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ABBOTT, Geo. M. - M.D. (1832) – Born February 10, 1808 –
Died January 14, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – He served in the
Texan army during the Mexican war – (Obit.
85).
AIKMAN, Michael (Lt.-Col.) – ex-M.P.P. for Wentworth, in the
U.C, Assembly 1838-40 – Born in 1797 – Died March 21,
1881 at Barton, Ontario – Son of Col. John Aikman, a U.E.
Loyalist. – (Obit.
80-81).
ALLES, Cornelius, of Waterloo, Ontario – Died September 22,
1883 in Detroit, Michgan, U.S.A – Shot in the head by some
party unknown. – (JRO
83).
ATKINSON (Mrs. A., and two grandchildren), of Woodstock, New
Brunswick – Died January 18, 1884 Devil's Bridge, near New
Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – Lost in the wreck of the s. s.
City of Columbus – (JRO
84).
BAKER, F. H. – Editor of a paper called the Mayflower,
formerly published at Halifax, Nova Scotia – Died in November,
1885 in Massachusetts, U.S.A. – (Obit.
85).
BALL,
Margaret (Mrs.) (née Frey) – Native of the Township of
Niagara, Ontario – Died November 2, 1886 at Merritton, Ontario
aged 97 – She was the relict of the late Mr. Jno. C. Ball, of
Niagara. She was of a loyalist family, who came from the Mohawk
Valley at the Revolution. Her father, Capt. Bernard Frey, was killed
by a cannon ball in a street in the town of Niagara during the
bombardment of that place by the American fort opposite in the war of
1812. – (Obit.
86).
BARNARD,
Edward – Advocate – Died June 14, 1885 at Baltimore,
Maryland, U.S.A. aged 79 – He held for many years the office of
Prothonotary and Clk of the Crown at Three Rivers, Quebec –
(Obit.
85).
BARNHART, Noah – A well known business man – Born
February 12, 1818 – Died September 10, 1883 in Toronto, Ontario
– He was the son of a U. E. Loyalist. – (Obit.
83).
BARTLETT,
Wm. Russell – For many years Visiting Supt. and Commr. of
Indian Affairs at Toronto – Born at Providence, Rhode Island,
U.S.A. – Died December 24, 1885 at Toronto, Ontario aged 82 –
He came to Canada when 10 years of age. – (Obit.
85).
BELLYEA, R. (Mr. and Mrs., and two children), Canadians
– Died January 18, 1884 Devil's Bridge, near New Bedford,
Massachusetts, U.S.A. – Lost in the wreck of the s. s. City
of Columbus – (JRO 84).
BERGIN,
Martin, one of the Molly Maguires – Died January 16, 1879,
Pottsville, Pennsylvania – Hanged for the murder of Patrick
Burns at Tuscarora, Pennsylvania, in 1870. Bergin was living in St.
Catharines, Ontario at the time of his arrest in the fall of 1877 –
(JRO
79).
BIGGAR, James Lyons –
Ex M.P., early settler of the Bay of Quinte, Ontario – Born
February 14, 1824 at the Carrying Place, Ontario – Died May 24,
1879, Clifton Springs, New York – Died suddenly – He was
the son of the late, Mr. Charles Biggar, of the Carrying Place, one
of the best known among the early settlers in the Bay of Quinte
district, and his maternal grandfather was a U. E. Loyalist. He
married in 1846, Isabella, the daughter of Mr. Wm. Hodgins, of
Sandymount, Dublin, and sister of Dr. J. G. Hodgins, and Thos.
Hodgins, Q.C., of Toronto – (Obit.
79).
BLANCHARD, Charles – High Sheriff of Colchester, Nova Scotia –
Born December 22, 1809 at Truro, Nova Scotia – Died March 29,
1881, Truro, Nova Scotia – He was the eldest son of Ed.
Shelburne Blanchard, and grandson of Col. Jotham Blanchard, a
loyalist. – (Obit.
80-81).
BLANCHET, François Norbert (Most Revd.), D.D. –
Archbishop of Amida (1880) – Born September 3, 1795 at St.
Pierre, Rivière du Sud, Quebec – Died June 19, 1883 at
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. – (Obit.
83).
BOUCHER de MONTIZAMBERT, Edward Louis – Law Clerk to the Senate
of Canada (1867) – Born September 23, 1811 in Quebec –
Died January 17, 1882 in Quebec – He was descended, through his
mother, Miss Taylor (born in Quebec in 1777) from U.E. Loyalists, his
maternal grand-father having taken refuge in Canada in 1776. His
paternal ancestor, an educated colonist from Perche, France, Pierre
Boucher, received from Louis XIV a patent of nobility, on 17 June,
1707, for services rendered the French Crown in the colony, as early
as 1639. Pierre Boucher, a son of Gaspar Boucher, who came to Quebec
in 1635, was apptd. twice Governor of Three Rivers under the French
Régime (…). From this celebrated Canadian worthy,
Governor Pierre Boucher, have sprung a number of descendants : –
Boucher de Niverville, Boucher de la Bruère, Boucher de la
Broquerie, Boucher de Grosbois, Boucher de Boucherville, Boucher de
Montizambert, or Mont-Isambert – (Obit.
82, see page 351).
BOWELL, Harriet Louisa (Mrs.) (née Moore) - Died April 2, 1884
at Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. aged 56 – She had been taken
to Los Angeles for the benefit of her health. Her remains were
brought to Belleville, Ontario for interment. She was the wife of the
Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, M.P., Minister of Customs, to whom she was
united in marriage, Dec., 1847. She was the eldest daughter of the
late Jacob G. Moore, Esq., of Belleville, Ontario. – (Obit.
84).
BROUILLET, Jean Baptiste Abraham (Rev., R.C.) –
Born in 1812 at St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec, near Montreal – Died
February 5, 1884 in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. – He also lived in
Oregon. – (Obit. 84).
BROWN, George (Hon.)
– Canadian statesman and journalist - Born November 29, 1818 in
Edinburgh, Scotland – Died May 9, 1880 in Toronto, Ontario –
Died from the effects of a pistol wound, received in the leg, the
shot being fired by a discharged employe in his printing office,
named Bennett. - He married in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 27,
1862, Annie, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Nelson, Esq., of
Abden House, Edinburgh. He was the son of the late Peter Brown, Esq.,
merchant, Edinburgh, Scotland, by the only daughter of George
Mackenzie, Esq., of ''The Cottage,'' Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. Peter
Brown emigrated to New York in 1838, where he edited the British
Chronicle newspaper, and thence, in 1843, moved to Toronto, where
he established the Toronto Banner. – (Obit.
80-81).
BROWN,
Henry (coloured) – Born in Virginia, U.S.A. – Died March
17, 1884 at Niagara, Ontario, aged 121 (sic) – (DL
84).
BRUSH, George – Proprietor of the Eagle Foundry,
Montreal – Born January 6, 1793 in Vergennes, Vermont, U.S.A –
Died March 21, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada
about 1814. – (Obit. 83).
BUCHAN,
John Milne, M.A. – Principal of Upper Canada College –
Born in 1841 at Lockport, New York, U.S.A. – Died July 19, 1885
in Toronto, Ontario – While he was still an infant, his parents
removed to Hamilton, Ontario. – (Obit.
85).
BUCHANAN, Chas., of Hillier, Ontario – Died
November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. –
Lost in the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
BUCHANAN, Douglass, of Hillier, Ontario – Died
November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. –
Lost in the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
BUELL, Andrew Norton – Late Accountant General High Court of
Chancery, Ontario – Born April 20, 1798 in Elizabethtown,
directly in rear of Brockville, Ontario – Died November 9, 1880
in Toronto, Ontario – Whilst in practice at the Barr he trained
in his office his three nephews, Sir W. B. Richards, late Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Hon. Stephen Richards, Q.C.;
and Hon. A. N. Richards, Q.C., late Lt.-Gov. of British Columbia. He
came of Loyalist stock, being the second son of Wm. Buell, Esq., an
officer in the ''King's Rangers,'' who represented Leeds in the U.C.
Assembly, 1801-4. – (Obit.
80-81).
BURNS, Patrick –
Died in 1870 in Tuscarora, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Murdered by
Martin Bergin, one of the Molly Maguires, who was hanged for the
murder on January 16, 1879 – (JRO
79).
BURPEE,
Isaac (Hon.) – M.P. for St. John, N. B., in the House of
Commons, and long a prominent merchant in St. John – Born
November 28, 1825 at Sheffield, New Brunswick – Died March 1,
1885 in New York City, U.S.A. – He was descended from a
Huguenot family, that, driven out of France by religious persecution
about the year 1570, took refuge in England, and subsequently, in
1622 or thereabouts, emigrated to America, where they joined the
little colony of Puritans already formed at Massachusetts Bay. He
removed to St. John in 1848. – (Obit.
85).
BURPEE, John P. C. - Retired merchant – Died January 14, 1884
at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. aged about 45 – Died the
result of a railway accident – He was associated in business
for many years with his brother, the Hon. Isaac Burpee, M. P. of St.
John, New Brunswick. – (Obit.
84).
BURWELL, Leonidas –
Ex-M.P.P. – Born in 1817 at Port Talbot, Ontario – Died
August 7, 1879, Port Burwell, Ontario – He was a son of Mr.
Mahion Burwell, who sat in the U. C. Assembly for a lengthened
period, The family were U. E. Loyalists and came from New Jersey,
U.S.A. to Canada in 1784 – (Obit.
79).
CALPHIS, Dina (Mrs.) (coloured) – Born at
Danville, Kentucky – Died September 27, 1883 at London, Ontario
aged 115 – (DL 83).
CALVIN, Dileno Dexter – M.P.P. for Frontenac in
Ontario Assembly – Born May 16, 1798 at Clarendon, Rutland,
Vermont, U.S.A. – Died May 18, 1884 at Garden Island, Ontario –
He was the son of Sandford J. Calvin, a lawyer by profession, who
died when his son was very young. He became naturalized in Canada in
1845 or shortly before. – (Obit.
84).
