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GEORGE W. FICKES
EORGE W. FICKES is fifty-nine
years of age and was born in the
Township of Cornwall. His father's
name was Jacob Harvey Fickes and his
mother's maiden name was Elizabeth
Forrester. He married Mary Annabel
and has one son, George E., and two
daughters, Ethel A. and Jessie D. Fickes.
Mr. Fickes is an Anglican in religion and in
politics a Unionist.
Mr. Fickes has a large 180-acre farm
located Lot 34, 1st Concession, Cornwall
Township, which he personally operates.
This farm annually yields 800 bushels of
grain, 60 tons of hay and 6 acres of corn.
He is a patron of the Moulinette Cheese
Factory and a member of the Cornwall
Cheese & Butter Board.
His farm is well stocked, there being,
amongst other live stock, 45 cattle,
5 horses, 20 swine and over 50 fowl.
Mr. Fickes has farmed all his life and
delivers, on an average, 450 pounds of
milk daily to the factory during the season. He produces 400 pounds of butter
annually. He has a sugar bush that yields 100 gallons of syrup yearly.
ALEXANDER MULLIN
LEXANDER MULLIN is sixty-seven years old and was born in Cornwall
Centre. He now owns and operates the 100-acre farm located Lot 32,
Second Concession, Cornwall Township. Mr. Mullin's father's name
was Alexander Mullin
and his mother's maiden name Catherine McKay. His
wife was Deliah Agnes Fickes, and he is the father of four sons and two
daughters. In religion he is a Presbyterian and in politics a Unionist.
Mr. Mullin's farm yields 400 bushels of grain, 30 acres of hay, 2 1/2 acres of
corn, and 100 bushels of potatoes. His stock includes 28 cattle, 6 horses, 11
swine and 75 fowl. He has been farming all his life. Mr. Mullin delivers a daily
average of 200 pounds of milk to the Moulinette Factory and produces annually
200 pounds of butter.
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