FLIEGER, HENRY WENTWORTH (1871-1947)

FLIEGER, HENRY WENTWORTH, tinsmith; mayor of Chatham, 1939/40 and 1943/44; b. Chatham, 6 Apr 1871, s/o Henry W. Flieger Sr and Ellen Hodnett; m. Ella Jane Traer, d/o George Traer and Sarah McEwen, of Napan; d. Chatham, 23 Jun 1947.

A nephew of Thomas H. Flieger, Henry W. Flieger conducted a tinsmithing and metalworking business in Chatham for more than fifty years. He sat on the Chatham School Board for eight years, was a longtime town councillor, and was elected to two separate terms as mayor. He was a member of several fraternal societies and of St Andrew's Presbyterian-United Church. In 1918 he declined an eldership of St Andrew's.

Flieger and his wife, Ella J. Traer, had six sons and seven daughters. In 1944 four sons and one daughter were serving in the Canadian armed forces. An older son, Byron W. ("Barney") Flieger was a leading student at the Chatham Grammar School and one of the early Lord Beaverbrook scholars at the University of New Brunswick (BScF 1926). He had a most successful career as a member of the forestry faculty at UNB and later as an executive with the International Paper Co. in Montreal. The founder and manager of a large-scale spruce budworm control program in New Brunswick, he was among the first to be inducted into the New Brunswick Forestry Hall of Fame.