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McDougall, George

(18 April 1855-1924), construction man. (George McDougall) Born in western GC or in eastern Stormont County, on the South Branch, near Cornwall. The location almost certainly was Lot A, Concession 3, Cornwall Township. Parents: Duncan McDougall and his wife Grace Cameron. He returned from Michigan to his mother’s funeral in 1887. (See A. D. McDougall) In the issue of 27 Nov. 1908, the Cornwall Freeholder reported that George McDougall of the South Branch, had recently had a letter from his brother Allan McDougall of the firm McDougall and Yale, railway contractors, of Milwaukee, Wisc., who were currently building railway roadbed in Minnesota. (Cornwall Freeholder 27 Nov. 1908 ) By this time, then, George had returned to the old neighbourhood and perhaps the family farm. In 1914 A. D. McDougall was reported to be visiting his brother George McDougall on the South Branch. George was praised in 1924 as “the well-known road building expert.” (Cornwall Standard 13 March 1924) He was working on the St. Andrew’s Road (the present Highway 138) the summer before his death. Married. George McDougall was the brother of Aeneas, A. D., and J. A. McDougall, all of them in the present dictionary.


Duncan MacDonald, ed., St. Andrews West (RC) Parish Register, Part II (1984) 274 (birth) * 1914 visit: Cornwall Freeholder & Cornwall Standard 3 Dec. 1914 cited 20 Years Ago column Standard Freeholder 5 Dec. 1934 * notes as for life of A. D. McDougall * private information

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