- CA QUA00977
- Family
- n.d.
Dr. John M. Platt graduated in medicine from Victoria College, Cobourg, in 1869. From 1899 until at least 1912 he was warden of the Kingston penitentiary. His son, Dr. G.A. Platt,was a Kingston physician.
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Authority record- CA QUA02588
- Family
- 1890-1954
Edith Chown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Chown of Kingston, was born on September 13, 1890. Her mother died in 1896 and Edith and her three brothers were brought up in Kingston by their maternal grandmother and by their aunt, Charlotte Conley.
Edtih graduated from Queen's University in 1912 and attended normal school in Regina. For several years she taught school in the West. While at Queen's University she met Lorne Pierce. They graduated in the same year, and met again when both were in the West, where Lorne was serving as a Minister. On September 9, 1916, they were married. They had two children, Beth (Mrs. J. D. Robinson) and Bruce.
Edith Pierce died on April 23, 1954.
- CA QUA00965
- Family
- n.d.
The Parrot family were United Empire Loyalists who settled in the Bay of Quinte district. The family included John Parrot, a mariner who owned property in Beverly and New Boston at the time of the American Revolution, and his sons James and John. The two sons came to Canada, where James became a farmer and a colonel in the militia and John became a school teacher.
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