====== Lothian, Duncan S. ====== (died 13 March 1913, aged 59), mining construction man, lumberman. Born at Breadalbane, GC. He went to the West in the 1870s. In an extremely active and varied career, he did mining construction work and installed mining machinery in British Columbia, Alaska, Montana and New Mexico, and he was a lumberman at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., where he had a sawmill, and in Washington State and in the Skeena River area of British Columbia. It is uncertain to what extent he did his mining work as an independent contractor, or as the employee of a company. However, whatever the answer, the scope and importance of the work cannot be doubted, or (on the evidence of the work) that he was a remarkable man. We get a flavour of his mining work in the statement, β€œIn Montana he built the Blue Bird mill at Butte, the Bi-metallic mill at Granite Mountain and an addition to the plant of the Anaconda Company.” Financial disaster seems to have haunted his lumbering enterprises, and perhaps for this reason he is found operating in his later years in the relatively lowly role of an official scaler in the Skeena River area. He died in Vancouver. His funeral sermon was preached by the minister of the First Presbyterian Church,Vancouver. The pallbearers, or some of them, were former Glengarrians. Lothian was probably unmarried. A tribute notes, β€œA strong, firm man, remarkable for his quiet, courteous manners in dealing with large numbers of men, Mr. Lothian was well known and is well remembered by thousands who have worked under him in the various undertakings he was connected with.” ---- Obituary //Vancouver World//, ND, repr. //Cornwall Freeholder// 4 April 1913 (QF) [<6>]