Robert William Meikleham

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• Name: R. W. Meikleham
• Residence: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63507
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Captain, 29th Regiment / 71st Battalion
• Occupation: 1922, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; druggist

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Alcohol Killed Nurse At Galt - Spirits Were Given By Drug Store Without Doctor's Order

Special to The Toronto World - Galt, April 15 1914 - At the adjourned inquest this evening into the mysterious death of Mrs. Charles F. Dempsey, a trained nurse, who died suddenly on Sunday night at the farm of Robert Jamieson, six miles from town, where she was engaged professionally, a verdict was returned stating the cause of death as "from an overdose of alcohol, taken as a heart stimulant."

The woman, according to the testimony of two local druggists, had sent to Galt for alcohol, ostensibly for her patient, but in reality to imbibe. At Dickson's store the messenger was refused, there being no doctor's order. But Columbia spirits, a purified wood alcohol, was given, and the bottle labeled "For external use only." At Meikleham's, however, a bottle of wood alcohol was secured, the label being merely "Alcohol," and the understanding being that it was only for external application. The circumstances that this latter distillation was drunk by the nurse, accounted for her sudden death, as the post-mortem disclosed.

Mrs. Dempsey had been living in town two years and pursuing her calling as a nurse. She was a middle-aged woman with two children. The husband has been employed in the states. She was well known.

The Toronto Sunday World - 16 Apr 1914

Robert married Mary Lawson Irwin 15 Aug 1917, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Joseph Murray Irwin and Nellie Amelia Cutler) was born 27 Aug 1889, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1973; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182817

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182823

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-415700

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MEIKLEHAM, Ian Alexander

Suddenly, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, on Friday, Jan. 3, 1992, in his 63rd year. Son of the late, Colonel and Mrs. R.W. Meikleham, brother of the late Robert Irwin Meikleham and husband of the late Mary Forrester Meikleham. Friends will be received at Little's Funeral Home, 223 Main St. E., Cambridge, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be conducted at Central Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 2 p.m. Interment Mount View cemetery.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 6 Jan 1992 pg A11

Ian — Mary Marion Forrester. Mary was born 1928; died 30 Sep 1991, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]