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LETSON, FRANCIS JOSHUA (1836-1882)

LETSON, FRANCIS JOSHUA, businessman; b. Chatham, 12 Jun 1836, s/o William Letson and Mary Ann Farnham; brother of Henry Farnham Letson and George Edward Letson; m. 1865, Isabella Jane Kerr, d/o George Kerr and Eliza Ann Abrams; d. Chatham, 20 Sep 1882.

Francis J. Letson, who studied at the County Grammar School under James Millar, was conducting a grocery and hardware store in Chatham in 1864. In 1868 he was also an auctioneer and commission agent. He was shipping canned lobster to Britain in 1879, at which time he was one of Chatham's wealthiest businessmen and the owner of one of the town's most elegant residences. In 1881 he had to retire from business, however, after falling ill with tuberculosis. He spent the next winter in Colorado in search of relief but died a few months after his return, at age forty-six.

In the 1860s Letson was a lieutenant in the Chatham battery of the New Brunswick Regiment of Artillery, a rank which he held until he resigned from the militia in 1874. He was appointed to the board of trustees of the County Grammar School in 1873 and was serving as the senior warden of Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church in Chatham in 1879. He and his wife, Isabella J. Kerr, had two sons and three daughters.

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[b] church records [m] Gleaner 18 Mar 1865 [d] Advocate 18 Oct 1882 / Advance 17 Apr 1879, Advocate 20 Feb 1868, 14 Jan 1880; Fraser (C); Harding research; NB Artillery; World 13 Sep 1882


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