James Mitchell

Family/Spouse: Mary ??. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the document dated July 1853 entitled "Bond Thomas Hastings to Sarah Hastings", the following is summarized. Sarah Hastings sold the farm comprising the East half of lot 30, concession 6, Markham Township to her son, Thomas Hastings. Thomas then promised that he would support his mother and that she could reside in the home for her remaining years. In addition, Thomas promised to pay his mother 50 pounds annually. Document was witnessed by William Hastings.

From the "Deed of Bargain and Sale" dated July 8, 1853 widow Sarah Hastings sold 100 acres of land to son, Thomas for eight hundred pounds.

Sarah married Thomas Hastings about 1803 in Donegal ?, Ireland. Thomas (son of John Hastings) was born on 25 Dec 1778 in Cavanacreagh, Tyrone, Ireland; died on 1 Dec 1837 in Markham Township, York County, Ontario; was buried in Dickson's Hill, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Lapsley on 18 Jun 1829 in private marriage by Rev. William Jenkins. William was born in 1800 in Ireland; died on 10 Jan 1854 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Potter's Field, Upper Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Maria Louisa Orr on 10 Nov 1836 in St Helen's church(?), Markham Twp.. Maria (daughter of Captain Andrew Orr and Mary Ann Foster) was born on 18 Dec 1815 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland; died on 12 Sep 1892 in Toronto, York County, Ontario; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John Harrington on 27 Sep 1832. John (son of Jackson Harrington and Mary Cheery) was born in 1792 in Mory, County Tyrone, Ireland; died after 1866 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Ann Algeo about 1843. Ann (daughter of Lewis R. Algeo and Mary Leticia Armstrong) was born on 14 Oct 1820 in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario; died on 4 Oct 1860 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario; was buried in Melville Church, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Rachel Read about 1865. Rachel was born in 1830; died on 12 Sep 1900 in Markham, Markham Township, York County, Ontario; was buried in Melville Cemetery, RR #1, Unionville, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jennet married Robert A. Algeo in 1850. Robert (son of Lewis R. Algeo and Mary Leticia Armstrong) was born in 1824 in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario; died on 20 Jun 1881 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Census: 1881, Tecumseth, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, 356 Davenport Road, Toronto, York County, Ontario

Margaret married William Armstrong on 24 Jan 1846 in Markham, Ontario. William (son of Robert Armstrong and Ann Armstrong) was born in 1810 in Ireland; died on 2 Mar 1870 in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Thomas Dunn on 3 Nov 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He spent his life farming the Hastings Homestead at Lot 30 and 31 of Concession 7, Markham Township. Thomas paid his mother, Sarah 800 pounds Canadian money for the farm on July 8, 1853.

Will is originally dated Sept 17, 1889 and a correction dated March 31, 1890 and is witnessed by Maxson Jones and Maud P Hastings. Executors were Thomas Edward Hastings and Martha M Francey. It notes daughter Martha Mariah Francey, son Thomas Edward Hastings, and brother Cunningham Hastings. A sum is also given to Catharine Algo who "has lived with me six years last May and to fulfill a bargain I made with her mother I give..."

Upon his death, his farm was divided between his two living children. Martha received west half of the east half of lot thirty one in the sixth concession of the township of Markham. Her brother, Eddie received the east half of lot thirty in the sixth concession of the township of Markham.


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Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)

HASTINGS , THOMAS
Sex: Male
Age: 47
Birthplace: ONTARIO
Religion: Primitive Methodist
Origin: IRISH
Occupation: FARMER
District: YORK EAST ( 045 )
Sub-district: Markham ( D )
Division: 4
Page: 50
Microfilm reel: C-9969
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada

Thomas married Matilda Jane Thompson on 29 Apr 1857. Matilda was born in Jul 1834 in Pine Grove, Vaughan Township, York County, Ontario; died on 22 Sep 1885 in Almira, Markham Township, York County, Ontario; was buried in Dickson's Hill, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)

