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H Jacob McQueen

Mariages et enfants

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Notes individuelles

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-5:
McQueen Jacob, M, Married, 64, born UC, C[hurch] of S P; Dorothy, F, Married, 54, born US, C of S P;
Daniel, M, Single, 24, born UC, Labour;
James, M, Single, 18, born UC, Labour;
John, M, Single, 17, born UC, Labour;
Sarah, F, Single, 20, born UC;
Nancy, F, Single, 15, born UC;
Dorothy, F, Single, 13, born UC.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 215-216:
Alexander Burns McQueen, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South, County of Essex, represents the fourth generation of the family of that name who have resided in the Dominion. The great-grandfather McQueen was a native of Scotland, and as a young man he emigrated to Canada, and was one of the first settlers of Long Point, County of Norfolk, Ont.
     Among his children was Jacob McQueen, who was born at Long Point, and there married Dorothy Mitchell. Later he moved to Fingal, County of Elgin, and still later to the County of Essex, where he settled on the Stokes farm, now owned by J. D. McDonald, Lot 252, and there died, aged seventy-seven years. His wife died at Grand Rapids, Michigan. The children born to Jacob McQueen and wife were: Elizabeth, who married Nelson Tetzel, and died at Sparta, County of Elgin; Alexander, who married Barbara Barter, and died at Detroit; Phoebe, who married Francis C. Fulmer, of Windsor, and there died; William, the father of our subject; Sarah, who married W. K. Fulmer, and died at Grand Rapids, Michigan; Daniel, deceased; James, who married Olive Stewart, and lived at Ruthven, but later moved to Arkansas, where he died; John, a resident of Grand Rapids, who married Ann Hammond; Nancy, a widow of Alvin Orton, who now lives at Detroit; and Dorothy, who married John D. McDonald, of Gosfield South.
     William McQueen was born at Fingal, County of Elgin, and was twenty years of age when his parents moved to the County of Essex. He married Mary, daughter of John W. Wigle. At the time of his marriage he first settled on the Cyrus Wigle farm near Ruthven, but at the end of the second year moved to the farm on Lot 259, occupied by our subject, but which was then a perfect jungle. Upon it he built a log house, hewed inside and rough outside, and at once began the work of clearing. In 1868 a comfortable frame dwelling succeeded the original log house. He died on this place in 1869, aged thirty-five years. The children born to William McQueen and wife were: Alexander Burns; Rosella, who married John McKinney, of Amherstburg; Saloma married James Scratch, of Kingsville; Elizabeth is the widow of Charles Whittle of Detroit, and has one son, John; William died young; James William, D.D.S., of Detroit, married Nell McCormick, and has one daughter, Irene.
     Alexander Burns McQueen was born Aug. 13, 1855, at Ruthven, and was two years of age when the family settled on Lot 259, T.R.S., and upon this property he grew to manhood. At the age of sixteen years, the death of his father forced him to take charge of affairs, and he completed the clearing of the property, doing about fifty acres himself. Later, he rented the farm, and removing to the Pike in Malden, he engaged in hotel keeping. This business he continued for about fourteen years, and he was also engaged in the same line of business at Harrow, Ont. In 1888 he returned to his farm, a property which has been in the family since it was drawn from the government by his grandfather, John W. Wigle, who took out the patent. Since returning to it Mr. McQueen has carried on general farming, and in 1899 he built a handsome brick house. In addition to carrying on his farming operation he runs a threshing machine.
     In 1877 Mr. McQueen married Miss Mary Grondin, who was born on Grosse Ile, daughter of Edward and Madeline (Allean) Grondin. Mr. Grondin was a native of Montreal, and came with his parents to Amherstburg many years ago. His wife died May 14, 1885. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McQueen were: Laura Belle born Oct. 11, 1877, died Jan. 16, 1878, aged three months; William Edward, born March 27, 1879, died Dec. 17, 1880, aged twenty-one months; Ada May, born Oct. 16, 1882; Mary Madeline, born Nov. 9, 1884; Stella, born March 6, 1887; Myrtle Eva, born Sept. 27, 1889; Nora Louisa, born Nov. 6, 1891; Wilfred Balfour, born Aug. 27, 1894; Ella Gertrude, born Dec. 25, 1897.
     Mr. McQueen is one of the most highly respected and enterprising farmers and business men of this locality, and has won the full confidences of those who have had relations with him by his upright manner of dealing. His family is one of which any man may well feel proud, and his young people are prominent socially.
     Although occupied by his private affairs, Mr. McQueen supports the candidates of the Liberal party with his vote, and has always been in favor of good government, and the development of the country. Such men as Mr. McQueen have made Ontario what it is today, and the sons of such men will continue the work of development and advancement, until this portion of the Dominion will become the garden spot of the country.