A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time: A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers
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A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time: A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers
registrar of probates, and clerk of the Queens county court. His mother
was Sarah Amelia, daughter of Reuben Hoben. Lemuel Allan Currey received
his literary education at the Queens County Grammar School, and at the
University of New Brunswick, where he graduated in 1876, with honours in
the first division, taking a special prize for general proficiency.
After graduating he entered as a student-at-law with his father, with
whom he studied till 1880, and during said period taught the Queens
County Grammar School for two and a-half years. In 1880 he entered
Harvard Law School, where he remained one year, taking a special course.
He then entered the office of S. Alward, D.C.L., barrister, St. John.
Mr. Currey was admitted an attorney in 1882, and a barrister the
following year. Since his enrolment he has practised law at St. John. In
1873-4 he attended the Military School at Fredericton, and took a
certificate. He is a member of the Young Men’s Liberal-Conservative
Club, of St. John, a member of St. George’s Society, and belongs to
Union lodge, of Portland, A. F. and A. M. In religion he belongs to the
Episcopal church, and in politics is a Conservative.
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=Burwash, Rev. Nathaniel=, S.T.D., Professor of Biblical and Systematic
Theology, and Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Victoria University,
Cobourg, Ontario, was born in Argenteuil, province of Quebec, on the
25th July, 1839. His father, Adam Burwash, was a descendant of an
English family from Burwash, in Sussex; and his mother, Ann Taylor, was
from Argyleshire, Scotland, and was the eldest sister of the late Rev.
Lachlin Taylor, D.D. His great-grandfather was a United Empire loyalist.
Nathaniel received his rudimentary education in the schools of his
native place, and then entered Victoria University, where he took the
arts course, and graduated B.A. in 1859. He then devoted his time for
two years as a Public and Grammar school teacher; and in 1860 entered
the ministry of the Methodist church. From this year to 1866 he filled
the position of pastor in churches in Belleville, Toronto, and Hamilton.
In 1866 he left Canada for a time, and entered Yale College, New Haven,
U.S., for the purpose of studying the natural sciences, and having
completed his course, he returned home in 1867, and was appointed
professor of natural sciences in Victoria University, Cobourg. In 1873
he was promoted to the professorship of Biblical and Systematical
Theology, and was also made dean of the faculty of theology in the same
institution. This important position he still occupies, and since his
appointment fully one-fifth of the entire ministry of the several
Western conferences of the Methodist church have been his students.
Professor Burwash some years ago took an active interest in the
Volunteer movement, and was one of those who risked his life at
Ridgeway, in repelling the Fenian hordes who attempted to desecrate
Canadian soil.
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