HASTINGS , CUNNINGHAM
Sex: Male
Age: 42
Birthplace: ONTARIO
Religion: Church of England, Anglican
Origin: IRISH
Occupation: HOTEL KEEPER
District: SIMCOE SOUTH ( 041 )
Sub-district: Gwillimbury Wes ( B )
Division: 2
Page: 11
Microfilm reel: C-9960
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada
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Source: http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/6eh/c186h009.htm#hastings

HASTINGS 1861 census 379 page 056 line 12
@ca.on.simcoe.gwillimbury_west_township section 3 film C1072 lds0349320
12 HASTINGS Cunningham m 31 married
13 HASTINGS {?} Dorothy f 27 married
14 HASTINGS William m 7
15 HASTINGS Maria M. f 5
16 HASTINGS Mary E. f 3
17 HASTINGS Cunningham m 2
18 BERESFORD Richard m 70 widower
more in OGS Simcoe County Branch 1861 Census Transcriptions ( 21 columns of data per name )

Cunningham married Dorothy M. Armstrong about 1854. Dorothy (daughter of John Armstrong and Eliza McGee) was born on 22 Feb 1830 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; died on 29 May 1864 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; was buried in Auld Kirk, W. Gwillimbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cunningham married Marion Patterson about 1867. Marion was born in 1843 in Scotland; died on 20 Sep 1877 in Shelburne, Ontario; was buried in Shelburne, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cunningham married Drummora Jemina "Mina" Snidden on 4 Dec 1882 in Collingwood, Ontario. Drummora (daughter of James Sniden and Ellen Todd) was born in 1858 in Fergus, Wellington County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario

Matilda married Wilson Stoddart on 21 Mar 1854 in York Township. Wilson (son of John Stoddart) was born in 1820 in Ontario; died on 13 Sep 1902 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1891, Parkhill, Ontario

William married Anna Jean Garrett in 1860 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Anna was born in 1842 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York; died on 18 Feb 1874 in Parkhill, Ontario; was buried in Parkhill, McGillivary, Middlesex, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Georgina Weir on 14 Apr 1875 in Easton's Corners, Wolford, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Ontario. Georgina (daughter of George Weir and Jane Kennedy) was born about 1846 in Ontario; died on 11 Oct 1927 in Toronto, York County, Ontario; was buried in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Cemetery, Spencerville, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, Scarborough, York East, Ontario
• Census: 1871, Scarborough, York East, Ontario
• Census: 1881, Scarborough, York East, Ontario
• Census: 1891, Scarborough, York East, Ontario

Family/Spouse: James Humphrey. James was born about 1829 in Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1881, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario
• Census: 1901, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario

Jane married Christopher Campbell on 20 Dec 1855 in Toronto, Ontario. Christopher was born in 1819 in Ireland; died in 1892 in Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Susanah Rolph on 20 Sep 1862 in Scarborough, York County, Ontario. Susanah (daughter of William Rolph and Ellen) was born about 1834; died in 1880 in Scarborough, York County, Ontario; was buried in Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, Toronto, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 20 Jan 1863, Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario
• Census: 1871, Trafalgar Township, Halton County, Ontario
• Census: 1881, Hespeler, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, MacLeod, Alberta

George married Alice Silvester on 20 Jan 1863 in Ringwood, Markham Township or Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. Alice (daughter of Henry Silvester and Lavinia ??) was born on 26 Mar 1840 in England; died on 27 Jan 1907 in Davisville (now part of Toronto). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Eliza Jane Shore on 8 May 1871 in Covelo, California. Eliza (daughter of James Allen Shore and Martha Ann ??) was born in Sep 1853 in Covelo, California; died about 1901 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Thomas Burgess on 4 Jul 1860 in St. Helen's Church Markham(?). Samuel (son of Thomas Burgess and Ann Burgess) was born in 1830 in Ireland; died on 2 May 1900 in Wellesley St. E., Toronto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rowland married Elizabeth G. Umphrey on 27 Dec 1882 in Vroomanton, Ontario. Elizabeth (daughter of John Umphrey and Rachel ??) was born on 28 Jul 1852 in Vroomanton, Ontario; died on 1 Sep 1933 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John Lucas White on 25 Nov 1879 in Lemonville, Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. John (son of William Lucus White and Mary Ann ??) was born in 1853; died on 28 Nov 1924 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 8 Jun 1881, Toronto, York County, Ontario

