Agnew, Thomas

TWO ESTEEMED CITIZENS GONE.
James E. Cobban Died on Friday
Morning and Thomas Agnew
on Saturday.

On Saturday morning after a long period of illness, death ended the sufferings of Mr. Thomas Agnew, boot and shoe merchant. Mr. Agnew had been a familiar figure in Acton for forty-five years, though absent for a considerable interval during that time. He was a comparatively well read man, and followed closely the public affairs of the country as reported in the daily press. He was possessed of an even temper and those who knew him best esteemed him most highly.
Thomas Agnew was born in County Armagh, Ireland, in 1835, and when a young man of eighteen came to Canada. He spent a few months in Toronto and was employed in the lumber woods his first winter in Canada by the father of Wm. Lount, ex-M.P., of Barrie. He came to Acton in 1855 with his brother Robert, present proprietor of the Dominion Hotel, and during the period when the lumbering business was booming in Esquesing, and Acton was headquarters and the shipping point for a number of saw mills, he was one of the busiest men employed.
In 1871 he removed to Haliburton, where he remained for sixteen years, returning to Acton and engaging in the shoe business twelve years ago. During his residence in Haliburton he was for eleven years a member of the Municipal Council and the last year of the term was Reeve.
Mr. Agnew left no children. Two died in infancy, but Mrs. Agnew is left alone, and has not a blood relative in Canada. Though she is left fairly well provided for she will keenly miss her partner in life.
Mr. Agnew was an adherent of the Presbyterian Church and Rev. H. A. Macpherson conducted the funeral services on Monday afternoon. Messrs. Duncan Taylor, John Lawson, V. S. Robert Moore, John Mitten, John Dunn, and R. B. Johnson were the pall bearers.