(22 Aug. 1859-12 Aug. 1917), lawyer and businessman. (Angus W. Fraser) Born in GC. Parents: James Fraser and his wife Isabella McDonald, of Loch Garry. He attended his local school and Alexandria High School. He studied law in the Ottawa office of a fellow Glengarrian A.F. McIntyre, the son of Sheriff D.E. McIntyre, and he also graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. In 1887, he qualified as a barrister, and in 1899 he was made Q.C. He practised as a lawyer in Ottawa. His entry in Morgan’s 1912 dictionary lists a number of business companies with which he was a director or otherwise associated and describes him as “long identified with Lib. party, both in Glengarry and Ottawa.” Fraser was within measurable distance on one occasion of being the Liberal candidate for Ottawa, but another candidate was preferred at the request of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Fraser served as president of the St. Andrew’s Society, Ottawa, and was associated with Gaelic societies. He died in hospital in Montreal. Presbyterian. On 26 Dec. 1900 he was married to Mary Jane Bromley. (children) Fraser was the brother of John Fraser the Auditor General.

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