Caroline married Robert Umphrey on 7 Jun 1882 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. Robert (son of John Umphrey and Rachel ??) was born in 1843 in Brock; died on 29 Nov 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 8 Jun 1881, Toronto, York County, Ontario
• Residence: 1 May 1882, Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Residence: 19 Dec 1883, Feversham, Osprey Township, Grey County, Ontario
• Census: 1900, Vicksburg, Schoolcraft Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
• Census: 1910, Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan
• Census: 1930, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California

Maria married John Dobson on 8 Jun 1881 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. John (son of John Dobson and Ann) was born in 1855 in Cartright Township, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Clara Louise Grafton on 30 Dec 1891 in Dundas, Ontario. Clara (daughter of James Beatty Grafton and Charlotte ??) was born in Mar 1865 in Dundas, Canada; died on 28 Apr 1916 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Article from the Historica Canadian Encyclopedia found on March 17, 2006 at
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003627

Hastings, Charles John Colwell Orr, obstetrician, medical officer of health (b in Markham Township, Canada W 23 Aug 1858; d at Toronto 17 Jan 1931). Educated at Victoria Coll Medical School in Toronto with postgraduate training in Great Britain, Hastings was one of the first full-time obstetricians to practise in Toronto. As Toronto's MOH 1910-29, he purified the water supply and established an internationally recognized public-health nursing system. He was a leading pioneer of health education programs, medical and dental inspection in public schools, and neighbourhood baby clinics in Canada. These innovations lowered Toronto's death rate from communicable diseases (from 15.3 per 1000 in 1909 to 10.3 per 1000 in 1925) and made the city a cleaner and healthier place to live. Hastings's accomplishments were recognized with his election as president of the Canadian Public Health Assn in 1916 and the American Public Health Assn in 1918. Through his efforts, Toronto's health department became internationally renowned for its achievements in preventive medicine.

Author HEATHER MACDOUGALL





http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/541942

Toronto's 100-year battle over "pure milk" has its roots in the evolving priorities of urban centres
Nov 23, 2008 04:30 AM
Christine Sismondo
SPECIAL TO THE STAR

A little more than a hundred years ago, Mayor Joseph Oliver was sworn into office at Toronto's Old City Hall, vowing to clean up this burg.

This was no metaphorical sweep of the broom Oliver was talking about. He meant it literally. His Jan. 13, 1908, inaugural address made it clear what three of his top priorities were: the construction of a trunk sewer, clean water and pure milk.

Oliver's address was an articulation of the new priorities of urban centres in the early 20th century. And Toronto, in part because of activist journalism and the philanthropy of newsmen such as Joseph Atkinson and John Ross Robertson, was to become a leader in making those public-health ideals a reality.

It wasn't going to happen all at once, though. While Oliver had said that the "establishment of a milk standard of the highest possible percentage (was) of the utmost importance," the best way to do that was going to be the subject of a debate that would rage for some time ? arguably to this day.

To some, the answer was to test milk for a minimum three per cent butterfat content, to ensure there was no adulteration. It was common practice to dilute milk with water, skim fat off the milk, and to mask spoiled milk by adding molasses or even chalk. Even this proposal to test was surprisingly controversial. The Municipal Committee of the Legislature killed a "pure milk bill" on March 27, 1908, on the grounds that it might discriminate against some Holsteins who, it seems, had unusually lean milk.
Others were proponents of certification, basically a regulation of the dairy industry by ensuring that barns and trucks were clean, equipment and bottles sterilized, and the product kept at a cool temperature across the supply chain. This solution was not terribly contentious, and the municipal Pure Milk Commission, established in 1908, advocated the adoption of these measures. However, putting the infrastructure in place for certification was going to take time.

