of Frederick Lyman, of Connecticut. They are influential members
of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) of Montreal, in which
Mr. Morgan is serving as trustee. His interests and activities
extend to many beneficent projects and to those which spread
culture and stimulate intellectual activities. He is a director
of the Montreal Horticultural and Fruit Growing Association
and one of the principal promoters of the Montreal Citizens
Association, of which he is now a director and treasurer. He was
likewise one of the promoters of the Montreal Board of Control,
but declined election thereto. He is one of the governors of the
Montreal General Hospital and is interested in various projects
seeking to meet public needs along broad humanitarian lines. He
is a councillor of the National Historical Society, belongs to
the St. Andrews Society, to the Montreal Art Association and to
the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. He is also a member of
the Canada and the Reform Clubs. His life has been one of intense
and well directed activity, fruitful of good results for the
general public as well as for himself.
ANSELME SERAPHIN DEGUIRE.
Anselme Séraphin Deguire enjoys high distinction as a lawyer and
has also given much evidence of his public spirit in his position
as alderman of the city of Montreal. He comes of an old Canadian
French family, the earliest ancestor recorded in Abbé Tanguay’s
Dictionnaire being François De Guire, who was born in 1641 and
who died at Montreal. In 1669 he married Mlle. Rose Colin, born
in 1641, and they became the parents of nine children.
Anselme S. Deguire was born at Côte des Neiges on the 25th of
November, 1874, a son of Séraphin Deguire and Alphonsine Pilon of
Ste. Anne de Bellevue. The father was a gardener by profession.
Mr. Deguire of this review studied at Montreal College, from
which he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of B. A., and
afterwards took a law course at Laval University. He was admitted
to practice in 1901. Immediately afterwards he interested himself
in municipal affairs and his aptitude along financial lines made
him valuable in a number of important positions which he held in
the administration of the village of Côte des Neiges. Under his
leadership the proceedings to erect the village into a town were
successfully completed.
As a lawyer Mr. Deguire soon secured a select clientele, no long
novitiate awaiting him in his practice. He is one of a coterie
of lawyers, or more correctly, he continues the traditions of
a coterie of lawyers who had their origin in Côte des Neiges
and several of whom were well known and very prominent. Such
were the late Judge Madore and Judges Charbonneau and Demers.
Mr. Deguire is universally esteemed by his fellow citizens and
since the annexation of Côte des Neiges to the city of Montreal,
of which annexation he was an ardent advocate, he has been its
representative in the Montreal city hall. He was elected first
for the Côte des Neiges ward in 1910 and reelected by acclamation
in 1912.
[Illustration: ANSELME S. DEGUIRE]
At the Church of St. Louis de France, on the 18th of November,
1902, Mr. Deguire married Mlle. Aloysia Chopin, a daughter of
the late Dr. J. Nestor Chopin of Sault au Récollet. Mr. and Mrs.
Deguire have one son, René, born January 1, 1904. Mr. Deguire
is not only a successful advocate and lawyer, but a patriotic
citizen and a splendid example of a loyal French-Canadian.
Fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum.
JOHN J. ARNTON.
When death claimed John J. Arnton on the 13th of November,
1894, he was the oldest real-estate man in Montreal in years of
continuous connection with the business in this city. Montreal
numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in
1832. He began his business career with the firm of John Leeming
& Company and later practically succeeded to the business and
good will of the firm. He watched the notable development in real
estate methods and, keeping abreast of the progress of the times,
met substantial success. He was in business at the time of the
real-estate boom of the ‘70s and he gained a patronage as large
as he could handle. Realizing fair profit from his real estate
negotiations, he was at length able to retire with a comfortable
competence. The integrity of his business methods was one of the
features of his growing success, and his progressiveness was also
an element in his advancement.
