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FOWLIE, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD (1866-1963)

FOWLIE, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD, mill owner and MLA; b. Little Branch, 9 May 1866, s/o Robert Smith Fowlie and Mary Cameron; m. 1st, 1895, Minnie S. Robertson, of New Richmond, Wis., and 2nd, 1914, Elizabeth L. M. Watling, d/o Donald Watling and Barbara Dick, of Black River; d. Newcastle, 8 Jun 1963.

Frederick A. Fowlie went to Emerson, Man., as a young man and later lived in Stillwater, Minn., where he worked as a salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. He returned to the Miramichi in 1900 and settled at Little Branch as a farmer. In 1907 he and George Fowlie erected a flour mill, and in 1919 he built a sawmill. Meanwhile, around 1908, he entered into partnership with Andrew, Robert, and Frank P. Loggie in the formation of the Eastern Dredging Co.

In the provincial election of 1920 Fowlie ran on an independent platform and captured a seat in the legislature. He sat until 1925 and then withdrew from politics. He was later a supervisor of bridge repair work in the section of the county east of Chatham. He played an important part in the establishment of the Miramichi Rural High School at Bayside in 1939.

Fowlie and his first wife, Minnie Robertson, had a son, Frederick F. Fowlie, who was a farmer at Black River and a major in the militia. No children were born of his marriage to Elizabeth Watling. He was ninety-seven years old when his death occurred at the Miramichi Hospital in Newcastle in 1963.

Sources

[b/m] Graves [d] church records / Advocate 16 Jan 1907; Educ. report 1939-40


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