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MICHAEL McALPINE
[Welland Telegraph, 10 April 1891]
Michael McAlpine who died on the 23rd of March, was born February 5th, 1833, on the place where he died. He was the third son of the late Christopher and Sarah McAlpine, and was well known as a very quiet, peaceful man of the most sterling integrity, and who always attended strictly to his own business. He was a consistent member of the Church of England, and was fully prepared and anxious to lay down the burden of life after the weary years of hard labor and aches and pains incident to a farmer’s life. In 1852, at the age of 19, he accomplished his father to Australia and followed mining and lumbering in that country with varying fortune for more than ten years, burying his father at Ballarat in September, 1858. He afterwards crossed the Pacific via Port Horn to Liverpool, making a brief stay in England, and then returned via Quebec and Toronto to his old home, which he reached after an absence of just eleven years, bringing with him a large collection of specimens of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms of Australia. After a brief stay at the old home he went to Tuscolo County, Mich., where he remained 7 years, and in 1868 he married Elizabeth Pearson of Crowland. Coming back to Canada he bought the interests of the principal heirs to his old birthplace, and settling down began in earnest to restore the old farm which had suffered from long neglect, but which he made to “blossom as the rose.” The widow, who mourns the loss of a loving husband, was a devoted partner, sharing alike his joys and sorrows and doing much to stimulate his ambition in the improvements to the old homestead. On Wednesday, March 25th, his remains were consigned to the earth at Doan’s Ridge, the funeral being attended by his brother, Volney, of Butler, Pa., three years his senior and “now the last of his race, but who did not arrive until after his brother’s decease.-COM
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