Local newspaper
John M. White, 61, died at 9:40 o'clock yesterday morning at his home 611 Rex street. During the past four years Mr. White had been an electrical engineer at Ball State College. He had been a resident of Muncie for the past twelve years and was a mamber of the Normal City U. B. Church and the Masonic Lodge at Mooresville.
Surviving are the widow, Henrietta; a daughter, Mrs. Edith Mammitt, of Seymour; two sons, Carl and Walter White, of Muncie; a step daughter, Anna Wedmore, of Muncie; two sisters, Miss Maude White and Mrs. Flora Pemberton, of Coalgrove, O.; and a brother, Frank White, of Indianapolis.
Local newspaper
Mrs. Edith M. Dausch, 70, of Chesterfield, a resident of Seymour for about 20 years, died Saturday at the Americana Nursing Home in Anderson. She had been ill only a week.
She was born in Indianapolis, September 3, 1901, a daughter of the late John ans Nora Milla White, and was the widow of Carmel Dausch, who died in 1961.
She was a member of the Christian Church.
Three sons survive. They are John Hammitt, East Chicago, Guy Hammitt, Indianapolis, and Jack Hammitt, of Madison, Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Nora Webb, Jacksonville, Florida, and Mrs. Mary Foist, Chesterfield, 13 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
Samuel Brown was a thresher, farmer and laborer.
William F. Brown was a theatre musician and painter.
Samuel R. Brown was a driver.
Canadian Soldiers of the First World War:
O.C. 136th Overseas Batallion, C.E.F. 21 Feb 1916
Born 05 Apr 1897, Newcastle, Durham, Ontario, age 18, Methodist, height 5'- 4-1/2", fair complexion, brown eyes, dark hair; father, Samuel Brown; trade: mail driver; military experience, one year, Kingston Cadets.
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Albert H. Hartshorn was a mail driver, laborer and packer.
David H. Brown was a butcher.
41063. Minnie Henrietta Bethune Hallowell
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Minnie Henrietta Bethune Hallowell was born in Sherbrooke on 4 February 1861. She was the daughter of John E. Hallowell and Helen Maria Clark. In 1890, she married Cecil Hale Bowen, son of George Frederick Bowen and Eliza Jessie Wyatt.
Minnie Hallowell Bowen was active in various philanthropic, patriotic, religious, and literary organizations such as the Sherbrooke Patriotic Association, the I.O.D.E., the Women's Conservative Association, and the Sherbrooke Choral Society. She wrote a few books of poetry and many of her poems were published in newspapers and periodicals.
She died in Quebec City in 1942 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Sherbrooke.
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Alfred Cecil Hale Bowen was the son of George Frederick Bowen and Elisa Jessie Wyatt Bowen.
He was a graduate of Bishops College at Lennoxville, a Captain in the militia, and a Barrister practising in the town of Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships, Quebec Province.
On September 10, 1890, Cecil Hale Bowen wed Miss Minnie Hallowell, at the Church of England in Sherbrooke. They were the parents of a son and a daughter.
He died at the age of 65 years (according to the Parish Record Book), and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Charles Revell Eardley-Wilmot was clerk in holy orders, assistant priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity(Church of England) in Quebec City at the time of his marriage. Incumbent at Sigawake, Bonaveture, Quebec, Canada; Hatley, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada
68621. Cecil Lloyd Hallowell Bowen Physician
Cecil was instrumental in the adoption of fluoridation of tap water in Canada.
Toronto Star
February 17, 1917Feb 1 - Major Edmund Hazen Drury, acting assistant director general of engineering services, on the headquarters staff here, died suddenly in his rooms last night. He was in appearantly good health until within half an hour of his death. Major Drury, who was born in Halifax, was a brother of the late Maj. General Drury of Halifax, and Mr. Harry Drury of Winnipeg. Mrs. Drury resides in Sherbrooke. Lieut. Morris Drury, of the R. C. D., Toronto, is a son.
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American Society of Civil Engineers.
MEMOIR Of EDMUND HAZEN DRURY.
EDMUND HAZEN DRURY, M. Am. Soc. C. E.*
Died January 31st, 1917.Edmund Hazen Drury was born at St. John, New Brunswick, on July 31st, 1859. He was graduated with honor from the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont., in June, 1881, and immediately joined the Engineering Staff of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, continuing thereon until 1888, first as Rodman and finally as Division Engineer.
From 1889 to 1890 Mr. Drury served as Assistant Engineer on railway surveys for the Dominion Government in New Brunswick, and from 1890 to 1893, he was Division Engineer and Acting Chief Engineer on the McLeod Branch of the Calgary, Edmonton, and McLeod Railway.
From 1893 to 1906, he held the following positions : Chief Engineer and Manager of Construction for the contractors of the Quebec Central Railway, 1893-95; Division Engineer on the Canadian Northern Rail way, 1895-97; Division Engineer on the Bangor and Aroostook Railway, 1897-98; Assistant Chief Engineer on the Canadian Northern Railway, 1898-1900; Assistant Chief Engineer, Cuba Company Railway, Cuba, 1900-02; Assistant Chief Engineer, Algoma Central Railway, 1902-03; Division Engineer, Crow's Nest Pass Branch, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1903-05; and Division Engineer, Canadian Northern Manitoba South Eastern Railway, 1905-06.