Mr. Arnton entered the city council but retired before completing
his term. For some years he was a director of the Canadian Bank
of Commerce and his name was an honorable one on commercial
papers. He was at one time president of the Irish Protestant
Benevolent Society and was a man of generous spirit, giving
freely of his means to the poor and needy and extending a helping
hand to the unfortunate. He was survived by six children, when
on the 13th of November, 1894, he passed away at the age of
sixty-two years, leaving behind the memory of a well spent life,
fraught with many good deeds.
HOWARD WINTHROP PILLOW.
Howard Winthrop Pillow is the Montreal manager for the British
American Bank Note Company and is vice president and one of
the directors of that corporation. His position as one of the
younger business men of the city is enviable. He was born in
Montreal, May 9, 1883, and is a son of John Alexander and
Annie Elizabeth (Hillyer) Pillow. He attended Bishop’s College
School at Lennoxville and for two years was a student in McGill
University. With liberal education to serve as the foundation,
he has gradually worked his way upward, the exercise of effort
developing his latent powers and talents. He is now bending his
efforts to administrative direction and executive control as the
manager at Montreal for the British American Bank Note Company,
a position to which he has attained by individual merit. He is
the vice president and one of the directors of the company and
as such occupies a prominent and enviable position in business
circles.
On the 1st of October, 1906, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr.
Pillow was married to Miss Lucile E. Fairbank, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. G. Fairbank, and they now have one child, Lucile
Marguerite.
Mr. Pillow is a well known club man and much of the nature of
his interests and recreation, aside from business, is indicated
in the fact that he belongs to the St. James, Montreal and
Beaconsfield Golf Clubs, the Automobile Club of Canada, the
Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the Montreal Jockey Club,
the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club and the Heather Curling Club.
XAVIER ARTHUR ROBICHON, M. D.
High on the list of Montreal’s best known surgeons appears the
name of Dr. Xavier Arthur Robichon, who is a descendant of
one of the old French families of the province of Quebec. His
great-grandfather, the first of the family to come to Canada, was
in early life a captain of French vessels. After arriving in this
country he established an iron foundry near Three Rivers, in the
province of Quebec. The Doctor’s grandfather also followed the
business of an iron founder at that place and Nicolas Treffle
Robichon, the father, was a successful merchant at Three Rivers.
He married Trenche Montague, who since his death has resided in
Montreal. Their children are: Nicolas Raoul, a civil engineer
of Montreal; Xavier Arthur; George Henri, an advocate of Three
Rivers; and Mastai, who died at the age of seven years.
Dr. X. A. Robichon was educated in a preparatory school in Three
Rivers, and at the Christian Brothers Ste. Ursule school at the
same place, followed by a five-years’ classical course at St.
Joseph College at Three Rivers, his classical studies being
completed in St. Mary’s College in Montreal, where he spent
four years and where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts
degree, receiving the medal of the governor general and the prize
of excellency.
Upon the broad foundation of literary learning Dr. Robichon
erected the superstructure of professional knowledge. Immediately
after the completion of his course at St. Mary’s he began the
study of medicine at Laval University, graduating summa cum
laude in 1906, with the degree of M. D. The following year he
spent as interne in Notre Dame Hospital of Montreal, gaining
the broad practical experience which only hospital practice can
bring. During the succeeding two years he specialized in the
study of surgery in Paris, France, and in the summer of 1909 he
entered upon active practice in Montreal as a general surgeon,
since which time he has devoted his attention exclusively to
professional duties of growing volume and importance. Throughout
this entire period he has also been assistant demonstrator
of anatomy at Laval University. He is a member of La Société
Médicale de Montreal, and he has his office at No. 335 St. Denis
Street.
On the 18th of September, 1907, Dr. Robichon was married by
the archbishop of Montreal, Monseigneur Paul Bruchesi, to Miss
Flora Salvail, daughter of Dr. Salvail, of Helena, Montana, and
they are parents of five daughters, Claire, Jeanne, Alice,
Lucienne and Estelle. Family and professional interests divide
Dr. Robichon’s time. Upon his home and his practice his interest
centers, and laudable ambition in the latter connection has
brought him to a high position, experience, wide reading and
research constantly developing his skill until he is now one of
the foremost surgeons of the city.
