Frederick was a lumber merchant, He was elected to represent Carleton County as a Member of Parliament in the spring election of 1887. He was a director of the Saint John Valley Railway.
HALE & MURCHIE lumber mill on the St. John River, ca 1897. Frederick Hale partnered with George A. Murchie of Calais, Maine to build this mill, measuring 175 ft. by 40 ft. A gang, rotary, two lath machines and a planer comprised the main equipment. According to The Canadian Lumberman (October 1898) the firm cut about 12,000,000 feet of logs cut from its 154 square miles of holdings on the Tobique River.
Sources
George Maclean Rose (1888). A cyclopaedia of Canadian biography, Vol. 2. Toronto Rose Pub. Co. p. 363.
1851 Census of Canada, New Brunswick, District: Carleton County, sub-district 10, Northampton; citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: RG1-C994; digital images. Page 3.
1861 Census of Canada, New Brunswick, District: Carleton County, sub-district Northampton; citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: RG1-C994; digital images. Page 19, Family 115.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Frederick by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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