(1 Jan. 1866-1949), businessman. (A.H. Robertson) Born in the 18th Concession of Indian Lands. GC. Parents: Alexander Robertson and his wife Harriet Boyd, who lived on the 18th Concession of Indian Lands, north of Maxville. Alexander was killed in 1865, through a runaway of his horses during plowing. When his wife died in 1907, the Maxville columnist in the Cornwall Standard of 25 Jan. 1907 wrote, “The deceased was one of the early settlers, having spent 25 years as a resident of this place, and indeed long ere this striving village had been dreamt of, when the present site was an unbroken forest, she with her late husband, who predeceased her 41 years ago, strove amid the peculiar difficulties of the early settler to rear a family in the fear of God.” Their son Alexander H. Robertson is said to have attended the public school at Athol at the same time as Ralph Connor (C.W. Gordon). Alexander H. Robertson learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweller in Maxville in the shop of a Peter McLeod. Beginning in 1886, Alexander H. Robertson practised on his own account as a watchmaker and jeweller in Maxville. He was presumably the Robertson with whom the Gaelic scholar E.G. Cox left his glasses in 1904 to be sent to Montreal for repair. Alexander H. Robertson was local manager of the Bell Telephone Company for thirty-five years, beginning in 1903, was a notary public, and in 1916-1921 was reeve of Maxville, and in 1919 was warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry. In a business card-type advertisement printed in the Maxville Messenger of Sept. 1920, he appears as “Alex. H. Robertson Notary Public, Conveyancer, etc., Issuer of Marriage Licenses Drawing of Wills a Specialty.” In a 1919 Glengarry News article he was noted to have been a vigorous backer of the local war effort in WWI, and to be a dedicated motorist and a supporter of the Good Roads Movement. Temperance supporter. Presbyterian (at least before Church Union). Conservative. He was married in 1887 to Wilhelmina (Mina) Wannamaker. Their one child, Ada, married T.W. Munro and was a well-known music teacher in Maxville.

Campbell (1990), 709-712, 724 * biog. sketches, with portrait: Glengarry News 7 Feb. 1919 (on occasion of his becoming warden); Stiles 226; Harkness: index * Maxville (1967) 61-62 (brother) * Maxville (1991) 93, 95 (portrait), 244, 296-297, 302, 798 * obituary of his father, Cornwall Freeholder 22 Sept. 1865 * spends week in Whitby, Ont., attends Commencement there of the Ontario Ladies’ College, where his daughter Ada is taking music courses, Glengarrian 25 June 1909