In the meantime, Dr. Charles J. Hastings, who would later become Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, had the bright idea to pasteurize all milk, certified or not. His 1907 visit to the pioneering Straus Milk laboratory in New York, and his understanding of Toronto public health, convinced him that unpasteurized milk was the main culprit in the spread of bovine tuberculosis and typhoid fever, and responsible for the death of 400 Toronto children per year.
To make his point, Hastings began testing milk samples from various Toronto hospitals, and reported high levels of bacteria across the board. One hospital's milk (Hastings refrained from mentioning the facility's name) apparently had "no less than eight million bacteria per cubic centimetre." (A roughly contemporaneous study put the highest acceptable level at 10,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre.)

The picture on this page appears to show filters through which milk has been poured, capturing the dirt found in one pint.

These samples are from the City of Toronto Archives' Public Health Series, a collection of photos documenting the gains made in controlling disease through vaccinations, cleaner water, better sewage treatment and, of course, pure milk
A current Toronto Archives exhibit, which draws from that collection, is called An Infectious Idea: 125 Years of Public Health in Toronto (and runs through 2009) and contains similar images. This photograph was taken Sept. 23, 1921.

Hastings' hospital revelation, reported in the Sept. 14, 1908, Toronto Daily Star, didn't seem to faze Medical Health Officer Dr. Charles Sheard, who maintained that pasteurization "was not worth it," given the cost.
Sheard was not Hastings' only opponent in the medical community. Many were dismayed that they might lose the right to give patients raw milk, which some doctors reported was easier for patients needing nourishment to digest than pasteurized. At a public debate with Hastings, Sheard advocated that, instead of pasteurizing milk, they should concentrate on improving the standards of its production.

Hastings was quick to point out that this was a false dilemma ? there was, from his point of view, no reason not to do both ? and proceeded to skewer his opponent's faulty logic. In the Star, the subhead for the report on the debate read: "A Roast for Sheard."

But there were valid arguments against pasteurization, too. As mentioned, doctors reported that patients had difficulties digesting pasteurized milk. And pasteurization threatened to drive up the cost of milk by 60 per cent, a significant increase for a household staple.

That's probably when it occurred to philanthropists such as Atkinson, legendary publisher of the Star, that the problem wasn't so much pasteurization, or even bacteria, but poverty. After all, "pure" milk had been available at the City Dairy for years, but the poor couldn't afford to buy it.

The first philanthropic outfit to address this disparity was a clinic at 88 Edward St. established in 1908 by the Toronto chapter of the Pure Milk League. There, half-pint bottles of certified milk could be purchased for two cents (roughly the same price as milk elsewhere). Those who couldn't afford that price were given the milk for free.
That same year, around the corner at the Hospital for Sick Children, Robertson, founder of the rival Toronto Telegram, funded the installation of the first milk-pasteurization plant in a Toronto hospital.

Not to be outdone, Atkinson stepped up his coverage of the Pure Milk campaign and started up the Infant's Pure Milk Fund. It was regularly covered in the Daily Star, including solicitations, shout-outs to donors, and funding totals, which were printed on the front page of the daily at least twice a week.

In 1910, the Daily Star reported the establishment of a "pure milk depot" run by the Canadian Household Economic Association at the Jewish Free Dispensary on Elizabeth St. and the imminent opening of two more. Atkinson's fundraising had been crucial to the establishment of all three.

Just as important was the change in public opinion that Atkinson's support had helped to effect. Hastings would win his seven-year war, and it would become mandatory that all milk in Toronto be pasteurized but for two certified raw-milk dispensaries.

