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SIMPSON, FREDERICK C. (1859-1918)

SIMPSON, FREDERICK C., Presbyterian minister, Douglastown and Nelson, 1907-13; b. Hull, Yorkshire, England, 1858, s/o William W. Simpson and h/w Sarah; m. 1890, Agnes Duff (d/o a businessman from Carbonear, Nfld); d. Bridgetown, N.S., 17 Mar 1918.

Frederick C. Simpson came to Canada as a prospective Methodist clergyman but did his theological studies at the Presbyterian College in Halifax (grad. 1888) and entered that ministry. Ordained in 1889, he spent two years in Ontario and the rest of his career in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. He arrived on the Miramichi from Souris, P.E.I., as successor to the Rev. Donald Macintosh, who had given up the Douglastown charge in May 1905.

Simpson was inducted in January 1907 and moved his family into a new manse which had been erected at Douglastown the previous fall. Unlike his reclusive predecessor, he was busy on many fronts and very much in the public eye. In 1911 he wrote a letter to the editor of the Union Advocate in which he attacked a recent Catholic decree on mixed marriages. This received an angry reply from Father Patrick W. Dixon of Newcastle. He then had a sermon which he preached on the decree printed in the Advocate, provoking Dixon to write a second letter. He was winning a great many admirers in the Protestant ranks, but sensing that the dispute was getting out of hand, the editor of the Advocate declined to publish a later submission of his on the subject.

When Simpson delivered his farewell address in July 1913 the Advocate noted that he was leaving his charge debt free, having eliminated $6,000 in liabilities during his six-year term. William S. Loggie, Lemuel J. Tweedie, and Joseph McKnight were among many who expressed regret over his resignation. His reason for leaving was to join the staff of The Presbyterian Witness in Halifax. He did so but returned to the pulpit three years later at Bridgetown, N.S. He was still occupying that charge when he died in 1918, at age fifty-eight. He was survived by his wife, Agnes Duff, a son, and a daughter.

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[b] English vital records and annual 1918 [m] Presb. Witness 14 Jun 1890 [d] Advocate 21 Mar 1918 / Advocate 26 Jul 1911, 9/16/23 Aug 1911, 1 Nov 1911, 3 Jul 1913, 5 Apr 1916; Leader 14 Sep 1906, 1 Feb 1907, 18 Apr 1913; Walkington


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