Shepp.ird 29 Scammell, Joseph Henry . . . 205 Segee, Charles William . . . 340 Shaw, .Arthur N 240 Shaw, William lol Skinner, Charles .\ 97 Smith, Charles Lewis .... 326 Smith, George F 108 Smith, G. Sidney 20 Smith, John Hlackhall .... 194 Smith, John Wilson \oiing . . 330 Spurr, James De Wolfe . . . 582 Sleeves, John 1 40 Stirling, W. H 593 Stockton, Alfred Augustus . . 335 .Sturdee, Henry Lawrance . . 93 T. Tapky, Daniel F 125 Tapley, David 1 18 Tapley Family, The 399 Taylor, Charles Sloggett . . . 263 Taylor, John M 245 Tennant, James 164 Thomson, John H 74 Thomson, Robert 74 Thomson, Samuel fi5 Thomson, William 73 Triles, Fdward 1' 5.88 Trueman, .Arthur 1 527 Tuck, William Henry .... 23 Tweedie, Lemuel J 500 Van Wart, Gilbert William . . 114 \room, William K/ra .... 54 1 I W. I Walker, James 450 Walker, John 495 I Walker, Thomas 503 I Ward, John 546 Wark, David 30O Warwick, Orlando 11 174 Watson, .\le.\ander A. . . , , 581 S98 IN'DKK Watson, J. Frederick Walt, (Jeor;;c . . . Wulls, Willinin Wi)( iliniry While, 'I'honiiis . White. Thomas 1'. Wliitney, Henry A. Willjiir, Jiilin . . Wilkinson, William Williams, Kainsford W 5H4 ! Willis, Kdward . . . 311; I Williston, lldward . . 4() Williston, luhvard I'. . 372 Wilson, John i;. . . . 373 Wilson, Le li.iron , . 492 Wilson, William . . . 264 Winslow, ICdward Hyron 257 Winslow, J. Norman W. 575 Wood, Josiah ... 552 .S2 «3 26.S 300 83 359 100 53 ■■Af.ll Wood, R. Dixon 4S Woodman, t'harles V 62 Wriglil, Willard () 3(;2 \V\se, Henry 223 Wysc, William 571; Y. Verva. Abraham 1) 90 I'Alill f.3 223 579 90 PORTRAITS. I/1I,K IA..II I-AI.R Allen, William K 473 (".riuvcs, John 1! 516 I'rini e, John 77 Anderson, Tlionias K. . 4141 lamilton, James 1". . . 405 Pnllen, J.unes II 3S4 I'liiird, (u'ori^c !'. . . . 4.S1 llamm, Joseph 1!. . . 2f.o Ouinlon, Willi.im .\ 217 l'.,irl)ur, James . . . 203 Harrison, Jeremiah . . 333 Kankine, Th(nnas A 153 Ilarkur, l-'redeiic K. 5.S llay, William W.dl.ice . 370 Ke\ nolds, James 469 I'.ainliill, William 129; Hetherlngton, (ieor;.;e .^ ., fa (in n 529 Uiehey, Mr. and .Mrs. J.iuus 45'' Harry, Thomas . . 1 S3 ' Holly, James . . . 70 Rowan, .\le.\ander M 426 I'laxter, Janifs Mc(lrej;( r 103 ' Inches, Julius 1.. . . 41.S Ruel, James Rhodes . . . . 44 llayard, William . . 36 Jack, Isaac .Mien . . s Russell. James \'enner . . 493 Illack, Jose])!) I.. . . 236 Jack, William Hrydone 116 Ryan, Mii hael 303 Hoslwick, Charles M. 520 Jones, Frederic .\. . 463 .Scfjee, Charles William 34' I'loyd. .Mr. and .M rs. K ol. irt .1. Jones, ( ieor^e West 29S Skinner, Charles \ ,/, and i;randson . . 459 l.inds.iy, John A. . . 34s Smith, .Mr. and .Mrs, Charles tarler, Charles 1.. . 509 Mahec, Allred A. 355 Lewis 327 Connolly, Thomas . 226 .\laher, Joseph I). 178 Smith, ( leorj;e 1- 109 Conllhard, (ieor^je K. 407 ( Marshall, Robert . . 139 •Papley, Arehibahl C L. . . 39S Dawson, UavidC. . 539 i McCormick, Daniel VV. 535 Tapley, Daniel F '24 de Forest, S. S. . . 322 McKeown, Harrison A 251 Taylor, John M 244 Duver, Patrick . . 4.S6 ; Mclnerney, James P. 445 Tennant, James 165 Dixim, James I). . . 361 McRoberts, David . 3'6 Thomson, Samuel .... 64 Dunn, .Mlicrt T. . . 86 Merritt, G. Wetmore 190 Tuck, William Henry . . . 22 Dunn, I'.ll)rid;,'e (ierry . 2S8 Miller, Henry Usher _'2I Walker, James • 451 Dunn, K. C. John . 2.S4 Moore. Frederick 376 Walker, Thomas . 502 i;mmersot»Ji^cnry Kob ert 1 5 Mullin, Daniel . . . 171 Wilbur, John . 265 l-islier, Cli#1es '. . . 147 Neill, J.imes .Stewart • '<)7 Willis. K. I.e Roi .... • 553 I'orstcr, John liaker . . jocj OTirien, John . . . ■ 393 Wilson, John K . 269 P'rascr, John James . 31 Peck. John Lewis ■ 134 Wood, Josiah • 52 (ieorjtc William !•'. . . 277 Peters, William . . . 3'o Yerxa, /\braham D. . . . • 9' Gordon, John James . 159 Preston, lUlward A. . • 3'''5