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Pioneer - McINTOSH, James
Biographical Sketches of
Early Settlers of Wellington County
Information from: Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario.
Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906
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McINTOSH, James
, was b. in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 21,
1824. His parents, John McIntosh and Margaret Fraser, originally belonged to
Morayshire, but left their native county to reside in Huntley before the
subject of this sketch was born.
Mr. McIntosh came to Canada in 1854, with the family of the late James Innes, ex-M.P., so well known as editor and proprietor of the Guelph Mercury for many years, who came to Canada in 1853. He came directly to Hamilton, and soon after his arrival he entered the employ of John Gartshore, then proprietor of an extensive foundry in the flourishing town of Dundas, as a millwright. For some time he was in shipbuilding, working on the steamer Europa, which was being built at Hamilton. He was afterwards sent to work on the steamer J. C. Robinson, named after Chief Justice Robinson, which was being constructed at Bell Ewart on Lake Simcoe. After the completion of this contract he went to Galt, where he was for a time engaged in the employment of Mr. James Crombie, the founder of the important Goldie-McCulloch works of that town. In 1856 Mr. McIntosh went to Wisconsin, but came back in 1857, to be married to Miss Margaret Inbes, of Toronto, sister of Mr. James who was a devoted and sympathetic sharer in his trials a recent death in 1904. Soon after their marriage they went to Wisconsin, where they prospered for three years, but the climate and surroundings were uncongenial to Mrs. McIntosh's whose health became impaired, and they decided to return to Toronto, where he entered the employ of Gooderham and Worts. Next, the Innes and McIntosh families went to Kincardine, where Messrs. Inues and McIntosh engaged in sawmilling, but the venture was not a success, and Mr. Innes left to take a position on the Globe staff, and Mr. McIntosh went to Goderich, where he remained for two years, employed by the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company. In 1862 he came to Guelph, where he has since resided, with the exception of three years spent in Elora in charge of the machinery of the Fraser mills, then rented by Mr. Whitelaw, of Paris. In 1874 he was engaged as foreman carpenter at the Model farm, which position he held until he resigned in 1899. Mr. McIntosh was reared amid the strict religious atmosphere characteristic of many Highland homes in the nineteenth century, and his consistent Christian life has been the fruitage of a mind early instilled with a reverence for and a love of sacred things. Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh were among the early members of Chalmers' Church. He was elected to the Eldership in 1871, and has since been a highly esteemed member of the Session, of which he is now the oldest member. After the death of Mrs. McIntosh in 1904, he went to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Macdonald. From: Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario. Toronto:Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906 |
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