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
for the village of Galt, and occupied the position for several years.
The late Hon. Robert Baldwin made him a magistrate, and in this capacity
he acted for about ten years; and was sent as a delegate from the
village of Galt and the township of Dumfries with an address to Lord
Elgin, in Montreal, shortly after the destruction of the Parliament
buildings by a mob. Mr. Elliott took an active interest in railway
extension, and did his share in getting the Great Western Railway
Company to build a branch line from Harrisburg to Galt. In his younger
days he was a strong supporter of the Baldwin administration, and even
supported the late Hon. George Brown, but refused longer to follow him
as a party leader when he left the government of the day and formed the
“Grit” party; and he has ever since been an opponent of the Reform
party. Mr. Elliott has been a Presbyterian from his youth up. In 1839 he
married Mary Hanley, a native of the county of Longford, Ireland. He has
been a busy man, and now enjoys the fruits of his industry.
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=Morson, Walter Augustus Ormsby=, Barrister, etc., Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, was born on the 24th December, 1851, at Hamilton, Prince
Edward Island. His father, Richard Willock Morson, formerly of the
island of Montserrat, in the West Indies, now of Upton, Dundas, Prince
Edward Island, was a son of the late Richard Willock Morson, of
Montserrat, and nephew of the Hon. Walter Morson, M.D., physician to the
late Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. His mother, Elizabeth
Codie, daughter of the late Hon. Patrick Codie, of Cascumpec, P. E.
Island, and Annabella Stewart, his wife, daughter of the late Dugald
Stewart, of Hamilton, P. E. Island. Mr. Morson, jr., received his
education at Hamilton, and in 1866 removed to Charlottetown, where he
secured employment in the “City Hardware Store.” In this situation he
remained until 1872, when he gave up mercantile pursuits, and began the
study of law with the Hon. W. W. Sullivan, the present attorney-general
and premier of Prince Edward Island. In February, 1877, he was admitted
as an attorney of the Supreme Court, and became a member of the firm of
Sullivan, Maclean & Morson. In February, 1878, he was called to the bar
of the Superior Court and admitted as solicitor of the Court of
Chancery. In March, 1877, he was made a notary public. Mr. Maclean
having retired from the above firm in 1878, it then became Sullivan &
Morson, and so continued until December, 1882, when it was dissolved.
Mr. Morson then entered into partnership with the Hon. Neil Macleod,
M.A., and this arrangement continued until October, 1883, when Neil
Macquarrie, the stipendiary magistrate of Sommerside, was admitted a
partner, when the name was changed to MacLeod, Morson & Macquarrie, with
offices at Summerside Charlottetown. Mr. Morson was appointed master in
Chancery in 1885. In April of the same year, on the death of the Hon.
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