eminent divinity professor Charles Richard Elrington, the premier expositor of the 17th-century views of Irish archbishop James Ussher on church polity. This experience gave scope and resilience to Lewis’s

. Edwin G. Nelson’s father was a poet and bookseller in Saint John, and it was there that Edwin began work as a young boy and developed his interest

or no formal schooling, the young Dan became a crucial part of the family economy, especially after his brother Morris migrated to the United States to enter the Union army during the Civil War. While

Charlottetown Guardian would note, he “enjoyed the advantage of aristocratic birth, ample fortune, a liberal education and the inherited aptitude for the legal profession.” Despite this “advantage,” young

practice, with a number of other partners, until the end of his life. Préfontaine was one of the young Liberals who frequented the Club National, that

partners from Auburn had come to Upper Canada, and the next year they established a sawmill on the Bay of Quinte at Mill Point (named Deseronto in 1881). Following the dissolution of the partnership, young

. Almost nothing is known about Michele Rigali before he arrived at Quebec. From Tuscany, he immigrated as a young man to the United States, and around the time he married he enlisted in the American army

England opened Bishop’s College at Lennoxville in the fall of 1845, Roe transferred there at his minister’s suggestion. At Bishop’s he came under the Anglo-Catholic influence of its young principal and

, N.B. In 1831 the young James Rogers and his parents immigrated to British North America. The family settled in Wallace, N.S., but soon

Bulmer and Benjamin Russell. All were ambitious young lawyers anxious to improve the status and standards of the profession; many of them became good friends. An attempt by Sedgewick and others

. 13 Aug. 1823 in Reading, England, son of Richard Pritchard Smith, an Oxford-educated physician and railway promoter and director, and Elizabeth Breton, and the only one of their seven children to

so as to learn from direct observation points of law and procedure. Later accounts speak of his days being “passed in study and retirement, the young student of law not making many friends.” An

Benefit Association, the Young Men’s Society of St Joseph, the Father Mathew Association, St Malachi’s Total Abstinence Relief Society, the Irish Literary and Benevolent Society, the

Thomas Young*, began to tell. Between 1845 and 1850 Tully submitted designs in competition for several major projects, including Toronto’s

studious young man, he soon developed his innate business sense. In 1860 he set up Mile End Omnibuses to serve Mile End (Montreal), Terrebonne, Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), and New Glasgow. He married

Hudson’s Bay Company during the early 19th century was difficult for young men of mixed ancestry. Raised at HBC posts without the advantage of a good education, many could not compete with recruits from

WAUGH, RICHARD, builder, office holder, and journalist; b. c. 1830 in St Boswells, Scotland; m

, N.Y. Erastus Wiman’s father died in September 1834, leaving his wife to care for their only living child. Young Wiman received some

YOUNG, RICHARD, Church of England clergyman and bishop; b