CAMPBELL, Wm. C., of Toronto, Ontario – Died
August 6, 1884 at Point Rock, Texas, U.S.A. – Shot dead by a
herdsman named McAllister, whith whom he had a dispute about payment
of extra wages. – (JRO
84).
CAMPION, Augustin Siméon (Rev., R.C.) – Born February
18, 1811 at Hérien-Liétard, Arras, France – Died
June 10, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – He went to the U.S.A. in
1841 and came to Canada in 1856. – (Obit.
86).
CARRALL, Robert William Weir (Hon.), M. D. –
Senator – Born in 1839 at Carrall's Grove, near Woodstock,
Ontario – Died September 19, 1879 at Carrall's Grove, Ontario –
Died from ulceration of the stomach – He was the son of the
late Mr. James Carrall, who was for twenty years Sheriff of County of
Oxford, Ontario, and grandson of John Carrall, A United Empire
Loyalist, who removed to Upper Canada some time during the revolution
that secured the independence of the Old Thirteen Colonies. He
married Mrs. Gordon, a daughter of the late Sheriff Macdonald, of
Goderich, Ontario – (Obit. 79).
CAWTHRA, Mary (Mrs. Mulock) – Died December 29,
1882 at Los Angeles, California – Relict of the late Dr. Thomas
H. Mulock, in his life-time of Bond Head, Ontario. She was the
daughter of the late John Cawthra, Esq., M.P.P. for Simcoe, in the
U.C. Assembly. – (Obit. 83).
CHANDLER, Edmund Leavens – M.P. for Brome, Quebec
– Born December 21, 1829 at Frelighsburgh, Quebec – Died
August 21, 1880, Brome Corners, Quebec – Third son of the late
Mr. Horace M. Chandler, of St. Armand, and grandson of late Danl.
Chandler, of Hartford, Connecticut. – (Obit.
80-81).
CHANDLER, Edward Barron (Hon.), Q.C. –
Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – Born in 1800 at Amherst,
Nova Scotia – Died February 6, 1880 at Fredericton, New
Brunswick – The remains were interred at Dorchester. Son of the
late Sheriff Chas. H. Chandler, of Cumburland, Nova Scotia, and
grandson of Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Connecticut, a well-known
loyalist. – (Obit. 80-81).
CHAPMAN, R. J. (Dr.) – Late Treasurer of the
County of Prince Edward, Ontario – Born in 1803 in New
Hampshire, U.S.A. – Died in July, 1885 at Picton, Ontario –
(Obit. 85).
CHESLEY, Solomon Yeomans – ex-M.P. for Cornwall in the Can.
Assembly – Born in 1796 in Rensselaer County, New York –
Died November 5, 1880, Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
80-81).
CHRISTIE, Rev. Thos. M. – For 8 years a missionary
(Presb.) at Trinidad – Died in October, 1885 at Kelseyville,
California, U.S.A. – (Obit.
85).
CHRYSLER, John Pliny – ex-M.P. for Dundas in the
Can. Assembly – Born February 26, 1801 on Chrysler's Farm,
Ontario – Died April 7, 1881, Morrisburg, Ontario – He
was a son of Col. J. Chrysler, a U. E. loyalist, who represented
Dundas in Parlt. for 16 years. – (Obit.
80-81).
CLEMENT, Lewis – Militia officer – Born in
1787 – Died March 30, 1879, near St. Catharines, Ontario –
He was the son of a U. E. loyalist – (Obit. 79).
CLEVELAND, Edward (Rev., Cong.), A.M. – Frist
Principal of St. Francis College, Richmond, Quebec – Died
September 28 at Burlington, Iowa, U.S.A., aged 78 – (Obit.
86).
CLINTON,
Wm., of Cincinati, Ohio, U.S.A. – Passenger – Died
September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck
of the steamer Asia
– (JRO 82).
COFFIN, William Foster (Lieutenant-Colonel) –
Commissioner of Ordnance and Admiralty Land for the Dominion –
Born November 5, 1808 at Bath, England – Died January 28, 1878,
Aux Ecluses, Ottawa, Ontario – He accompanied his father, a
Major in the army, to Quebec in 1813. He returned to England in 1815.
He returned to Canada in 1830. In a paper, read by him in 1872, he
says : 'My grandfather, my father and two uncles were all
present at Quebec during the siege.' He was married at Boston to one
of the two daughters of Deputy Commissary General Clarke, who was
nearly related to the late Lord Lyndhurst. The other daughter became
the wife of the Honorable Charles Richard Ogden, at one time
Attorney-General of Lower Canada. – (Obit.
78).
COOK, Ephraim – M.D., ex-M.P.P. for South Oxford
in the Can. Assembly – Born in 1797 at Hadley, Massachusetts,
U.S.A. – Died December 28, 1881, Norwich, Ontario – He
settled in Norwich in 1831. – (Obit.
80-81).
COOPER, Alexander (coloured) – Born in Virginia,
U.S.A. – Died September 29, 1886 in South Buxton, Ontario, aged
104 – (DL 86).
CORSE, Norton B. – Retired merchant – Born
in 1808 near Brattleford, Vermont, U.S.A. – Died September 14,
1884 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Montreal in early youth,
and was for 67 years a resident of that city. – (Obit.
84).
COSTER, Charles G. (Rev.), M.A., Ph.
D. – Clergyman of the Church of England in New Brunswick –
Born in 1824 at St. John's, Newfoundland – Died September 2,
1879, Newark, New Jersey – He was a son of the late Archdeacon
Coster, of Fredericton, New Brunswick – (Obit.
79).
COUILLARD, Rev. Jean Baptiste – R. C. Clergyman –
Died April 16, 1879, East Douglas, Springfield, U. S. – (Obit.
79).
COVERT, John Stewart – M.P.P. for Sunbury in the
N.B. Assembly (1868-81) – Born in 1829 at Maugerville, New
Brunswick – Died March 3, 1881 at Fredericton, New Brunswick –
Died in attendance on his Parliamentary duties – He came of
Loyalist stock. – (Obit.
80-81).
COX, G. W. – Late Gold Commissioner and Stipendiary Magistrate
for Cariboo West, British Columbia – Died October 6, 1878,
Bodie, Mono County, California, U.S.A. aged 56 – (Obit.
78).
CRANE, Walter – Died September 5, 1883 on Lake
Huron beetween Goderich, Ontario to Cove Island, Ontario –
Drowned when the schooner yacht Explorer founders – Son
of Albert Crane of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
CRINNON, Peter Francis (Re. Revd.) – R.C. Bishop
of Hamilton, Ontario – Born 1817 in Louth, Ireland – Died
November 25, 1882 at Jacksonville, Florida, whither he had gone for
the benefit of his health – Came to Canada in 1850 –
(Obit. 82).
CROFT, Henry H., D.C.L. (1850), F.C.S. – Born in
1820 in England – Died March 1, 1883, San Diego, Texas –
Died at the residence of his son, Ranch les Hermanilas –
Came to Canada early in life –
(Obit. 83).
CROOKS, Adam (Hon.), LL.D. (1863), Q.C. (1863) –
Born December 11, 1827 at West Flamboro', Ontario – Died
December 28, 1885 at Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. – He was a
son of the late Hon. Jas. Crooks, M.L.C. – (Obit.
85).
CUMMINGS, Alexander (Hon.) – Consular agent for
the United States at Ottawa – Born in Lycoming, Pennsylvania,
U.S.A. – Died July 15, 1879, Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
79).
CURRIER, Joseph Merrill – Post master of Ottawa
(1882) – Born in 1820 in North Troy, Vermont, U.S.A. –
Died April 22, 1884 in New York, U.S.A. – Died on his return
from the West Indies. Removing to Canada at the age of 17, he was
first employed in his cousin's lumber mill at Templeton, Quebec. In
1863, he was returned to represent the city of Ottawa, Ontario in the
Canadian Parlt. – (Obit. 84).
CUSHING, Eliza L. (Mrs.) (née Foster) –
Writer – Died May 4, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec aged 91 –
Widow of Fredk. Cushing, Esq., M.D. She was a daughter of the Rev.
Jno. Foster, D.D., of Brighton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – (Obit.
86).
CUTLER, Robert Molleson (Hon.) – M.L.C. of N.S.
(1838-81) – Born October 9, 1784 at Guysborough, Nova Scotia –
Died May 1, 1883 at Guysborough, Nova Scotia – He was the son
of Thos. Cutler, a loyalist and officer in the King's Orange Rangers.
– (Obit. 83).
DALY,
John Corry Wilson – a first pioneer of Stratford, Ontario –
Born March 24, 1796 in Liverpool, England – Died April 1, 1878,
Stratford, Ontario – He was thrice married, and had but two
children – by his firs wife – Mrs. A. B. Orr, born at
Cooperstown, New York, USA, and Mr. Thos. Mayne Daly, the well known
Canadian politician, (now Mayor of Stratford), born in Hamilton –
(Obit. 78).
DAVIES, Judah Philip – Auctioneer and commission merchant –
Born in London, England – Died September 20, 1879, Victoria,
British Columbia aged 58 – Went to California in 1849, and to
B.C. in 1863 – (Obit.
79).
DAY, Charles Dewey (Hon.), LL.D., D.C.L. –
President and Chancellor of McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) –
Born about 1806 at Bennington, Vermont – Died January 31, 1884
in England – He was the son of the late Ithamer H. Day, Esq.,
and accompanied his father to Montreal in 1812. – (Obit.
84).
De LONG, Catherine (Mrs.) – Born at Kingston,
Ontario – Died March 15, 1883 at Fulton, New York, U.S.A. aged
100 years & 7 months – (DL
83).
De SOLA, Alex. Abraham, – LL.D. (1858) (Jewish) –
Born September 18, 1827 in London, England – Died June 5, 1882
at New York – He came to Montreal in 1847, in response to a
call from the Portuguese Hebrew congregation of that city, the
incumbency of which he continued to hold until his death. His body
was brought to Montreal for burial. – (Obit.
82).