Yet the medical community remained divided, as some experts are now. On March 23, 1915, amidst headlines such as "Shells dropped from the clouds like fireworks" and "Narrows' Forts are still intact at Dardanelles," there was a Star news story about opposition from Dr. J.B. Fraser, who lamented the lack of raw milk for his sick patients.
Said Fraser: "Instead of giving us the standard of butterfat, we get the standard of bugs."

These arguments, however, held little weight in the court of public opinion and even less in the mayor's office, which was by then held by Tommy Church. As soon as Mayor Church had been reassured that Louis Pasteur was not German but French, he sided with Hastings ? and his standard of bugs.

Seven years and two successors after Mayor Joseph Oliver expressed it, his vision of public health in Toronto was becoming a reality.




http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/643159

LEGACIES

Slums, what slums? Poverty seemed part of the natural order a century ago, when a prominent city official made graphic his call for civic action. Some of those images are in a remarkable new book of Toronto's official photography that mirrors our attitudes and ambitions since 1856.

Kenneth Kidd
Feature Writer

It's not just that they don't smile. Scarcely anyone does in old photographs.

What haunts is that look of dark cynicism in the eyes of even the smallest children, as if they are merely dwarf versions of the weary and grime-covered adults around them, slum-dwellers all, in the years just before World War I.

This is a Toronto we often pretend didn't exist, a function of the long-standing national conceit that the country is somehow new, clean and innocent, virtually Pearsonian in its origins.

When Arthur Goss took his slum pictures, hundreds of them, he laboured under no such illusions. As the city's staff photographer, he'd been commissioned by the crusading Charles Hastings, the city's medical health officer. A small sample of Goss's slum portraits appears in Toronto's Visual Legacy, recently published to celebrate official city photography since 1856.

The slums were spread all over downtown Toronto, extending into what is now Nathan Phillips Square, in the shadows of Old City Hall. The juxtaposition of wealth and poverty, ceremony and squalor, is telling. It's not as if city elders were ignorant of the existence or extent of the slums.

The difficulty was getting them to confront such social conditions, especially since many of those civic leaders would have considered such poverty to be simply part of the natural order, as it always had been.

If, as historians often argue, the social and political mores of the 19th century really extended until World War I, then this was still a Dickensian battle.

Friedrich Engels, for instance, famously set out to record working-class conditions in Britain. He found that a fifth of Liverpool's population, more than 45,000 people, were crowded into fewer than 8,000 "damp, badly ventilated cellar dwellings."

This was in 1844, and it would soon move him to join Karl Marx in writing the Manifesto of the Communist Party, a passage from which reads: "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life."

What's so astonishing is that nearly identical passages grace myriad books and reports in subsequent decades, up to and including the special report that Hastings would pen in 1911. His effort approvingly quotes Sydney Webb, a Fabian socialist prominent in Britain, describing "the soul-destroying conditions of the one-roomed dwellings which make decent life impossible, involves the absence of proper light, or privacy, leading to physical and mental suffering and inefficiency."

Hastings's own prose is equally direct about conditions in Toronto slums.

"The teachings and examples of drunkards, thieves, filthy personalities, gamblers and prostitutes in large city slums are rarely ineffective," he writes. "A child born and reared amid such surroundings has about the same chance of escaping a life of shame or crime as an unvaccinated baby confined in a pest-house would have of escaping smallpox."

In making the case for reform, Hastings is deft and studied, sprinkling some of the Goss portraits throughout his text. Such use of photography wasn't new. In New York, Jacob Riis had similarly photographed and written about slums for his 1890 book, How the Other Half Lives.

But Riis was a former crime reporter turned social activist. This was Toronto's chief medical health officer commissioning the city's own photographer for an official report. It was an inside job.

But Hastings still knew what he was up against, which is why he seems to appeal to different constituencies, yet without unduly offending the prejudices and political concerns of the day.

He sets out, as Engels did nearly 70 years earlier, to quantify, quantify, quantify. The Victorians were enthralled with taxonomy, data, and a scientific approach. So is Hastings. Having divided the city into many districts, he then provides arresting anecdotes and statistical summaries from most of them.

