Andrew Miscampbell
Andrew Miscampbell | |
|---|---|
Ontario MPP | |
| In office 1890–1902 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Alfred Drury |
| Succeeded by | James Brockett Tudhope |
| Constituency | Simcoe East |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 28, 1848 Canada West |
| Died | March 25, 1905 (aged 56) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Jessie Spooner (m. 1874) |
Andrew Miscampbell (June 28, 1848 – March 25, 1905) was an Ontario political figure. He represented Simcoe East from 1890 to 1902 and Sault Ste. Marie from 1902 to 1903 as a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Career
He began work as a bookkeeper at
Bell Ewart, Ontario in 1872.[1] In 1873 he moved to Midland, Ontario to become a bookkeeper at Hermon Henry Cook's sawmill.[2] Later when Cook's British Canadian Lumber Company failed in 1882, Andrew became manager of Richard Power's Victoria Harbour saw mills.[3] In 1886 Miscampbell returned to Midland to operate H. H. Cook's former mill on his own account.[4] In the same year, R. A. Loveland of the Emery Lumber Co. of East Saginaw, Michigan, arranged to have that firm's Georgian Bay logs manufactured into lumber at Miscampbell's mill.[5] He sold the mill to the Emery Lumber Co. of Michigan in 1891.[6]
Personal life
He was born in
Barrie. From 1864 to 1866 he was drill instructor of the volunteers of Simcoe and he was engaged in the Fenian repulse as sergeant-major of the provisional battalion of the companies from the north put together in Toronto.[7]
In 1874, he married Jessie Spooner.
He died in Toronto in 1905 of typhoid fever and was buried in Barrie.
Miscampbell was godfather to Ontario premier Leslie Frost.
References
- ^ County of Simcoe Gazetteer and Directory 1872-1873
- ^ Midland on Georgian Bay, (an Illustrated History of Midland, Ontario) by William Northcott and William Smith, published by Huronia Museum, Midland. 2008
- ^ 1882 Lovell’s Business and Professional Directory of Ontario
- ^ Midland on Georgian Bay, (an Illustrated History of Midland, Ontario) by William Northcott and William Smith, published by Huronia Museum, Midland. 2008
- ^ The Canada Lumberman magazine, October 1887
- ^ The Canada Lumberman magazine, May 1891
- ^ The Canada Lumberman magazine, May 1891