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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 102 Numéro 1989

Date 26 novembre 1896
Comté Charlotte
Lieu Saint Andrews
Journal St. Andrews Beacon

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Died at Mascarene (Charlotte Co.) Nov. 8th, Robert LOW, in the 88th year of his age. The deceased was born at Mascarene July 4th, 1809. He was the last survivor of a family of 13 children who grew to be men and women, none of whom died very young. His father, the late John LOW, came from Keith in Banffshire, Scotland to St. Andrews in the year 1784 in the same ship with Alexander YOUNG, who will be remembered by many of the oldest inhabitants of the shire town. John Low was one of the first settlers in St. Andrews and lived there till the year 1790, when he became one of the first settlers of Mascarene and onme of the grantees of the Mascarene Grant. He died at Mascarene in the year 1844 in the 92nd year of his age. Robert was his fifth son and always resided on the homestead which he inherited from his father. His occupation was divided between farming, lumbering and that of a stevedore, the latter business he was most actively engaged in the earlier part of his life in the days when St. Andrews was the second town in the Province for exports and was of very less of importance than St. John, at a time when Charlotte Co. had more saw mills than all the rest of the province put together and even earlier than the days of deal shipments, the days of the square timber trade, before deals were shipped to England, when the ships loaded in St. Andrews harbor. It was from 1830 to 1840 that St. Andrews 'boomed' with the trade to the West Indies, Demerara and timber trade with Great Britain. It was a delight of Mr. Low in his old age to tell of the old times when John Wilson, Rait, Scott, Pagan and others of the same period were merchants of St. Andrews. He enherited from his Scottish ancestry a strong religious honesty, uncompromisinh with an sect that did not meet his opinions and temperance matters in which he took a deep interest. He was one of the founders of the Second St. George baptist church, which was organized in 1845 and from that time until his death he was its deacon. His wife, who died only a little over two weeks before him, was the daughter of Rev. James WALKER, the first pastor of the church in which he was a member. Two children survive him, John W. LOW, barrister-at-law of Boston and Mrs. Flora A. LEONARD, Mascarene.

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