DENISON, Richard Lippincott (Lieutenant Colonel) –
Canadian Volunteer Officer – Born June 13, 1814 near Toronto,
Ontario – Died March 10, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario – Died
of erysipelas in the head after a short illness – He was the
eldest son of the late Colonel George T. Denison of Bellevue,
Toronto, and grandson of Captain Richard Lippincott, who fought as a
U.E. Loyalist through the whole American Revolution – (Obit.
78).
DENNISTOUN, Robert Hamilton – Barrister of Ontario
(1874) – Born March 5, 1849 in Peterborough, Ontario –
Died June 2, 1884 at Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. – Died on
his return from Southern California – He was the second son of
Judge Dennistoun of Peterborough, Ontario. – (Obit.
84).
DEVLIN, Bernard – ex-M.P. for Montreal Centre in House of
Commons (1875-78) – Born December 15, 1824 in Roscommon,
Ireland – Died February 8, 1880 in Colorado, U.S.A. –
(Obit. 80-81).
DICKENS, Francis Jeffrey – Late Sub-Inspector in the N. W.
Mounted Police (1874-86) – Born January 15, 1845 – Died
June 11, 1886 at Moline, Illinois, U.S.A. - He was the 2nd
son of the distinguished English novelist. – (Obit.
86).
DICKSON, Joseph – Cabin-boy – Died March 2,
1882, Sandy Hook (New Jersey) – Drowned in the wreck of the
barque W. J. Stairs – (JRO
82).
DORWIN, Jedediah Hubbell – Retired merchant –
Born May 25, 1792 in New Haven, Vermont, U.S.A. – Died November
11, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Montreal in 1815. –
(Obit. 83).
DOUGALL, Elizabeth Redpath (Mrs.) – Died November
9, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec aged 64 – Wife of Mr. John Dougall,
proprietor of the Montreal and New York Witness. –
(Obit. 83).
DOUGALL, John – Journalist – Born July 8,
1808 at Paisley, Scotland – Died August 19, 1886 at Flushing,
Long Island, New York, U.S.A. – He was the eldest son of Jno.
Dougall, manufacturer. He sailed to Canada at the age of 18. –
(Obit. 86).
DOUGLAS, James William – M.P.P. for Victoria, B.C. – Born
about 1850 in Victoria, British Columbia – Died November 7, in
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – He was the eldest and only
surviving son of the late Sir James Douglas, K.C.B., who was the
first governor of Vancouver Island and subsequently of the whole of
B.C. – (Obit.
83).
DOUTRE, Alphonse – An official assignee for
Montreal – Died May 15, 1879, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. aged 38
– He was a brother of Mr. Joseph Doutre, Q.C. – (Obit.
79).
DUDGEON (Mrs.), and two children, of Owen Sound, Ontario – Died
November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. - Lost
in the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
DUDGEON, Adam Black – Late mayor of Collingwood,
Ontario – Born June 10, 1824 at Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) –
Died August 28, 1886 at Collingwood, Ontario – He emigrated to
America about 1850. First lived at New York and Buffalo, N.Y.,
U.S.A., but removed to Collingwood about 1856. – (Obit.
86).
DUFFY, A. J. (Mr.) – Clerk in the Department of
Public Works, Canada – Died August 17, 1879, Old Orchard Beach,
Maine, U.S.A. – Accidentally drowned while bathing – His
remains are brought to Ottawa, Ontario for interment – (JRO
79).
EARLE, Sylvester Z. M.D. – Born in New York, U.S.A. –
Died December 4, 1879, Hampton, New Brunswick aged 89 – He was
the son of a Royalist Captain of the Revolutionary war, who, at the
termination of that struggle, left New York and settled in King's,
N.B., and was several times elected to the Provincial Legislature –
(Obit. 79).
EARLY, May Agnes (Mrs. Fleming) – Authoress born in Portland,
New Brunswick – Died March 24, 1880, Brookyn, New York, USA –
(Obit. 80-81).
EMERSON, G., of Ramsgate, England – Died November
7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. – Lost in
the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
EVANS, Hy. Sugden, F.C.S. – Chief Analyst for the
Dominion (1884-86) – Born in 1830 in London, England –
Died February 24, 1886 in New York. – (Obit.
86).
EWER, Ferdinand C. (Rev.), S.T.D. – Rector of St. Ignatius Ch.
(Episcopal), New York, N.Y., U.S.A. – Died October 10, 1883 in
Montreal, Quebec – Smitten with sudden sickness while
preaching, he sank down in the pulpit, helpless, dying tree days
later. – (Obit.
83).
FARRIS, Mrs. Thomas – Died April 30, 1879, Grand
Pre, Nova Scotia aged 100 years and 29 days – She was the
daughter of a soldier who fought in the continental army during the
American revolutionary war – (JRO
79).
FISHER, Charles (Hon.), D.C.L. – Puisné
Judge of the Supreme Court, N.B. – Born in September 1808 in
Fredericton, New Brunswick – Died December 8, 1880 at
Fredericton, New Brunswick – His father was a loyalist. –
(Obit. 80-81).
FLEMING, May Agnes (Mrs.) (née Early) –
Authoress – Born in 1840 in Portland, New Brunswick –
Died March 24, 1880 at Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. – Wrote under
the nom de plume of ''Cousin May Carleton'' – (Obit.
80-81).
FORTIER, Laban, O. – Underwriter, large vessel
owner – Canadian by birth – Died February 5, 1886 at
Lebanon, Mo aged 55 – He removed to Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.
about 40 years ago – (Obit.
86).
FOSTER, Eliza L. (Mrs. Cushing) – Writer –
Died May 4, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec aged 91 – Widow of Fredk.
Cushing, Esq., M.D. She was a daughter of the Rev. Jno. Foster, D.D.,
of Brighton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – (Obit.
86).
FOSTER, Hiram Sewell – Registrar of the County of
Brome, Quebec – Died June 28, 1878, Saratoga Springs, New York,
U.S.A. aged 63 – He was a brother of the late Senator of that
name – (Obit. 78).
FRASER, John (Hon.) – Quebec merchant, member of
the Leg. Council, Canada 1841-1843 – Died April 21, 1882 at
Charleston, South Carolina aged 91 – (Obit.
82).
FREEMAN, Coleman (coloured) – Born in Virginia,
U.S.A – Died January 20, 1886 at Windsor, Ontario aged 122
(sic) – (DL 86).
FREY,
Margaret (Mrs. Ball) – Native of the Township of Niagara,
Ontario – Died November 2, 1886 at Meriton, Ontario aged 97 –
She was the relict of the late Mr. Jno. C. Ball, of Niagara. She was
of a loyalist family, who came from the Mohawk Valley at the
Revolution. Her father, Capt. Bernard Frey, was killed by a cannon
ball in a street in the town of Niagara during the bombardment of
that place by the American fort opposite in the war of 1812. –
(Obit.
86).
FROST, Edward, wife, and child, of Owen Sound, Ontario – Died
November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. - Lost
in the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
GANUE,
Michel – Born in Quebec – Died in September, 1885 in
Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A., aged 107 – (DL
85).
GENDREAU or JOUDRO, John – Born in Quebec –
Died November 29, 1884 in Arkansas (Arkansaw?), Wisconsin, aged 121
(sic) – (DL 84).
GILBERT, Humphrey Tisdale – Police Magistrate of
St. John, N.B. (1858-82) – Born January 2, 1814 at Willow Farm,
Dorchester, New Brunswick – Died February 7, 1882 at Willow
Farm, Dorchester, New Brunswick – The descendant of an old and
well-known loyalist. Brother of Mr. W. J. Gilbert, Q.C.. He never
married – (Obit. 82).
GINTY, John – Contractor – Born in 1821 at Oldcastle,
Westmeath, Ireland – Died September 11, 1884 in New York –
His remains were taken to Tecumseh (Ontario) for interment. He
accompanied his father to Canada in 1827. The family settled on a
farm in the County of Simcoe. In 1856 he took up his residence in
Toronto, and became a partner of his cousin, Mr. Alex Manning, now
Mayor of that city. – (Obit.
84).
GOODHUE, (Hon.) – Member of the judiciary of Ohio,
and late a State Senator – Native of the Eastern Townships,
Quebec – Died September 12, 1883 at Akron, Ohio, U.S.A. –
He went to Ohio when a young man. His brother, J. L. Goodhue, a
well-known business man of Danville, Quebec died by his own hand, 5
Dec. – (Obit. 83).
GRANT, Donald M. (Lieut.-Col) – Chief of the
Ottawa City Police – Native of Inverness, Scotland – Died
April 8, 1885 in New York, U.S.A. – He had resided in Ottawa
since 1844. – (Obit. 85).
GREELEY, Absalom – M.P.P. for Prince Edward, in
Ontario Assembly (1867-70) – Born April 17, 1822 in Prince
Edward, Ontario – Died October 30, 1885 at Kansas City,
Missouri, U.S.A. – He removed to Kansas City in 1875, where he
was an editorial writer on the Times newspaper. – (Obit.
85).
GREEN, Anson (Rev.), D.D. – Clergyman of the
Canadian Methodist Church – Born September 27, 1801 at
Middleburg, Schoharie County, New York – Died February 19, 1879
in Toronto, Ontario – He came to Upper Canada in 1822 –
(Obit. 79).
GRIFFIN, Charles, of Upper Dyke Village, Nova Scotia –
Died January 18, 1884 Devil's Bridge, near New Bedford,
Massachusetts, U.S.A. – Lost in the wreck of the s. s. City
of Columbus – (JRO 84).
GROFF, Henry – Bank manager – Born September
24, 1817 in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – Died (in 1885) at Simcoe,
Ontario, where he had long resided – (Obit.
85).
GROVER, Peregrine Maitland – M.P. for East
Peterborough (1867-74) – Born October 17, 1817 at Grafton,
Ontario – Died May 28, 1885 at Norwood, Ontario – He was
the son of Maj. John Grover, of Massachusetts, U.S.A.., by Mary
Merriam, of Connecticut, U.S.A.. The family settled at Grafton,
Ontario in 1800. – (Obit.
