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·er was born "on the Canadian s ide of Ni- Noted Ontario - Americans
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agara Falls" son of Alexander Chisholm, who came ~s a boy
Research at the University of Pittsb h H
from Scotland. and his wife Mary Phelan. The father dred when urg . e was a son of
Robert Augustus Kennedy Duncan, an Irsihman who had settled
Hugh was about thirteen years old. In 1865. he moved to Port-
at Brantford, and his wife Susan Hawley c d'
land, Maine, where he md. in 1872 Hennetta Mas on of that , a ana 1an. He was
educated at the University of Toronto ('92). He md. 27 Dec
city. In later life he moved to New York City which was his
1899 Charlotte M. Foster of Brantford. He died at Pittsburgh.
place of residence for a number of years prior to his death.

ALEXANDER HUGH FERGUSON (Feb 27, 1853 - Oct 20,
HENRY TOMPKINS PAIGE COMSTOCK (1820- Sept 27, 1870)
1911) s urgeon, was born at Manilla, VictoriaCounty, Ont., the
for whom the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada, was
s eventh of nine children of Alexander Ferguson and his wife
named, was born at Trenton, Ont., fifth and youngest child of
Annie McFayden, both natives of Argyleshire, Scotland. The
Noah and Catherine (Tompkins) Comstock, both of Connectic ut family later moved to Winnipeg. He md. in 1882, Sarah Jane
families. His father was born at Warren, Conn., about 1790 Thomas of Nassagaweya, Ont., who. with two sons, survived
son of a Congregational minister ·at that place. Noah and his him. He died in Chicago.

family left Trenton, moving first to Cleveland, Ohio, and then

to Blissfield. 1\Iich. Henry died while travelling; he is buried CHARLES HENRY FOWLER (Aug 11, 1837 - l\Iar 20. 1908)
at Bozeman, 1\Iontana. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, president of North-
western University, was born at Burford, Ont. [The account

GEORGE ?O~WAY (1818 -c.1863) Chipawa (Ojibway) chief, in the DAB s tates that the place was Burford, now Clarendon,
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\\ esleyan m1sswnary, au thor, friend of Longfellow and others Ontario] He was a son of Horatio Fowler of Connecticut an-
~as bor~ in the fall of 1818 near the mouth of the River Tren~ c est ry, and his wife Harriet Ryan, daughter of Rev. Henry

1 Ryan an Irishman who was one of the founders of Methodism
~ On~ano ~lthough his family were residents of the Ri ce Lake
in Upper Canada . Horatio Fowler took the patriot side in the
dl~tnct. Hts Indian name was Kah-Ge- Ga- Gah-Bowh. "He is
Rebellion of 1837 and sought refuge with relatives in western
sald to have died near Pontiac' Mich. ' about 1863.
New York. He later settled on a farm near Newark, lllinois
where Charles Henry was raised. Charles Henry Fowler died
A~~~~~ LOUIS EDGERTON CROUTER (Sept 15, 1846- June
26 while a resident of New York City. He md. in 1868, Myra A.
so~ of Abra~:~o~ of .th~ deaf, was born near Belleville, Ont., Hitchcock, daughter of Rev. Luke Hitchcock of Chicago, and
Abraham was desc::~~ router and Elizabeth Eliza German. she and one son, Carl H. Fowler, survived him.

bers of which w L . rom a Huguenot family s orne mem- The NCAB adds the information that Horatio Fowler was
ere oyahsts at th ï
olution. At the age of tw t e tme of theAm er ican Rev- born at Troy, N. y. , and that his wife Harriet Ryan was born
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to Philadelphia where in ;~~A~bert moved to Kansa s an.d later in Vermont, daughter of Henry Ryan who helped plant .:Uetho-
Bell as president of th Am . e succeeded Alexander Graham dism in Ve rmont and Ontario. [7:310]

Teaching of Speech to ethe erlCan Association to Promote the
JACOB HAROLD GALLINGER (Mar 28, 1837 - Aug 17, 191S)
Yale, and they had nine chi~::~. He md. 30 April 1895, June
U. S. Sena tor (New Hampshire), physician, was born on a farm
near Cornwall, Ont., the fourth in a large family. He was a
ROBERT KENNEDY DUNCAN
a chemist whose philoso h f . (Nov 1, 1868 - Feb 18 1914) sonof Jacob and Catharine (Cook) Gallinger andwas descended
from Michael Gallinger, a German who settled in NewYork in
responsible for the foundfn: ~f t~dustrial research was ~n part 1754 and later moved to Canada. He md. 3 Aug 1860 in ~ew

e Mellon Institute of Indus trial