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WIER, JOHN (1857-1941)

WIER, JOHN, doctor; b. Colchester Co., N.S., 14 Oct 1857, s/o James A. R. Wier and Janet Putnam; m. 1885, Mary Elizabeth Johnston, of Saint John; d. Ottawa, 13 Aug 1941.

John Wier studied science at Dalhousie University (1878-80) and was trained in medicine at the affiliated Halifax Medical College (MD 1884). He practiced briefly at Dorchester, N.B., and in 1885 picked up the practice which Dr Ferdinand L. Pedolin had built up at Doaktown prior to his move to Newcastle. From the beginning he took an interest in business as well as medicine. It was complained in 1888 that he had become a sales or shipping agent for telegraph poles and was paying insufficient attention to the needs of his patients.

Wier and his family made their home for a number of years in the hotel conducted by Burke Archibald a mile up the road from the village. About 1895 he built a new house in Doaktown, but he had it up for sale in January 1898 and was thinking of joining in the Klondike Gold Rush. He stayed in Doaktown, however, and enjoyed an increasingly busy and profitable practice. He was also the owner of a small telephone exchange, which he sold to the New Brunswick Telephone Co. in 1908. In 1911 he bought the first new automobile owned in Doaktown. In 1919 he was appointed to the new five-member County Board of Health. He retired around 1926.

Wier and his wife, Mary E. Johnston, were the parents of three daughters, two of whom lived to adulthood. Their daughter Freda Wier was a teacher, and their daughter Beatrice Wier a nurse. After Wier's retirement he and his wife moved to Ottawa to live with their daughter Beatrice and her husband, and they both died in that city.

Sources

[b] census [m] Sun 25 Feb 1885 [d] Daily Gleaner 13 Aug 1941 / Advance 27 Dec 1888, 27 Jan 1898; Advocate 11 Feb 1885, 17 Nov 1898, 11 Feb 1919; Bamford research; Dalhousie archives; Kee; Leader 21 Jul 1911; NB Medical Registers; Putnam research


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