(2 April 1889-1979), farmer. (Horace Marjerrison, H. S. Marjerrison) Born in GC. Parents: George Marjerrison (1848-1921) and his wife Hannah H. Tinkess (1859-1937). He attended Alexandria High School and commercial college in Cornwall. For some years, he homesteaded near Neville, Sask. Afterwards, resettled for life in GC, he was a farmer north of Apple Hill, where the road from Apple Hill meets Highway 43. Over many years, he was active as a spokesman for GC farmers and in the promotion of GC agriculture. He was often quoted in the local press on the conditions and needs of GC agriculture, and in particular on the economic position of the farmers (that is to say, most GC farmers) who produced milk for the GC cheese factories. When a group of GC farmers formed the Cheese Factory Patrons’ Association in Oct. 1932, Marjerrisson was elected president of the organization. (Glengarry News 21 Oct. 1932) He remained the president of this organization (later or also known as the Glengarry Cheese Producers’ Association) for many years. (For this organization, see also W.J. Major and Archibald J. Macdonald) In 1935 he was one of several competitors to be the candidate in GC of the Stevens Reconstruction Party (see J. Alex. Macdonell, chosen as the candidate). (Standard Freeholder 23 Aug. 1935) In 1939 Horace Marjerrison was the chairman at a meeting in Alexandria on behalf of the Herridge New Democracy Party. (GN 11 Aug. 1939) In 1945, he sought to obtain the Liberal nomination for GC (see W. B. MacDiarmid). Horace Marjerrison was married at Martintown 3 Nov. 1914 to Mabel MacDiarmid (1891-1951) of Apple Hill South. (six children, five surviving him) Their son Stanley served in the RCAF in WWII. Marjerrison and his wife are buried at the Presbyterian cemetery, Gravel Hill, Stormont County
Many refs. in Glengarry News over many years * Campbell and McDermid, Kennedys 450-451 * Apple Hill (1982) 45 (portraits) * interview recorded 30 July 1977 for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario * marriage: GN 13 Nov. 1914 * Marjerrison gravestones, Gravel Hill Cemetery * obituary of Stanley Marjerrison, GN 7 Oct. 1987 * 2500 attend Orange Walk at Marjerrison’s Grove, 1/4 mile N of Apple Hill, Standard Freeholder 13 July 1932 * Horace Marjerrison shares discussion at meeting, in Peterborough, of Ontario Cheese Producers’ Association, GN 11 and 18 Feb. 1938 * editorial comment repr. SFH 20 Oct. 1939 from Ottawa Journal on delegation, of which Marjerrison was one of two leaders, to Dominion Dept. of Agriculture re cheese prices * his letter on dairy industry, repr. SFH 22 May 1935 from Ottawa Farm Journal; other letters of his to press on agricultural conditions, Ottawa Farm Journal (see GN 3 Jan. 1936), GN 3 Dec. 1937, SFH 30 Nov. 1938 * his nephew airman Kenneth Gerald Spooner of Smiths Falls posthumously awarded George Cross, GN 4 Feb. 1944