W.O. Raymond who has been writing the local history of Carleton in the columns of 'The Dispatch' has this to say respecting the Ketchum family: Charles KETCHUM - His father, Jonathan KETCHUM of Norwalk was a Loyalist and one of the Kingston grantees. His mother's maiden name was Hannah QUINTARD of Stamford, Conn. Charles Ketchum was their youngest son and was born in Norwalk, Conn. in the year 1770. He married Elizabeth DIBBLEE, the eldest child of Rev. Frederick DIBBLEE and this circumstance led to his moving to Woodstock about the year 1810 and settling on the farm now owned by his son, Major John D. KETCHUM which had been given up by Rev. F. Dibblee to his daughter as a marriage portion. In politics Charles was one of the tories of the olden time, a firm upholder of Church and State and the uncompromising anything that bordered on republicanism. He and his children after him were staunch supporters of the parish church at Woodstock and to it their gifts have been neither few nor small. Charles Ketchum survived his wife some twenty years and died March 14, 1856, aged 85 years. One of his sons, William Quintard KETCHUM entered King's College, Fredericton, from which he graduated in 1846, taking his degree of Master of Arts three years later. He was a Douglas Gold Medalist in 1844. He studied for the ministry and was ordained Deacon by Bishop Medley, Sept. 21st, 1845 and priest the following year. He served as an assistant minister at the Cathedral until 1859 when he was appointed Rector of St. Andrews, a position he still holds. He was for more that forty years the secretary of the Diocesan Church Society and is now senior clergyman in the Diocese of Fredericton. He hold the position of honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral and is a Doctor of Divinity. He married Elizabeth HEAD d/o late John HEAD, M.D. and his children are Rev. Charles KETCHUM of Boston, W.Q. KETCHUM, Civil Service of Ottawa; Thomas Carleton KETCHUM of the Woodstock 'Dispatch'; Elizabeth KETCHUM wife of Rev. Canon SILLS of Portland, Maine and Emily KETCHUM now living with her father in St. Andrews. Canon Ketchum was the only one of Charles Ketchum's children who married. The others always lived together at the old home at Woodstock. For years their house was the centre of hospitality. The sisters raised the most beautiful house plants in all the country round. Of the family, Maria KETCHUM, Charles Ketchum, Frederick KETCHUM, George Henry KETCHUM, Elizabeth H. KETCHUM and Caroline L. KETCHUM have all passed away leaving Major John D. Ketchum the sole survivor. The brothers George and John were always public spirited men.