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Thomas Arnold
McCormick
the Woodbridge Story
1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
McCormick Malcom, M, 50, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish, Farmer, Married;
Elizabeth, F, 45, born New Brunswick, Methodist, origin: English, Married;
John, M, 23, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish, Farmer;
Mathew, M, 21, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish, Farmer;
Mary, F, 17, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish;
Adilade, F, 15, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish;
William, M, 14, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish, Farmer;
Thomas, M, 10, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish;
Judson, M, 6, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish;
Eliza, F, 3, born Ont, Church of England, origin: Irish.
1901 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, K3-10:
McCormick J.[sic] A., M, Married, 25 Oct 1870, 30, born Ont, origin: English, Can, C of Eng, Physician;
Edith, F, wife, Married, 10 Oct 1869, 31, born Ont, origin: English, Can, C of Eng.
Obituary, July 1953, Essex Branch of OGS files:
McCormick - Well Known Doctor Dies. Dr. T. A. McCormick Succumbs at 82.
Dr. Thomas Arnold McCormick, M.D., C.M., widely known in Essex County medical circles, died late Saturday at his residence, 2032 Willistead Crescent, following a brief illness. He was 82.
Born In Harrow: Father of Windsor Cancer specialist, Dr. Norman A. McCormick, Dr. McCormick maintained an active practice until very recently, when ill health forced him to rest.
Born in Harrow on the old McCormick farm, where three generations of the family have lived and where his great-grandfather is buried, Dr. McCormick attended Potleg Public School, Essex High School and the Windsor Model School.
For several years he taught in schools throughout Essex County.
He graduated in medicine from Trinity Medical College, a few years before its amalgamation with the University of Toronto.
Dr. McCormick practiced medicine in Wheatley for seven years following his graduation and then he went abroad for a year for post graduate study in London, England. Upon his return, he went to Detroit, where he practiced medicine for serveral months and then returned to Windsor and lived in the old town of Walkerville for the past 49 years.
He was a charter member of the Essex County Medical Society and served two terms as medical officer of health for Walkerville between 1910 and 1915.
Dr. McCormick had the distinction of owning the first automobile in Windsor.
He was widely travelled and was a keen student of history and literature.
Surviving is his wife, Edith (nee Woodbridge); one son, Dr. Norman Arnold McCormick, of Windsor, and a grand-daughter, Elizabeth Joan McCormick, of Windsor. Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, at 4 p.m., at the Anderson Funeral Home, with Rev. Canon J. H. Smith of Ridgetown, officiating. Burial will be in Windsor Grove Cemetery.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Essex Co., pp. 128-130:
McCORMICK. ...
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(III) Matthew W. McCormick was born on the Col. Brush place, Colchester South, Oct. 1, 1830, and was about sixteen years of age when the family moved to Lot 7, in the Gore....In time he came into possession of the 200 acres...
On Jan. 29, 1854, Mr. McCormick was married to Elizabeth Jane Taylor, who was born in New Brunswick, March 8, 1836, daughter of Steven and Jane Taylor....
Thomas Arnold McCormick, son of Matthew W. McCormick, was born on the homestead place in Colchester South, three-quarters of a mile from Harrow, one of the most beautiful farms of that especially favored section. He received a common and high school education, and for five years engaged in teaching in the County of Essex. Determining to enter professional life, he matriculated in the medical department of Trinity College, Toronto, from which he was graduated in 1897, immediately thereafter locating at Wheatley, for the general practice of his calling.
Dr. McCormick married Edith Woodbridge, daughter of the late William Woodbridge, of Colchester South, and they have one son, Norman Arnold, born June 14, 1901.
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