Adeline Cynthia (Davis) Foster (1844 - 1919)

Born 14 Apr 1844 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Black Chisholm — married 17 Aug 1864 (to 1889) in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

Wife of George Eulas Foster GCMC — married 2 Jul 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Died 17 Sep 1919 at age 75 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada

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Lady ADELINE CYNTHIA DAVIS CHISHOLM FOSTER

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ADELINE CYNTHIA DAVIS, born on April 14, 1847, at Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of JAMES MILTON DAVIS and HANNAH C. COOK

‘Addie’ then married parliamentarian SIR GEORGE E. FOSTER in 1889, although there was some question as to the legality of her divorce under Canadian law.^[1]

ADELINE ‘Addie’ CYNTHIA DAVIS, temperance reformer and author; she was born on April 14, 1844, at Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, the eldest daughter of MILTON JAMES DAVIS Sr., a stagecoach proprietor, and HANNAH C. COOK.

She married first on August 17, 1864, to DANIEL BLACK CHISHOLM at Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, and they had a son and a child who died in infancy:

1. MAUD ADELINE CHISHOLM (1867-1868) and
2. ARTHUR MURRAY CHISHOLM (1871-1960)

Addie and Daniel Black Chisholm divorced, and she married secondly on July 2, 1889, to Sir. GEORGE EULAS FOSTER at Chicago, Cook, Illinois; they had no children.

Addie died on September 17, 1919, at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

As a young woman, Addie Davis studied at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, New York, where she was said to be distinguished for her “diligence, aptitude, and general proficiency.”

After graduation, she taught an infants' class in one of Hamilton’s Methodist Sunday schools, possibly at Centenary Methodist Church. The school superintendent there was D. B. CHISHOLM, a prominent barrister, whom Addie married in 1864. Although they shared many interests, including temperance and public life – Daniel was a Councillor and Mayor of Hamilton, and then an M.P. – their marriage was not a happy one.

In September 1883, according to Addie, Daniel deserted her and their young son and left Hamilton, apparently because he had misappropriated clients’ funds. By 1885 Addie Chisholm had moved to Ottawa and seems to have been renting out rooms in her residence at 127 Bank Street. One of her lodgers was George E. Foster, a temperance advocate and a Conservative MP. A relationship between the two soon started.

Publicly throughout the 1880s Addie Chisholm devoted herself to temperance, a cause she had taken up in earnest in Hamilton. She was second president of the Ontario Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, from 1882 to 1888, and publisher and editor of the WCTU periodical, the Woman’s Journal (Ottawa), in 1885. As well, she authored a number of tracts and pamphlets for Ontario WCTU officers and youth-group leaders. A strong-willed and unfailingly hard worker, she was an important mover in organizational committees for provincial conventions, helped set up local unions, and was a noted platform speaker. In 1888 she was the Canadian representative at the meeting of the National WCTU in the United States. In Ontario she supported the female franchise as a key step to obtaining legislated prohibition: :: “The Lord never promises to do for us what we can do for ourselves, and we have come to the conclusion that this stone of woman’s disability is to be rolled away before prohibition will come to this country.”

Like Letitia Youmans (Creighton), the first president of the Ontario WCTU, Chisholm was devoutly evangelical. She was certain that WCTU efforts would find success if members pledged themselves to the proposition “that our diffidence in speaking at the great truths which lie so near our hearts may be overcome in the strength of Him who will give us the victory.” She apparently saw Youmans, whose presence steeled “less gifted and more timid” members, as her mentor.

Following Youmans’s example, Chisholm was a firm proponent of temperance education for juveniles through bands of hope and loyal temperance legions.

These were groups of children, from about 7 to 12 years of age, who met after school and on Saturdays. A single mother, Chisholm was an implacable supporter and defender of the Young Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, a WCTU subgroup for single women of about 16 and older. Its existence was controversial because many in the Ontario WCTU feared that the youth group would draw members from the main body and thus weaken the common cause. There was also jealousy in the ranks over the range and success of many YWCTU initiatives, including homes for unwed and abandoned mothers, residences for working women, temperance and gospel missions among the poor, and literacy programs for working-class girls and boys.