85).
GURNEY, Edward – Head of the stove manufacturing
firm of E. & C. Gurney – Born in 1817 in Steuben, Oneida
County, New York, U.S.A. – Died November 21, 1884 at Hamilton,
Ontario – He moved to Utica, N.Y., when a lad, and from there
to Hamilton in 1842. He was accompanied by his brother. –
(Obit. 84).
HAMILTON, Wm. (Rev., Presb.), D.D. - Died February 18, 1807 at
Garvagh, Derry, Ireland – Died April 13, 1886 in Toronto,
Ontario – Coming to Canada, he served for a short time at
Picton, Ontario, but, in 1848, owing to continual ill-health he
removed to the U.S.A. and became pastor successively in Michigan,
Ohio and New York. About six years ago, he came to Toronto, where his
son Mr. J. C. Hamilton, barrister, resides. – (Obit.
86).
HARRIS, Wm. H. – High Sheriff of the County of
Pictou, N.S. (1857-83) – Born in 1805 at Pictou, Nova Scotia –
Died August 1, 1883 at Pictou, Nova Scotia. The Shrievalty was held
by the father of the late sheriff, and is now in the enjoyment of
latter's son, Mr. G. S. Harris. The family has been connected with
Pictou since 1767, in which year his grandfather, Dr. John Harris,
afterwards a member of the N.S. Assembly, arrived there with others
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. – (Obit.
83).
HARRISON, Charles (Hon.) – ex-M.L.C. of New
Brunswick – Born in 1794 at Sheffield, New Brunswick –
Died May 8, 1879 – He was a son of the late Lieut. Jas.
Harrison, formerly of the New Jersey Volunteers, who went to New
Brunswick with other Loyalists at the close of the American
Revolutionary war. He was a brother of Rev. Canon Harrison –
(Obit. 79).
HEBDEN, Miss Ada, of Hamilton, Ontario – Died
December 25, 1880, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A – Commits suicide
by shooting herself whilst on a visit to her brother – (JRO
80-81).
HENSON, Josiah – Pastor; an escaped slave, who
became the original of the character of ''Uncle Tom'' – Born
June 15, 1789 at Port Tobacco, Maryland, U.S.A. – Died May 18,
1883 at Dresden, Ontario – (Obit.
83).
HIGGINS, W., of Winnipeg, Manitoba – Wholesale
merchant – Died November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior,
Michigan, U.S.A. – Lost in the wreck of the iron steamship
Algoma. – (JRO 85).
HODGSON, Daniel – Clerk of the Crown and
Prothonotary, P.E.I. (1830-83) – Born in 1803 in Charlottetown,
P.E.I. – Died July 21, 1883 in Charlottetown, P.E.I – He
was a son of Mr. Speaker Hodgson, of the P.E.I. Assembly, by Rebecca,
daughter of Lieut.-Col. Joseph Robinson, of the South Carolina Regt.,
a U. E. loyalist, and a brother of the late Sir. Robt. Hodgson,
Lieut.-Gov. of P.E.I. He was thrice married, and by his second wife
(the youngest daughter of the Hon. Geo. Wright, Presdt. of the Leg.
Council) he had two sons : Mr. E. J. Hodgson, the well-known,
Q.C., and the Rev. G. W. Hodgson, M.A., an eminent Ch. of Eng.
divine. – (Obit. 83).
HODGSON, Robert (Sir.) – Late Lieut.-Governor of
P.E.I. (1874-79) – Born in 1798 at Charlottetown, P.E.I. –
Died September 15, 1880, Charlottetown, P.E.I. – He was the son
of Robr. Hodgson, formerly Speaker of the Island Assembly, by
rebecca, daughter of Lieut. Col. Joseph Robinson, of the South
Carolina Regt. He married in 1827, Fanny, Daughter of the late Capt.
Ranald Macdonald, of the Glengarry Light Infantry and Town Major of
Charlottetown. – (Obit.
80-81).
HOLTON, Ezra W. – Merchant – Born September
7, 1810 in Vermont, U.S.A. – Died June 27, 1879, Belleville,
Ontario – (Obit. 79).
HOOKER, Alfred – One of the early pioneers in the
forwarding trade between Montreal and the Upper Lakes – Born
August 18, 1799 in Meriden, Connecticut – Died August 29, 1880,
Prescott, Ontario – (Obit.
80-81).
HOPKINS, Caleb – ex-M.P.O. for Halton in the U. C.
Assembly and in the Can. Assembly – Born in 1787 in New Jersey,
U.S.A. – Died October 8, 1880 in Toronto, Ontario – He
came to Canada in 1798 with his father who was a loyalist. –
(Obit. 80-81).
HOUDE, Frederic – M.P. for Maskinongé in
the House of Commons (1878-84), Lieut.-Col. commanding the 86th
Three Rivers Batt. of Infantry (Volunteer Militia) – Born
September 23, 1847 at Rivière-du-Loup en haut, Quebec –
Died November 15, 1884 at Rivière-du-Loup en haut,
Quebec – Buried with military honours. He founded in 1857 a
paper called L'Avenir National at St. Alban's, Vermont, U.S.A.
In 1870 or 1871, he was one of the publishers of Le Foyer Canadien
at Worcester, Mass. U.S.A. In 1874, he became editor of Le Nouveau
Monde of Montreal, Quebec. – (Obit.
84).
HOWLAND, Lydia (Mrs.) – Native of Paulding,
Duchess County, New York, U.S.A. – Died September 14, 1881 in
Toronto, Ontario where she had lived for 40 years, aged 95 –
Wife of the late Mr. Jonathan Howland, and mother of Sir W. P.
Howland, K.C.M.G. – (Obit.
80-81).
HUNTINGTON, Lucius Seth (Hon.), Q.C. (1863) – A
public man – Born May 26, 1827 at Compton, Quebec – Died
May 19, 1886 in New York City, U.S.A. – His remains were
brought to Montreal and interred in Mount Royal Cemetery. He was the
grandson of a U. E. Loyalist, who at the close of the war of the
Revolution removed to the County of Compton and took up land on the
banks of the Coaticook river. He was twice married : first to
Miriam Jane, a daughter of Major Wood, of Shefford (who died in
1871), and secondly to Mrs. Marsh, of New York, in October, 1877. He
removed to New York in 1879 or shortly afterwards. His son, Mr. R. W.
Huntington, who died in 1879, was editor of the Montreal Herald.
– (Obit. 86).
HYMAN, Ellis Walton – Merchant – Died April 12, 1878,
London, Ontario aged 63 – He came to Canada in 1834 from
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He was twice married – first, to Miss
Brown, of Ingersoll; second to the daughter of the late W. Niles
Esq., M.P.P. – (Obit.
78).
JARVIS, Catherine (Mrs.) – Born in slavery in the
United States – Died February 18, 1878, Digby, Nova Scotia aged
110 – (JRO 78).
JOHNSTON, Isab. (Mrs.) (col'd) – Born in Richmond,
Virginia, U.S.A. – Died May 13, 1880 aged 110 – Death
from longevity – (DL 80-81).
JOUDRO or GENDREAU, John – Born in Quebec –
Died November 29, 1884 in Arkansas (Arkansaw?), Wisconsin aged 121
(sic) – (DL 84).
KEEFER, Augustus – Commissioner of Dominion Police
(1880-85) – Born October 21, 1819 at Thorold, Ontario –
Died October 31, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario – He was a son of
George Keefer, a U. E. Loyalist, who with a brother walked to
Thorold, Ontario in 1790, and a brother of Messrs. Samuel & T. C.
Keefer, civil engineers, and of George Keefer (see below) –
(Obit. 85).
KEEFER, George – An old citizen – Born
February 25, 1799 at Thorold, Ontario – Died November 18, 1885
at Thorold, Ontario – He was the eldest son of George Keefer, a
U. E. Loyalist, who with a brother walked to Thorold, Ontario in
1790, and a brother of Messrs. Samuel & T. C. Keefer, civil
engineers, and of Augustus Keefer (see above). He was father of Mr.
Geo. A. Keefer, C.E., of Victoria, B.C. – (Obit.
85).
KEEFER, Ralph Winnington – Barrister of Ontario
(1877) – Born October 30, 1856 in Montreal, Quebec – Died
October 31 at Colorado Springs, U.S.A. – Died from hemorrhage
of the lungs – He was the 2nd son of T. C. Keefer,
Esq., C.M.G., of Ottawa, by Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late
Hon. Thos. McKay, of Rideau Hall, Ottawa. In 1880, R. W. Keefer
married Grace, eldest daughter of E. O. Bickford, Esq., of Grove
Vale, Toronto. They had three children. – (Obit.
84).
KELLOGG, Hon. Ensign. H. – Commr. for the U.S. to
the Halifax Fishery Commission (1877) – Died January 23, 1882
at Pittsfield, Mass., U.S.A. – (Obit.
82).
KERNAN (Mr.), of Guelph, Ontario – Died November
4, 1884 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. – Murdered in an election
row, just after the close of the polls in the Presidential election.
– (JRO 84).
KERR, David Shank, Q.C. – Born in 1809 at
Cornwallis, Nova Scotia – Died August 6, 1886 at St. John, New
Brunswick, where he had lived since 1855 – He was the youngest
of 16 children. His father, Capt. Jas. Kerr, served in the Queen's
Rangers during the Am. Revolutionary war, at the close of which he
settled in Nova Scotia. – (Obit.
86).
KERR, Robert, of Stillwater, Minnesota – Died July
27, 1885 on a train between Quebec City and Richmond, Quebec –
Commits suicide by shooting himself – Kerr, it appears, has
committed several defalcations at Stillwater, and at the time of his
suicide was being shadowed by a Chicago detective named Kehoe, whose
presence he had just discovered. – (JRO
85).
KITTSON, Alexander – M.P.P. for Ste Agathe in the Manitoba
Assembly (1879-83) – Born February 26, 1853 at North Pembina,
Manitoba – Died April 27, 1883 at St. Boniface, Manitoba –
He was a son ot the well known ''Commodore'' Kittson, of St. Paul,
Minnesota, U.S.A. – (Obit.
