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Alexander Ferriss

Eltern

• Thomas G. Ferriss 1854-
• Emma Smart

Geschwister

• Gordon Ferriss
• Josephine Ferriss
• Paul Ferriss
• Helen Ferriss
• Ruth Ferriss

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Hinweis zur Person

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 488-489:
Thomas G. Ferriss, the owner and proprietor of the finest and best equipped livery establishment in Windsor, is also one of the city's leading businessmen. He is descended from one of the leading families of the County of Essex.
     The great-grandfather of Mr. Ferriss was a United Empire Loyalist, having come to Canada from the States about the time of the revolutionary war...
     John Ferriss, the grandfather of Thomas G., was born in 1795, in Bois Blanc, and died in 1882 in Toronto. He married a lady names McCormick, who was born in 1797, in the County of Essex, and their children were: ... John, deceased...
     John Ferris (2), son of John, and father of Thomas G., was born in 1816, in the County of Essex, where he followed farming, spending his whole life in his native country... His wife bore the maiden name of Hannah Renwick, and she was born in 1822, in the County of Kent, of English parentage, and now resides on the old homestead in South Essex...
     Thomas G. Ferriss was born Sept. 7, 1854, on the old Ferris homestead, Colchester Twp, County of Essex, and remained on the home farm until he was twenty years of age. He then made a trip to the North-west and took up a homestead in Manitoba, to which he gave his attention for four years, at the end of this time selling to advantage. Embarking in the real estate business in partnership with N. H. Stevens, of Chatham, and John Rankin, under the firm name of Ferriss, Rankin & Stevens, Mr. Ferriss found a wide field for his energies, and the firm continued to prosper. In 1882 he engaged in the horse business, in which he continued to be interested until 1893, when he disposed of his holdings in the North-west and returned to Windsor...
     In 1885 Mr. Ferriss was married, in the North-west, to Miss Emma Smart, daughter of W. R. Smart, of Caledonia, formerly of Scotland, and the children born to this union are: Gordon, Josephine, Paul, Alexander, and Helen and Ruth, twins...

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