JACK, ERNEST S. (1879-1939)

JACK, ERNEST S., retail merchant; mayor of Chatham, 1936; b. Chatham, 1879, s/o Peter A. Jack, a native of Peterhead, Scotland, and Elizabeth A. Sinclair; m. 1938, Margaret MacMillan, of Black Point, Restigouche Co., N.B.; d. Chatham, 22 Dec 1939.

After attending the grammar school in Chatham, Ernest S. Jack worked for a time with the W. S. Loggie Co. He then spent eight years in Scotland. After he returned to the Miramichi he joined the staff of the J. D. Creaghan Co. He entered business for himself in 1917, opening a men's wear store in Chatham. He later had a second store in Bathurst.

Jack was a member of the United Church and a Mason. He served several terms on the Chatham Town Council and one year as mayor, to complete the term to which Daniel P. MacLachlan had been elected prior to his death. He was fifty-nine years old at the time of his marriage. When he died the following year he left his wife, Margaret MacMillan (who subsequently remarried), and an infant son.