====== Weegar, J. Wellington ====== 
 (1856-1943), businessman. Parents: Mr and Mrs Almon Weegar. Almon Weegar died in 1923 aged 93 in a fire which destroyed his son J. Wellington Weegar’s home in Maxville. (//Glengarry News// 16 Nov. 1923) J. Wellington Weegar was Maxville’s first station agent. In the 1890s he was advertising as a moneylender in the //Glengarry News//, asserting in one advertisement that “I have any amount to loan so I am money king.” (//GN// 17 Jan. 1896) In a directory of 1906 he is described as a “loan agent.” As the word agent implies, the money he was lending was that of people on whose behalf he was acting for a fee. Probably at any time relatively little of his own money would be involved. By the spring of 1912, he had acquired a printing plant in Maxville and had brought a man by the name of Robinson in from Montreal to operate it. (//Glengarry News// 29 March 1912 ) Over whatever number of years the company lasted, it must have done a good deal of local printing, most of it transient material such as auction sale bills, but with a few productions of more lasting interest. It printed some of the annual Kenyon Church Reports (which have valuable historical data), copies for 1914, 1917 and 1921-1925, and presumably some other years, being printed by the “Maxville Printing Co.” In 1920 J.W. & P.E. Weegar were operating the “Maxville Printing Co.” In that year, also, J. W. Weegar and Son at Maxville were selling Briscoe cars, which “hang on to hills like a bull dog to a tramp.” J. Wellington Weegar married Jennie (Janet) Christina Munroe or Munro (1867-1941), the sister of Thomas W. Munro. (five children) Mrs Weegar wrote an outline history of Maxville which appears in the 1991 Maxville history. (pp. 60-62)


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<fs small>//Maxville (1991) //60-62, 84, 89, 93, 101, 296-297, 347, 766 * gravestone, Maxville Cemetery
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