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DOLAN, WILLIAM (1854-1944)

DOLAN, WILLIAM, lumber company manager; b. Nelson, 25 Jan 1854, s/o John Dolan and Julia Bohan, natives of Ireland; m. 1886, Eliza Ronan, d/o Sylvester Ronan and Mary McCue, residents of Nelson; d. Nelson, 5 Feb 1944.

William ("Big Bill") Dolan worked for the McLeod Lumber Co. in Richibucto for several years and was then hired as resident manager at Nelson for the Timothy Lynch Lumber Co. This firm, which was based in Fredericton, operated on the Southwest Miramichi from the 1880s onward, with Timothy Lynch's brother Daniel Lynch, a resident of Boiestown, in charge of woods operations. The Lynches supplied sawlogs to different Miramichi mills, notably to the Sargeant mill at Chatham Head. From around the turn of the century they had their own mill at Chatham Head, which was under Dolan's management. He remained with the firm until after Timothy Lynch's death in 1908 and the sale of the Chatham Head mill to Fraser Companies Ltd. He was then manager for a while for James A. Rundle & Co. at Bartibog. He was retired for many years prior to his death in 1944, at age ninety.

Dolan and his family occupied a large house which overlooked the river at Nelson. He and his wife, Eliza Ronan, had four sons, of whom Raymond J. Dolan and Harold S. Dolan were physicians. Their son Clarence W. Dolan, a veteran of World War I, was the postmaster at Nelson in the 1930s and early 40s. Their youngest son, Everett Dolan, was drowned in a boating accident on the Lachine Rapids while he was a geology student at McGill University in Montreal.

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[b] church records [m] official records [d] Leader 11 Feb 1944 / Advocate 1 Apr 1896, 12 Feb 1908; Commercial World 3 Oct 1940; Leader 5 Sep 1924; Werstiuk


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