Hugh Croll Elliott

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• Residence: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: R. R. #7 Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74467P
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, 1st Depot Battalion, Service #3134572
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #Waterloo-74467P
• Military: 1918, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; Enlistment WW1
• Public Service: 1973, Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Hugh C. Elliott was born on February 7, 1899, and operated the family farm in North Dumfries Township which had been settled by his grandfather in 1832.

After attending the Galt Collegiate Institute, he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College with a B.S.A. degree. In 1918-19, he was in the advance party of the 16^th Field Company, Canadian Engineers, C.E.F., Siberia in Vladivostok.

He was active in the municipal affairs of North Dumfries serving as Clerk and Treasurer from 1933 to 1971, secretary-treasurer
of the Area School Board from 1946 to 1952, and of the High School District Board from 1929 to 1967. In 1945, he was President of the South Waterloo Agricultural Society and the Secretary-Treasurer from 1946 to 1952, as well as being a charter director of Doon Pioneer Village.

His experience in municipal affairs, farming and his concern for conservation work led to various offices on the Grand Valley Conservation Authority from 1966 to 1974, and was appointed to the G.R.C.A. Honour Roll in 1976

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Hugh C. Elliott

A North Dumfries Township clerk-treasurer for nearly four decades, Hugh Croll Elliott, passed away Friday, March 17, 1995 at Telfer Place, Paris. He was in his 97th year. Born in Galt, Mr. Elliott was a son of the late William Elliott and Eva Croll. Until 1989 he lived on the land in North Dumfries Township that had been settled by his great-grandfather in 1832. He served with the advance party of the 16th Field Company, Canadian Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force in Vladivostok, Siberia, 1918-1919. Graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 1923 with a B.S.A. degree. Mr. Elliott was clerk and treasurer of North Dumfries Township from 1933-1971. He was secretary-treasurer of the South Waterloo Agricultural Society 1946-1952; secretary-treasurer of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority 1952-1963 and served on the executive committees of the G.V.CA., the Grand River Conservation Authority and the board of directors of Doon Pioneer Village. In 1967, Mr. Elliott was awarded the Canadian Centennial medal for municipal service. Predeceased by his first wife, Jean Barrie and an infant daughter Mary. He is survived by his wife Irene Fink; daughters Janet and her husband Edward Buckley of Ithaca, New York and Helen and her husband Ken-neth Hollidge of Kitchener; stepdaughter Patricia and her husband Reynold Scharf of Cayley, Alberta; nine grand-children; and three great-grandchildren. According to Mr. Elliott's wishes, there will be no visitation. A memorial service will be conducted at Knox's (Galt) Presbyterian Church, Queen's Square, Cambridge today (Wednesday) at 2: 00 p.m. with Rev. Linda Ewing officiating. Cremation has taken place. Arrangements entrusted to Little's Funeral Home, Cambridge.

The Ayr News 22 Mar 1995 pg 15

Hugh married Joan Aitchison Barrie 18 Dec 1923, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Joan (daughter of Reeve George Redpath Barrie and Mary Carrick) was born 18 Oct 1895, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 27 Feb 1896, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1959; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Janet Elliott
2. Helen Elliott
3. Mary Evelyn Elliott was born 15 Dec 1925, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Dec 1925, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 22 Dec 1925, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Hugh — Irene Fink. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: Spragues Road, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74465
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Agricultural Laborer
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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William Elliott was born in North Dumfries Township. He took over the family farm in 1904 and was well known as a breeder of Clydesdale horses and Tamworth hogs.

He was educated at Stone School, S.S. No. 19, Galt Collegiate Institute, and the Ontario Agricultural College and became a Farmer's Institute lecturer, and a livestock judge at fairs throughout Canada. During 1913-14 he was a member of a Board of Adjudicators appointed to assess damage to crops caused by smelters at Sudbury.

As a member of North Dumfries Township Council and reeve in 1921 he ran for Parliament and served for South Waterloo from 1921 to 1925, representing a Farmer-Labour coalition formed in protest against the Union Government which had survived the World War I.

In an executive capacity he served the Ontario Agricultural and Experimental Union (1924), the South Waterloo Liberal Association, the Central Dumfries Farmers Club and the North Dumfries Plowmen's Association. He was also a member of the Galt Suburban Roads Commission.

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William married Eva Amanda Croll 12 Apr 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Eva (daughter of John Alexander Croll and Catherine Ada "Kate" Carroll) was born 4 Mar 1869, Clinton, Bruce Co., Ontario; died 1952; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eva Amanda Elliott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74466
• Residence: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Eva Elliott was one of the founders of the Women's Institute for South Waterloo, being appointed secretary-treasurer when the group was formed in 1903.

Born in Clinton, of Scottish-Irish parents, before her marriage she was engaged in newspaper work with the Galt Reformer.
Elliott arranged for speakers sent out by the Department of Agriculture to hold meetings with rural and urban women. She was always present, enrolled members, and became a most valuable source of information and guidance.

