(12 Dec. 1824-16 Feb. 1898), clergyman. (Adam F. MacQueen, A. F. MacQueen) Born in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He attended the Free Church College, Edinburgh, and Knox College, Toronto. On 5 Dec. 1858, he was ordained and inducted as the first resident minister of Kenyon Presbyterian Church, Dunvegan. Previously, he had served as a student missionary preacher to this congregation during the summers 1856-1858. He was married in 1860 to Normanda (Norma) MacLeod. She was the granddaughter of Capt. Donald Murray, a settler who practised medicine; and her widowed mother, by her second marriage, became the wife of J. R. McKenzie. About 1862, a manse was built at Dunvegan–a large frame building later superseded by the present brick manse, but still standing on the east edge of the village.

     Work was begun in 1871 to construct a stone church at Dunvegan–the stone church which stands there today. Work on the church was still incomplete when Adam F. MacQueen left Dunvegan in 1874, having accepted a call to Huron in Bruce Presbytery in Western Ontario. He did, however, preach the first sermon within the still incomplete structure of the new church. He was minister at Huron till 1893, and afterwards at Hampden, Que. till his death. His wife outlived him, to die 16 June 1915, aged 75. They are buried in the Dunvegan Cemetery. While minister at Dunvegan, he had been a member of the first board of trustees of Alexandria High School. He preached in both Gaelic and English. The missionary R. F. Burns describes meeting in Feb. 1871 Ann Campbell of Dunvegan, celebrated for her supposed great age. “Her worthy minister, the Rev. A. MacQueen, of Kenyon, took me to her home. She understood only the Gaelic language, but through him as interpreter, I carried on an interesting conversation with her…” (Witness 9 Dec. 1872)

MacMillan, Kirk: index (has portrait) * MacMillan, Kenyon Presbyterian Church, esp 7-10, 16-17 (with portrait), 80 * gravestone at Dunvegan * Whyte, i, 295 (wife), 320 * Harkness 347