A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time by Rose
1870. In 1880 he was appointed judge of probate for Hants county; and in
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1886 was made revising barrister for the same county, under the
Electoral Franchise Act, and both offices he still continues to hold.
Previous to his becoming a law student, Mr. De Wolfe owned and edited a
weekly newspaper in Bridgetown, and for five years he was proprietor and
editor of the Windsor _Mail_, published at Windsor, N.S. He has taken a
deep interest in the temperance movement, and on various occasions, and
in different places in his native province, delivered strong addresses
on its behalf. In politics he is a Liberal-Conservative, and has been an
active party man in his county. On the 12th of October, 1887, he was
married to Cassie H., daughter of Samuel Grey, of New Annan, Colchester
county, N.S. Mrs. De Wolfe was, before her marriage, a captain in the
Salvation Army, and a very zealous worker for God and humanity in the
provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, but through ill health, had
to retire from active service in the army. Mrs. De Wolfe has a sister in
India, working there as a missionary, under the direction of the Baptist
Board of Foreign Missions, of Nova Scotia.
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=Killam, Amasa Emerson=, Moncton, Manager of the St. Martin’s and Upham
Railway, M.P.P. for Westmoreland county, New Brunswick, was born on the
25th of August, 1834. His parents were born in New Brunswick, his father
on the 26th of March, 1811, and his mother on the 10th of May, 1812. His
paternal grandfather was an officer in the British army, and served
during the American war of independence, and on the declaration of peace
came to New Brunswick and settled at Sackville. His grandparents, on the
mother’s side, were U. E. loyalists, and also became settlers in the
Maritime provinces. Mr. Killam received his education at the common
schools of his native place. He held the position of postmaster for a
number of years, and is now manager of the St. Martin’s and Upham
Railway, and in 1884 purchased the Elgin, Petitcodiac and Havelock
railway, from Petitcodiac to Elgin, and in 1885 built the extension of
the road to Havelock, and became managing director, and in 1886 took an
interest in building the Central Railway, from Norton to Fredericton,
and is managing director of the company: also managing director of the
Buctouche and Moncton railway. He first entered the House of Assembly
after the general election held in 1878, as representative of
Westmoreland county. At the following general election he failed to be
returned; but in September, 1883, on the resignation of P. A. Landry,
who was elected to the House of Commons at Ottawa, Mr. Killam was chosen
to fill the vacancy. At the general election held in 1886 he again came
before his constituents, and was once more chosen their representative
in the local house. In politics he is a Liberal-Conservative. On the
25th July, 1857, he was married, at Sackville, to Millicent Wheaton, and
the fruit of the union has been seventeen children.
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=Young, Sir William=, LL.D., ex-Chief Justice of Nova Scotia,
Halifax.—The late Sir William Young, who was a Scotchman by birth, was
born at Falkirk, in 1799, and died at Halifax, on the 8th of May, 1887.
He was a son of John Young, of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, who,
many years ago, emigrated to Nova Scotia, making Halifax his home. His
son William received his education at the University of Glasgow, where
he took honors. He then took up law as a profession, was admitted to the
bar of Nova Scotia in 1826, and appointed Queen’s counsel in 1843. In
commencing his career as a lawyer, he had some advantages over most
young men, in his family connections, which were quite numerous. But he,
wisely, did not too largely depend on this for success; he was
well-read, clear-headed, energetic, and bound to get on through his own
inherent powers and perseverance. When he had established his reputation
at the bar, and became comparatively independent in circumstances, he
entered the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, having been returned in
1833 to represent the island of Cape Breton when it formed an electoral
district. Subsequently, when the island was divided, he represented
Inverness, extending over a period of twenty-two years—from 1837 to
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