Businessman.
Born in England on 16 April 1853, he emigrated to Canada in the 1880s and settled in the vicinity of Moosomin, NWT [later Saskatchewan] where he resided several years before moving first to Brandon and later to Winnipeg, in 1890. There he was a partner in the tent manufacturing business of Bromley and Hague. He retired shortly before his death. On 9 August 1898, he married Agnes Bradshaw (1851-?). They had no children. Their Winnipeg home on Furby Street was designed by architect Lindsay Alexander Wardell. He was a member of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Masons, and Manitoba Club. He died at Moosomin, Saskatchewan on 25 March 1927.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Former Winnipeg business man dies at Moosomin,” newspaper clipping dated 26 March 1927. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 October 2022
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