FIRTH, ALEXANDER (1872-1958)

FIRTH, ALEXANDER, Presbyterian minister, Douglastown and Nelson, 1913-22, and Presbyterian and United Church minister, Doaktown, 1922-31; b. Glencoe, Restigouche Co., N.B., 25 Sep 1872, s/o William Firth and Mary Harper; m. 1st, 1901, Ellen W. Adams, of Tide Head, N.B., and 2nd, Myra Hunter, of Dundas, P.E.I.; d. Campbellton, 14 Jun 1958.

Alexander Firth was a farmer and lumberman before he attended Dalhousie University (1908-09) and went on to take the theological training program at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. He was ordained in 1912, at age forty, and inducted as minister of Douglastown and Nelson the next year. He occupied the charge until 1922 and then became the Presbyterian and United Church minister at Doaktown, where he remained for another ten years. He was subsequently stationed in Prince Edward Island and at Escuminac, Que. He retired at Maple Green, N.B., in 1948. When he died in 1958, at age eighty-five, he left two daughters and three sons of his marriage to Ellen W. Adams.