LAMONT, HUGH HUNTER (1843-1917)

LAMONT, HUGH HUNTER, businessman, boat builder, and woodworking factory owner; b. Douglastown, 16 May 1843, s/o Alexander Lamont, a native of Kilmarnock, Scotland, and Hannah Cameron; m. 1871, Mary Isabella Henderson, d/o James Henderson and Mary Ingram; d. Douglastown, 8 Jun 1917.

In 1891 Hugh H. Lamont was a lumber shipper at Douglastown. In 1906 he was enjoying "an enviable reputation...as a designer and builder of gasoline pleasure and service launches." These vessels were being constructed at a plant which he owned at Douglastown, where his brother-in-law George Henderson was employed as master builder. A few smaller steamboats were constructed at the plant as well, including the tug Mary Sullivan, which was built in 1910 for Daniel Sullivan & Sons of Red Bank.

Lamont also had a woodworking factory and store in Newcastle. In 1913 he sold the factory to the Canadian Gear Works Co., in which Edward A. McCurdy was a shareholder, and it burned a few weeks after the firm took possession of it.

Lamont was an elder for many years of St Mark's Presbyterian Church in Douglastown. During the last seven years of his life he was a county councillor. He and his wife, M. Isabella Henderson, who died in 1887, at age forty-one, had five children.