83).
KURTZ, David – Merchant – Born in 1843 in Philadelphia,
Penn., U.S.A. – Died December 6, 1878, Victoria, British
Columbia – He went to British Columbia in 1863 – (Obit.
78).
LACHAPELLE, Andre – Born in Montreal, Quebec –
Died July, 1881, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. aged 100 – Death from
longevity – (DL 80-81).
LANIGAN, Geo. Thomas – Journalist and littérateur
– Born December 10, 1846 at St. Charles, River Richelieu,
Quebec – Died February 6, 1886 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
U.S.A. – (Obit. 86).
LASALLE, Rev. Joseph O. – R.C. Clergyman –
Born in 1834 at St. Paul de Joliette, Quebec – Died January 31,
1879, Cohoes, New York – (Obit.
79).
LEGGATT,Gordon Watts – Judge of the County Court
of Essex, Ontario (1860-83) – Born March 26, 1826 at Sorel,
Quebec – Died September 19, 1883 at Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. –
The youngest of the late Asst. Commissary Genl. Leggatt. He was twice
married : 1st in 1853, to Miss Laliberte (who died
1860); and 2ndly to Mary Ann, 2nd daughter of the late
Deputy Inspector-Genl. Cary. – (Obit.
83).
LEIGH, Edwin Alfred – Deputy-Registrar Supreme
Court and Registrar County Court, of Victoria, British Columbia –
Died April 16, 1885 at Auburn, California aged 30 – (Obit.
85).
LePROHON, Edouard Philippe – M.A., M.D. (1843) –
Born February 19, 1816 at St. Vincent de Paul, Quebec – Died
November 24, 1886 at Portland, Maine where he had long resided –
He was a brother of Dr. J. L. LeProhon, of Montreal. – (Obit.
86).
LETTENEY, John – The last survivor of the American
Loyalists – Died Summer 1878, Digby, Nova Scotia aged 97 –
Came to Nova Scotia with his parents in 1783, when he was two years
old, his father being a Loyalist of German descent, from the old
Province of New York – (Obit.
78).
LITTLE, Frank, an American – Painter by trade –
Died April 21, 1883 at Centreville, 8 miles from Peterboro', Ontario
aged 40 – Died as a result of having been badly beaten the day
before by John Aitkins, hotel keeper, and Robt. McClung. Aitkins is
found guilty of assault, and sentenced to 3 years in the
Penitentiary. McClung is acquitted. – (JRO 83).
LOCKE, Thomas – M.P.P. for Stanstead in the Quebec
Assembly (1867-75) – Born in June 16, 1824 in Barnston, Quebec
– Died January 27, 1884 in Barnston, Quebec – His parents
came from New Hampshire, U.S.A. in the early part of the century. –
(Obit. 84).
LOGAN, Catherine (Mrs.) (coloured) – Born in
Kentucky, U.S.A. – Died December 12, 1885 in London, Ontario
aged 103 – (DL 85).
LONGLEY, Avard – M.P. for Annapolis in the House
of Commons (1878-82) – Born February 22, 1823 at Paradise,
Annapolis, Nova Scotia – Died February 22, 1884 at Paradise,
Annapolis, Nova Scotia – His paternal ancestors came from
Massachusetts, U.S.A., his maternal from Germany. – (Obit.
84).
LONGWORTH, John (Capt.) – for many years Civil
Engineer to the Canada Co. – Born April 7, 1790 in Westmeath,
Ireland – Died January 16, 1883 at Port Austin, Michigan,
U.S.A. – He had lived at Goderich, Ontario for 52 years –
(Obit. 83).
LOWENGERG, Leopold – Capitalist – Born in 1818 in
Potsdam, Prussia – Died December 22, 1884 in Victoria, British
Columbia – He was a long leading operator in real estate in
California, and subsequently in B.C., where he had resided since
1858. – (Obit.
84).
LUCAS, Andrew (coloured) – Born in Tennessee,
U.S.A. – Died September 29, 1886 in Brantford, Ontario aged 127
(sic) – (DL 86).
LYMAN, Benjamin – Merchant – Born June 11,
1810 in the State of Maine, U.S.A. – Died December 5, 1878 in
Toronto, Ontario – When he was six years of age his father
removed to Montreal. He was apprenticed to his elder brother,
William. Subsequently he and another brother, named Henry, entered
into partnership with William. Mr. Benjamin Lyman married Miss Delia
Almira Wills, of Vermont, in 1834, and was the father of thirteen
children, four of whom are living, two sons and two daughters :
Mrs. George T. Beard, wife of Mr. G. T. Beard, of the firm of Beard
Bros., who lives in Toronto; Miss Lyman, who lives in Montreal; Mr.
Charles Lyman, now of the frim of Lyman, Clare & Co.,, and Mr.
Edwin Wills Lyman of Montreal – (Obit.
78).
LYMAN, S. Jones (Lieut.-Col.) – Businessman –
Born November 5, 1829 in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. –
Died April 1, 1879 in Montreal, Quebec – Mr. Lyman, with
several other members of his family, settled in Montreal at an early
age, and became naturalized as a British subject – (Obit.
79).
LYNCH, Robt. Bloss – On time City Clerk of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, U.S.A. - Of Irish birth – Died January 12, 1884 in
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. - One of the Fenian prisoners taken at Fort
Erie, Ontario, in June 1866, and who was tried for his offence and
sentenced to a life imprisonment at Kingston, but was subsequently
released. – (Obit.
84).
MacDONELL, Donald Aeneas (Lt.-Col.)
– Late Warden of the Kingston Penitentiary – Born in 1794
– Died March 11, 1879, Brockville, Ontario – He was
descended from an ancient Scottish family. His grandfather served for
some years in the Spanish Army, and subsequently emigrated to
America, where he settled on the banks of the Susquehanna. During the
American revolution he was a staunch Loyalist, and at its close he
came with the U. E. Loyalists to Upper Canada and settled in the
Township of Cornwall. His son Miles, father of the subject, was
selected by the Earl of Selkirk to take charge of his colony at Red
River, and was the first Governor of the Settlement. – (Obit.
79).
MACKENZIE,
Marguaret (Mrs.) – Born in Virginia, U.S.A. – Died March
7, 1884 at Marble Mountain, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, aged 102 –
(DL 84).
MACPHERSON, Robt. B. – President of the Thorold
Woollen and Cotton Co. – Died December 1, 1886 at Buffalo,
N.Y., U.S.A., whither he had gone on business – Died suddenly –
(Obit. 86).
MACPHIE, Dugald – Late Manager of the Montreal and
Chicago Forwarding Co. – Died August 18, 1884 in Montreal,
Quebec aged 54 – (Obit. 84).
MAHER, Wm., of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. – Died
January 25, 1883 near Sandwich, Ontario – Murdered. Hy. R.
Greenwood and Hy. Hardinge are placed for trial for the second time
on October 25, 1883 and found guilty of murder, and sentenced to be
hanged. The sentence is later commuted for imprisonment for life. Wm.
Maher had a son serving a term of 15 years in the Jackson, Michigan
Penitentiary. – (JRO 83).
MAINWARING, Nathaniel Ezra – M.D. (1839) – Born in 1813
at Lynne, Conn., U.S.A. – Died November 18, 1883 at St. George,
Ontario – His father, who was of loyalist stock, came to Canada
in 1820. – (Obit.
83).
MARROTT, Frederick – Journalist – Born July
16, 1805 at Enfield, England – Died in December 1884 at San
Francisco, California, U.S.A. – In 1856 he founded the News
Letter in British Columbia, and in 1858, the Vancouver
Gazette. – (Obit. 84).
McCARTHY, C. – Veteran of the war of 1812 –
Born at Canandigua, N.Y., U.S.A. – Died in December, 1883 at
Drumbo, Ontario aged 103 – (DL
83).
McCAUSLAND, Wm. Jno. – M.D. – Died January
28, 1886 at Montrose, Pennsylvania, aged 42 – He came to Canada
from Tyrone, Ireland with his parents in 1847 – (Obit.
86).
McCRAE, Cynthia (Miss),
of Chatham, Ontario – deceased – Archibald W. Brown, of
Chatham, Ontario is acquitted at Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A., of her murder
– (JRO 80-81).
McCRAE, Cynthia (Miss), of Chatham, Ontario – Died
in June, 1880 – Dr. Pyncheon is acquitted December 12, 1882 at
Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. He was accused of her killing by an attempt at
abortion – (JRO 82).
McCRANEY, Danl. – M.P.P. for East Kent in Ont.
Assembly (1875-85) – Born July 1, 1834 in Trafalgar, Halton,
Ontario – Died February 28, 1885 at Oakville, Ontario –
He was descended from a U. E. Loyalist. – (Obit.
85).
McDONALD, Donald (Hon.) – Senator – Born in
1816 in Caledonia, New York, U.S.A. – Died January 20, 1879 in
Toronto, Ontario – His father was a native of Inverness-shire
(Scotland), and emigrated to the State of New York; but objecting to
the oath of allegiance to a foreign power, he changed his residence
to Canada, when his son was about 7 years of age. – (Obit.
79).
McINNES, J. A. (Mr.) – Merchant of Ingersoll,
Ontario – Died February 24, 1884 aged 35 – Killed by an
accident on the Illinois Central railway. He is found in a sleeping
berth with his neck broken – (JRO
85).
McKAY, Donald – Ship-builder – Born
September 4, 1810 at Shelburne, Nova Scotia – Died September
20, 1880, Boston, Mass. U.S.A. – His grandfather, a Scotch
Highlander had setteled in Selburne, Nova Scotia. He went to the
U.S.A. when a young man and lived in New York, and then in
Massachssetts. – (Obit.
80-81).
McKINNON, Ranald – Contractor and manufacturer –
Born about 1800 in Ulva, Scotland – Died October 17, 1879,
Caledonia, Ontario – Coming to America with his parents at an
early age, the family settled first in New York State (U.S.A.), but
eventually removed to Peel, Upper Canada – (Obit.
