John Dundas Howden, c. 1910
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white portrait photograph of John Dundas Howden, 1841-1927. Mr. Howden is pictured standing on a wooden plank floor, holding a coat and walking stick.
- Notes
- John Dundas Howden was born in Whitby Township (East Whitby after 1857) on January 27, 1841. For many years he was a farmer, specializing in the breeding of Shorthorn Cattle and Clydesdale Horses. He was president of the Ontario County Agricultural Society and a warden at St. John's Anglican Church, Port Whitby for many years. From 1885 to 1924 he was Postmaster of Whitby, and moved to a farm on Dundas Street East where the Georgian Courts apartments are now. He died at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. John Moore, in Brooklin, on August 25, 1927, and is buried at St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery, Columbus.
- Date of Original
- c. 1910
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 cm
Height: 12.5 cm
- Image Dimensions
-
Image Width: 10cm
Image Height: 12.5cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31-009-147
- Language of Item
- English
- Donor
- Kathleen Shellington
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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