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BRYENTON, WILLIAM A. (1853-1915)

BRYENTON, WILLIAM A., lumberman, boom master, grist mill owner, and horseman; b. Prince Edward Island, 12 Jul 1853, s/o George Bryenton and Mary McIntosh; m. 1st, 1877, Emeline Leslie, d/o John Leslie and Margaret Davidson, of Nelson parish, and 2nd, 1888, Martha Jane Parks, d/o Francis Parks and Hannah Blackmore, of Derby parish; d. Bryenton, 12 Mar 1915.

William A. Bryenton was one of eleven children of George Bryenton, a native of England, and Mary McIntosh, a native of Scotland, who were married on the Miramichi in 1838 and made their permanent home in Derby parish, after spending the late 1840s and early 50s in Prince Edward Island. The family surname occurs in Hedley Parker's poem, "The Man Behind the Boathook," in which "Jack Bryenton," an older brother, "rides a log." The locality known as Bryenton acquired its name in 1882, when Albert Bryenton, a younger brother, was appointed postmaster at the place where the family was settled.

William A. Bryenton conducted woods operations and ran a sawmill for many years in Derby parish. He also had a grist mill on his property and was widely known as a horseman, owning "some very fine animals." In 1905 he had George Henderson build him the steam tug Marshall W., with which he and his son Marshall W. Bryenton rafted logs for the North West Boom Co. He was listed as master of the North West Boom in 1907.

Bryenton was survived in 1915 by his second wife, Martha Parks, who died only a few weeks after he did, and by a daughter and three sons of his marriage to Emeline Leslie.

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[b] census [m] official records [d] Leader 19 Mar 1915 / Advocate 28 Aug 1907, 17 Jan 1911 (ad), 14 Apr 1915; World 22 Apr 1905


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