79).
McLEOD, Donald – an old soldier and journalist who
lived in Prescott, Ontario – Born January 1, 1779 in Aberdeen,
Scotland – Died July 22, 1879, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. –
(Obit. 79).
McLEOD, John – Born in Cape Breton – Died
November 2, 1886 in New York, U.S.A., aged over 97 – (DL
86).
McMILLAN W. B. – Died January 22, 1879, Denver,
Colorado – His body was sent to Brantford, Ontario where his
widowed mother resided. She died from grief at the sight of the
corpse on January 29 – (JRO 79).
McQUESTERN, Calvin – M.D. – Born in 1801 at
Bedford, now Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A. – Died October
20, 1885 at Hamilton, Ontario – Coming to Canada, he took up
his residence at Hamilton in 1838. – (Obit.
85).
MILLER, John Classon – M.P.P. for Muskoka and
Parry Sound in Ontario Assembly (1875-82) – Born December 16,
1836 in Yonge, Leeds, Ontario – Died April 2, 1884 at Colton,
Southern California, U.S.A. – His remains were brought to Parry
Sound for interment. – (Obit.
84).
MILLIGAN, W., of Meaford, Ontario – Died November
7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. – Lost in
the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
MILLS, Major Hiram – Founder of the Western
Hospital, Montreal – Born in 1796 in Virginia, U.S.A. –
Died August 2, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – Came to Montreal in
1861. A clause in his will requires that no obituary be published of
him. – (Obit. 82).
MINER, Charlotte – Born in Canada – Died
November, 1881, Fall River, Mass., U.S.A. aged 107 – Death from
longevity – (DL 80-81).
MONK, J. Edward and Mrs. Helen – Died January 7,
1883, Detroit, Michigan – Formerley residents of Chatham,
Ontario, they commit suicide by taking morphine – (ADS 83).
MONTIZAMBERT, Edward Louis – Law Clerk to the Senate of Canada
(1867) – Born September 23, 1811 in Quebec – Died January
17, 1882 in Quebec – He was descended, through his mother, Miss
Taylor (born in Quebec in 1777) from U.E. Loyalists, his maternal
grand-father having taken refuge in Canada in 1776. His paternal
ancestor, an educated colonist from Perche, France, Pierre Boucher,
received from Louis XIV a patent of nobility, on 17 June, 1707, for
services rendered the French Crown in the colony, as early as 1639.
Pierre Boucher, a son of Gaspar Boucher, who came to Quebec in 1635,
was apptd. twice Governor of Three Rivers under the French Régime
(…). From this celebrated Canadian worthy, Governor Pierre
Boucher, have sprung a number of descendants : – Boucher
de Niverville, Boucher de la Bruère, Boucher de la Broquerie,
Boucher de Grosbois, Boucher de Boucherville, Boucher de
Montizambert, or Mont-Isambert – (Obit.
82).
MOORE, Harriet Louisa (Mrs. Bowell) – Died April
2, 1884 at Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. aged 56 – She had
been taken to Los Angeles for the benefit of her health. Her remains
were brought to Belleville, Ontario for interment. She was the wife
of the Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, M.P., Minister of Customs, to whom she
was united in marriage, Dec., 1847. She was the eldest daughter of
the late Jacob G. Moore, Esq., of Belleville, Ontario. – (Obit.
84).
MORGAN, Louis, and infant daughter, of Buckingham,
Ontario – Died October 10, 1879, near Jackson, Michigan –
Killed when the Pacific Express train on the Michigan Central Railway
collides with a switch engine – (JRO
79).
MORRISON, Thos. Fletcher (Hon.), M.L.C. (1876-86) –
Born February 22, 1808 at Londonderry, Nova Scotia – July 23,
1886 at Folly Village, Londonderry, Nova Scotia – His
grandfather, Capt. Jno. Morrison, came to Nova Scotia from Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1760. – (Obit.
86).
MOULTON, Abial (Rev., Baptist) – Born in 1798 in
New Hampshire, U.S.A. – Died November 17, 1885 at Stanstead,
Quebec, where he was pastor of the first Freewill Baptist Ch. for 40
years – (Obit. 85).
MULOCK, Mary (Mrs.) (née Cawthra) – Died
December 29, 1882 at Los Angeles, California – Relict of the
late Dr. Thomas H. Mulock, in his life-time of Bond Head, Ontario.
She was the daughter of the late John Cawthra, Esq., M.P.P. for
Simcoe, in the U.C. Assembly. – (Obit.
83).
MUNRO, Colin – Sheriff of the County of Elgin,
Ontario (1853) – Born in 1817 in Argyleshire, Scotland –
Died February 1, 1884 at Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. – He had
resided in Canada since 1837. – (Obit.
84).
NELLES, Abraham (The Venerable) – Archdeacon of
Brant (1878) – Born December 25, 1805 at Grimsby, Ontario –
Died December 20, 1884 at Brantford, Ontario – He was a son of
Lt.-Col. Robt. Nelles, a U. E. Loyalist, who sat for a period in the
U. C. Assembly. – (Obit. 84).
NELSON, George W. – M.D. (1880) – Born
November 15, 1861 in Montreal, Quebec – Died October 3, 1884 at
Santa Barbara, California – Died of consumption – He came
of a family of doctors, he being the ninth in direct descent. He was
the end son of the late Dr. Horace Nelson , and grandson of the
celebrated Dr. Wolfred Nelson, both of Montreal. With his brothers,
he was a student of the medical faculty of Bishop's College,
Montreal, graduating in 1879. The hereditary enemy of his family, for
many generations, consumption, marked him out as a victim. He left
for California in 1882, spent a year there, and in Dec., 1883,
proceeded to Panama with his brother, Dr. Wolfred Nelson. Again in
failing health, he proceeded to California in April, 1884. –
(Obit. 84).
NELSON, Horatio (Admiral) – Head of the well-known
firm of H. A. Nelson & Sons, Montreal and Toronto – Born
October 22, 1816 at Richmond, New Hampshire, U.S.A. – Died
December 24, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Montreal in
1840. He has four sons – (Obit.
82).
NORTHUP, Jeremiah (Hon.) – Senator – Born in
1815 at Falmouth, Nova Scotia – Died April 10, 1879 at Halifax,
Nova Scotia – He was descended from a loyalist who came to Nova
Scotia from the United States at the close of the American
Revolutionary War, and who represented Falmouth in the first
Provincial Parliament that sat in Nova Scotia, up to his death, a
period of 25 years. His father was Mr. John Northup, who outlived his
four sons until 1st December, dying then in his 84th
year. – (Obit. 79).
O'CALLAGHAN, Edmund Bailey – M.D., LL.D. –
ex-M.P.P. for Yamaska (Quebec) in L.C. Assembly – Born February
29, 1797 (sic) at Mallow, Ireland – Died May 29, 1880, New
York, U.S.A. – After studying 2 years at Paris, he came to
Quebec in 1823. Having taken an active part in the Insurrectionary
movement of 1837, he was obliged to leave Canada and take up his
residence in New York, where he continued to reside until his death.
– (Obit. 80-81).
O'DONOGHUE, William B. – A member of Riel's
Provisional Government in Manitoba, 1869-1879 – Died March 26,
1878, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A – (Obit.
78).
O'NEIL, John G. (Colonel) – Commanded the Fenian
expeditions against Canada – Died October 30, 1884 at (sic),
Texas – (Obit. 84).
PALMER, John – High Sheriff of the Co. of Quenn's
N. B. – Born January 2, 1828 at Canning, New Brunswick –
Died October 11, 1883 at Gagetown, New Brunswick – He was the
descendant of loyalists. – (Obit.
83).
PEARL, Thomas – Died February 15, 1883, near
Flint, Michigan aged 74 – Accident on Chicago and Grand Tr'k Ry
– (ADS 83).
PEARL, Thomas, of Lindsay, Ontario – Died February
14, 1883 near Flint, Michigan, U.S.A. – Killed when a broken
rail throws a train off the track. – (JRO 83).
PECK, Ebenezer – Ex-M.P.P. for Stanstead (Quebec)
in the L.C. Assembly (1830-34) – Died May, 1881, Chicago,
Illinois, U.S.A., whither he had gone after the troubles of 1837-38.
– (Obit. 80-81).
PELLETIER, Alphonse Edouard Pierre (Rev.), S.J. –
R.C. clergyman – Born January 12, 1836 in Quebec City –
Died January 29, 1879 in New York City, USA – (Obit.
79).
PHIPPS, Effie – Died August 19, 1883 on the ferry
boat Hope crossing from Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. to Windsor, Ontario
– Shot and killed by her husband, Luke Phipps, 38, a bartender
in Detroit. On 22nd November, Phipps escapes from Sandwich
jail, but is subsequently captured in Chicago and extradited. –
(JRO 83).
PICKARD, John – M.P. for York, New Brunswick
(1869-83) – Born in Douglas, New Brunswick – Died
December 17, 1883 at Fredericton, New Brunswick – He was
descended from a loyalist family. – (Obit.
83).
RATHBUN, Hugo Burghardt – President of the Rathbun
Co., and founder of the Village of Deseronto, Ontario – Born
September 4, 1812 near Aurora, N.Y., U.S.A. – Died June 1, 1886
at Deseronto, Ontario – (Obit.
86).
RAYMOND, Chas. Guillaume (Rev., R.C.) – Born
February 20, 1843 at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec – Died in January,
1886 at Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A. – (Obit.
86).
REGNIER, Auguste (Rev.) – First Canadian admitted
to the Order of the Jesuits, after their establishment in Montreal –
Born September 22, 1820 – Died April 1, 1883 in New York –
(Obit. 83).
REID, Kenneth – M.D. (1864), M.R.C.S. (Lon.),
M.R.C.P. (Edin.) – Born December 7, 1840 at Huntingdon, Quebec
– Died January 22, 1882 in New York, N.Y., U.S.A. – Died
suddenly – The son of Col. Jas. Reid, late 78th
Highlanders. He married, in 1877, Mrs Emma J. Morgan, of Ohio –
(Obit. 82).