Under Chisholm’s direction, the Ontario WCTU continued its campaign to have “Scientific Temperance Instruction” made compulsory in the public schools. Such instruction emphasized the terrifying physical effects of alcohol and tobacco on the unsuspecting user. Chisholm argued, as Youmans had before her, that the course must be supported by a WCTU-approved textbook, properly trained teachers, and final examinations. Partly through the work of Chisholm and such other WCTU leaders as Emma Frances Jane Pratt [Vail], the subject was introduced into Ontario schools on an optional basis in 1885, part of the moral thrust being introduced by education minister George William Ross. (The course would become compulsory eight years later.)

In January 1888 Addie Chisholm moved from Ottawa to Chicago, where a brother lived, no doubt to obtain an easy divorce. In the same year she and George Foster became engaged, but securing a divorce in Ontario meant petitioning the Senate, an expensive course that might also have done political harm to Foster, who became minister of finance in May 1888. Proceedings were therefore instituted in the Circuit Court of Cook County in January 1889. As a result, Addie resigned that year from the Ontario WCTU.

On the occasion of her final address to its annual convention, she was treated to an extended and emotional tribute. From this and other statements made about her, additional insight can be gained into her personal qualities. Many referred to her warmth and “Christian gentleness and kindness.” There is also evidence of her assertiveness, for it seems that within the Ontario WCTU her views generally prevailed. In her speech to its delegates, she noted that “even when my plans ran counter to your own you have been ever ready to renounce the one and embrace the other.” There can be no doubt about the strength of her personality. For a single parent to lead an organization committed to the preservation of family must have demanded enormous strength, but to divorce, in 19th-century Canada, required even more fortitude.

Addie’s divorce was granted in June 1889 and Foster quickly joined her in Chicago, where they were married. Repercussions started as soon as they returned to Ottawa. Many questioned the legal validity of the divorce in Canada, and the Fosters were officially shunned. The prime minister’s wife–the iron-mannered Lady Macdonald (Bernard)–and Governor General Lord Stanley both refused to receive Addie Foster. Sir John A. Macdonald feared personal attacks against his cabinet colleague in the House of Commons, and on the hustings in the election of 1891 hecklers hurled the Chisholm name at him. The Fosters were accepted by Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, the minister of justice and later prime minister, who reputedly considered the divorce legitimate, and by Lady Thompson (Affleck).

In 1893 the ostracism ended when the Fosters were invited to a concert put on by Governor-General Lord Aberdeen [Hamilton-Gordon] and Lady Aberdeen (Marjoribanks).

Following her marriage and return to Ottawa, Addie eventually shifted her energies from temperance to more fashionable cultural and humanitarian pursuits. After 1900 she was active with the Women’s Canadian Historical Society, the Ottawa Humane Society, the Women’s Morning Music Club, the Women’s Canadian Club, and the Ottawa branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Understandably, a good deal of her time also went into making social contributions to the career of her husband, who was knighted in 1914.

Lady Foster died in 1919 after a two-year battle with breast cancer, discreetly described in an obituary as a “mortal but lingering illness.” Deeply depressed, her husband painfully marked her passing in his diary:

“Dull without and dark within.”

By Sharon Anne Cook

From DICTIONARY of CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/davis_adeline_14E.html

INREGISTER-Volume XIV (1911-1920)

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Sharon Anne Cook, “DAVIS, ADELINE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 18, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/davis_adeline_14E.html.

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ADELAIDE CYNTHIA DAVIS

The second child of J. MILTON DAVIS Sr. and HANNAH (COOK) DAVIS, was born and raised at Hamilton, and in 1864, married DANIEL BLACK CHISHOLM, (U.E.L.) an important man of the period.

Born in the area of Burlington, Ontario in 1832 where his family had moved from Nova Scotia, he was called to the Bar in 1864, the year he and Adelaide were married —

He helped found the Bank of Hamilton, which was chartered in l872, serving as a member of the provisional board of directors.

In 1873, he was chairman of the provisional board of directors of the Hamilton and North Western Railway Company.

By 1880, he was president of the Standard Fire Insurance Company and the Canada Loan and Banking Company; and a director of the Mutual Life Association of Canada; the Ontario Camp Ground Company and the Navy Island Fruit Growing Association.

Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario in 1871-1872, he moved into Federal Politics as a Conservative, and was a member of Parliament in l872–l874.

DANIEL BLACK CHISHOLM was described as a “tall dark man with broad shoulders.” A lawyer in Hamilton, he was frequently referred to as “The dark-eyed man of destiny.”

A newspaper article stated in part—

“Owing to business difficulties, Mr. Chisholm left Hamilton and settled in Western Ontario, finally removing to the States, his wife having the sympathy of a large community of friends.”

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1. Swainson, Donald...Department of History, Queen's University; *The Loyalist Gazette; Vol. VI, Number 2, Autumn, 1968.

2. The Hamilton Daily Spectator, July 1889. Hamilton Public Library, *Reference Department.

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DANIEL BLACK and ADELAIDE DAVIS CHISHOLM were the parents of two children:

1. MAUDE ADELINE CHISHOLM and
2. ARTHUR MURRAY ("Bob") CHISHOLM

The last year in which Daniel Black Chisholm's name appears in the Hamilton City Directory is 1887, and while it is believed that he died in 1899, we have no data to confirm either date or place of his death. (See bottom note)

ADELAIDE secured a Divorce in the United States from Daniel Black Chisholm, and in l889, she married: GEORGE EULAS FOSTER (later Sir GEORGE FOSTER).

George Eulas Foster was born in 1847 in Carleton County, New Brunswick, a son of JOHN and MARGARET (HEINE) FOSTER.

Educated at the University of New Brunswick (B.A. in 1868; L.L.D. in 1894) he was Professor of Classics there from 1873 to 1879.

A Conservative, he represented King's County, New Brunswick in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1896. In 1885, he became Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the MacDonald Government, and in 1888, Minister of Finance. The latter portfolio he retained until 1896. In 1904, representing North Toronto, he was re-elected to the House of Commons, and in 1911, appointed as Minister of Trade and Commerce.

In 1918, he accompanied Sir Robert Borden, Canada’s Prime Minister, to the Peace Conference, and would have been a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles had it not been for the mortal illness of his wife Adelaide, who died in 1919.

In l920, Sir George was acting Prime Minister of Canada during Borden's illness.

A Vice-President of the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva, he continued as Minister of Trade and Commerce under Prime Minister Meighen until the end of 1921, when he accepted an appointment to the Senate.

He had been created a K.C.M.G. in 1912; a G.C.M.G. in 1918; and in 1916, an Imperial Privy Councillor.

Following Adelaide’s death, in 1919, he was remarried in 1920 to Jessie Allan, a daughter of Sir William Allan, M.P

Sir GEORGE EULAS FOSTER died at Ottawa, Ontario in 1931 and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, as is his first wife, ADELAIDE DAVIS FOSTER—granddaughter of ANDREW COOK.

Lady ADELAIDE DAVIS FOSTER contributed significantly to public affairs during her life with Sir George. These contributions are perhaps best described in her obituary as it appeared in the "Ottawa Citizen" on her death in 1919 —

“THE PASSING OF LADY FOSTER IS DISTINCT LOSS”

Talented, Capable and Refined. She devoted her energies to various organizations for the Public Good Lady Foster, wife of Sir George Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce for Canada, passed away at quarter to seven o'clock yesterday at the family residence, l25 Somerset Street, following an illness of several months, borne with patient fortitude.

With the passing of this talented, capable, refined and sympathetic woman, the loss is not only to Ottawa where she had resided for over thirty years, but also to Canada, where, as a worthy helpmate to her distinguished husband, she contributed of her time and energies to every organization that stood for the benefit of humanity.

Tactful to a degree, she had hosts of admirers who will sincerely regret her going out.

Besides her husband, Lady Foster leaves one son by her first marriage, Mr. A.M. Chisholm of Windermere, British Columbia, who with his wife has been in Ottawa for several months, during the period of Lady Foster's severe illness. Two brothers, Milton and Charles Davis of Chicago also survive.

Lady Foster was born near Hamilton, Ontario, the eldest daughter of the late Milton Davis of that District.

