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COLQUHOUN, JOHN GEORGE ALEXANDER (1869-1945)

COLQUHOUN, JOHN GEORGE ALEXANDER, Presbyterian minister, Millerton, 1903-08; b. Little Harbour, Pictou Co., N.S., 23 May 1869, s/o John Cameron Colquhoun and Elizabeth Graham; m. 1904, Annie M. McBean, of Taymouth, N.B.; d. Moncton, 23 Jan 1945.

John G. A. Colquhoun attended Pictou Academy and Dalhousie University (BA 1898) and was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. Ordained in 1900, he spent one year as a minister in British Columbia. He was then based at Stanley, N.B., for two years before being called to Millerton in 1903. He was a respected clergyman, but his career was cut short in 1908 when he developed an asthmatic condition which prevented him from preaching. One of his last official roles was his participation in the dedication of the Presbyterian church at Chelmsford on 18 October 1908.

After he resigned from the ministry, Colquhoun operated a general store in Fredericton. In 1922, he and his family moved to Moncton. When he died there in 1945, at age seventy-five, his wife, Annie M. McBean, a son, and a daughter were named as his survivors.

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[b/d] official death records [m] Presb. Witness 25 Jun 1904 / Advocate 4 Nov 1903, 18 Mar 1908, 7 Oct 1908, 30 Oct 1908, 2 May 1922; annual 1946; Walkington


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