RHODES, Henry (Hon.) – Merchant – Born in 1824 in London,
England – Died November 8, 1878, Victoria, B.C. –
Previous to going to Victoria (in 1859), he was prominently
identified with the commerce of the Sandwich Islands, where he
arrived in 1845 – (Obit.
78).
RICE, Samuel Dwight (Rev.), D.D. (1867) – Senior
Genl. Supdt. of the Methodist Church of Canada – Born September
11, 1815 in Houlton, Maine, U.S.A. – Died December 15, 1884 in
Toronto, Ontario – In 1819, his parents removed to New
Brunswick. – (Obit. 84).
RICKABY, John – A well known Theatrical manager –
Born in 1844 in Quebec City – Died February 18, 1886 in New
York City, U.S.A. – The remains were brought to Quebec for
interment. – (Obit. 86).
RING, Zebedee – Merchant of St. John, New
Brunswick Born about 1807 near Sheffield, New Brunswick – Died
April, 1878, Liverpool, England – He was the descendant of old
U. E. Loyalist, who proceeded from New York to New Brunswick towards
the close of the American Revolution – (Obit.
78).
RIORDAN, John – Paper manufacturer – Born in
1834 in the city of Limerick, Ireland – Died September 20, 1884
at St. Leonards-on-Sea, England – His remains were brought to
Toronto, Ontario for interment. He left home quite young for the
U.S.A., but subsequently removed to Canada. – (Obit.
84).
RITCHIE, Thomas Weston, Q.C. (1867) – Born about
1827 in Sherbrooke, Quebec – Died September 4, 1882 at Newport,
Vermont, U.S.A. – Son of the late Wm. Ritchie, Esq., of
Sherbrooke, Quebec – (Obit.
82).
ROBERTSON, Robert, B.A. – Barrister of N.S. and of
Dakota, U.S.A. – Born in 1857 at Barrington, Nova Scotia –
Died February 14, 1881, Dell Rapids, Dakota, U.S.A. – Son of
the late Hon. R. Robertson, Commr. of Mines, N.S.– (Obit.
80-81).
ROBINSON
(Mrs.) (coloured) – Born in Virginia, U.S.A. – Died
February 28, 1884 at Windsor, Ontario, aged 113 – (DL
84).
ROE, William – Postmaster of Newmarket, Ontario –
Died April 7, 1879, Newmarket, Ontario aged 84 – He was one of
the few survivors of the ''York Volunteers'' of 1812. His father was
an inhabitant of Detroit, and was the person who handed over the keys
of city to the Americans on its surrender by the English, in 1796. –
(Obit. 79).
ROGERS, Robt. David (Lieut.-Col.) – Warden of
Peterborough (1871), and a prominent citizen – Born in 1809 in
Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario – Died in February, 1885 at
Ashburnham, Ontario – His ancestors were U. E. Loyalists –
(Obit. 85).
ROSE, Charlotte (Lady) (née Temple) – Died
December 3, 1883 at Queen's Gate, London, England – Wife of the
Hon. Sir John Rose, Bart., G.C.M.G., formerly Minister of Finance of
Canada, to whom she was married in June, 1843. She was a daughter of
the late Robt. Emmet Temple, Esq., of Rutland, Vermont, U.S.A. –
(Obit. 83).
RYAN – Died November 19, 1884 between Victoria,
British Columbia and Washington Territory – Ryan and a man
named Walters are in a sloop whith 19 Chinamen whom they intend to
smuggle into Washington Territory. The sloop capsizes in a squall and
all are drowned. – (JRO 84).
RYERSON, Adolphus Egerton (Rev.), D.D. (1841), LL.D.
(1861) – Late Superintendent of Education of Ontario –
Born March 21, 1803 in the Township of Charlotteville, Norfolk,
Ontario – Died February 19, 1882 in Toronto, Ontario – He
was the 4th son of the well-known loyalis, Col. Joseph
Ryerson, who came to Canada from New Jersey, by way of New Brunswick
in 1783. Brother of William, John and George Ryerson – (Obit.
82).
RYERSON, George (Rev.) (Catholic Apostolic) – Born
March 7, 1791 near Fredericton, New Brunswick – Died December
19, 1882 in Toronto, Ontario – In 1802, he removed with his
father (the well-known loyalist, Col. Joseph Ryerson), to Port
Ryerse, Ontario. With him died the last of the older Ryerson family –
(Obit. 82).
SADLIER, Francis Xavier (Rev., R.C.) – Born in
1852 in Montreal, Quebec – Died in November, 1885 at Worcester,
Massachusetts, U.S.A. – He was a son of the well-known Catholic
authoress, Mrs. M. A. Sadlier – (Obit.
85).
SAUNDERS, John Simcoe (Hon.), Q.C. – President of
the Legislative Council of New Brunswick – Born about 1795 at
Fredericton, New Brunswick – Died July 25, 1878 at Fredericton,
New Brunswick – He was the only son of a U. E. loyalist, Hon.
John Saunders, Chief-Justice of New Brunswick, and previoulsly a
Captain in the ''Queen's Rangers,'' by Ariana Margaretta Jerkyl –
(Obit. 78).
SAVARY, Sabine – Retired merchant – Born in
1787 – Died May 1, 1878, Plymton, Digby, Nova Scotia –
Mr. Savary was the fourth in descent from Thomas Savary who came to
Massachusetts among the pioneers in the wake of the Mayflower,
arriving there thirteen years after them in the John and Mary.
Maternally he was descended from a New England family, the chief
representative of which was the late Hon. Lorenzo Sabine, of Boston,
who was his second cousin. His wife, the faithful friend and
companion of some fifty-six years, survives him, as do all his
children. Judge Savary, of Digby, is his son, and R. P. McGivern, a
leading merchant of St. John, and James R. Garden, of Gibson, N.B.,
are his sons-in-law – (Obit.
78, see page 366).
SCATCHERD, James Newton – Lumber merchant –
Born December 4, 1824 at Wyton, Ontario – Died January 18, 1885
at Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. – He was a son of the late Mr.
John Scatcherd, M.P. for West Middlesex in the Can. Assembly, and a
brother of Messrs. Thos. and Robt. Scatcherd, who successively
represented North Middlesex in Parliament. He removed to Buffalo in
1852. – (Obit. 85).
SEELY, Alexander McLauchlan (Hon.) – Presdt. of
the Legislative Council of N.B. (1875-82) – Born February 10,
1812 at St. John, New Brunswick – Died July 10, 1882 at St.
John, New Brunswick – He is the grandson of a U. E. Loyalist –
(Obit. 82).
SIMONS, Ann (Mrs.) – Born Quebec – Died
April 22, 1880, Ballyclough, Ind. (or rather Iowa?) aged 107 –
Death from longevity – (DL
80-81).
SIPPELL, John G., C.E. – Superintending Engineer
of the Government Canal Works in Quebec – Born May 1, 1816 at
Boonville, New York, U.S.A. – Died September 26, 1879, Lachine,
Quebec – He was sprung from those brave men who, in the early
part of the seventeenth century, came from Holland to America. He
came to Canada while in the prime of life. He married the eldest
daughter of the late Mr. Stephen Richard, of Brockville, Ontario. –
(Obit. 79).
SMILLIE, James – Engraver – Born November
23, 1807 in Edinburgh, Scotland – Died December 4, 1885 at
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A., where he had resided since 1874 –
He came to Canada with his parents in 1821. He became a resident of
Quebec, where he remained up to 1830, in which year he took up his
residence in New York. – (Obit.
85).
SMITH, Mary Graham (Mrs. Sherwood) – Died August
15, 1886 in Ottawa, Ontario aged 77 – Widow of the late Hon.
Hy. Sherwood, Q. C., formerly Atty. Genl. of U. C. She was a daughter
of Mr. Peter Smith, of Kingston, Ontario, a U. E. loyalist. –
(Obit. 86).
SNIDER, George – M.P. for North Grey in House of
Commons (1867-78) – Born January 31, 1813 at Eglington, Ontario
– Died June 23, 1885 at Eglington, Ontario – He was the
son a U.E. Loyalist – (Obit.
85).
SPROULE, Robert Evan – Native of the State of
Maine, U.S.A. – Died October 29, 1886 at New Westminster,
British Columbia – Hanged for the murder of Thos. Hammill, on
June 3, 1885 – (JRO 86).
STARR, Jno. Leander (Hon.) – For many years a
prominent merchant and insurance broker at Halifax, Nova Scotia –
Born October 25, 1802 at Halifax, Nova Scotia – Died August 16,
1886 in New Jersey, U.S.A., where he has lately resided. –
(Obit. 86).
STEINHAUER, Henry Bird (Rev.) – Methodist
missionary – Born in 1804 in the Ramah Indian settlement, Lake
Simcoe, Ontario – Died December 29 at Whitefish Lake, N.W.T. –
He was a pure blooded Indian of the Chippewa tribe, and was adopted
in early life by a Pennsylvanian German family named Steinhauer, from
whom he took his name and to whom he was indebted for a liberal
education. – (Obit. 85).
STEPHENS, Harrison – Retired merchant – Born
in 1801 in Jamaica, Vermont, U.S.A. – Died May 16, 1881 in
Montreal, Quebec – His second son, Mr. G. W. Stephens,
represents Montreal Centre in the Quebec Assembly. – (Obit.
80-81).
STERLING, George Archibald – M.P.P. for Sunbury in
the Nova Scotia. Assembly (1882-83) – Born October 26, 1836 at
St. Mary's, New Brunswick – Died in October, 1883 at Upper
Maugerville, New Brunswick – Descendant of loyalist. –
(Obit. 83).
STEVENSON, John (Hon.) – Late Speaker of the
Ontario Assembly (1867-71) – Born in 1812 in New Jersey, U.S.A.
– Died April 1, 1884 at Napanee, Ontario – He was
descended from a Quaker family that emigrated to America during the
time of Wm. Penn. – (Obit.
