James Dryden, c.1875
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white portrait photograph of James Dryden.
- Notes
- James Dryden was born at Sunderland, England in April 1806 and while an infant moved with his parents to Walsingham in the county of Durham, UK. The family settled in Whitby Township in 1820 and in 1832 James Dryden established a farm of two hundred acres on lot 19, concession 7. Mr. Dryden as a Justice of the Peace, a member of the home district council, a director of the Ontario Bank at Bowmanville, a director of the Port Whitby-Lake Scugog Simcoe and Huron Railway and president of the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway when it was built in 1870-1871 Mr. Dryden was Deputy Reeve of Whitby Township in 1852 and Reeve from 1856-1858, and a councilor from 1854-1864. He died at his farm in Whitby Township on July 31, 1881 and is buried at Dryden Baptist Cemetery, Whitby.
- Date of Original
- c.1875
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 6 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 6cm
Image Height: 6cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31-003-001
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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