Mr. Drury then went to Mexico where he was employed as Auditing Engineer and Assistant Chief Engineer in charge for the Mexican Light and Power Company, Mexico, in Necaxa and the City of Mexico, from 1906 to 1908.
In the autumn of 1908, he was appointed, by the Department of Railways and Canals of Canada, Engineer in charge of exploration and the reconnaissance survey of alternative routes to Port Churchill and Port Nelson on Hudson Bay. His report, which was an able and comprehensive one, was concluded and handed in toward the end of 1909.
In 1910, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Quebec and Sherbrooke Railway, which position he held until 1911, when he was engaged to prepare an estimate and report for a proposed railway from Edmonton, Alberta, to Bella Coola, on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia, via the Pine River Pass, Rocky Mountains, for the Edmonton, Dunvegan, and Pine Pass Railway Company.
Mr. Drury then went to South America as Chief Engineer and Manager of Construction of the Chili Longitudinal Railway, Chili, from 1911 to 1913. It was while conducting this work, through the arid nitrate district of Chili, that his health became impaired. Returning to Canada, in the autumn of 1913, he entered into a general consulting engineering partnership (in the firm of Walsh and Drury, Consulting Engineers), with an office at Ottawa, Ont.
From the latter part of 1914 to the time of his sudden death on January 31st, 1917, Major Drury had served as Acting Assistant Director General of Engineer Services, for the Department of Militia and Defence, at Ottawa.
Major Drury stood in the forefront of the profession as a Railway Engineer. He was a man of high character and unswerving integrity, and neither in private nor public affairs would he deviate from the conscientious discharge of life's dutiesi Kindly and courteous to a degree, he will be greatly missed by those of his confreres and others who were intimate with him.
Major Drury was a Member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, and was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on October 4th, 1905.
68622. Morris Hayne Austin Drury
McMaster University Library
Morris Drury fonds. � 1917-1935; predominant 1917-1918. � 4 letters and 1 news clipping.
Morris Hayne Austin Drury was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec on 10 October 1896. Drury was a member of the RCD Permanent Force when he enlisted with the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in December 1915. Prior to enlisting Drury also had experience as a Lieutenant with the 11th Hussars and had completed one year at the Royal Military College as a cadet.
The fonds consists of letters written by Drury to his mother, grandmother, grandfather and aunt Fran. The letters discuss Drury's day to day activities, the people he has met and the places he has visited. In the last letter Drury describes his experience with the Fleet Illuminations and includes a newspaper clipping (17 July 1935) covering the event.
Clement Gregory Hobson was a bookkeeper, and an inspector for a fire insurance company.
Toronto Star
July 31, 2010HOBSON, Richard (Dick) Clement - Born April 20, 1902 [sic] in Sherbrooke, Quebec, passed away on July 30, 2010 at Scarborough General Hospital, age 102.
Richard is survived by 3 sons, Richard (Geetha) of Agincourt, David (Wilma) of BC, John (Jenny) of Australia and step-son Richard Kidd (Pat) of Kitchener.
He was predeceased by his wives Margaret Wright and Violet Kidd. Richard is survived by 11 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren, his sister Dorothy London of Simco and many grandnieces and nephews.
Richard graduated from St. Lambert High School in Quebec and launched into a career with Northern Electric. During the early years of WWII, he degaussed ships, protecting them from German mines. By 1942 Richard was in charge of lighting the Queen Elizabeth Highway between Toronto and Niagara Falls. In 1973, Richard retired as Electrical Superintendent of the DHO, a position he held for 37 years.
Following retirement, Richard volunteered for many years at Scarborough Support Services and was an elder at Knox United Church. Richard was the loving centre of his extended family and was an example of love, generosity, philosophical wisdom and gentlemanly conduct for all he knew. Richard's family and friends will miss his presence.
Hugh Irving McFadden was a farmer.
41077. Malcolm Willard Johnston
Malcolm Willard Johnston was a bookkeeper
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Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
Name: Malcolm Willard Johnston
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1883
Birth Location: Lennoxville, Quebec
Residence: Lennoxville, Quebec
Relative:Mrs Mary Johnston
Relationship: Mother
Regiment Number:2522550
Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918:
Atterstation Paper, Canadaian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, 21 Jan 1915: Ernest James Young, born Sherbrooke, Quebec, next of kin: Mrs. Jenny C. Young, 68 Fraser St, North Bay, Ontario; born 29 Jan 1883; trade: electrical engineer; not married; Active militia: 3rd Field Co. C. E. religion: PresbyterianCanada Military Honours and Awards Citation Cards, 1900-1961:
Lt. Ernest James Young, C. E., 9th Field Company, was awarded the Military Cross on 01 Jan 1917.Canada Militia and Defence Force Lists, 1832, 1863-1939: Engineers: M.D. 3: Major E.J. Young, M.C., C.E., born 29 Jan 1883, Rank 24 May 1918; Transfered to R.O. 03 Jan 1921