84).
STUART, Geo. Okill (Hon.), Q.C. (1854) – Judge of
the Vice Admiralty Court of Quebec (1873) – Born October 12,
1807 at York (now Toronto, Ontario) – Died March 5, 1884 at
Quebec – He was one of a family, many of the members of which
have distinguished themselves in Canada, and have left names which
will not soon be forgotten. He was the son of the late Dr. Stuart,
for many years Archdeacon of Kingston, and grandson of the Rev. John
Stuart, a clergyman of the Church of England, who at the close of the
revolutionary war, left the U.S. to settle in Canada. His mother was
a daughter of General Brooks, of Medford, for several years Governor
of Massachusetts. G. O. Stuart pursued his legal studies with his
father's brother, Mr. (afterwards Sir James) Stuart. He married
Margaret Black Stacey, niece of the late Hon. Hy. Black, C.B., who
survives him. – (Obit. 84).
TAYLOR, John Fennings – Deputy Clerk and 1st
Clerk Assistant of the Senate – Born March 14, 1817 in London,
England – Died May 4, 1882 at Old Point Comfort, Virginia,
U.S.A., whither he had gone for the benefit of his health –
Came to Canada in 1836. A memorial window has been placed in St.
Alban's Church, Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
82).
TAYLOR, R. D. (Capt.), his wife, his brother, and 6 of
the crew of the brig G. P. Sherwood – Died June 15, 1884
at sea between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and Halifax, Nova
Scotia – Lost in the founders of the brig of the brig G. P.
Sherwood – (JRO 84).
TAYLOR, Sarah (coloured) – Born in Virginia,
U.S.A. – Died February 15, 1886 at Louth, Ontario aged 120
years 11 months (sic) – (DL
86).
TAYLOR, Thos. – Paper manufacturer – Born
about 1813 in Staffordshire, England – Died April 21, 1880 in
Toronto, Ontario – Came to America with his parents, who took
up their residence near Albany, N.Y., in 1821; removed to York (now
Toronto) in 1825. The deceased and his brother retired from their
manufacturing business, Thos. Taylor & Bro., in 1880 in favour of
their nephews and sons. – (Obit.
80-81).
TEEMAN, Hilda (Mrs.) – Died February 15, 1883,
near Flint, Michigan aged 74 – Accident on Chicago and Grand
Tr'k Ry – (ADS 83).
TEEMAN, Huldah (Mrs.), of St. Vincent, Ontario –
Died February 14, 1883 near Flint, Michigan, U.S.A. aged 74 –
Killed when a broken rail throws a train off the track. – (JRO
83).
TEMPLE, Charlotte (Lady Rose) – Died December 3,
1883 at Queen's Gate, London, England – Wife of the Hon. Sir
John Rose, Bart., G.C.M.G., formerly Minister of Finance of Canada,
to whom she was married in June, 1843. She was a daughter of the late
Robt. Emmet Temple, Esq., of Rutland, Vermont, U.S.A. – (Obit.
83).
TODD, Freeman H. – Merchant and banker –
Born in 1809 in North Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.A. – Died in
September, 1885 at St. Stephen, New Brunswick – When quite
young he came with the other members of the large famiy to which he
belong to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, where he lived during the
remainder of his life. Since the death of his brother, the Hon. Wm.
Todd, he has been President of the St. Stephen Bank. – (Obit.
85).
TOWNSEND, E. – Died January 20, 1883, Buffalo, New
York – Suicide while insane – (ADS 83).
Van NORMAN, Danl. (Rev.) C., LL.D. (1862) – One of
the Principals of the Van Norman Institute for the education of Young
Ladies, New York, founded by him in 1857 – Born in 1815 in
Hamilton, Ontario – Died June 24, 1886 at New York, N.Y.,
U.S.A. – (Obit. 86).
WALLBRIDGE, Thos. Campbell – ex-M.P.P. for North
Hastings in Can. Assembly – Born in 1830 at Belleville, Ontario
– Died January 21, 1881, Belleville, Ontario – He was a
brother of ex-Speaker Wallbridge, and descended from loyalists. –
(Obit. 80-81).
WALTERS – Died November 19, 1884 between Victoria,
British Columbia and Washington Territory – Walters and a man
named Ryan are in a sloop whith 19 Chinamen whom they intend to
smuggle into Washington Territory. The sloop capsizes in a squall and
all are drowned. – (JRO 84).
WARNER,
Sydney – Formerly Warden of Lennox and Addington – Born
in Montgomery, N.Y., U.S.A. – Died in July, 1886 at Wilton,
Ontario aged 79 – He came to Canada in 1812. – (Obit.
86).
WARREN, Samuel Russell – Organ manufacturer –
Born in 1809 at Tiverton, Rhode Island, U.S.A. – Died July 30,
1882 at Silver Spring, near Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. –
He removed to Montreal in 1836, and to Toronto in 1878 – (Obit.
82).
WATSO, Louis – Chief of the Abenakis Indians –
Born in Quebec – Died July 13, 1883 at Lake George, New York,
U.S.A. aged 107 – (DL 83).
WATSON, James Craig, LLD. – American astronomer – Born
January 28, 1838 near Fingal, Ontario – Died December 18, 1880
– (Obit. 80-81).
WEBB, Captain – Celebrated swimmer – Died
July 24, 1883 in the Niagara River – Drowned while attempting
to swim through the whirlpool below the Niagara Falls – His
body is found 4 days later at Lewiston, N. Y., U.S.A. – (JRO
83).
WHITNEY, N. S. – A Montreal merchant – Born
December 2, 1820 at Frelighsburgh, Quebec – Died May 31, 1883
in Montreal, Quebec – He was a descendant of loyalists. –
(Obit. 83).
WILLETT, G. C., of Canning, Nova Scotia – Died
January 18, 1884 Devil's Bridge, near New Bedford, Massachusetts,
U.S.A. – Lost in the wreck of the s. s. City of Columbus
– (JRO 84).
WILLIAMS of KARS, William Fenwick (Genrl. Sir), Bart,
G.C.B., D.C.L. – Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia (1865-69) –
Born December 4, 1801 at Annapolis, Nova Scotia – Died July 26,
1883 in London, England – He was the descendant of a loyalist
family of New York, which emigrated ot Nova Scotia, in 1783, on the
conclusion of the war of the American Revolution. His father, Colonel
Thos. Williams of the Royal Artillery, died in 1807. He (Col. Thomas
Williams) married Maria, daughter of Capt. Thos. Walker, and left a
family consisting of 5 daughters and 2 sons. of these the elder,
Lieut. Thos. G. T. Williams, entered the Royal Artillery. –
(Obit. 83).
WILLSON, Hugh Bowley – Public writer – Born
in 1813 at Winona, Ontario – Died April 29, 1880 in New York,
U.S.A. – He was a son of the late Hon. John Willson. –
(Obit. 80-81).
WILLSON, Levi – Late Sheriff of Halton, Ontario –
Died September 27, 1879, Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A. aged 75 –
(Obit. 79).
WILMER, Chas. – Seaman – Died March 2, 1882,
Sandy Hook (New Jersey) – Drowned in the wreck of the barque W.
J. Stairs – (JRO 82).
WILMOT, Lemuel Allen (Hon.), D.C.L. – Late
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Brunswick – Born in
1809 in Sunbury, New Brunswick – Died May 20, 1878 at
Fredericton, New Brunswick – He was a son of the late Wm.
Wilmot, Esq., of Sunbury, N.B., by Hannah, daughter of Daniel Bliss,
Esq.; and a grandson of Major Lemuel Wilmot, formerly of the Loyal
American Regiment, who settled in New Brunswick at the close of the
American revolutionary war, and married Elizabeth, sister of the Hon.
Samuel Street, of Niagara. On his mother's side he was descended from
Col. Murray, a well-known loyalist. Mr. Wilmot married, first, the
daughter of Rev. J. Balloch, and after her death, the daughter of the
late Hon. Wm. A. Black, M.L.C., of Halifax – (Obit.
78).
WILSON, Andrew – Montreal newspaper proprietor –
Born in 1822 near Edinburgh, Scotland – Died October 24, 1879,
Oak Orchard Beach, Massachussetts, U.S.A. – He came with his
family to Montreal, Quebec in 1834. – (Obit.
79).
WOOD,
W. H. (Mr. and Mrs.), of Cincinati, Ohio – Passengers (= Woods,
Mr.?) – Died September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario –
Lost in the wreck of the steamer Asia
– (JRO 82).
WRIGHT, Amos – M.P. for East York in Can. Assembly
(1851-67) and for West York in House of Common (1868-72) – Born
November 24, 1809 in the Tp. of Yonge, Ontario – Died May 31,
1886 at Port Arthur, Ontario, where he had resided since 1875. He was
the son of U. E. loyalists. – (Obit.
86).
WURTELE, Louisa Sophia (Mrs.) (née Campbell) –
Native of Quebec City – Died April 2, 1886 at Sorel, Quebec,
aged 85 – Widow of the late onathan Wurtele, Esq., M.P.P.,
Seigneur of River David. She was a daughter of Archibald
Campbell, a U. E. loyalist, by Charlotte Saxton. Her parents were
married in New York by the Military chaplain during the siege. On of
her sons (the Hon. J. S. C. Wurtele), is now a Puisné udge of
the Surperior Court of Quebec. – (Obit.
86).
YATES, Horatio – M.D. (1842) – Born in 1822
at Otsego, New York, U.S.A. – Died March 11, 1882 at Kingston,
Ontario – He came to Kingston, Ontario when 12 years of age. He
is the son of the late Dr. Wm. Yates, of Otsego County, New York, and
formerly of Sapperton, Derbyshire, England – (Obit.
82).
YOUNG, Levi – Lumberer – Born September 5,
1805 at Wiscasset, Maine, U.S.A. – Died June 30, 1882 in
Ottawa, Ontario – Came to Ottawa in 1855 – (Obit.
82).
ZIMMERMAN, Louis, of Port Arthur, Ontario – Died
November 7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. –
Lost in the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
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