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      David Mathison (1819-1883) was a tailor in Aberdeen, Scotland. He married Agnes Frost in 1846 by whom he had James Tait Mathison (1851-1929). In 1853 David Mathison married Elizabeth Tait (1825-1911) and shortly after the couple came to Whitby where they had six children: Margaret, Jean, Peter William, David, George …

      Thomas Grierson Whitfield was born in Ontario County on April 24, 1854 and moved to Whitby at an early age. In 1871 he became an apprentice for James Byrne, a Whitby druggist. In 1877 when Mr. Byrne died, Mr. Whitfield started his own drug store in Whitby. After several years …

      Richard Snow was born in Yorkshire, England on October 8, 1825. He opened a bakery and confectionery business at Port Whitby in the 1850s, and retired in 1893, moving to Toronto. He died at Toronto on February 22, 1902 and is buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery. There is a …

      C.H.Waldron was born in 1855. He was a mathematics teacher at the Whitby Collegiate Institute in the 1890s.

      John Smith was born in 1854.

      James Pringle was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, in June 1824. He came to Canada in 1833. He was at Cobourg until coming to Whitby in 1836. He was in the hotel business from many years, being proprietor of the Royal Hotel, and later the National Hotel at Port Whitby. After …

      Frederick Hatch was born in Darlington Township, north of Bowmanville, in 1861. About 1864 his father, Samuel Brown Hatch and his uncle Richard Hatch moved to Whitby and established a hardware business. This business was later taken over by Fred Hatch and his brother Frank. In 1904 Fred Hatch purchased …

      James Bradford Powell was born on the base line in Whitby Township in 1824. In the 1850s he quit farming and moved into the town of Whitby where he learned to conduct business at Carleton Lynde's dry goods store on Dundas Street. In 1857, he and John M. Lowes formed …

      John Hamlin Gale was born at England in 1839 but lived most of his life in Whitby, Ontario. he was a teacher at Almonds and Baggotsville schools and was the teacher at Dufferin Street School at Port Whitby from about 1887 to 1910. He died at Whitby on February 24, …

      Victor George Martin was born in the United States of America (U.S.A.) in 1843. He started a saddlery hardware business in Toronto in 1880 and in October 1887, Martin and Samuel Trees Sr. purchased the O'Donovan Carriage Factory located in the block bounded by Brock Street, Gilbert Street, Byron Street …

      John Dundas Howden was born in Whitby Township (East Whitby after 1857) on January 27, 1841. For many years he was a farmer, specializing in the breeding of Shorthorn Cattle and Clydesdale Horses. He was president of the Ontario County Agricultural Society and a warden at St. John's Anglican Church, …

      Caleb Edward Rose was born in 1860.

      Charles King was born at Zwiroticz, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) in 1837. With his brother Joseph, he immigrated to Whitby in 1863 where they leased and later purchased the Burns tannery which became known as the King Bros. Tannery. In 1883 the partnership dissolved and Joseph and family went to …

      William Campbell was born in 1870.

      Edward John Johnson was born at Canada West, in 1846. He carried on a furniture and undertaking business at 116 Brock Street South from 1878 to 1901. He moved to Toronto, where he died on June 5, 1902. He is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

      Thomas Deverell was born in Ireland, in 1828. He came to Whitby about 1845 where he learned the building trade constructing St. John's Anglican Church. He is believed to have been the first person married in St. John's Anglican Church, on November 11, 1850. Mr. Deverell built most of the …

      James Shaw was born a Bothwell, Scotland, on January 28, 1840. He came to Canada and was married for the first time at Richmond Hill in 1863. He came to Whitby in October 1871 and was foreman at the Brown and Patterson agricultural implement factory until his retirement in 1904. …

      John S. Barnard was born at Frome Somerset, England in 1856. He came to Canada as a young man and was in the jewellery business in Oshawa and Whitby until he moved to London, Ontario, in 1900. He was an artist who painted illuminated addresses and was on the board …

      Robert Luther Huggard was born in Hope Township, Upper Canada (near what is now known as Port Hope, Ontario) on January 10, 1836. He farmed in Clarke Township until he married and came to Whitby in 1874. Brian Winter has noted that, R.L. Huggard represented the nursery firm of Stone …

      A black and white portrait photograph of George Thompson (1858 - ). this photo is from a frame of portraits of members of Composite Lodge No. 30, AF & AM.