Mary Martha (Bethune) Abbott (1823 - 1898)

Ancestors

Wife of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott — married 26 Jul 1849 in Montreal, Canada East

Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1898 at age 74 in Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Biography

Mary Bethune (1823-1898)^[1] was the daughter of the Rev. John Wadden Bethune and Elizabeth Hallowell. ^[2] She was the wife of Sir John Abbott, who served as Canada's prime minister from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892.^[3] She died in Montréal at the home of her son, J. B. Abbott.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Parliament of Canada [1]
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "John Bethune (principal)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Bethune_(principal)&oldid=659848346 (accessed February 26, 2016).
3. ↑ Carman Miller, “ABBOTT, Sir JOHN JOSEPH CALDWELL,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed August 18, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/abbott_john_joseph_caldwell_12E.html.
4. ↑ THE RAILWAY WAR. (1898, Feb 26). The Globe (1844-1936) Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/docview/1649818791?accountid=14369

Dates

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Eugene Quigley for creating Bethune-66 on 9 Sep 13.