There's the house where 19 men sleep in three rooms, or the backyard slum that's reached by entering "a curious tunnellike passage from the street, down a dark and precipitous stairway, and up again into a back yard, where the house was found thus concealed."

Tellingly, Hastings goes on to enumerate the slum-dwellers of one district by their "various foreign nationalities," 14 categories in all, from "Hebrew" (1,267 people) to "Finlanders" (2). This also allows him to note, in that day's common condescension, that "their ideas of sanitation are not ours" and to take aim at their landlords.

"The foreign element, however, is responsible for these exorbitant rents, that is, those of them who have been a few years in the country and have acquired property in those districts."

In other words, good Torontonians, we're not really blaming you for these conditions, just asking you to fulfill your Kiplingesque duty to help out these inferior foreigners. Not doing so is where the shame comes in.

Hastings notes how, in three core districts, nearly 19,000 people share fewer than 4,500 privies, half of them outside. He calls that "a relic of barbarism which should no longer be tolerated."

And later: "What we read of with disgust as having happened in the cities of Europe in the Middle Ages, happens now in Toronto before our very eyes.

"The people of Toronto, or foreigners coming into Toronto, should not be permitted to be forced into such conditions."

There is even an appeal to military sensibilities, at a time when Torontonians still had keen memories of the Boer War and Britain and Germany were locked in a long-running arms race. So Hastings dutifully notes how, in poor, working-class Manchester, home to similar slums, 11,000 men had tried to enlist for the Boer War.

Of those, 8,000 were rejected outright, 2,000 managed to slip into the militia, while only 1,000 were considered to be in good enough physical shape to join the regular army. Having stated the numbers, Hastings lets the argument sit there, ungilded.

"It is of great importance that the poorer classes of this Dominion should be provided with respectable housing accommodation in place of the disgusting hovels in which so many of them now exist."

Hastings, who died in 1931, didn't live to see his dream of government-sponsored "garden cities" springing up on the outskirts of Toronto to house the poor.

But his report did persuade the city to start installing indoor plumbing in the houses of the poor, billing the landlords for the cost. And the city would soon be building massive trunk sewers in earnest, something Goss would also be there to record.

Charles married Allie A. V. T. T. Hatch on 23 Oct 1889 in 152 Gerrard St. East, Toronto. Allie (daughter of Richard Hatch and Ellen Macklin) was born on 14 Dec 1865 in Whitby, Ontario; died on 19 May 1934 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married William Eckardt on 20 Feb 1861. William (son of Joseph Eckardt and Catherine Helmke) was born on 11 Mar 1824 in Unionville, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Wallace on 23 Feb 1876 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. John (son of James Wallace and Martha Walker) was born in 1836 in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario
• Census: 1871, Whitchurch Township, York North, Ontario
• Residence: 23 Feb 1876, Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario
• Census: 1880, Worth Township, Sanilac County, Michigan
• Census: 1900, Worth Township, Sanilac County, Michigan
• Census: 1910, Worth Township, Sanilac County, Michigan
• Census: 1920, Grant, Sanilac County, Michigan
• Residence: 15 Oct 1927, 520 15th Street, Port Huron, St Clair County, Michigan

Family/Spouse: Maria Lount. Maria (daughter of Ira M Lount and Elizabeth Mathews) was born on 21 Sep 1848 in Markham, York, Ontario; died on 9 Feb 1933 in Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After the death of her husband, Sarah resided with her brother-in-law and sister, James Noble and Maria Louisa Hastings in Toronto. Their residence in 1911 was at 70 Howard Street.