On July 2nd, l889, she was married to Sir George Foster.

PUBLIC SPIRITED

Few women in Canada have identified themselves so nobly with the organizations and institutions of the country as did Lady Foster. She was the first president of the Ottawa district board of management of the Victorian Order of Nurses which office she held almost continuously since with the exception of four years from 1901, when Sir George was not a member of Parliament.

She also was on the central board of management of the V.O.N., and her advice was ever sought in undertaking by that body, the very mention of which seems to include the life of Lady Foster.

Only on Thursday last, when the first meeting for the season of the local V.O.N. board was held, Lady Foster, though nearing the end of her journey in this life, had in mind her co-workers, and a message of just three words ‘Goodbye dear friends’ written by her own hand, was read at the meeting, and as one member of the board said, ‘Acted as an inspiration for future service.’

IN WAR EFFORTS

With the war work of the Women's Canadian Club of Ottawa are identified the efforts of Lady Foster, she having held offices as President in that organization during the last strenuous year of the great World conflict.

She was also acting president during the absence of Mrs. W.E. Hodgins in England.

Lady Foster was a member of the Ottawa and Ottawa Valley branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society, and in the connection she worked most faithfully during the war years, and when present at a meeting of any body of women, if not presiding she was ever busily engaged in knitting socks or other Warm woollen garments for the soldier boys from Canada in the trenches.

This lady of many interests had also been a lifelong member of the Humane Society and the Women's Historical Society in both of which Organizations she held the office of President. She was a member of the Executive of the Morning Music Club of Ottawa, and honorary President of the Laurentian Chapter, Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, an honorary president at the time, of the Local Council of Women, and at the time of her passing she held the office of vice-president in the latter body.

WRITER OF NOTE

Although of late years, Lady Foster contributed but little to the literary world, yet she was a writer of note and at one time Edited the Women's Journal in Ottawa. Her son, Mr. A. M. CHISHOLM, though a lawyer by profession, is a writer by choice, and his talents he has ever attributed to inheritance from his mother.

The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at half-past two o'clock from the family residence to Beechwood Cemetery. The Services will be conducted by two friends of the family, Rev. Dr. E-M. Kierstead, professor at McMaster University, Toronto, and Rev. G. Colborne Heine of Montreal."

LADY FOSTER’S DEATH IS DEEPLY REGRETTED,

Board of V.O.N. and Women's Canadian Club Executive Deplore Loss..

The passing of Lady Foster is deeply regretted among the various organizations with which she was so prominently identified, and to her memory, many tributes have been paid since the announcement of her death.

The local board of Management of the Victorian Order of Nurses, of which she was president, tells of her worth as follows

‘Ever since the Victorian Order of Nurses was founded in 1897, Lady Foster has been one of its warmest friends, managers, and supporters. As president for many years of the Ottawa Board of Management, she was untiring in her solicitudes and labors in order that the city might be adequately served by visiting district nurses continuously in their home. By her colleagues on the board, she was held in the highest esteem for her leadership, her good judgment, harmonizing administration and inspiring faithfulness. She was the trusted friend and counsellor of the local superintendent, nurses and probationers.

Because of her influence, they carried ever more and more of the spirit of the Order in sweet and comforting helpfulness into the homes which they visited. Lady FOSTER was also one of the governors for Canada, and a member of the Central Executive committee.

No one was more regular in attendance at meetings or more diligent in helping to shape the development of the Order to meet the needs for district nursing throughout the whole of Canada. She will be greatly missed by the local board and central committee.

Her gentleness was the fine bloom of a character of uncommon strength and goodness.

WOMEN'S CANADIAN CLUB

The Women's Canadian Club through its executive members, of which organization Lady Foster was President through a trying war year, referred to her work in the following words:

‘In the passing of Lady Foster, the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club has suffered a great loss. In women's work she was an inspiration to all with whom she came in contact. Throughout the period of the war, her leadership was invaluable to her co-workers, and her wholehearted, generous service will long be remembered. We are sure deep and sincere sympathy of every member of the club is extended to Sir George in his bereavement."

