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• Archibald, Adams George (Hon.)

  M.P.P. Nova Scotia;
• Dickey, Robert B. (Hon.)

  Nova Scotia;
• McCully, Jonathan (Hon.)

  Leader of Opposition, Nova Scotia;
• Henry, William Alexander (Hon.)

  Attorney General of Nova Scotia;
• Crassus

  writer;
• Cicero

  writer;
• Monck (Lord)
• Tache, Etienne P. (Hon.; Sir)

  d. Jul 1866; 1864 Canadian Premier;
• Tilley, Samuel Leonard (Hon.)

  1864 New Brunswick Provincial Secretary;
• Tupper, Charles (Dr.) (Hon.)

  1864 Nova Scotia Provincial Secretary;
• Queen Victoria
• Browning
• Macdonald, John Alexander (Sir)

  Feb 1865 formally introduced question of Confederation in an address to Queen Victoria;
• Gray

  author;
• Brown, George (Hon.)

  b. 1818 (Edinburgh); son of Peter Brown; Mar 1844 undertook the 'Toronto Globe' newspaper; resigned from Cabinet of Coalition Government before plan of Confederation was fully perfected;
• Galt, John

  father of Alexander Tulloch Galt; Scottish author; 1824 Commissioner of Canada; 1849 elected to Parliament for constituency of Sherbrook;
• Galt, Alexander Tulloch (Hon.)

  b. 1817 (London, England); son of John Galt; 1864 President of the Executive Council of Canada;
• Demosthenes

  orator;
• Wordsworth

  writer of sonnets;
• Gladstone, William Ewart
• MacGregor, A.F. (Rev.)
• McKinley (Mr.)

  resident on Thorold Road; originally from Scotland;
• Woodruff, Joseph

  merchant; hotel owner; Drummondville;
• Elgin (Lord)

  spent summer in Niagara Falls;
• Durham (Lord)
• MacIntyre, Mrs.
• MacIntyre (Mr.)
• Mosely

  escaped slave from Kentucky;
• Longfellow

  author;
• Smollett

  novel writer;
• Usher (Capt.)
• Lincoln, Abraham

  1860 elected President of USA;
• Duke of Newcastle
• Head, Edmund (Sir)
• Cartier, George Etienne (Sir)

  chief influence in Quebec in favor of Confederation;
• Brock (General)
• Blondin

  1860 crossed the Niagara River carrying man on his shoulders;
• King Edward

  1860 visited Canada as Prince of Wales;
• Zimmerman, Emmeline (nee Dunn)

  2nd wife of Samuel Zimmerman; childless; of Three Rivers, Quebec;
• Boynton (Dr.)
• Louis Philippe (Prince)

  future king of France; brother to 1 brother;
• Duke of Orleans

  father of sons;
• Chapin (Mr.)

  father of Mrs. Greig;
• Greig, Mrs. (nee Chapin)

  1st husband: died; 2nd husband: Mr. Greig;
• Greig (Mr.)

  2nd husband of Widow Chapin; childless; Scottish; founded the Orphan's Home in Rochester;
• Monteith family
• Paton family
• Scott, Walter (Sir)
• Kirby, William
• Jeffrey (Miss)

  originally from Scotland; drawing teacher at Young Ladies' Seminary;
• Mort (Professor)

  music teacher at Young Ladies' Seminary; originally of Germany;
• Dufour (Monsieur)

  French instructor at Young Ladies' Seminary;
• Smith (Miss)

  teacher with Young Ladies' Seminary; later teacher in NY City;
• Wright (Miss)

  teacher with Young Ladies' Seminary; of Maine;
• Johnson (Miss)

  teacher with Young Ladies' Seminary;
• Adams, Anna

  teacher with Young Ladies' Seminary;
• Upham, Martha

  niece of and assistant of Hannah Upman;
• Upham, Anna

  niece of Hannah Upman; assistant principal of Young Ladies' Seminary;
• Webster, Daniel
• Upham, Hannah

  Aunt of Anna Upham and Martha Upham; of New England; principal of Young Ladies' Seminary;
• Henry, Patrick
• Hall (Mr.)

  school principal in Bloomfield;
• Stowe, T.D. (Rev.)

  school principal in Bloomfield;
• Fairchilds
• Jeffers (Miss)
• Woodruff, Helena
• Roe, Amelia (nee Ball)

  daughter of John C. Ball; sister of Mrs. Dow and Mrs. George Clement;
• Dow, Mrs. (nee Ball)

  daughter of John C. Ball; sister of Amelia Roe and Mrs. George Clement;
• Servos, Peter

  husband of Mary Ball;
• Servos, Mary (nee Ball)

  wife of Peter Servos; daughter of John C. Ball; sister of Mrs. Dow, Amelia Roe and Mrs. George Clement;
• Camp, Elizabeth (nee Clement)

  daughter of Mrs. (nee Ball) and Mr. George Clement;
• Ball, John C.

  father of Mrs. George Clement, Mary Servos, Mrs. Dow and Amelia Roe;
• Clement, Mrs. George (nee Ball)

  wife of George Clement; mother of Elizabeth Camp; daughter of John C. Ball; sister of Mary Servos, Mrs. Dow and Amelia Roe;
• Clement, George

  husband of Miss Ball; father of Elizabeth Camp; son of John Clement; brother of Lewis and Peter;
• Sibbald, Fanny

  originally from Edinburgh; governess for Peter Clement's family; opened a boarding and day school in Niagara;
• Clement, Peter

  son of John Clement; brother of Lewis and George;
• Zimmerman, Samuel

  2nd wife: Emmeline Dunn; killed in railway disaster on the Desjardins Canal; husband of Margaret Woodruff;
• Woodruff, Richard

  father of Margaret Zimmerman; merchant; elected member of Parliament;
• Zimmerman, Margaret (nee Woodruff)

  wife of Samuel Zimmerman; daughter of Richard Woodruff;
• Hanlan, Dennis

  public school teacher in St. Davids; township clerk;
• Secord, David (Major)
• Moore (Mr.)

  1834 owner of largest tannery in Niagara district;
• Daillon (Father)

  1626;
• Thorpe, Mrs.

  owner of candy store;
• Melville (Capt.)
• Dickson family

  Niagara;
• Keefer (Mr.)

  one of the founders of Thorold;
• Keefer, Mrs. (nee Christie)

  schoolteacher in Niagara;
• Butler, Mrs.

  schoolteacher in Niagara;
• Kerr, Mrs. Samuel (nee Alford)

  wife of Samuel Kerr; originally of Beamsville;
• Morris (Mr.)

  father of Mrs. Henry Wiston; U.E. Loyalist; Beamsville;
• Wiston, Mrs. Henry (nee Morris)

  wife of Henry Wiston; daughter of Mr. Morris; originally of Beamsville;
• Swinton family
• Porter (Dr.)
• Clement, John

  father of Lewis, George and Peter Clement; Ranger;
• Clement, Lewis

  son of John Clement; brother of Peter and George;
• Varey (Mr.)
• Dyke, James
• Wiston, Henry

  married Miss Morris of Beamsville;
• Kerr, Samuel

  husband of Miss Alford;