(1855- 22 Jan. 1942), carriage-builder. (D. C. McArthur; Rhodes Grant gives the name as Dan Columbus McArthur) Born at Martintown, in GC. Parents: Archibald D. McArthur (d. 1899) and his wife Margaret Christie (d. 1896). He apprenticed as a blacksmith and carriage-builder at Athelstan, Que. Otherwise, he spent his whole life in Martintown. He was in business as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and carriage-builder at Martintown, but “When the automobile began to supplant the horse and the blacksmithing and carriage building business commenced to fall off, Mr. McArthur took up the sale of farm implements…” Till his final illness he continued to work. He died in Cornwall General Hospital. Unmarried. His brother Angus C. McArthur (1 June 1863-6 Feb. 1958), of the Martintown area, was one of the prominent farmers featured in H. M. Stile’s well-known Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board book of 1920 (p. 151), and Angus C. McArthur’s son C. Pierson McArthur (1890-1972), a teacher at St. Cartharines Collegiate Institute and a wounded veteran of World War I, appears in Prominent People of the Province of Ontario (1925) p. 137.

Standard Freeholder 22 & 23 Jan. 1942 (QF), Glengarry News 23 Jan. 1942 * Rhodes Grant, i, 146-147, ii, 64, 65, 158 *Campbell (1986), 278-281 * his gravestone, St. Andrew’s cemetery, Martintown, and his brother’s and Pierson’s gravestone, North Branch Cemetery