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Coburn, Dr. Benjamin

  • MS11
  • Personne
  • 1838-1900

Dr. Benjamin Coburn was born on 24 October 1838, the son of David Coburn of Keswick Ridge, York County. At age nine, he was orphaned and moved to Fredericton to live with relatives. He was educated in the Baptist Seminary in Fredericton, Harvard, and Vermont College. He served as an assistant surgeon in the American Civil War, and then established a medical practice in Chipman, Queens County. There he married Euphemia (Effie) A. King (born 8 August 1849). After eight years in Chipman, ill-health necessitated a twelve-month rest in Florida. He then returned to New Brunswick and set up a practice in Keswick Ridge, which he carried on for over thirty years.
A year before his death he moved to Fredericton and was appointed Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health. He died on September 22, 1900. In religion, Coburn was Baptist; in politics, he was a Liberal, he ran unsuccessfully in the election of 1895. In addition, he was a Free Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. He was survived by his wife (who died June 16, 1935) and four children.

Bunker family (Rusagonis)

  • MS110
  • Famille
  • 1826-1965

Three generations of the Bunker family of Rusagonis, New Brunswick including, Henry Bunker (1826-1885), Sherman S. Bunker (30 July 1853-2 Jan 1896)
and Zellan S. Bunker (1893-1965).

Burkhardt, George Albert

  • MS112
  • Personne
  • 1856-1941

George A. Burkhardt was the son of Michael and Caroline. He was born on 21 November 1856 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and married Elizabeth Dorothy Whitehead (1856-1938) in Fredericton on 13 June 1887. Elizabeth Dorothy Burkhardt was the daughter of Alfred Whitehead and Eleanor Jane Ebbetts. She and her husband, George, and her sister Alfaretta Whitehead went to Coronado, California to live. George Albert Burkhardt was the son of Michael and Caroline Burkhardt. He was a photographer with his own studio in Fredericton. In 1913, They owned 3 houses in Corondo. They lived at 918 B Ave.. The other houses were at 461 A Ave., and 877 C Ave. There were no children. George died on 16 April 1941 and Dorothy on 29 June 1938. Both are buried in California.

Fleet, Walter R.

  • MS114
  • Personne
  • 1895

Walter Richards Fleet, born 29 April 1895 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, son of Charles Alexander Fleet and Margaret Wisely Segee. Walter was a school teacher at the time that he was drafted under the military service act in March 1918. He was almost immediately discharged for being “medically unfit”.

Hill, Constance Annie

  • MS115
  • Personne
  • 1906

Connie was born on 9 Dec 1906 at Nashwaaksis NB, daughter of Joseph Hill and Maud Mary Turvey. She was employed at the F. B. Edgecombe Co., Fredericton from October 1921 to October 1933. She is buried in the St. John the Evangelist Anglican Cemetery in York County, New Brunswick. A Girl Guide company in Nashwaaksis in 1932 with Hill as the Captain.

Biggs family (Fredericton)

  • MS119
  • Famille
  • 1821-1884

Charles H Biggs, born 1 March 1821, married Frances A. Huestis (8 Jan 1830 – 3 Apr 1904) on 8 Jan 1850. They resided at Regent & Brunswick Sts., Fredericton and Charles was employed as a carpenter. He died on 24 Jan 1885 (his marker in Fredericton Rural Cemetery shows 10 Jan 1884).

Atherton, Benjamin

  • MS12
  • Personne
  • 1736-1816

Benjamin Atherton was born December 9, 1736, at Lancaster, Massachusetts. As a young man, he enlisted in the British Army, sailed from Boston in 1755 on the sloop "Victoria", and served for a year in Nova Scotia under Colonel Winslow. According to Lilian Maxwell's History of Central New Brunswick, Lieutenant Benjamin Atherton took part in the expulsion of the Acadians.
In 1769, Atherton arrived in Saint John and became a fur trader with the firm of Simonds, Hazen, and White of Portland Point. Atherton was placed as manager of a truck-house at St. Anne's Point, in competition with John Anderson, who was established at the mouth of the Nashwaak River. He refused to join the rebel movement in Maugerville during the American Revolution. After the War, he served as Clerk of the Peace, Registrar, and later coroner for Sunbury County. In 1788, Governor Carleton purchased land from Atherton as part of the property for Government House--land that Atherton had owned for almost twenty years. Atherton died July 17, 1816, at Prince William, York County.

Grant, Harry M.

  • MS121
  • Personne
  • 1964-1968

Harry Grant was a local historian who with his sister-in-law Evelyn Grant (1913-2007) published, “The Vanished Village,” a small book portraying life in Jewett’s Mill – a village that was founded by Daniel Jewett in the early 1800s and destroyed in 1967 by the rising waters of the Mactaquac Hydro Development. Grant is also co-author of “On the Ridge”, a genealogy and local history of Keswick Ridge.

Barrett, George John

  • MS123
  • Personne
  • 1876-1953

George John Barrett (son of Peter Barrett and Horteuse Langille) was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia on 21 March 1876 and died 28 December 1953, Saint John, New Brunswick. His death certificate lists him as a watchmaker. His wife, Irene Peers Langille (daughter of Christopher Langille and Lucinda Martin,)was born in River John, Nova Scotia on 24 May 1881 and died 4 February 1962, Saint John, New Brunswick. By 1901, the family had moved to Fredericton and is recorded in the census with their daughter Margaret (1900-1998), George’s sister Margaret (born 1881) and two boarders, Edgar Langille (born 1877) and Banford Langille (born 1883). The 1901 census identifies George as a bicycle maker. By the 1911 census, the family had moved to Saint John.

Margaret married Clarence B. Beatteay and lived in Saint John West. The couple had two daughters Beryl and Elizabeth.

Morrison family (Saint John)

  • MS124
  • Famille
  • 1820-1941

John A. Morrison (c 1820 – 28 May 1893) and his brother William emigrated from Belfast Ireland to St. John, New Brunswick in Sep 1843 and very shortly opened a Dry Goods Store. The business propered and John married Lucy Ann Everett (1823 – 11 July 1893), daughter of Thomas Carleton and Mary (Camber) Everett on 16 Dec 1846. Although initially expanding the business failed in 1859 and John purchased a mill and property from George Morisey in Fredericton and the family moved here in May 1860. The family consisted of five boys: Thomas “Tom” Everett (1852-), William “Willie” Parks (1854), John “Jack” Alexander (1856 – 22 Sep 1925), Frank Inches (9 Nov 1857-19 Oct 1909); Julius “Jules” Inches (1859-1933) and Stewart Luke (1861-1941). The lumber mill, which soon became known as the Phoenix Mill, was destroyed by fire on three occasions: 19 Aug 1860, 11 May 1872 and 14 Oct 1885 but John was able to rebuild and expand after each unfortunate happening. Jack went to work for his father and carried it on after his father’s death. He was also involved with log cutting operations on the upper St. John River and lived in the family home after his parents died with his wife Kate and two sons, Guy and Roy.

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