[Illustration: X. ARTHUR ROBICHON]
DUNCAN MCDONALD.
The name of Duncan McDonald has long figured prominently in
connection with transportation interests. He has displayed
a spirit of enterprise and initiative in all that he has
undertaken, has operated along broad lines and has carefully
planned and executed important projects. He is now devoting his
attention to the supervision of various interests with which he
is identified following his retirement from the management of the
Montreal Street Railway Company. His investments largely have to
do with transportation interests. He is president of the Montreal
Tunnel Company, which has reached a very active stage in its
development, and it is Mr. McDonald’s purpose to give special
attention to the rapid inauguration and execution of the work.
He is also largely concerned in several real-estate companies
that are dealing with central Montreal property, as well as large
subdivisions in outlying municipalities. He is the president of
the Pre-payment Car Sales Company with offices in the Hudson
Terminal building at No. 50 Church Street, New York, this being
the operating company for all the various “Pay-as-you-enter,”
“Pay-within” and other styles of pre-payment cars that are
being so rapidly adopted by the cities on this continent. He is
also connected with the International F-A-Y-E Tramcar Company,
Limited, Broad Street Place, London, E. C.
Mr. McDonald’s operations in real estate have been of a mammoth
character. He was the original promoter of Dominion Park, which
in its development and sale has netted a splendid income for
the investors, and he is at present vice president of that
enterprise. He is also a director of several industrial and
transportation companies. He belongs to the Institute of Civil
Engineers of France and to the Institute of Electrical Engineers
of Great Britain, connections which indicate the recognition of
his high standing and notable ability in the fields into which he
has directed his efforts.
JOSEPH PHILIPPE LAMARCHE.
Joseph Philippe Lamarche, a well known notary of Montreal, was
born in St. Henri de Mascouche, L’Assomption county, Quebec,
January 29, 1866. His grandfather, Louis Lamarche, was a farmer
of L’Assomption county. His father, Joseph Olivier Lamarche, now
eighty-one years of age, was for many years a notary at St. Henri
de Mascouche, where he yet resides. He married Helene Mount,
a sister of Dr. Mount, of Montreal, and her death occurred in
April, 1874. To them were born three children: Joseph Philippe;
George, a resident farmer of St. Henri de Mascouche; and
Joseph S., a notary of Montreal. The father has been a lifelong
conservative in politics and for many years was secretary and
treasurer of the municipality of St. Henri de Mascouche. In
fact, he has been a prominent figure in political, official
and business circles there and is today one of the honored and
venerable citizens.
Joseph Philippe Lamarche was educated in the parochial schools of
his native town and in L’Assomption College, which he attended
for six years, his course there being supplemented by two years’
study in the Ottawa University. During the succeeding three years
he was a student in the office of Coultee & Lamarche, notaries of
Montreal. In 1890 he won the degree of Baccalaureatus in Legibus.
In 1890 he began the practice of his profession in St. Henri
de Mascouche, where he continued until 1903, when he removed
to Montreal, where he has since successfully practiced. He is
thoroughly versed in the principles of the profession and his
ability is attested by his liberal clientage.
Mr. Lamarche was married in St. Henri de Mascouche to Marie Rose
Lambert, and to them have come four children, Helene, Lambert,
Philippe and Rita. In politics Mr. Lamarche is a conservative and
at the present writing he is filling the office of commissioner
to the superior court for the district of Montreal, his
creditable record commending him to the further support and
confidence of the public.
SIR JOSEPH HICKSON.
