WHITESIDE, JAMES (1866 LIVING 1907)

WHITESIDE, JAMES, Presbyterian minister, Millerton, Derby, and Chelmsford, 1899-1901; b. Ballyward, Co. Down, Ireland, 7 Feb 1866, s/o John Whiteside and Nancy Shelliday; m. 1895, Clara Josephine Flewwelling, of Hampton, N.B.; living in 1907.

James Whiteside, BA, was the first minister to serve the churches at Millerton, Derby, and Chelmsford after they became a separate charge from Blackville. He arrived in Canada in 1894 and was ordained that year. He had short terms at Woodstock and Hampton before being called to the Miramichi in November 1899. When the census of 1901 was taken, he and his wife were boarding with a family in Derby parish. He left in May 1901 to return to Ireland. He and his wife, Clara, were occupying the Presbyterian manse in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, at the time of her death in 1907, at age thirty-three.