Andrew Miscampbell

Andrew Miscampbell (June 28, 1848 – March 25, 1905) was an Ontario political figure. He represented Simcoe East from 1890 to 1902 and Sault Ste. Marie from 1902 to 1903 as a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Andrew Miscampbell
Ontario MPP
In office
1890–1902
Preceded byCharles Alfred Drury
Succeeded byJames Brockett Tudhope
ConstituencySimcoe East
Personal details
Born(1848-06-28)June 28, 1848
Simcoe County, Canada West
DiedMarch 25, 1905(1905-03-25) (aged 56)
Toronto, Ontario
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Jessie Spooner
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(m. 1874)​

Career

He began work as a bookkeeper Bell Ewart, Ontario in 1872.[1] In 1873 he moved to Midland, Ontario to manage Hermon Henry Cook's sawmill. Later when Cook's British Canadian Lumber Company failed in 1882, Andrew Miscampbell ran the mill on his own account.[2] In 1886 R. A. Loveland of the Emery Lumber Co. of East Saginaw, Michigan, arranged to have that firm's Georgian Bay logs manufactured into lumber at Miscampbell's mill.[3] He sold the mill to the Emery Lumber Co. of Michigan in 1891.[4]

Personal life

He was born in Simcoe County, Canada West in 1848, the son of Irish immigrants, and educated in Barrie. From 1864 to 1866 he was drill instructor of the volunteers of Simcoe and he was engaged in the Fenian repulse as sergeant-major of the provisional battalion of the companies from the north put together in Toronto.[5] In 1874, he married Jessie Spooner.

He died in Toronto in 1905 of typhoid fever and was buried in Barrie.

Miscampbell was godfather to Ontario premier Leslie Frost.

References
  1. County of Simcoe Gazetteer and Directory 1872-1873
  2. Midland on Georgian Bay, (an Illustrated History of Midland, Ontario) by William Northcott and William Smith, published by Huronia Museum, Midland. 2008
  3. The Canada Lumberman magazine, October 1887
  4. The Canada Lumberman magazine, May 1891
  5. The Canada Lumberman magazine, May 1891


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