(For those who are interested in the extensive information available in connection with Sir George and Lady Adelaide Foster and the Peace Negotiation of 1918-1919, many of Sir George’s letters from France, to Adelaide in Ottawa, are preserved in the "Foster Papers" at the Dominion Archives, Ottawa, Ontario.)

Source:

A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of

Andrew and Anna Christina (Palmer) Cook 1769-1970

By John and Eileen (Shepherd) Houser

For the Library of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania with the compliments of John and Eileen (Shepherd) Houser.

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Presented by Mrs. John H. House:

January 11, 1971

The ANDREW COOK Genealogy, 1970

Printed in Canada

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NOTE Daniel Black Chisholm died on September 22, 1898, at MacClenny, Baker County, Florida—he is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, MacClenny, Baker, Florida.https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87005932/daniel-black-chisholm

DAVIS, ADELINE (Chisholm; Foster, Lady Foster), temperance reformer and author; b. 14 April 1844 in Hamilton, Upper Canada, eldest daughter of Milton Davis, a stagecoach proprietor, and Hannah Cook; m. first 17 Aug. 1864 Daniel Black Chisholm in Hamilton, and they had a son and a child who died in infancy; m. secondly 2 July 1889 George Eulas Foster* in Chicago; they had no children; d. 17 Sept. 1919 in Ottawa.

As a young woman, Addie Davis studied at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, N.Y., where she was said to be distinguished for her “diligence, aptitude, and general proficiency.” After graduation, she taught an infants’ class in one of Hamilton’s Methodist Sunday schools, possibly at Centenary Methodist Church. : The school superintendent there was D. B. Chisholm, a prominent barrister, whom Addie married in 1864. Although they shared many interests, including temperance and public life – Daniel was a councillor and mayor of Hamilton, and then an MP – their marriage was not a happy one. In September 1883, according to Addie, Daniel deserted her and their young son and left Hamilton, apparently because he had misappropriated clients’ funds. By 1885 Addie Chisholm had moved to Ottawa and seems to have been renting out rooms in her residence at 127 Bank Street. One of her lodgers was George E. Foster, a temperance advocate and a Conservative mp. A relationship between the two soon started.

Publicly throughout the 1880s Addie Chisholm devoted herself to temperance, a cause she had taken up in earnest in Hamilton. She was second president of the Ontario Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, from 1882 to 1888, and publisher and editor of the WCTU periodical, the Woman’s Journal (Ottawa), in 1885. As well, she authored a number of tracts and pamphlets for Ontario WCTU officers and youth-group leaders. A strong-willed and unfailingly hard worker, she was an important mover in organizational committees for provincial conventions, helped set up local unions, and was a noted platform speaker. In 1888 she was the Canadian representative at the meeting of the National WCTU in the United States. In Ontario she supported the female franchise as a key step to obtaining legislated prohibition: “The Lord never promises to do for us what we can do for ourselves, and we have come to the conclusion that this stone of woman’s disability is to be rolled away before prohibition will come to this country.”

Like Letitia Youmans [Creighton*], the first president of the Ontario WCTU, Chisholm was devoutly evangelical. She was certain that WCTU efforts would find success if members pledged themselves to the proposition “that our diffidence in speaking at the great truths which lie so near our hearts may be overcome in the strength of Him who will give us the victory.” She apparently saw Youmans, whose presence steeled “less gifted and more timid” members, as her mentor. Following Youmans’s example, Chisholm was a firm proponent of temperance education for juveniles through bands of hope and loyal temperance legions. These were groups of children, from about 7 to 12 years of age, who met after school and on Saturdays. A single mother, Chisholm was an implacable supporter and defender of the Young Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, a WCTU subgroup for single women of about 16 and older. Its existence was controversial because many in the Ontario WCTU feared that the youth group would draw members from the main body and thus weaken the common cause. There was also jealousy in the ranks over the range and success of many YWCTU initiatives, including homes for unwed and abandoned mothers, residences for working women, temperance and gospel missions among the poor, and literacy programs for working-class girls and boys.

Under Chisholm’s direction, the Ontario WCTU continued its campaign to have “Scientific Temperance Instruction” made compulsory in the public schools.

