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The Ontario Hcgis ter
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r:user. d studied subsequent y or wo years
1 . of seventeen an al though he died in that city, much of his time in the inter-
at t 1e age . d his brother, .1\I.A. Slaven, were prom-
. Philadelphia He an vening years was spcnt in Canada. He never lost his dcep
m · f the United States. and for sorne years they
inent contractors o f th interest in Canadian politics, and he was an intimate friend
. tt t to construct a forerunner o e Panama
engagedm an a emp 1 d t ·1 d of Sir Wilfrid Laurier among other Canadian leaders.
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Canal. H. · av n was also in the wholesa e an re a1 rug He md in March 1873 , Adelaide (d. 1921) daughter of Alex-
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busmess or som e "ears at San Francisco. (Nelt er of the ander St. Denis. He was survived by his only child, a son.
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Slavens are in the DAB; these notes come from the NCAB,
3:82). Sir WILLIAM JAMES WANLESS (May 1, 1865 -Mar 3, 1933)
medical missionary in India who was knighted for his services
WILLIA.l\1 HENRY SULLIVAN (Aug 9, 1864 - Jan 26, 1929) and also awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class, was
lumberman and ci vic leader, was born at Port Dalhousie, Ont., born in Charleston, Ontario, son of John and Elizabeth Wan-

son of Timothy and .1\Iargaret (Sinnett) Sullivan. He attended less. He was educated in the schools at Charleston, ~fount
schools at St. Catharines. He became engaged in the lumber Forest and Guelph. He graduated from the University 1\ledical
College, New York City, in 1889, and in the same year he
business at Buffalo, N. Y., in Pennsylvania and ultimately in
sailed for India where he remained until 1928. At his retire-
Louisiana where he founded the City of Bogalusa (named from
the stream. Bogue Lusa). ment the Aga Khan presented him with a farewell address en-
closed in a silver casket. He died at Glendale, Calif.
He md (1) Oct 4, 1886 at Buffalo, N. Y., Elizabeth Calkins
He md (1) Sept 5, 1889, Mary Elizabeth Marshall who died
who died July 11, 1918. He md (2) Jan 27, 1922 at Slidell, La.,
Aug 12, 1906. He md (2) Dec 5, 1907, Lillian Emery Havens
Ella Rose Salmen who died less than two months before his
who survived him.
own death. Three children were born to the first union and
two to the second.
JAMES CRAIG WATSON (Jan 28, 1838 - Nov 22, 1880)
astronomer, was born on a farm near Fingal, Ont. , eldest of
EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON (Feb 12, 1849- Mar 5, 1924) four children of William Watson by his wife Rebecca Bacon. a

editor, author and poet, was born in Toronto, a son of William native of Nova Scotia, and grandson of James Watson. I~ 1850
and Margaret Hamilton (Foley) Thomson. (The "Encyclopedia the family moved to Ann Arbor, Mich. At the age of thtrteen
Canadiana" states that he was born in Peel County and it he bad acquired such mechanical skill that an .incompetent ~n:

na~~s his mother as Margaret Hamilton). He was edu,cated at gineer was discharged so that he could take his pla~e. Dunn~
Trmtty College Scho 1 w t .
o · es on. Before he was sixteen bts this time he studied Latin and Greek. He entered hlgh scho~l.
hatred o.f slavery and his admiration of Abraham Lincoln en- but as his ability was greater than that of his teacher, ~e ~mt.
duced h1m to 1eave hom d . . At the age of fifteen he entered the .Univ~rsity o~ l\l~clu.gan
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th . . e an en 1st m the Union army during
e Ctvll War He served . b th which was the start of a long associatiOn wtth that mshtutton,
C 1 . · . m o the 3rd and 5th Pennsylvania
ava ry. Hts hfelong ad · t· first as a student and then as a professor of astronomy .. ~e
his publication · t mira ton for Lincoln is reflected in
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m a er years of rrWh L' . r of the Washburn Observatory at thel m-
poems'' (1909) 0 h" en mcoln died, and other later became directe . . . and ublications gained
· n 1s return to 0 t . versity of Wisconsin. HlS dtscovenes d thp \'orld one of the
Queen's Own Rifles and . n arw he enlisted in the . . . d ds from aroun e \ ·
of 1866. For a number sfaw service during the Fenian Raids h1m recogmtwn an awar . t·tled 1 nio·ht Com-
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o years he w . . . d more exotiC of whiC was the decorat10n en 1 " t'>
h l\I d .. dich of Turkev and
was employed in the c t . as a Civll engmeer an
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h ons ructton of th C . mander of the Impena A tt \Vaite who sun·ivC'd
t e rapids of the Ottaw R" e arillon Canal around Egypt (1875). He md in 1\Tay 1860 • nne e
a IVer. In 187 9 he Went to Boston but
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