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MORTIMER, JOHN CHAPPELL (1882-1954)

MORTIMER, JOHN CHAPPELL, Presbyterian minister, Tabusintac and Burnt Church, 1922-25, and United Church minister, Black River and Napan, 1928-33; b. Paisley, Scotland, 11 Sep 1882, s/o George Mortimer and Mary Allen; m. 1907, Jessie McLean Smith, of Paisley; d. Sackville, N.B., 17 May 1954.

John C. Mortimer, who was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, went to South Africa following his marriage in 1907. He had a church near Johannesburg in 1913 before receiving a call to Hampton, N.B. He subsequently had pulpits at Fort Kent, Me, and St George, N.B. He was inducted into the Tabusintac and Burnt Church charge in 1922 and occupied it until 1925. He then went to Saskatchewan and was a United Church minister near North Battleford for three years. In 1928, he returned to the Miramichi as pastor of Black River and Napan. When he left in June 1933, he went to Northport, N.S., and he remained there until his retirement due to poor health in 1937. His ministry was said to have been marked by a passionate commitment to "applied Christianity."

In his later years Mortimer made his home in Sackville, N.B., where he was survived in 1954 by his wife, Jessie McL. Smith, a daughter, and two sons. Another son was killed in action in World War II.

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[b/d] official death records [m] Commercial World 20 May 1954 / Advocate 13 Jun 1922, 19 Dec 1928; Hist. UC Tabusintac; Mortimer family data; Macdougall; Walkington


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