(1813-1901), teacher. (John J. McLaughlin) Born in Derry, Ireland. He began teaching in GC in 1833. Afterwards, in Dundas County, he taught at Morrisburg and Williamsburg, was school superintendent at Williamsburg, and was also a farmer at Williamsburg. He is said to have been in the Ottawa civil service in later life. He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Morrisburg. In 1840 he was married to Bridgit Gormley, of the GC-Dundas Gormley connection. (twelve children) One of their children, Joseph, was a railway contractor, based variously at Cedar Rapids in Iowa, and Wyoming and Alaska. Joseph’s son Charles Michael McLaughlin (1873? or 1878?-18 Nov.1934), born at Morrisburg, was an American playwright, author, actor, and film director and producer well known in his day under his professional name of Willard Mack.

J. Smyth Carter, The Story of Dundas (1905) 124 * Harkness 338 * W. J. Styles’s column, Standard Freeholder 8 Aug. 1942 * private information * Willard Mack’s writings listed NUC (Pre-1956) 351: 591-592