Such instruction emphasized the terrifying physical effects of alcohol and tobacco on the unsuspecting user. Chisholm argued, as Youmans had before her, that the course must be supported by a WCTU-approved textbook, properly trained teachers, and final examinations. Partly through the work of Chisholm and such other WCTU leaders as Emma Frances Jane Pratt [Vail], the subject was introduced into Ontario schools on an optional basis in 1885, part of the moral thrust being introduced by education minister George William Ross. (The course would become compulsory eight years later.)

In January 1888 Addie Chisholm moved from Ottawa to Chicago, where a brother lived, no doubt to obtain an easy divorce. In the same year she and George Foster became engaged, but securing a divorce in Ontario meant petitioning the Senate, an expensive course that might also have done political harm to Foster, who became minister of finance in May 1888. Proceedings were therefore instituted in the Circuit Court of Cook County in January 1889. As a result, Addie resigned that year from the Ontario WCTU.

On the occasion of her final address to its annual convention, she was treated to an extended and emotional tribute. From this and other statements made about her, additional insight can be gained into her personal qualities. Many referred to her warmth and “Christian gentleness and kindness.” There is also evidence of her assertiveness, for it seems that within the Ontario WCTU her views generally prevailed. In her speech to its delegates, she noted that “even when my plans ran counter to your own you have been ever ready to renounce the one and embrace the other.” There can be no doubt about the strength of her personality. For a single parent to lead an organization committed to the preservation of family must have demanded enormous strength, but to divorce, in 19th-century Canada, required even more fortitude.

Addie’s divorce was granted in June 1889 and Foster quickly joined her in Chicago, where they were married. Repercussions started as soon as they returned to Ottawa. Many questioned the legal validity of the divorce in Canada, and the Fosters were officially shunned. The prime minister’s wife – the iron-mannered Lady Macdonald [Bernard] – and Governor General Lord Stanley* both refused to receive Addie Foster. Sir John A. Macdonald* feared personal attacks against his cabinet colleague in the House of Commons, and on the hustings in the election of 1891 hecklers hurled the Chisholm name at him. The Fosters were accepted, however, by Sir John Sparrow David Thompson*, the minister of justice and later prime minister, who reputedly considered the divorce legitimate, and by Lady Thompson [Affleck]. In 1893 the ostracism ended when the Fosters were invited to a concert put on by Governor General Lord Aberdeen [Hamilton-Gordon*] and Lady Aberdeen

[Marjoribanks*].

Following her marriage and return to Ottawa, Addie eventually shifted her energies from temperance to more fashionable cultural and humanitarian pursuits. After 1900 she was active with the Women’s Canadian Historical Society, the Ottawa Humane Society, the Women’s Morning Music Club, the Women’s Canadian Club, and the Ottawa branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Understandably, a good deal of her time also went into making social contributions to the career of her husband, who was knighted in 1914.

Lady Foster died in 1919 after a two-year battle with breast cancer, discreetly described in an obituary as a “mortal but lingering illness.” Deeply depressed, her husband painfully marked her passing in his diary: “Dull without and dark within.”

Sharon Anne Cook

Addie [Davis] Chisholm is the author of Why and how: a handbook for the use of the W.C.T. Unions in Canada (Montreal, 1884).

AO, F 885, MU 8404, 8407–9; RG 80-8-0-14, no.10898. Circuit Court of Cook County Arch. (Chicago), divorce file no.71298. NA, MG 27, II, D7, vols.11, 109; RG 31, C1, 1871, Hamilton, Ont., St Andrew’s Ward, div.1: 19 (mfm. at AO). Hamilton Spectator, 18 Aug. 1864. Ottawa Evening Journal, 4 July 1889; 17, 20 Sept. 1919. Canadian biog. dict. Canadian men and women of the time (Morgan; 1898 and 1912). Cyclopædia of Canadian biog. (Rose and Charlesworth), vol.2. Directory, Ottawa, 1882–1919. [I. M. Marjoribanks Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of] Aberdeen [and Temair], The Canadian journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898, ed. and intro. J. T. Saywell (Toronto, 1960). Waite, Man from Halifax. W. S. Wallace, The memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Sir George Foster, p.c., g.c.m.g. (Toronto, 1933).

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