(1856-1943), businessman. Parents: Mr and Mrs Almon Weegar. Almon Weegar died in 1923 aged 93 in a fire which destroyed his son J. Wellington Weegar’s home in Maxville. (Glengarry News 16 Nov. 1923) J. Wellington Weegar was Maxville’s first station agent. In the 1890s he was advertising as a moneylender in the Glengarry News, asserting in one advertisement that “I have any amount to loan so I am money king.” (GN 17 Jan. 1896) In a directory of 1906 he is described as a “loan agent.” As the word agent implies, the money he was lending was that of people on whose behalf he was acting for a fee. Probably at any time relatively little of his own money would be involved. By the spring of 1912, he had acquired a printing plant in Maxville and had brought a man by the name of Robinson in from Montreal to operate it. (Glengarry News 29 March 1912 ) Over whatever number of years the company lasted, it must have done a good deal of local printing, most of it transient material such as auction sale bills, but with a few productions of more lasting interest. It printed some of the annual Kenyon Church Reports (which have valuable historical data), copies for 1914, 1917 and 1921-1925, and presumably some other years, being printed by the “Maxville Printing Co.” In 1920 J.W. & P.E. Weegar were operating the “Maxville Printing Co.” In that year, also, J. W. Weegar and Son at Maxville were selling Briscoe cars, which “hang on to hills like a bull dog to a tramp.” J. Wellington Weegar married Jennie (Janet) Christina Munroe or Munro (1867-1941), the sister of Thomas W. Munro. (five children) Mrs Weegar wrote an outline history of Maxville which appears in the 1991 Maxville history. (pp. 60-62)

Maxville (1991) 60-62, 84, 89, 93, 101, 296-297, 347, 766 * gravestone, Maxville Cemetery