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A. H. ROBERTSON
HE subject of this
sketch, A. H. Robertson,
who was at
the recent municipal election
chosen for the fourth
time as Reeve of Maxville,
and who was further honored
by being elected Warden
of the United Counties
of Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry, at the January
Session of the Counties'
Council, held in Cornwall,
is the first native of Maxville
to hold this honor.
He is the youngest son of
the late Mr. Alexander
Robertson, and his wife,
Harriet Boyd. Mr. Robertson
was born January 1st,
1866, on a farm in the 18th
Concession of the Indian
Lands, now a part of the
village of Maxville. His
early education was received
in the Athol Public School,
where he was a class mate
of the Rev. Charles Gordon,
more widely known as
"Ralph Connor," the celebrated
author.
When quite young Mr.
Robertson apprenticed himself to Mr. Peter McLeod who conducted a watchmaking
and jewelry business in the recently destroyed McBain Block. In 1886 he started
business in Maxville on his own account. Three years later in 1889, Mr. Robertson
built a fine block of his own and at present occupies this building as a jewelry store.
In 1887, he was married to Miss Wilhelmina Wannamaker of Sterling, Ontario.
Their union was blessed with one daughter, who is now Mrs. T. W. Munro of
Maxville.
Mr. Robertson has always taken a keen and intelligent interest in every
movement that has for its object the betterment of his native town, county and
country. He has always been a staunch temperance advocate and has been for
some time a member of the Dominion Council Royal Templars of Temperance.
Ever since the outbreak of the war, Mr. Robertson has thrown himself enthusiastically
into the prosecution of the cause so far as local enterprise and energy
could be exerted, and the departed as well as the returned soldiers were always
the object of his solicitude and thoughtful consideration.
Being an enthusiastic motorist, the Good Road Movement has in him a
warm advocate and he is a member of the executive of the Eastern Ontario Good
Roads Association.
In addition to the offices already mentioned as being held by Mr. Robertson,
he is also a Notary Public for the Province of Ontario and local manager, Maxville,
for the Bell Telephone Company. He is, perhaps, one of the most efficient and
popular officers that ever occupied the wardens chair.
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