(15 Jan. 1863-11 Jan. 1946), businessman. (Hugh A. McDonald, H. A. McDonald) (date of birth 13 Jan. 1865 also found) Born near Apple Hill, GC. Parents: Alexander B. McDonald and his wife Christina McDonald. Hugh A. McDonald attended primary school, presumably in his parents’ neighbourhood. He went to Rib Lake, Wisc., about 1880, when he was about 17 years old. For nearly a quarter-century, he was associated there with the J. J. Kennedy Lumber Co. He was a foreman and shipping clerk with the lumber company, but he also for a time operated a hotel (called the “MacDonald House”) in Rib Lake, and while at Rib Lake he was involved in sheep and cattle-farming, and he was an investor and trader in real estate involving timber lands and farm and village properties. He was married at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on 28 June 1893 to Margaret McDonald, from near Alexandria in the 9th Concession of Lancaster Township, GC. In 1904, he was elected registrar of deeds for Taylor County. (The actual local title may have been register not registrar.) He thereupon moved to Medford, which like Rib Lake is in Taylor County. He served as mayor of Medford, and continued his activities in real estate. He died at his home in Medford. (fourteen children, seven surviving him) Roman Catholic. He was a nephew of Duncan A. Macdonald, postmaster of Alexandria.

Glengarry News 1 Feb. 1946, repr. from Star News, Medford, repr. again Fraser, Fraser Obits. * biog. in Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Lake Region (Chicago, 1905) 407-408 * information kindly supplied by Mr Donald J. Simerson, of Saint Paul, Minnesota