NORTHWOOD, Joseph

Bell Farm Investor

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Joseph Northwood, one of the original Bell Farm Investors, was a lumber merchant and ran a distillery in Chatham.

He was elected to the town's first council and appointed in 1880 to the Senate by Sir John A. MacDonald. He died in 1886.

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SOURCES:

• The Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory

• photo : Illustrated Guide to the House of Commons and Senate of Canada.Ottawa,1885

• http://www.cktimes.ca/archives/column/86/9547.html

• Canadian Directory
  

RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask.

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