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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.

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Oliver Tiffany Macklem came to Kingston in 1925 to teach at the Royal Military College. The Bermingham family had many connections with the College and Professor Macklem met and married Katherine Bermingham. They had two sons, Oliver (Dick) and Peter and lived in the Bermingham home at the corner of Barrie and King Streets. Their social life and travels were those of a well-to-do family, with connections with the military and prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Kingston.

Descended from Irish, Roman Catholic stock, Declan Foley arrived via Chicago, in the newly settled community of Westport, Canada West, in the early 1850's. He soon established a general store and by the following decade, he had begun, along with several other family members, a thriving mercantile, forwarding, and pharmacy business. With his store located on the banks of Upper Rideau Lake, he was able to provide service to both the agricultural/lumbering and Rideau Canal shipping communities. For nearly seventy years D. Foley and Co. was an important member of Westport's commercial life.

John Protaise Foley, a son of Declan's, opened a law office in Westport, following his graduation from Osgoode Hall in Toronto. For over forty years he maintained a successful general practice, engaging primarily in real estate and estate law. Following his death in 1942, his sister Ursula carried on his affairs, and those of the general store for a lenghty period, as she slowly wound down both interests.

James Foley, a brother of John's, aspired to a clerkship in the Senate, in his early years. Over time his efforts were rewarded as he finally attained the position of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery for Canada, a post he held through the first two decades of the twentieth century. As such, his name appeared as the author of many publications dealing with federal elections and their attendant electoral maps.

William Clow was born in the town of Dunblane, Scotland in the 1750's and died in Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario on October 22nd, 1814. According to tradition he emigrated to the colony of New York just before the American Revolution. In the Revolutionary War he served in McCalpin's, later Jessup's, Corps of King's Loyal Rangers. In 1784 he was among the original settlers in Elizabethtown Township where he received numerous grants of land. He was married to Sophia daughter of Simon Strader another Loyalist from Old Johnstown, New York. The Clows had eight sons and five daughters all but one of whom reached adulthood. William and some of his sons served in the War of 1812, William's death in 1814 being attributed to war service. Mrs. Clow survived until 1851 at which time she was living with her second son, William Jr. and his wife. She was eighty-five at the time of her death. Nine of her children had been minors at the time of her husband's death.

Walter E. Shipman (1895-1974) was the eldest child and only son, together with three daughters, Wilma Belle (Williams), Edna Marie (Pettem), and Macy Eva (Neville), born to Joel Arthur Shipman (b.30 August 1861) and Macy Elizabeth Johnson (1866-1950). Following their marriage, Macy Elizabeth took up residence with Joel A. Shipman. Walter's father, Joel, died in 1917, at the age of 56, leaving a young family for Macy Elizabeth to raise, and a son forced into early manhood to run the mixed farming operation. Later he married, Oreta Morrison (b.13 September 1900, and they lived separately in an adjacent house at Elm Ridge until his sisters were married, when they took up residence in the old Shipman family home to support his aging Mother. Walter and Oreta had no issue. A brief perspective of this Shipman family would not be adequate without some mention of the background of the mother of Walter Ellis Shipman. Macy Elizabeth Johnson was born in 1866 near Hoasic in Williamsburg Twp., Dundas Co., one of a U.E. family of 4 daughters and 4 sons of Charles Johnson and Charlotta Ann Redick. Her father, Charles Johnson, had been adopted from an impoverished family into the family of Nicholas Freymire, U.E. The Johnsons first settled in the vicinity of Hoasic, Dundas Co., and later they moved to the farm known as Twin Elms at Glen Elbe near Athens in Leeds Co. When Nicholas Freymire died in 1867, aged 59 years, he willed the Twin Elms farm to his adopted son, Charles Johnson. Macy Elizabeth claimed she was seven years old when she moved with her parents to occupy the inherited farm at Twin Elms. Charles had married Charlotta Ann Redick, daughter of George Nelson Redick and Catherine Diana Pillar, on 26 February 1855. The Redick family (probably of Dutch origin, just like the original Shipman orphan who entered the New England Colonies) at one time had owned a large track of land where the city of New York forced by the attitudes of the American Rebellion and mob rule to forfeit their lot and become U.E. Loyalists.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell took an active part in the American Revolution and at its end was granted land in the Townships of Elizabethtown, Edwardsburg, Kitley, Oxford, Augusta, and Landsdowne. The Campbell Family's connection to the Clow Family has not been determined but there is an Indenture of Estate between Alexander Campbell and Silas Judson dated 23 June 1808.

Silas Judson was granted 100 acres of land on Lot 33, in the Third Concession of Elizabethtown on 6 March, 1798. Lyman Judson, son of Silas, settled in the Township of Yonge on Lot 4 in the Eighth Concession. The Judson Family connection to the Clow's has been made through an indenture between the two families on the 4th of January 1863.

Alexander McLean was granted land in the Townships of Elizabethtown and Kitley. Alexander and Ann McLean participated as witnesses to an indenture between William and Rebecca Clow dated 25 November, 1790; and in 1812 on the 15th of February, Robert McLean signed as a witness in an indenture between William and Peter Clow.

The Pritchard family established their business at Wyman, Quebec in the 19th century. Originally the small village was known as Billerica until the C.P.R. arrived and the name was changed to Wyman. Mr. James M. Pritchard (1847-1889) established the family business, a general store, which became the centre of the village. When Mr. Pritchard died suddenly, his wife, pregnant with her fourth child, took over management of the family business, now officially know as E.A. Pritchard. Eventually her son, William Frederick Pritchard (1879- 1953) took over. William Frederick was also the local postmaster and stationmaster.He was assisted periodically at the store by his sister Abbie Stewart Pritchard (1887-1960). Abbie's main interest, however, was the Women's Institute in which movement she became quite prominent. The business was taken over by the Dodds family in 1944 when Fred Pritchard became ill. In 1969 the modernized store was destroyed by fire.

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A. Davis and Son was established by Andrew Davis in 1872. The third generation of the Davis family to be involved in the tanning industry, the company was not officially incorporated under this name until 1903. E. J. Davis took over the company from Andrew Davis in 1884. In April of that year the building burned down and was rebuilt at Kinghorn, north of Toronto. In 1903 the tannery burned again and it was at this point that the company relocated to Kingston, Ontario purchasing the Cannington plant already in operation.The tannery itself had been very successful in its day but was closed in November 1973 when C.S. Riley, president of Dominion Tanners of Winnipeg, and Mr. Davis, president of A. Davis and Son Ltd., announced the merger of the Kingston firm with the much larger Winnipeg one.