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ARTHUR J.J. BRENNAN
One of the substantial citizens of Welland, is a pharmacist owner and proprietor of a well-appointed Drug Store in the centre of the city.
Mr. Brennan was born June 29th, 1878, in St. Catharines, Ont., and is the son of the late Luke J. Brennan and Mary Jane (Whitten) Brennan. His father was born and raised on a farm near Kingston City, and was later a bookbinder in St. Catharines and Welland, and died in 1909. His mother was born at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and died in 1913. His grandparents were all born in Ireland. Mr. A.J.J. Brennan came to Welland at the age of two years and acquired his early education at the Public and High School in Welland, graduating from High School in 1895. He graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy and the Toronto University in 1903 with a degree in Phm.B.
He went into the drug business in 1906, buying out the store of an old-time druggist, J. Hamilton Burgar, and is still active in that business.
He has also for many years been interested in many side lines, particularly real estate and the wholesale tobacco business.
In public life he was a member of the High School Board for many years, and was chairman of that body in 1912. He was elected to City Council in 1918, and the following year was elected Mayor of Welland, retiring from public life in 1920. His fraternal affiliations are with Merritt Lodge 168, Masonic, of which he is a past master, Rameses Temple as a Shriner, and he is also an Oddfellow and an Orangeman. He is a member of the Welland Club, Lookout Point Golf Club, Burlington Golf Club, but gives most of his time to his business, in which he takes a delight, and has given a service that has resulted in the up building of a substantial business.
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
A.E. Coombs
History of The Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal
1930
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