| (29 May 1841-4 Aug. 1920), banker. (D. A. McPherson, Donald A. McPherson) Born presumably on his parents’ farm, which was on Lot 15, in the 1st Concession of Lancaster Township, GC. Parents: John McPherson and his wife Catherine Cameron. For the family background and connections, see the entry for his brother David M. Macpherson, called the Cheese King (another brother, James McPherson, is also included in the present dictionary). | (29 May 1841-4 Aug. 1920), banker. (D. A. McPherson, Donald A. McPherson) Born presumably on his parents’ farm, which was on Lot 15, in the 1st Concession of Lancaster Township, GC. Parents: John McPherson and his wife Catherine Cameron. For the family background and connections, see the entry for his brother [[macpherson_david_murdoch|David M. Macpherson]], called the Cheese King (another brother, [[mcpherson_james|James McPherson]], is also included in the present dictionary). |
| <tab>Donald A. McPherson attended the local school, and the grammar schools at Williamstown and Cornwall. He attended Upper Canada College briefly in 1866 , being at this time somewhat older than most of the students, but he was evidently not, as has been claimed, a University of Toronto graduate, and he attended an institution described as the Military School of Toronto or the Canadian Military College of Toronto, which was presumably the militia training school set up in Toronto in 1864 (there were similar schools in other cities) by the Canadian government in response to the American Civil War. As a young man, he taught school for several years in Canada. When he was visiting GC in 1889, it was reported that he had taught 25 years earlier in the public school at Lancaster, where he had an average attendance of over 100 pupils. (Lancaster columnist in //Glengarrian//, 31 May 1889) He lived 1867-1872 in Helena, Montana, 1872-1874 in Bozeman, Montana, where he is reported to have been involved in founding a bank, and 1874-1877 in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was in the lumber business. | <tab>Donald A. McPherson attended the local school, and the grammar schools at Williamstown and Cornwall. He attended Upper Canada College briefly in 1866 , being at this time somewhat older than most of the students, but he was evidently not, as has been claimed, a University of Toronto graduate, and he attended an institution described as the Military School of Toronto or the Canadian Military College of Toronto, which was presumably the militia training school set up in Toronto in 1864 (there were similar schools in other cities) by the Canadian government in response to the American Civil War. As a young man, he taught school for several years in Canada. When he was visiting GC in 1889, it was reported that he had taught 25 years earlier in the public school at Lancaster, where he had an average attendance of over 100 pupils. (Lancaster columnist in //Glengarrian//, 31 May 1889) He lived 1867-1872 in Helena, Montana, 1872-1874 in Bozeman, Montana, where he is reported to have been involved in founding a bank, and 1874-1877 in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was in the lumber business. |
