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HILDEBRAND, OTTO (1861-1947)

HILDEBRAND, OTTO, teacher and general merchant; b. Douglas, York Co., N.B., 1 Aug 1861, s/o George Hildebrand and h/w Rosamund, immigrants from Germany; m. 1889, Amelia Ann MacKay Wilson, d/o Thomas Wilson and Barbara McNabb, of Ludlow parish; d. Doaktown, 28 Apr 1947.

Otto Hildebrand first came to the Miramichi as bookkeeper for the Newcastle branch of Johnston & Co., a farm machinery dealership of which his older brother George Hildebrand was manager. He left this job in 1883 and entered the field of teaching. In the winter of 1884 he was hired to conduct the school at Blackville. In 1890 the school inspector reported that pupils there were getting "a real education," Hildebrand having transformed the school, "from one of the poorest to by far the best in the parish."

Hildebrand was much respected by his fellow-teachers and was elected to two separate one-year terms as president of the Teachers' Institute. In 1891, however, he left the profession to become a general merchant in Doaktown. In 1902-03 he had a "handsome and expensive" new combination home and store erected in the center of the village. Business remained his main interest, but in 1918 he accepted the presidency of the Northumberland People's Union, an alliance of laborers, farmers, and others which was being promoted by Thomas Parker, a Blissfield parish farmer, with the support of Henry H. Stuart. The organization's main accomplishment was to help elect two 'labor' MLAs from Northumberland County in the provincial election of 1920.

Hildebrand and his wife, Amelia A. Wilson, who died in 1911, had a son, Karl O. Hildebrand, who married and raised a daughter at Doaktown.

Sources

[b/m/d] official marriage and death records / Advance 17 Oct 1889, 14 Jan 1892; Advocate 3 Sep 1902, 4 Feb 1903; Commercial World 1 May 1947; Education reports 1890, 1891; tombstone; Wilson Genealogy; World 28 Feb 1883, 22 Oct 1887, 9 Oct 1918


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