Dr. Robert James Lockhart

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• Interesting: medical, public service
• Name: R. J. Lockhart
• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83279
• Occupation: 1879, Mariposa Township, Victoria Co., Ontario, Canada; school teacher
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physican
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Elected Office: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Councillor - Hespeler
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Medical Doctor
• Elected Office: 1907, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Council - Waterloo County
• Elected Office: 1907, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Reeve - Hespeler
• Elected Office: 1908, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Warden for the County of Waterloo
• Elected Office: 1908, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Warden of the County of Waterloo
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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Dr. Robert James Lockhart was born in the village of Newtonville in Durham County but spent most of his boyhood in Fenelon Township in Victoria County where he taught school for four years. He then took up the study of medicine at Trinity Medical College in Toronto. He came to Hespeler in May 1885 and practiced medicine in the town until early in 1913 when he left his practice to move to Vancouver in an attempt to regain his failing health. He acted as warden of Waterloo County and served on the Hespeler town council as a councillor from 1901 to 1906 and as reeve from 1907 to 1909. Dr. Lockhart was, for many years, the Medical Health Officer for Hespeler and the coroner for Waterloo County. He died in Vancouver on October 20, 1914 and is buried in New Hope Cemetery.

Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge

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In 1886 Dr. Robert James Lockhart, born in Clark Township, started practise in the house where later James McCaffrey, Oscar Eby and Thomas Wilson lived for years. After a few years there he built a large brick house and office immediately to the west of his first location. He died October, 1914, aged 57 years. Shortly before he died, Dr. Lockhart sold his practise and the property to Dr. William G. Hutchison who continued there until his death in 1947.

Both Dr. Lockhart and Dr. Hutchison acted as Medical Officer of Health for years; and as to Dr. Lockhart's Public Service, he was a member of the Municipal Council, 1901-1906, and Reeve, 1907-08 and 1909 during one of which latter years he served as Warden of the County.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

Robert married Sophia Baxter 1 May 1879, Lindsay, Ops Twp., Victoria Co., Ontario, Canada. Sophia (daughter of James Baxter and Hannah) was born 31 Oct 1857, , Ontario, Canada; died 26 Apr 1907; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Allan Lockhart died 21 Apr 1896; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Harold Lockhart was born 1879, , Ontario, Canada; died 9 Oct 1891; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Helen Isabel Lockhart was born 6 Oct 1897, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-170243

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Thomas Lockhart born in Durham County, Ontario on 26 September 1833, son of Andrew Lockhart and Anne Sharpe, he left home at the age of 19 years and alternately farmed and taught school until 1875 when he took employment as a station agent with the Whitby, Port Perry & Haliburton Railway (later absorbed into the Grand Trunk Railway). He arrived in Manitoba in January 1882 and settled at Brandon where he lived for a year before taking up a homestead west of Souris, leaving his family in Brandon. He alternated between his farm and his Brandon home over the next several years. He was elected one of Brandon's first alderman, in 1882. Two years later, he was appointed city assessor. In June 1897 he was appointed county court clerk at Souris and, two years later, became police magistrate of Souris. He also served on the Brandon School Board. He married Ellen Comrie of Otonabee, Ontario on 5 January 1855. They had five children: Andrew Duncan Lockhart, Robert James Lockhart, Janet M. Lockhart, Thomas Albert Lockhart, and William David Edgar Lockhart.

https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/lockhart_t.shtml

Thomas married Ellen Comrie 5 Jan 1855. Ellen was born CALC 15 Sep 1833, Otonabee, Peterborough Co., Ontario; died 2 Nov 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Lockhart
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-170244