WRIGHT, ADAM

WILLISON, Sir JOHN STEPHEN, newspaperman, author, and businessman; b. 9

 $100 annual bonus from Archbishop John Joseph Lynch* of Toronto. His early

 John Railway [see Horace Jansen Beemer*] and he

 Nov. 1869 in Kincardine, Ont., fifth child of John Struthers and Anna Christina McLeod; m. first

from the firm of Adam Lomas and Son. By the late 1860s and early 1870s Stephen had become one of the foremost

 Jacobs. There he became the first Canadian to introduce roller milling to the industry. On the advice of John Braun (Brown), a former employee, he purchased a roller system from the Hoerde company of

 Davids, Upper Canada, son of John Sleeman and Ann M. Burrows; m

RUTHERFORD, JOHN GUNION, veterinarian, horse breeder, office holder, editor, politician, and civil servant; b. 25

. 18 June 1879 Julia Nelson in Saint John, and they had a son and a daughter; d

priesthood in the Church of England. Native catechists John and Moses Melucto, Edward Richard, and Adam Lucy helped him greatly in mastering these tongues, as he himself would acknowledge. He adopted the

the Exchange brought him into contact with leading Toronto businessmen. Looking about for new chances, he decided that the nascent electricity business would be a growth industry [see John

that this event occurred on Nault’s river lot in St Vital, but the notebook of surveyor Adam Clark Webbe would seem to indicate that it was on an adjoining lot. Nault’s

MILNE, JOHN, manufacturer and politician; b

 Adam Beck, that was paid for by private-power interests in

MATHESON, JOHN, farmer; b. 29 Jan. 1838 at Big Bras d’Or, N.S., son of Hugh Matheson and Margaret McKenzie; m. first c. 1864

Sir John A

. 1856 in Belfast (Northern Ireland), daughter of John Cunningham Maclure and Martha McIntyre; m. 11

 October) in Eldon Township, Upper Canada, fifth son of John Mackenzie, a farmer, and Mary McLauchlan; m

. 1862 in East Williams Township, Upper Canada, son of John Alexander Macdonald, a farmer, and Jane Grant; m