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JAMES WILLIAM McLEOD, M.P.P.
Secretary-Treasurer, CORNWALL CHEESE AND BUTTER BOARD
 AMES WILLIAM
McLEOD, M. P. P. Sec-Treasurer of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter
Board, and Cornwall Township Clerk and Treasurer, was born at the South
Branch, Cornwall Township, in 1871. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James
McLeod. Mr. McLeod received his education at the Public School and the
Cornwall High School. He is a graduate of the Kingston Business College.
After following farming for a time he became connected with the contracting
firm of Wm. Davis & Sons, doing Government contracting on the Cornwall
Canal. Following this he spent two years in the Southern States in railway
contract work, subsequently returning home.
Mr. McLeod was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the
Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board in 1909, and has held this important position
ever since, giving splendid satisfaction to Cheese Board patrons. Previous to this
he was salesman for nine years on the Board.
Mr. McLeod has been extremely active politically, and his great popularity
and ability have been recognized and rewarded by the electors. He has been
successively elected Township Councillor, Deputy Reeve, and Reeve of Cornwall
Township, and was further honored by being elected Warden of the United
Counties. He served with distinction on many committees and was chairman
of the Building Committee which began and completed the House of Refuge, that
splendid monument to the philanthropic spirit of the Counties of Stormont,
Dundas and Glengarry.
In 1916 he unsuccessfully contested the County of Stormont for the Provincial
House in the interests of the Liberal party.
Mr. McLeod has been a tireless exponent of good roads, and his ardent advocacy
for better highways, both on platform and in committee, has had much
to do with the present general demand for good roads locally.
Our subject has stood four-square for clean sport in lacrosse, hockey and
football. He was President of the Stormont Lacrosse League, a league which did
more to develop proficient lacrosse players than any other organization ever formed
in Cornwall. He has also been a member of the Cornwall Lacrosse Club executive.
Mr. McLeod has always taken a leading and vigorous part in any movement
that has had for its object the advancement of local dairy interests. It was he
who was largely instrumental in forming a huge delegation of farmers this summer
to wait on the Dominion Government to protest against a "fixed" price for cheese
imposed by the British Government.
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