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H.G. MACKLEM – EX-WARDEN OF COUNTY DIED IN TORONTO

H.G. Macklem Direct Descendant of Two Pioneer Families

11 YEARS REEVE OF CHIPPAWA

[Welland Tribune, 3 August 1915]

The late Herbert Gay Macklem, who died at his residence, 112 Bedford Road, Toronto, July 29th last, was born at the Village of Chippawa, Ont., August 20th, 1857, eldest son of Jas. F and Adelaide A. Macklem, the former a descendant of James Macklem, of the earliest settlers of the Niagara district-prior to the year 1800, and the latter, the youngest daughter of the late Col. John Crysler of Crysler’s Farm, a battlefield of 1812-1814. H. G. Macklem was educated at Trinity College school. Port Hope, and subsequently resided at the village of Chippawa, representing that municipality as its reeve for eleven consecutive years, during one of which he was elected warden of the County of Welland. He removed to Toronto in 1901, where he resided until his death. He is survived by his widow, second daughter of the late Lewis Ross, formerly of Port Hope, who represented the county of Durham for eleven years in the Dominion Parliament. Two children, a son and a daughter, Herbert, manager of the Imperial Bank, Niagara-on-the-Lake, and Laura; also a brother, and his aged father. Mr. Macklem was a lifelong Conservative.

Welland Tribune
3 August 1915

Died: 29 July 1915
20 August 1857-29 July 1915
Bright s disease
Father: James Francis Macklem
Mother: Annie (Adelaide) Crysler

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