====== McSweyn, John ====== 
 (6 May 1841-12 Oct. 1906), lawyer, judge. Born in GC. His father Malcolm McSweyn was a lumberman. John McSweyn appears at some time to have been a schoolfellow of Charles Sinclair. When only 14, John McSweyn taught school in the Martintown area. He afterwards moved with his parents to Victoria County, Ontario, and there he attended the grammar school at Oakwood. He again taught school, while preparing for the legal profession, and studied law under George Dormer (1838-1875) of Lindsay, Ont., who had been a law student of Sir John A. Macdonald and in 1872-1874 was Conservative MP for Victoria South. John McSweyn was called to the bar in 1882 when he was already in his 40s. After a period in the practice of the law, John McSweyn was made deputy judge of Victoria County in 1892. He died at Lindsay. Presbyterian. Mason. He was married on 17 April 1864 to Ann Graham of Victoria County.


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<fs small>Cochrane, II, 434 (with portrait) * information from Law Society of Upper Canada Archives * Sinclair 9
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