Abbreviations used
Date June 11 1892
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
The wittiest memeber of the House of Assembly is Hon. L.J. TWEEDIE, Surveyor General and M.P.P. for Northumberland Co. His father, a native of Leitrim and his mother of County Down, emigrated from Ireland to New Brunswick many years ago and settled in Chatham where the subject was born Nov. 30th, 1849. He received his early education at the Northumberland Co. Grammar School and went thence to the Presbyterian Academy for an advanced course. Having decided to adopt the legal profession, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1871 and settled down to practice in the town of Chatham. In 1874 he was elected to the Assembly. At the general election of 1878, however, he was defeated, but was re-elected in 1886 and again in 1890. Mr. Tweedie was made a member of the Executive with the portfolio of Surveyor General. On Dec. 6th, 1876, Hon Tweedie was united in marriage with Agnes LOUDOUN d/o late Alex. LOUDOUN of Chatham. In Dominion politics he is a liberal-conservative.