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BAIN, HUGH FRAZER (1815-1870)

BAIN, HUGH FRAZER, blacksmith, foundry and sawmill owner, and general merchant; b. Ayrshire, Scotland, c1815; m. 1st, 1842, Ann Jamieson, and 2nd, 1862, Agnes Goodfellow, d/o Alexander Goodfellow and h/w Elizabeth; d. Chatham, 18 Feb 1870.

Hugh F. Bain's first marriage took place at Craigie by Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire, in 1842. Five years later he was living in Chatham and had acquired the Miramichi Foundry from the assignees of Joseph Cunard. The foundry burned in 1850. He rebuilt it and sold it in 1852 to William J. Fraser. In 1854 he bought the Cunard sawmill, with George Kerr and two other partners. He also had a general store, which he conducted until his final illness in 1869. At the time of his death the sawmill was in the possession of William Muirhead, who became its sole owner in 1877. The Bain store was operated for a number of years by Hugh Bain's son Robert, but he later moved to Gloucester County, where he had a lobster canning business.

Bain and his first wife, Ann Jamieson, who died in 1861, at age forty-five, had at least five children. Bain's second wife, Agnes Goodfellow, had been a widow for twenty-four years prior to her death in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1894.

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[m] LDS-IGI; official records [d] church records / Advocate 31 May 1894; Fraser (C); Gleaner 11 Mar 1850, 9 Oct 1852, 16 Mar 1861


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