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ANDREW BLACK ROBERTSON
DEATH REMOVES FORMER REEVE CROWLAND TWP.
A.B. ROBERTSON PASSES IN HAMILTON HOSPITAL-IN HIS 80TH YEAR
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 14 December 1931]
The death occurred in hospital at Hamilton on Saturday night of A.B. Robertson, a former reeve of Crowland township and a resident of Niagara Falls for 35 years. The late Mr. Robertson was in his 80th year and was born in Lanark county, Ontario. In 1870 he settled in Crowland township and took up farming. He owned one hundred acres of land and for 25 years was a successful agriculturist. He took an active interest in municipal affairs and besides serving as a councillor for several years, for two years occupied the position of reeve of the township.
About the year 1895 he moved to Niagara Falls where he conducted a general store and also built a number of houses. He became a well known figure in Niagara Falls but a year ago disposed of his business and went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Sanford Fleming, of Jarvis. He was a Liberal in politics.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Pratt, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Ernest Reaveley, Niagara Falls and Mrs. Sanford Fleming, Jarvis; also three sisters, Mrs. Melvin Misener, Port Robinson; Mrs. W.D. Misener, Welland and Mrs. A.S. MacGregor, London, Ont; and one brother, William Robertson, formerly of Port Robinson, now of Buffalo.
The funeral is to held on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock from Sutherland’s funeral home in Welland to Doan’s Ridge cemetery.
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