Elliott served as president of the Central Dumfries branch of the South Waterloo District and also of the London area. She was an excellent singer, held offices in Knox's Presbyterian Church, Galt, started the Young Women's Association which later became the YWCA and for forty years was a director of the South Waterloo Agricultural Society. She also helped create and support a Country Women's Rest Room in Galt.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74456
• Occupation: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Andrew Elliott, a son of a Scottish immigrant to North Dumfries Township, was a great reader, which helped to prepare him to be a particularly competent lecturer on agricultural subjects.

He was an expert in livestock judging and judged in many parts of Canada and the United States. Greatly interested in Farmers' Institutes, he lectured for them in every province and twelve American states.

Elliott retired from farming in 1904 but continued judging livestock and lecturing until 1920. He also supervised twelve demonstration farms in Eastern Canada for the Dominion Department of Agriculture. A number of wealthy New England farmers commissioned him to go to Great Britain to purchase purebred sheep to improve their flocks.

He was an active member of the South Waterloo Agricultural Society for forty years, a member of the Kirk Session of Knox Presbyterian Church, Galt and a staunch Liberal.

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Andrew married Mary Common 12 Feb 1869, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of John Common and Margaret Dixon) was born 15 Jun 1847, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 30 Sep 1936, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 3 Oct 1936, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Elliott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74457
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Name: John Croll
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-66594
• Immigration: 1851, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Clinton, Hullett Twp., Huron Co., Ontario
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

John — Catherine Ada "Kate" Carroll. Catherine was born 1839, , Ireland; died 15 Aug 1918, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Ada "Kate" Croll
• Name: Kate Carroll
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-66595
• Immigration: 1853, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Clinton, Hullett Twp., Huron Co., Ontario
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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MRS. J. A. CROLL DIED IN GALT IN 80TH YEAR

Mr. and Mrs. J. Wheeler Green of this city attended the funeral of the latter's mother. Mrs. J. A. Croll, who passed away in Galt on Thursday afternoon, which took place in that city on Saturday afternoon at Mount View cemetery. The four sons-in-law and two nephews acted as pall-bearers Mrs. Croll, who was nearly 80 years of age, was the daughter of the late Francis Stephen Carroll, of Dublin, Ireland. She came to this country with an elder brother about 60 years ago, and was married in St. James Presbyterian Church, Hamilton. She had been living in Galt for the past eight years.

She is survived by her husband, one son and four daughters as follows: John A. Croll, B. A. of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. Wesley Fletcher, Mrs. Thos. Keachie, Mrs. Wm. Elliott, of Galt, and Mrs. J. Wheeler Green, of Kitchener Fourteen grandchildren and great-grandchildren also survive.

The Chronicle Telegraph, 22 Aug 1918, p. 4

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81094
• Occupation: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Land - Directory: 1864, North Dumfries Concession 09 Lot 20, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

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Died, In North Dumfries, on Monday, August 1st, 1881, at 12 o'clock, noon, William S. Elliott, Aged 75 Years and 7 Months. The Funeral Will take place on Wednesday, August 3rd, at 2 o'clock P.M., from his late residence, to the Galt Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. North Dumfries, August 1st, 1881.


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DEATH OF MR. WM. ELLIOTT

The death of this old resident of Dumfries, after a long and painful illness, took place on Monday morning last. The deceased gentleman came to Canada in the year 1833, and settled down at once on the fine property, then a wilderness, where he died. Of the same industrious spirit as characterized the Scottish emigrants who were the pioneers of Dumfries, he soon established a comfortable home, which has since grown into the beautiful homestead where so many of the last years of his life were spent. About eleven years after settling in Dumfries, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott were severely tried by the death in one week of six of their children, through a visitation of scarlet fever. In 1869, if we recollect aright, Mr. Elliott very suddenly lost his faithful partner in life, Mrs. Elliott retiring at night in health and being found quite dead the following morning. There are now living of the family, Mr. James Elliott, merchant, Hamilton; Mr. Andrew Elliott, living on the homestead, and Mrs. Andrew Telfer, of South Dumfries. Deceased was an earnest Christian man, and long a leading member of the United Presbyterian Church.

His Funeral on Wednesday was very largely attended, his many friends taking this way of testifying their earnest respect for the deceased and sympathy with his relatives.

Galt Reporter Aug 5 1881 pg 1

William — Elspeth "Elizabeth" Ramsay. Elspeth (daughter of Ramsey) was born 1809, , Scotland; died 14 Mar 1868, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elspeth "Elizabeth" Elliott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-155977
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138263
• Immigration: 1831, , Canada
• Residence: 1842, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

John married Margaret Dixon 25 Feb 1842, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret was born Abt 1817, , Scotland; died 1852. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Common
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150846