Sir Joseph Hickson, who in 1890 received the honor of knighthood
at the hand of Her Majesty in recognition of ability displayed
in the management of important and extensive railway interests,
is classed with those to whom Canada owes much of her greatness
and her prosperity. He was born at Otterburn, Northumberland,
England, in 1830, and acquired his education there. Throughout
his entire business career he was connected with railway
interests, first entering the service of the North Eastern
Railway of England and thus gaining his elementary knowledge
of railway management and operation. He left that corporation
to accept a position with the Maryport & Carlisle Railway, in
which capacity he served with credit until 1851, when he went to
Manchester and entered the service of the Manchester, Sheffield &
Lincolnshire Railway. Promotion rapidly followed in recognition
of his capability, indefatigable energy and perseverance, so that
after ten years he became assistant to the general manager, in
which position his labors engaged the attention of Sir Edward
Watkin, chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada, who
proffered him the position of chief accountant of the Grand Trunk
in December, 1861.
He left England for the new world in the following January and
made his way to Montreal, where he continued to reside until
called to his final rest. Here his ability and power soon gained
further recognition and he was made secretary and treasurer of
the company, in which capacity he continued until the resignation
of C. J. Brydges, managing director of the Grand Trunk, in 1874,
when Sir Joseph Hickson succeeded as general manager of the road
and system. The policy which he inaugurated was soon felt as a
dominant power in active management and cooperation. One of
his first acts was to sell to the federal government the line
between Point Levis and Riviere du Loup and with the proceeds
of this transaction he changed the old gauge of the road to the
standard gauge of American lines and thus effected connection
with Sarnia and Chicago. The wisdom of this move was soon
manifest as it opened up a new field of enterprise to the company
and marked the beginning of that policy of affiliation and
connection which resulted to the benefit of both countries before
Sir Joseph Hickson ceased to be an active factor in the control
of an immense system embracing five thousand miles of track
in the United States and Canada. Sir Joseph served as general
manager until 1890, when he retired from his arduous position
after receiving, early in that year, knighthood from Her Majesty,
the late Queen Victoria, in recognition of the ability which
he had displayed in the management of the Grand Trunk Railway
System and of the valuable service he had rendered in developing
Canada and her resources. Under his management the road had been
rapidly and substantially improved and extended, connections with
other lines being formed which have proven of great value in
later years. Perhaps the most valuable work which he undertook
and accomplished was the establishment of the direct line to
Chicago wholly under control of the Grand Trunk system. By this
master stroke was secured the best paying portion for carrying
freight and at the same time gave to Canadian steamship companies
a large amount of the freight which they carried across the
Atlantic. It was while Sir Joseph Hickson occupied the position
of general manager that the length of the road in its main and
collateral lines was extended from one thousand three hundred
and eighty-three to three thousand four hundred and eighty-seven
miles. In railway management he studied each vital question from
every possible standpoint and with almost judicial accuracy
passed judgment upon the important matters at issue. He was
largely instrumental in carrying forward the great engineering
undertaking known as the St. Clair tunnel, which was completed
in 1890 at a cost of three million dollars. His work elicited
attention from one end of the country to the other, and he became
one of the foremost representatives of railway interests on the
American continent.
[Illustration: SIR JOSEPH HICKSON]
On the 17th of June, 1869, Sir Joseph Hickson wedded Catherine,
the eldest daughter of the late Andrew Dow of Montreal. Mrs.
Hickson is a native of this city and was educated here. She
has been prominently identified with the Montreal League for
the Prevention of Tuberculosis and was one of the promoters of
the Royal Edward Institute in 1909 and an active supporter of
various other similar bodies. She is also the vice president
of the Montreal branch of the Needlework Guild of Canada and
has been termed by one of the city papers “a queenly hostess.”
