2013, ISBN: 9781230449975

Toronto, ON, Canada: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2003. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, 160 pages illustrated with b & w and colour photo… More...

Toronto, ON, Canada: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2003. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, 160 pages illustrated with b & w and colour photos, tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine. "This is a book about people who made Hamilton their home, focusing on memorable incidents from their lives. There are murderers and murder victims, victims of natural disasters from the Desjardins Canal disaster to the Titanic, politicians, eccentrics, victims of war, philanthropists, educators, scientists and inventtors, heroic members of the police services, war heroes, nurses, doctors, farmers, firemen, bootleggers, undertakers, and manufacturers." Contents include: Intro; Alexander Aitchison; Gordon Allison; Thomas Bain; Abraham Baker; Hugh Cossart Baker; George Bamberger; Constable James Barron; Richard Beasley; Sir Adam Beck; Dr. George Leslie Bell; Susan E. Bennetto; Dr. Thomas Aimers Bertram; Binkley Family; John Josiah Blachford; Charles Goodenough Booker; Matthew Britain; Colonel Alexander Brown & Merren (Grierson) Brown; William Bruce; William Bullock; Jacob Burkholder; Richard Butler; Sara Galbraith (Beemer) Calder; Martha Julia Cartmell; Dr. William Case; David Chambers; Thomas Choate; Cholera Victims: Memorial in Hamilton Cemetery; Rev Thomas Christie; James Coleman; William Cook; William Winer Cooke; David Coulter; Herbert Davis; John Burwell Davis; Alma (Leith) Dick Lauder; John Dickerson; James Joseph Evel; Florence "Floss" Elliot Warburton Farmer; Brigadier-General George Richard Devey Farmer; Colin Campbell Ferrie; Clementina (Trenholme) Fessenden; Kate Field & William Field; John Charles Field; George Thomas French; James Cage; Sir John Morison Gibson; Jane Giles; Henry Goff; Great Western Railway Crew: Desjardins Canal Disaster, 1857 May 12; Billy Green; George Hamilton; Thomas William Hand; Mathew Joseph Hayes; Margaret Janet Hayworth; Nora Frances Henderson; George Muir Hendrie; John Heslop; Michael Hess; Adelaide Sophia (Hunter) Hoodless; Lewis Horning; Otto Ives; Lydia Ann (Sanford) Jackson; George Frederick Jelfs; Maggie (Clark) Johnson & George Washington Johnson; Robert Kirkland Kernighan; John Benjamin Bensley "Ben" Kerr; Ethel Caroline Kinrade; Richard Thomas Lancefield; Robert Land; Frederick Aussem Latshaw; Samuel Lawrence; Erland Lee; Janet (Chisholm) Lee; Daniel Brand Marsh; James Marshall; Michael McConnell; John V. McGovern; Dr. John Owen McGregor; Thomas G. McIlwraith; William McKinlay; MacNab famiily; Mary Jane (Baker) McQuesten; Thomas Baker McQuesten; John Moodie Jr.; Luke Mullock; Dr Alfred Pain; Besha "Bessie" (Starkman) Tobin Perri; Thomas Henry Pratt; Andrew Prindel; Richard Quance; Elizabeth "Bessie" Ridler; George Rolph; Sarah Olive Routledge; Royal Air Force Servicemen; Samuel Ryckman; Mae Belle Sampson; Harriet (Vaux) Sanford; William Eli Sanford; William Oscar Sealey; Titus Geer Simons; Ernest D'Israeli (E.D.) Smith; Troy; James Williams Tyrrell; Richard Mott Wanzer; Thomas C. Watkins; Isabella (Hyde) Whyte; Young Cemetery; Edward Zealand; Epilogue; Bibliography; Writer Biographies; index. Check out the scans.. First Edition First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine., James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2003, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...of Rev. Nicholas Street, who came from Taunton, Massachusetts, to New Haven, Connecticut, and succeeded Rev. John Davenport. (VII) Abraham (2) Ives, son of Abraham (i) and Eunice (Day) Ives, was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, August 15, 1803, died October 19, 1866. He succeeded to the homestead whereon his father and grandfather resided and brought it to a high state of cultivation. He was a prominent man in the community, inheriting in large measure the excellent characteristics of his forbears. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of West Springfield, as was also his wife. He married Harriet Knowles, born in East Hampton, near Mt. Tom, June 16, 1807, but resided in West Springfield from early childhood, died June 7, 1889, a daughter of Joshua Knowles. They were the parents of four children: Ann E., now deceased, was the wife of Alvin C. Pratt; Dwight H., of whom further; Ellen H., resides with Dwight H.; Julia ?., now deceased. (VIII) Dwight H. Ives, son of Abraham (2) and Harriet (Knowles) Ives, was born on the paternal homestead in West Springfield, Massachusetts, January 28, 1836. He attended the public schools of his native town, and was later a student at the Suffield Literary Institute and Holyoke Academy. For the six years following the completion of his studies he assisted his father in the management of the large farm which had descended from his ancestor, and subsequently he assumed the entire management of the same, adding adjoining land by purchase from time to time until the farm embraced two hundred and thirty acres, one of the largest in that section, and devoted principally to dairying. The milk product was disposed of at retail in the city of Holyoke for twenty-one years, during which time Mr.... Weight:0.88 lbs, TheClassics.us, 9/12/2013 0:00:00<