A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Elliott, John Campbell, D.C.L., M.L.A.= Middlesex West (Glencoe, Ont.).
Son of George Campbell (Irish descent), and Jane Elliott (Scotch
descent); both parents were born in Canada. Was born at Ekfrid Township,
Middlesex County, on July 25, 1872; educated at Ekfrid Public School,
Glencoe High School, and Trinity University, B.C.L. 1898, and Toronto
University, D.C.L. 1905. Mr. Elliott’s early days were spent on the farm
where he was born; he took a third-class certificate in 1890;
second-class in 1891, and Matriculation 1892, and was called to the Bar
in 1898, having taken a high standard at the Law School at Osgoode Hall.
First elected to the Ontario Legislature at the general elections in
1908; re-elected 1911-1914. He is a member of the Ontario Club, and the
Masonic Order, of which he was Past District Deputy, Erie District; of
the Sons of Scotland and the I.O.O.F. He is a member of the Baptist
Church, and a Liberal in politics. Mr. Elliott is recognized as a clever
lawyer and an able speaker, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the
members on both sides of the House. He is unmarried.
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=Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry=, was born at Bolton, Warren County, New
York, September 12, 1844. He is the son of the late Henry Franklin and
Edith (Pierce) Bronson, the one man who, coming to Ottawa, Canada, in
1852, understood the feasibility of converting the large lakes and
furious and foaming falls of the Ottawa River into a channel for the
driving of saw-logs, and erecting mills on its banks, placed in
operation a lumber industry that soon had in its employ hundreds, and
afterwards thousands of employees. Having received a good education at
Sandy Hill, N.Y., and at the Grammar School, Ottawa, when quite a youth,
the Hon. Erskine Henry Bronson, joined his father’s company, The
Bronson-Weston Lumber Company, and in 1867 acquired an interest in the
company. In 1870 he became a member of the Ottawa City Council and
chairman of the Finance Committee, and continued as such until 1878,
when he retired. For fourteen years he was a member of the Ottawa School
Board. He is ex-Trustee of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Unlike
his father, who never interested himself in politics, in 1882 Mr.
Bronson was an unsuccessful candidate to the House of Commons for
Carleton County, Ontario; but in 1886, having had presented to him a
petition signed by thousands of the best and most influential residents
in the Capital urgently soliciting him to become a candidate for the
local Legislature, he consented to run and was elected by a large
majority, and re-elected at every succeeding election until 1898, when
he retired from active political life. In 1890, September 10, four years
after he was first elected, he joined the Mowat Government without
Portfolio and held a similar position when the Hardy Government was
formed. Had he so desired he could probably have remained a member of
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