Sir Joseph and Lady Hickson had two sons and a daughter. The
eldest, Joseph William Andrew Hickson, was educated at McGill
University, winning the B. A. degree on completing the course
in mental and moral philosophy in 1893, while in 1896 his alma
mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. He won the
Ph. D. degree in 1900 at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and
Halle. He was lecturer and tutor in the philosophical department
of McGill University from 1900 until 1905, assistant professor of
psychology and lecturer on philosophy at McGill from 1905 until
1909 and has since been assistant professor of metaphysics and
logic. He is a contributor to the University and other magazines
and reviews, is a councillor to the Economic and Statistical
Society, is a member of the University Club and a member of the
board of management of the House of Industry and Refuge. He
is an enthusiastic mountain climber and a well known clubman,
belonging to the Mount Royal, University and Political Economy
Clubs of Montreal and the Alpine Club of Banff. The second son,
James Claud Hickson, graduated B. A. from McGill in 1895 and,
receiving the B. C. L. degree in 1898, is now engaged in active
practice as a member of the law firm of Hickson & Campbell. He
was created K. C. in 1909 and is a life governor of the Montreal
General Hospital. He is well known as a clubman, his membership
being in Mount Royal Club, Canada Club, Montreal Hunt Club, Royal
Montreal Golf Club, Montreal Curling Club, Lafontaine Club,
Montreal Jockey Club, Montreal Racquet Club, Royal St. Lawrence
Yacht Club, University Club, and Constitutional Club of London,
England. The daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Hickson, is well known
as an author, having early contributed tales and sketches to the
magazines. She is also the author of two charming stories of
French-Canadian life, “Madame Janvier’s Church” and “The Call of
God.”
Sir Joseph Hickson served as justice of the peace for Montreal
and was interested in several banking, commercial and industrial
enterprises which he represented on the directorate. He was
appointed by the Dominion government as president of the royal
commission on the prohibition of the liquor traffic. He stood for
all those interests which are effective forces in the progress
and upbuilding of city, province and country, and the position
which he filled was one of influence and honor.
HERBERT BROWN AMES.
Herbert Brown Ames, a deep student of the science of government
and avowed in his opposition to misrule in public affairs, has,
through his practical efforts, the result of keen insight into
situations, been instrumental in bringing about various needed
reforms and improvements. His public addresses, too, have aided
largely in shaping public opinion on the side of right and order,
and thus his value as a citizen can hardly be overestimated.
He was born in Montreal, June 27, 1863, his parents being the
late Evan Fisher and Caroline Matilda (Brown) Ames, both of whom
were born in the United States. After mastering the elementary
branches of learning Herbert B. Ames became a student in Amherst
College, of Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1885
with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He afterward studied the French
language and literature in France, and made his initial step
in business circles as a representative of the wholesale firm
of Ames-Holden, Ltd., of Montreal, with which he was actively
connected until December, 1893. He is still a representative
of that corporation and one of its directors and is likewise a
director of the Dominion Guarantee Company, the Great West Life
Insurance Company, the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Company,
and a number of other prominent business concerns. As a merchant
he has established a reputation that places him in a prominent
position among the leading and representative business men of
the city. His efforts in that direction would alone entitle
him to distinctive mention in the history of Montreal, and yet
this is but one phase of his activity. He is perhaps even more
widely known because of his connection with efforts put forth in
opposition to misrule in municipal affairs. He was particularly
active in that direction during his service as alderman from 1898
until 1906, during which time he promoted and advocated many
reform measures and projects, always working along conservative
lines. He was chairman of the municipal board of health from 1900
until 1904, and again his service was of notable value to the
city. He had previously filled the position of secretary of the
Good Government Association and was president of the Volunteer
Election League, which bodies effected many reforms in civic
administration. His name is widely known, and in fact he has been
heard in many centers as a lecturer on Canadian political history
and on problems of municipal government. He has been a frequent
contributor to the press, and among his notable articles are: The
Machine in Honest Hands, published in 1894; The City Below the
Hill, A Sociological Study, published in 1897; The City Problem;
What is it?, in 1901; and The Housing of the Working Classes, in
1907. These show wide research and deep insight into existing
conditions and point out various practical methods of improvement.