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
=McNeillie, James Richardson=, Clerk and Treasurer, County of Victoria,
Lindsay, Ont., was born in the Parish of Johnstone, Dumfries-shire,
Scotland, July 18, 1846, and came to Canada with his parents, Rachel
Kerr and James Richardson McNeillie, public school teacher, in 1853, who
settled in the County of Durham, where he was educated in the Public
School. He spent eleven years, from 1861 to 1872, in the village of
Omemee, where he was associated in the drug business and in municipal
work with Mr. Thomas Matchett, who was the first member of the
Legislative Assembly for South Victoria after Confederation. From 1872
to 1875 he was engaged in the business department of the Montreal
Telegraph Company at Toronto, but returned to the County of Victoria on
the invitation of the Hon. S. C. Wood, to become his assistant in the
office of Clerk and Treasurer. When the latter became Provincial
Secretary, Mr. McNeillie retained the same position under Mr. Matchett
from 1875, until his own appointment as Clerk and Treasurer of the
County, in 1900. When the Ross Memorial Hospital was founded by the late
James Ross, of Montreal, in 1902, he was appointed a Governor under the
Act of Incorporation, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Trust. He is
also a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
Church, and was Chairman of the Board of Education of the Town of
Lindsay for nine years, following on nineteen years’ service as member.
Always taking an active interest in movements for the betterment of the
criminal and mentally enfeebled classes of the Province, he was
President of the Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction for the
year 1909. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion a
Presbyterian. He married Esther (deceased), daughter of William Thorton,
of Emily, January, 1872; and Loretta, daughter of Ralph Gardiner, of
Morpeth, 1882. He has three sons, James Kerr, Ralph Gardiner and George
Gardiner, and one daughter, Alice Gardiner. J. K. McNeillie has been
successively, Divisional Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Ry.,
General Superintendent of the Canadian Government Railways, and now
Superintendent of the Susquehanna Division of the Delaware and Hudson
Railway. R. G. McNeillie is Assistant General Passenger Agent of the
Canadian Pacific Ry. at Winnipeg, Man., and G. G. McNeillie is a member
of the Albert Kerr Company, Limited, Toronto.
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