. . . , comp. C. B. Gillespie and G. M. Curtis (Meriden, 1906). H. G. Kinloch, “Anglican clergy in Connecticut, 1701–1785
silent partner. The dry dock was eventually sold to Robert Gillespie Reid* as part of the 1898 railway contract. A. D. Brown
. Élisabeth wed Benjamin Holmes* and Caroline Matilda, Robert Gillespie*; Aurelia
Alexander Gillespie Ramsay, former secretary of the Scottish Amicable Assurance Society of Glasgow.
David G. Burley
consciousness. Upon completion of his training as a machinist in Nova Scotia, Bennett found employment in St John’s in the railway shops of the Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir Robert Gillespie
new government, announced on 3 March, were: William Elder, provincial secretary; Thomas Francis Gillespie, president of the Executive Council; Patrick George Ryan, chief commissioner of public
. 1890 he met with Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine in Washington and he subsequently went to New York and to Boston and Gloucester, Mass., to explain Newfoundland’s position to various business
, son of Thomas Rees Brock and Eleanor Thompson; m. 6 Sept. 1876 Louisa Adelaide Clara Gillespie, and they had 12
1817 Sarah Sharman, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, and in 1842 Catherine Gillespie, née
personal acquaintance” with American Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine, he had offered Macdonald his services in Washington to promote reciprocity. Cameron had a summer home at Tadoussac, Que., which
* and his brothers Henry Duff and Robert Gillespie offered to build, furnish, and equip a large sanatorium in St John’s as well as 16 smaller ones in the rural districts, which the Newfoundland
service. Carvell charged that Morine, while Newfoundland’s finance minister, had also been on retainer as solicitor for Robert Gillespie
the Winter government signed a controversial contract with railway builder Robert Gillespie Reid*, and the Liberals split
1888, at the suggestion of prominent Maine politician James Gillespie Blaine, Clergue vied with Russian and British promoters for a long-term monopoly on railways, waterworks, and banking services in
government of Newfoundland and was thereby committed to financing the Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir Robert Gillespie Reid
afterwards he divested himself of his Nova Scotia operations. He befriended Robert Gillespie Reid* and his sons
Gerrard*, while more than £2,000 was owed by each of the firms of Gillespie, Moffatt, and Finlay of London, Moffatt and Company, McGillivrays, Thain and Company, and Desrivières, Blackwood and Company
financial difficulty. In January 1821 Desrivières, Richardson, and Thomas Gillespie petitioned the assembly for additional legislative and financial support (the government had already purchased shares worth
interest payments due on the provincial debentures held by Thomas Wilson and Company. Through Robert Gillespie*, a merchant familiar with Canadian