(29 Feb. 1852-2 Oct. 1916), merchant. (P.A. Huot) Born at St-Chrysostome, Que. He began his mercantile life at 16 as a clerk. In 1885, he began a business at St. Isidore, Prescott County, Ont., in partnership with Joseph Leduc. After five years at St. Isidore, the partnership having been dissolved, he moved to Alexandria in 1890, buying the business interests of T. and M. St. Denis. (obituary & Glengarry News 28 March 1890) Thereafter, he operated as a general merchant in Alexandria till his death. He was a councillor and separate school trustee in Alexandria. He died at his home in Alexandria. He was married to Azilda Lapointe (d. 20 Dec. 1928), who was born in Montreal. Their nine children included J.A.C. Huot, J.A. Real Huot, Fr J.A. Huot, and Sister Mary Alexander of Rome, who at the time of her father’s death was superior of a convent at Scotstown, Que., and Sister St. Joseph, a cloistered nun of the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall, and Miss Hélène (Ella) Huot, who was for some 40 years organist at Sacred Heart Church, Alexandria.

Glengarry News 6 Oct. 1916 & (from the Alexandria Times) Cornwall Standard 12 Oct. 1916 * obituary of wife, CS 3 Jan. 1929 * obituary of Ella Huot, undated clipping (probably Nov. 1958)