====== McIntyre, Daniel Eugene ====== (5 Feb. 1812-10 Oct. 1896), sheriff. Born in Oban, Argyleshire, Scotland. Parents: James McIntyre and his wife Mary McLachlan or McLaughlin. James McIntyre, a sea captain, was lost with his ship off the Welsh coast while his son was still a child. Daniel Eugene McIntyre was educated in schools at Oban, Appin and Glasgow. After a short period as the employee of a business firm, he studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and (more briefly) the University of Edinburgh, graduating from the former in the spring of 1834. He emigrated to Canada a year later. He soon settled at Williamstown, GC, where “he met with a warm welcome from his countrymen, and was at once adoped as one of themselves, his native language, the Gaelic, affording him a ready passport to their hearts and homes.” For some 15 years, he was a physician at Williamstown. Also, taking a side occupation like so many other GC physicians of his time, for some years besides conducting the medical practice he operated a general store in Williamstown. As has been noted elsewhere, his contemporary at Martintown, Dr James Grant, was also a merchant. Dr McIntyre was married on 4 July 1837 to Ann Fraser (d. 18 March 1904) , daughter of Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield. (Donald A. Macdonald, of the “Sandfield” family, and J. F. Pringle married her sisters.) In the Rebellion of 1837, McIntyre served as a surgeon on the loyal side. He was captured by the rebels while travelling on the //Henry Brougham//, and was held prisoner till liberated by the Glengarry troops. He resumed his medical practice at Williamstown after the war, and continued for some years with the militia, retiring at least with the rank of lieut.-colonel. Interested in local politics and administration, he served on the Eastern District Council, and its successor, the Council of SDG, and he was the first warden of SDG, being elected at the first meeting of the SDG Council in Jan. 1850. (His father-in-law Col. Fraser had been warden of the Eastern District.) Dr McIntyre served as warden for two years. “He was the friend and ally of the Honourable John Sandfield Macdonald in all his contests in Glengarry, largely assisting that gentleman in carrying the county against the powerful influence wielded in those days by the family compact.” At the time of the Rebellion Losses protests McIntyre supported Lord Elgin. On 10 May 1850, McIntyre was appointed sheriff of SDG, quickly (probably directly) following Donald Aeneas Macdonell who had become warden of the Kingston Penitentiary. Dr McIntyre held this position till his death nearly a half-century later. During his years as sheriff, he and his wife lived in Cornwall. Her //Glengarry News// obituary (25 March 1904) praised the couple for their generous hospitality of their Cornwall years, going so far as to say it was “lavished particularly upon their numerous Glengarry friends.” “In religion, the sheriff is a Presbyterian, but like all men who have lived in Glengarry, he has never obtruded his faith upon his friends who belonged to other sects. Indeed, when sectarian partyism has at any time been raised in his presence, it has been a favourite expression of his, that each man is entitled to go to heaven by the road of his own choosing. As we write [1886], we find Sheriff McIntyre, with his seventy-four winters upon his head, a typical Highlander, straight as an arrow, active in body, clear in intellect, discharging his duties to the satisfaction of the public.” He died at his home in Cornwall, Ont. (seven children, two surviving him) He was the father of Alexander Fraser McIntyre and the father-in-law of Mrs Helen McIntyre. Dr McIntyre was succeeded as sheriff by Archibald McNab. ---- //Gleaner//, 15 Oct. 1896, //Glengarrian//, //Glengarry News//, //Cornwall Freeholder//, //VKHR// all of 16 Oct. 1896 * life in Rose, i, 700-701 (QF; a basic source used for later lives of McIntyre) * Harkness: index (portrait) * Fraser, //Gravestones//, I, 157, 161 * brief lives in Canniff 477-478 (summary of Rose), //Belden Atlas// 13, and //Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography//, IV, 125 * Senior 287 (in fine group portrait with John A. “Cariboo” Cameron and others) * Hodgins: index * Scullion * J. F. Pringle, //The Genealogy of Jacob Farrand Pringle and His Wife Isabella Fraser Pringle// (1892) * note (ornithologically and biographically curious) on his (encouragement?) of the English sparrow in its migration into the Cornwall area, //Gleaner// 17 Dec. 1874 [<6>]