Sarah married Lewis R. Algeo on 2 Aug 1877 in Stouffville, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. Lewis (son of Robert A. Algeo and Jennet Hastings) was born on 25 Sep 1851 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; died on 16 Dec 1899 in Toronto, York County, Ontario; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married James Noble on 23 Jun 1881 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. James (son of John Noble and Mary Jane ??) was born on 16 Jan 1855 in Erin, Wellington County, Ontario; died in 1918; was buried in Melville Church Cemetery, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Franklyn Robinson on 5 Jul 1893 in Markham, Ontario. John (son of James Robinson and Louisa Hockridge) was born on 17 May 1868 in Markham, Ontario; died on 12 Jul 1939; was buried in Melville Cemetery, RR #1, Unionville, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Death notice was printed in the Barrie Northern Advance on 21 Dec 1899.

Lewis married Sarah Jane Hastings on 2 Aug 1877 in Stouffville, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. Sarah (daughter of James Hastings and Ann Algeo) was born on 23 Feb 1851 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario; died on 11 May 1933 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; was buried on 13 May 1933 in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jennie married Chester Ramsey Stiles on 4 Apr 1883 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario. Chester (son of Henry Dodds Stiles and Lucy Ann Ramsay) was born about 1861 in Queensville, Ontario; died in Date Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Census: 1881, Tecumseth, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, 356 Davenport Road, Toronto, York County, Ontario

Family/Spouse: Robert Armson Lowry. Robert (son of William Henry Lowry and Eliza Armson) was born on 31 Oct 1852 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; died on 31 Jan 1933 in 18 Rosethorne Avenue, Toronto, York County, Ontario; was buried on 2 Feb 1933 in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Census: 1891, Tecumseth, Simcoe County, Ontario

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Census: 1911, 356 Davenport Road, Toronto, York County, Ontario

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, West Gwillimbury Township, Simcoe County, Ontario

Other Events:

• Census: 1921, Lot 30 Conc 4, Markham Township, York South, Ontario
• Residence: 3 Feb 1931, Gormley, Markham Township, York County, Ontario

Martha married Dr. Charles Henry Francy on 4 Jun 1889 in Markham, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. Charles (son of William Francy and Mary Jane Gormley) was born on 26 Jul 1864 in Markham Township, York County, Ontario; died on 29 Sep 1918; was buried in Melville Church Cemetery, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1921, Markham Township, York South, Ontario
• Census: 1931, Markham Township, York North, Ontario
• Residence: 1935, Conc 7, Lot 30, W, Markham Township, York East, Ontario

Thomas married Helen "Nellie" Pool on 28 Oct 1890 (by Rev R. Thynne) in Markham Township, York County, Ontario. Helen (daughter of John Pool and Ann McGillivray) was born on 07 Sep 1864 in Markham Township, York County, Ontario; died on 17 Dec 1932 in Markham Township, York County, Ontario; was buried in Dickson's Hill Cemetery, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Lewis Knapps on 6 Sep 1881 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. Lewis (son of Isnate Knapps and Ecluta ??) was born in 1851 in Canada; died in 1899 in Shelburne, Ontario; was buried in Carmel, Shelburne, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Following the death of her mother in 1864, Dora Hastings was adopted by her maternal grandparents.

Dorothy married William Allen Armstrong on 27 Feb 1884 in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario. William (son of Simon Armstrong and Catherine Rutledge) was born on 23 Apr 1852 in Ontario; died on 08 Jun 1934 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario; was buried on 10 Jun 1834 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Hugh Pugh on 29 Dec 1897 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. Hugh (son of Thomas Pugh and Ann Evans) was born on 18 Mar 1870 in Ontario; died in 1944; was buried in Whitevale Cemetery, C4, L28, Pickering Township, Ontario County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Louise M. C. Hill on 29 Nov 1893 in Rosedale Farm, Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario. Louise (daughter of Richard Hill and Priscilla ??) was born about 1869 in Tecumseth, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1861, Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario

Sarah married Charles Hewitt Wallis on 20 Jun 1888 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario. Charles (son of Thomas George Wallis and Sarah A. Hewitt) was born on 16 Apr 1840 in Toronto, York County, Ontario; died on 22 Apr 1905 in Toronto, York County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1891, Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario
• Residence: 30 May 1928, 123 Helendale Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

