(24 Sept. 1879-2 Dec. 1947), physician. (Dr Orton McLaren, Dr T. Orton McLaren, Dr T. O. McLaren) Born at Shannonville, Ont. Parents: Dr Alexander McLaren and his wife Jane McArthur. He attended public school at Lancaster and high school at Williamstown. Dr T. O. McLaren graduated in medicine from Queen’s University in 1902 and passed his final exams before the Ontario Council of Physicians and Surgeons in 1903. (Glengarry News 11 April 1902, 10 July 1903) He was a physician at Lancaster, GC, for 45 years. His father had also been a physician at Lancaster, the periods of practice of the father and son overlapping by about a decade. (For the father and son medical teams of Maxville, see entry for Dr D. MacDiarmid) Dr T. O. McLaren was one of the coroners for GC, and he was medical officer of health for Lancaster Township and Lancaster Village. He continued his practice till he was injured by being struck by a car in August 1947. Failing to recover from the injuries, he died three months later at his home in Lancaster. (one child) His wife was Tassie McCuaig (1887-19 Feb. 1973). Dr McLaren was a member of the United Church, and a Mason. He and his father are buried in St. Andrew’s cemetery, Williamstown, where they share a gravestone. “In politics [Dr T. O. McLaren] was a diligent supporter of the Progressive-Conservative party and his counsel and advice were always sought in political matters, locally and nationally.” Rose Gourlay Gosse’s recollections of him included his holding up a newborn baby in the Gosse household.

Standard Freeholder 3 & 8 Dec. 1947, Glengarry News 5 & (QF) 12 Dec. 1947 * sources as for the life of his father * car injury, GN 29 Aug. 1947 * Ménard 16, 41 * Rose Gourlay Gosse, I Remember Glengarry (1978) 5-7 * wife: Butternuts and Maple Sugar 107; her obituary GN (ND) * report in joking item of Lancaster news, GN 23 Oct. 1908, that he is great grandnephew of Ian Maclaren, author of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (in fact, Maclaren was a pen name of the author; see William D. MacLeod of this dictionary)