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SAMUEL J. McDONELL
VICE-PRESIDENT CORNWALL CHEESE AND BUTTER BOARD
 AMUEL J. McDONELL is Vice-President of. the Cornwall Cheese and
Butter Board. He is sixty-nine years of age and enjoys the distinction of
being the oldest cheese salesman in point of service on the Cheese Board.
Mr. McDonell is the largest shareholder in the Strathmore Cheese Factory.
He has a splendid 170-acre farm located Lot D. First Concession, Roxborough
Township, Stormont County. He owns 20 fine head of cattle, 6 horses, 55 sheep,
9 swine and over 100 fowl.
His farm produces annually 900 bushels of grain, 35 tons of hay, 5 acres of corn
and 150 bushels of potatoes. He has a sugar bush of 800 trees, also 8 colonies of bees.
Mr. McDonell, who has been farming all his life, has been a patron of the
Cornwall Cheese Board for twenty-one years. He sends to the Strathmore Factory
an average of 500 pounds of milk per day during the season.
Mr. McDonell has been a director of the Avonmore Agricultural Association
for a number of years, Vice-President of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board
for twenty-one years, salesman for the Strathmore Factory for twenty-two years
and Secretary-Treasurer of this Factory for the same length of time. He was
Reeve of Roxborough for four years, 1910-11-12-13. One of the most important
positions he has held was that of commissioner under a Federal Government
appointment in conjunction with Mr. R. A. Pringle, K.C., to investigate the
weighing of cheese.
Mr. McDonell's father's name was John R. McDonell and his mother's
maiden name Margaret McMillan. He is the father of three sons. Mr. McDonell
is a Catholic in religion, a Conservative in politics and of Scotch extraction.
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