George married Ethel Letitia Ione Ellerby on 15 Jul 1897 in Barrie, Simcoe County, Ontario. Ethel (daughter of Thomas Ellerby and Mary) was born on 30 Jun 1873 in Holland Landing, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

A.E. married Mary Jane Hulse on 03 Jul 1901 in Bradford, Simcoe County, Ontario. Mary (daughter of Henry Hulse and Mary Doyle) was born about 1866 in Lloydtown, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E6DB1331E733A25757C0A9679C946697D6CF

UNION PACIFIC FLIERS CRASH.; New York Actor Killed and 13 Passengers Hurt, 2 Fatally.

Special to The New York Times.
January 4, 1907, Friday
Page 1, 465 words

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 3. -- The famous Overland Limited and Los Angeles Limited trains on the Union Pacific Railroad came together in a rear-end collision at Brule, Neb., last night, killing E.W. Hastings of New York, fatally injuring two other passengers, injuring more or less badly eleven passengers and wrecking eleven cars and one locomotive.

The Overland, nearly ten hours late, was running only ten minutes ahead of the Los Angeles Limited, which was seven hours late. Both are scheduled to go through Brule at sixty miles an hour, but when the Overland came in sight of that station it was seen that the "order" signal was in place, and the train stopped for orders. The flagman was sent back the required 400 yards, and remained in place until recalled, when he lighted a "fusee" and left it burning beside the track.

Just as the Overland started, and was running four miles an hour, the Los Angeles swept around a curve and was unable to stop before reaching the Overland. The fusee had been hidden by a hill. At almost full speed the Los Angeles struck the observation car on the Overland and plowed half through it.

W. H. Thacher of Dubuque, Iowa, who was in the car, said: "I was sitting in a chair at about the middle of the observation car, looking toward the rear. Suddenly a headlight appeared up the track, possibly 200 feet away. At once I realized that it was on an engine, and that the engine was coming at a good rate of speed. With the cry 'Look out!' I ran to the front end of the car. The other men evidently saw it at about the same time, for all started to run.

"When the oncoming locomotive struck us, I was thrown to one side, and when I recovered there was the engine, with steam hissing from a hundred places, right in the centre of the car. The floor of the car was crushed down, the roof lifted off and thrown to one side, and every light was out. Only the red glare of the fire from the locomotive lighted us, and cries of the wounded on every side added to the terror of the moment."

E. W. Hastings, who was killed in the wreck of the Union Pacific Overland Limited, was an actor well known in this city. He was returning to New York from Portland, Ore., where he had played for some time with a stock company. Hastings was a member of the Lambs' Club, the Players Club, and the Actors' Society of America. He was a brother of Cuyler Hastings, a well-known New York leading man.

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Found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~births/Har_Haz_Surnames.htm on September 1, 2006

017099-70 (Middlesex Co) HASTINGS, Gertrude, f, b. 17 Aug. 1870, father – William HASTINGS, gentleman, mother – Anna Green GARRETT, infm – William Hastings, West Williams.

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• Census: 1891, Parkhill, Ontario

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Found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~births/Har_Haz_Surnames.htm on September 1, 2006

017056-77 (Middlesex Co) HASTINGS, George Weir, m, b. July 2, 1877, father – William Hastings, gentleman; mother – Georgina WEIR, infm – Wm. Hastings, Parkhill

George married Mary Elizabeth Lister about 1900. Mary was born on 9 Dec 1879; died on 1 Oct 1946 in Toronto, York County, Ontario; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1891, Parkhill, Ontario

Anna married James Cromer Munro on 19 Jul 1906 in Parkhill, Middlesex County, Ontario. James (son of William Munro and Elvira Cromer) was born on 21 Oct 1873 in Parkhill, Ontario; died in 1912 in Arizona; was buried in Parkhill Union Cemetery, McGillivary, Middlesex, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]