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Fish, Nathan A.
Person · d.1926

Nathan A. Fish graduated from Bishop's University in 1919. After graduating in Arts at Bishop's, Mr. Fish entered the department of pharmacy at McGill, where he proved to be a brilliant scholar, especially in research, in which work he was engaged when he died. He was the founder and first president of the McGill Pharmaceutical Society and was a charter member of several fraternities. He died in Montreal on October 28, 1926. (Source, The Mitre, 1926).

Farnsworth, Esther
Person · 1901-2003

Esther Farnsworth graduated from Bishop's University in 1922. Born in the Eastern Townships, Esther taught in Richmond, Noranda, Knowlton and Cookshire, where she was principal of the high school there from 1942-48. Esther worked close to 30 years as a teacher and principal. Esther's principal activity was reading, and was very interested in history. She was an avid traveller and visited many countries during her life. Esther Farnsworth celebrated her 100th birthday on 6 February 2001 in the Wales Home in Richmond, Quebec, and passed away in 2003.

Hall, C. Wayne
Person

Dr. C. Wayne Hall was born in Lennoxville in 1910. He graduated from Bishop's University in 1931. He served as the first Dean of Education at McGill University after a career as a one-room school inspector. He authored numerous publications and textbooks and worked with the education sector in the newly liberated Nigeria in 1960-61. He returned to the Eastern Townships in the mid 1970's and received a DCL from Bishop's in 1978.

Hayden, Robert S.
Person

Jean McLachlan Hayden and Robert S. Hayden both graduated from Bishop's University in 1951. Ralph Henry Hayden graduated from Bishop's in 1910 and was the father of Robert S. Hayden.

Ingalls, Ross Baxter
Person · 1914-2006

Ross Baxter Ingalls was born in Danville in 1914, son of Mr. and Mrs. K.S. Ingalls and received his early education at Brantford Ontario. He attended Bishop's University, Lennoxville QC, but did not complete his degree due to his involvement in the war, joining the RCAF in 1940. On 15 March 1941, he graduated as a navigator, from No. 1 Air Navigation School at Rivers, Manitoba. He then proceeded overseas and after receiving additional training was then posted to No. 142 Squadron, Bomber Command, as a navigator. He received a Distinguished Flying Cross, August 11, 1942, and was decorated by H.M. the King, in February 1943. Ingalls remained in the RCAF after WW 2 and held a series of senior positions, rising to the rank of Group Captain before retiring in 1964. He had a younger brother, Flight Lieutenant Bruce J. Ingalls DFC, a pilot, who was killed in action over Italy, in 1944. Ross Baxter Ingalls DSO, DFC, CD Group Capt. (Retired) WWII RCAF Navigator died on October 29, 2006 at the Perley Rideau Veterans' Health Clinic, age 92. (http://www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com/IngallsRB.htm)

Jackson, Michael J.B.
Person

Michael J. B. Jackson (Ph. D., University of Toronto) lives in Montreal, Quebec, and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author and coauthor of numerous publications, including Educational Reform: A Deweyan Approach; and The Teacher as Philosopher. He was a professor and served as Chair of the Graduate School of Education at Bishop’s University, 1988-1993, and Head of the Department of Educational Foundations at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he assisted student teachers and interns as they prepared for their first teaching appointments. In addition, he has taught at several other universities, including Concordia, Queens, Mount St. Vincent, and British Columbia.

Merry V, Ralph
SHMAut · Person · 1809-11-06 1887-10-07
Thomas, John
Person · 1839-1901

Teacher, farmer, municipal councillor and long time resident of West Bolton, was born in Frost Village, son of William A. and Sarah Ann (Martin) Thomas. That this family were early residents of Shefford Township is evident in the fact that, the parents of John, were married March 6, 1825 by the Rev. Rhichard Whitwell, a new Church of England missionary sent to Shefford in 1821. The Williams, the Martins, the Goddards, the Frosts, the Fosters were all early settlers in Frost Village at this time. In the 1860's John Thomas taught in the first Creek School, District No. 1 in West Bolton. He married Emmeline Rooney whose home was next north of where the Creek Church was later built, this has been the home of Clarence Johnson in more recent years whose mother was a Rooney. After marriage John and Emmeline settled on the west half of Lot 4, Range I which was property just opposite the Creek School. Their sons, Arad and Myron, became business men of Foster, in Brome Township which was becoming a village by 1880.

The Ruth E. Thomas, mentioned in one of the documents was John's sister, who had married Arad Williams of Frost Village. They had also settled in Bolton on the property on the right just south of the railroad tracks where Heman Salisbury lived in the 1950's and Gordon Smith Family in the 1960's. There is a sketch of this farmhouse in the Belden's Atlas of 1881.

John's son, Arad Thomas, proprietor of the Foster House acquired some land at the outlet of Brome Lake and there now is a THOMAS ROAD leading down to the lake from the main road. Arad's daughter, Annie Thomas (Mrs. Norris) owned a cottage on this property during the 1940's and 50's and 60's.

It is interesting to learn that the John Thomas farm in West Bolton has been called by some present day residents the MARY BLAKE PLACE. Mary (1872-1960) was John and Emmeline's daughter who had married Howard Blake of South Stukely. In her older years she lived in Waterloo but had a penchant for moving around and buying up home properties. In the 1950's she did acquire this place in West Bolton where she had been brought up as a girl, but, being in her 80's at the time, only rented it.

John and Emmeline (Rooney) Thomas had other children, in all we should mention, not only the two older sons, Arad b. 1866 and Myron b. 1868, but Edith b. 1874, Mary of course, and two younger sons Evelyn and Melvin who lived in Ottawa.

Smith, Alice Maude
Person · 1866-01-14-1938-01-11

Alice Maude Smith is the third child of Abram Nelson Smith and Judith Scovill, and grand-daughter of Polly Barber Scovill of Abercorn. After moving to the United States, she studied to become a nurse and finally graduated in medicine from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, in 1896. She became a renowned doctor, after moving to Tacoma, Washington, but also a writer of poems, essays and playwright. In 1906, she wrote a play with Charlotte Thompson, entitled "The Strenght of the Weak", inaugurated at the Liberty Theatre in New York. Ten years later, the screenplay became a famous film starring Mary Fuller. She never married and died of a short illness in 1938.