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| <tab>When the cornerstone of John A. (“Cariboo”) Cameron’s Fairfield House was laid in July 1865, in the presence of a large assembly of Cariboo’s friends (the event was followed by a banquet), “The stone was laid by Mr. Cameron assisted by the Rev. Thomas McPherson,” and both men made “neat and appropriate speeches.” (Cornwall //Advertiser//, 12 July 1865) With the Rev. Gavin Lang of Montreal, he performed the ceremony in 1880 at the first marriage of Donald (later Sir Donald) MacMaster. (//Witness// 16 Sept. 1880: two items) //The Glengarry Times// of 6 May 1882 printed a long letter from him to his kinsman, Senator D. L. Macpherson (1818-1896), on the temporalities question. During the earlier portion of his years as a minister at South Lancaster, he also practised medicine informally, and without pay. It was probably this medical connection rather than his clerical position that led him to give a newspaper testimonial for a patent medicine a certain T. H. McLean (presumably Thomas H. McLean the oilman) was selling. (//Cornwall Freeholder// 15 Feb. 1867) | <tab>When the cornerstone of John A. (“Cariboo”) Cameron’s Fairfield House was laid in July 1865, in the presence of a large assembly of Cariboo’s friends (the event was followed by a banquet), “The stone was laid by Mr. Cameron assisted by the Rev. Thomas McPherson,” and both men made “neat and appropriate speeches.” (Cornwall //Advertiser//, 12 July 1865) With the Rev. Gavin Lang of Montreal, he performed the ceremony in 1880 at the first marriage of Donald (later Sir Donald) MacMaster. (//Witness// 16 Sept. 1880: two items) //The Glengarry Times// of 6 May 1882 printed a long letter from him to his kinsman, Senator D. L. Macpherson (1818-1896), on the temporalities question. During the earlier portion of his years as a minister at South Lancaster, he also practised medicine informally, and without pay. It was probably this medical connection rather than his clerical position that led him to give a newspaper testimonial for a patent medicine a certain T. H. McLean (presumably Thomas H. McLean the oilman) was selling. (//Cornwall Freeholder// 15 Feb. 1867) |
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| <tab>He was the father of Dr Joseph T. Macpherson. He was the father also of Dr Drummond MacPherson, who died in Montreal in 1885, and of a daughter who married George McBean (See A. G. McBean). | <tab>He was the father of Dr Joseph T. Macpherson. He was the father also of Dr Drummond MacPherson, who died in Montreal in 1885, and of a daughter who married George McBean (See [[mcbean_alexander_george|A. G. McBean]]). |
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