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LOUDOUN, ALEXANDER (1817-1874)

LOUDOUN, ALEXANDER, businessman and JP; b. Scotland, c1817; m. 1848, Mary Wyse, sister of Henry W. Wyse; d. Chatham, 14 Apr 1874.

According to the 1851 census Alexander Loudoun entered the province in 1837. He was in partnership with Alexander Haddow in the merchandising firm of Haddow & Loudoun until Haddow's death in 1846, at age forty. Later he was a successful businessman in his own right. In the 1850s he owned a fishing station on Fox Island, and he remained involved in the fishery over the long term. In 1856 he was president of the Miramichi and Richibucto Telegraph Co., which had brought the telegraph to the Miramichi in 1851.

Loudoun joined the 1st Battalion of militia as an ensign in 1847. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1850 and captain in 1865. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1855. He and his wife, Mary Wyse, had at least ten children. Their daughter Agnes Loudoun was the wife of Lemuel J. Tweedie. Two of their older sons settled in Australia, while their youngest son, Wilson A. Loudoun, was New Brunswick's auditor general from 1907 to 1935. He was married to Maude Hartt, a daughter of Odbur Hartt, the founder of Fredericton's Hartt Boot & Shoe Co.

Sources

[m] Gleaner 12 Sep 1848 [d] Telegraph 15 Apr 1874 / Facey-Crowther; Fraser (C); Gleaner 28 Mar 1846, 11 Aug 1855, 5 Jan 1856, 12 Aug 1865; Telegraph 25 Nov 1935


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