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LOGGIE, JAMES KERR (1879-1947)

LOGGIE, JAMES KERR, businessman; mayor of Chatham, 1925-27; b. Chatham, 4 Feb 1879, s/o William Stuart Loggie and Elspeth Burnett Kerr; unmarried; d. Chatham, 25 Oct 1947.

J. Kerr Loggie began to work in his father's business, the W. S. Loggie Co. Ltd, at age fifteen and had assumed important management responsibilities before he was twenty-five. For many years he was vice-president and general manager of the firm, and upon the death of his father in 1944 became president.

After the outbreak of World War I Loggie transferred his business responsibilities to his brother Leigh J. Loggie, joined the 26th Battalion as a private soldier, and served at the front in France. After the war he resumed his position with the company and became involved in other business and community activities. In 1920 he was one of the incorporators of Miramichi River Service Ltd, of which John P. Burchill was president. He sat for a time on the Chatham Town Council and was elected mayor in 1925. From 1927 to 1946 he was chairman of the Chatham School Board. He was a member of the Chatham Board of Trade and served terms as president of the Highland Society and the Chatham branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

In 1946 Loggie was seriously ill, and his brother Leigh J. Loggie, who had gone to Alberta after World War I, returned to Chatham to be vice-president and general manager of the company. When Kerr Loggie died the following year, his sister Rae Loggie took his place as president. At this time the firm still had ten or more branch stores in Northumberland and Gloucester counties, but as the fishery declined the W. S. Loggie Co. became increasingly a Chatham retailing firm. When its general manager, Leigh J. Loggie, died in 1977, at eighty-nine years of age, the business consisted of a wholesale and retail grocery, a motor sales agency, a hardware store, and ladies' wear and shoe stores, all on Water Street in Chatham. By 1987 only a general office number was listed in the Chatham telephone directory, and in 1990 the business was closed out completely.

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[b] PPNB [d] Leader 31 Oct 1947 / Advocate 20 Oct 1915, 15 Jun 1920; Commercial World 15 Nov 1945; Fraser (C and WSL)


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