(died 30 Dec. 1910), lumberman. Born presumably in GC. Parents: John McArthur, the lumber merchant, and his wife Margaret McMartin. With his brothers John and Alexander McARTHUR, he was a member of the Toronto-based lumber firm, the McArthur Bros., Company Limited. As the “resident manager” of the firm in the United States, Peter McArthur lived for many years at Saginaw, Mich., and in Detroit from 1893. In 1895, on the death of his brother Alexander, he became the president of the firm. He was married some 24 years before his death. (at least four children, three surviving him.) Besides his home in Detroit, he maintained a summer home near Martintown. There he installed in 1902 the first rural telephone known in the area. (20 Years Ago column, Cornwall Freeholder 27 July 1922. There, too, about 1908, he introduced “a huge black automobile,” the first car known in the Martintown area. The noisy, dust-making novelty created a sensation, but so, it seems, did the donkey maintained for the recreation of the children. (Grant) Peter McArthur, who lived to be the last surviving brother of the firm McArthur Bros., died in Detroit. His wife, whose name was Emily Carter, had died, also in Detroit, about 10 months earlier, on 24 Feb. 1910. Besides those already named, he was the brother of Archibald and R. D. MacArthur.

Cornwall Standard 13 Jan. 1911 (repr. from Toronto Mail & Empire) * mentioned as “a wealthy lumberman of Detroit,” Cornwall Standard 18 Oct. 1907 * listed in city directories, East Saginaw, Mich., 1876-1893/4 * Rhodes Grant, i, 83, ii, 169-170, 170 * death of wife, Cornwall Freeholder 4 March 1910 (two notices)