LINDON, JOHN EDWARD THEODORE (1875-1934)

LINDON, JOHN EDWARD THEODORE, Newcastle town clerk and treasurer; b. Newcastle, 25 Dec 1875, s/o John H. Lindon and Susan Isabella Naugle, natives of Nova Scotia; m. 1899, Mary Emily Foy, d/o John W. Foy and Eliza Coughlan, of Quarryville; d. Montreal, 14 Apr 1934.

The son of a railroad section foreman, J. E. T. ("Ned") Lindon was educated at Harkins Academy and worked for a number of years as an accountant in the spoolwood industry in Newcastle. In 1906 he was appointed town clerk, a position which he retained for the rest of his life, and in which he exercised a great deal of influence in town affairs. A brief article written by him, entitled "Newcastle on the Miramichi," was published in The Busy East in 1919.

From 1907 to 1933 Lindon was secretary of the Newcastle School Board. In 1921 he was elected vice-president of the New Brunswick Municipal Officers' Association. He was a warden of St Andrew's Anglican Church, as his father had been, and a Mason, who occupied the office of worshipful master of Northumberland Lodge in 1923.

Lindon was fifty-eight years of age when he died in hospital in Montreal in 1934. His wife, M. Emily Foy, died a month later, survived by two daughters and two sons. Their son Clive E. Lindon followed in his father's footsteps in becoming town clerk and treasurer of Newcastle in 1945.