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HONOR TO AN OLD FONTHILL BOY
[Welland Tribune, 8 January 1909]
The following is from “Oak Leaves,” a paper published in Oak Park, Ill:-
“Albert W. Giles, one of Oak Park’s oldest and most respected citizens, received on Christmas day a “Friendship Calendar.” Three hundred and sixty-five friends contributed to the gift, expressions of regard and wishes for a prosperous and happy new year. Mr. Giles has lived in Oak Park for thirty-one years, coming to the village in 1877. He was born in England seventy years ago, when but a small lad his parents moved to Canada. In 1864 he came to the United States, and was employed in the mustering office at Springfield in the closing days of the civil war. For twenty-eight years he was employed by Field Benedict and Co., wholesale clothiers. He is now in the house of Lindelhal and Sons. During the four years of Cleveland’s administrations, beginning in 1893, he was postmaster at Oak Park. He lives at 123 South Euclid avenue.”
Mr. Giles was well-known in Fonthill many years ago, and several old friends who remember his residence there were among the contributors to the “Friendship Calendar.” In 1859 he went to St. Catharines, and was engaged in the office of Mr. Frank Shanley, C.E., during the construction of the Welland railway. He was afterwards with a party of government surveyors who laid out two new townships in the Muskoka district. During his residence in St. Catharines, his singing, in company of Mr. Edward Gore, was prominent feature in all the entertainments of that day. Mr. Giles is a brother of Mrs. R.T. Burns, residing on North Pelham street, and a cousin of Mr. Alfred Giles of “The Chestnuts.”
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