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Stauffer was a Queen's alumnus and generous benefactor. Born in Galt, Ontario, he enrolled in Applied Science at Queen's in 1914, majoring in Metallurgy.

Stauffer served as a pilot in the First World War before returning to Queen's to complete his degree (BSc'20). After graduation, Stauffer worked as an engineer for several years before enrolling in graduate studies at the Imperial College of Science in London, England. Back in Canada, he noted the growth of the telephone industry, bought a number of small telephone exchanges, amalgamated them, and sold them to Bell for a profit.

Stauffer invested heavily in mining and, during his long business career, was also involved in ventures in such areas as fuel technology, textiles, and finances. He lived at various times in Toronto, Mexico City, Pennsylvania, and London, England.

Stauffer was one of Queen's most generous benefactors. For years he anonymously provided pensions to widows of Queen's professors. He also felt that Canada had treated Aboriginal populations poorly and gave substantial sums to several universities with Native Studies programs.

Other gifts from Stauffer and his estate (administered by his wife, Annabelle, until her death in 1983 and by his friend W. Dennis Jordan, BA ‘38) have included $1 million for a chair in cancer research, $1.2 million for the construction of School of Policy Studies, $250,000 for the Clinical Mechanics Group, $2.3 million for Walter Light Hall, an organ for Jock Harty Arena, and $10 million for the Joseph S. Stauffer Library, named in his honour.

Student, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

William Felix Edmund Morley was born in London, England, 1920. He served with the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1946 and came to Canada in 1947. Mr. Morley attended the University of Toronto where he received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1952. In 1953 he received the Bachelor of Library Science degree from the same University. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in English from Queen's University in 1982. From 1953 to 1954 he was Chief Librarian, YM-YWHA, Montreal. He was Chief Librarian and Archivist at the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Montreal, 1954 to 1959. From 1959 to 1964 he was Bibliographer at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Morley came to Queen's University in July 1964 and was Curator of the Special Collections Unit, Douglas Library, until his retirement in 1985. William Morley passed away in Kingston in 2017.

In 1831, the Rev. John Brooks Crowe settled in the Trenton, Ontario area. By the time of his death in 1869, he had become one of the more prosperous and influential citizens of both Trenton and Frankford regions. His youngest son, George, became one of the premier contractors and builders in the Trenton district. Among the buildings bearing his imprint are the paper mills at Frankford and Glen Miller, as well as the Anglican Churches at Workworth and Trenton.

George Crowe's eldest son, Dr. Walter Brooks Crowe, built a large and flourishing practice in the town of Trenton, after obtaining his medical degree from trinity College, Toronto. In 1901 he married Alice May Stevenson, the daughter of Dr. John Alexander Stevenson, a promonent physician in Trenton, who had paracticed earlier in Frankford, after he too, graduated from the University of Toronto.

The Chown family holds an important place in Kingston’s local history. They have earned recognition because of the Chown Hardware business and its success. The Chown Hardware firm remained family owned and operated for over a hundred and twenty years. Over several generations, the descendents of Roger Chown expanded the hardware business, providing employment and prosperity from many Kingston locals. Arthur and Edwin Chown were the company’s primary founders, entering into the tinsmith trade 1837, four years after their arrival in Canada. In 1938, Chown Hardware Ltd. was formed as various family operations merged. The company operated in its limited form until 1967. Chown family members through their various endeavors, business and otherwise, had a significant impact on the Kingston community and local history.

A.R.M. Lower was born at Barrie, Ontario, on August 12, 1889. In the fall of 1907, Lower took a teacher-training course, and in second term obtained a teaching job. In the fall of 1909, he registered in the Faculty of Education of the University of Toronto, and in 1910 enrolled in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Toronto. In the spring of 1916, Lower joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. Returning home in 1919, Lower began work as Assistant Chairman of the Board of Historical Publications. While working with the Board of Historical publications, Lower began and completed his M.A. degree in History from University of Toronto, receiving his degree in 1923. He received his A.M. from Harvard in 1926, and his doctorate in 1929. During his stay at Harvard, he was an instructor in History at Tufts College, Mass., 1926-27, and an Instructor and Tutor in History at Harvard University, 1927-29. In 1929 Lower moved to Winnipeg where he had been offered the departmental headship in Wesley (later United) College. He remained at United College until 1947, when he came to Queen's University as Douglas Professor of History and remained there until his retirement from active teaching at Queen's at the end of the 1958-59 sessions. A member of the Canadian Historical Association, having been its President in 1943, and of the Civil Liberties Association in Winnipeg, of which he was president in 1940-41, he also was an active member of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. During 1961-62, he was President of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been the recipient of the Tyrell Medal from the Royal Society of Canada in 1947, of the Governor General's medal from the Canadian Authors' Association in 1947 and 1955, and of an IODE award in 1947. In addition, he was a Canada Council Senior Fellow in 1959, and the Sir John A. Macdonald visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow, in 1967. A.R.M Lower passed away on 7 January 1988.

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Alfred Walton Jolliffe was born 8 May 1907, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He obtained his B.Sc. from Queen's University at Kingston in 1929 and his MA from the same institution two years later. He then enrolled at Princeton University, where he obtained a PhD. in Geology in 1935. He began his career as a geologist by working as a summer student for the Geological Survey of Canada, beginning in 1928. In 1935, while completing his PhD thesis, he was instrumental in making the first major gold discovery in the Western Arctic. This significant event led to the founding of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and an ensuing "boom" of mining exploration throughout the region. A.W. Jolliffe was honoured for his work in the Northwest Territories by having Jolliffe Island in Great Slave Lake named after him.
During the next decade he continued in the employ of the Geological Survey, first as an assistant, then as an associate, and finally as a full geologist. In 1946 he left the Geological Survey of Canada after accepting the position of Associate Professor of Geology at McGill University in Montreal. He continued there until 1950, at which time he returned to Queen's University as a Professor, Department of Geology, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. During his career as a professional geologist and educator, he acted as a geological consultant for various Canadian mining companies in the Canadian north, northern Ontario (Steep Rock Iron Mines in particular) and in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He was also a keen advocate of aerial photography, especially during its infancy in the late 1930's as a means to map geologically large areas of the earth's surface.
Following his retirement from active teaching, A.W. Jolliffe pursued actively his love of "total history" in general and the history of science and technology in particular. At the time of his death he was involved, with his brother in translating the latin works of Agricola, as well as compiling voluminous researhfiles pertaining to the "History of Science" throughout the ages of mankind.
Alfred W. Jolliffe was active throughout his career in many scientific societies including the Royal Society of Canada which made him a Fellow in 1943, The Geological Society of Canada, The Geological Society of America, and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, which awarded him the Barlow Medal in 1939. In 1973 he was honoured for his teaching excellence by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty.
Alfred Walton Jolliffe, Professor Emeritus of Geology, died, 5 August 1988 at age 82.