Brief biography of J. Harrison Pew, c. 1904
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Title
Brief biography of J. Harrison Pew, c. 1904
Subject
J. Harrison Pew
Description
Brief biography of J. Harrison Pew, c. 1904.
This was published on the front page of the July 28, 1904 edition of the Welland Telegraph. It was part of a series focused on prominent citizens of Welland County. The articles ran on the front page and featured a photograph and a brief biography. The series ran between March 1904-June 1905.
Text reads:
The subject of this sketch is the eldest son of the late John Pew, of the Township of Stamford, and is engaged in fruit growing and wine manufacturing, and erected the first wine factory in that immediate section of the country. He owns the farm taken from the Crown by his great grandfather over 100 years ago. He was chief inspector of license in the county under the McCarthy Act until that act was declared ultra vires by the Privy Council. Mr. Pew received his education in a private school, Bellevedere Academy and Stamford High School and graduated at the London Business College, where he also took a course of Commercial Law. Mr. Pew has represented his township and district (Stamford, Willoughby, Chippawa and Niagara Falls Village) in the County Council continuously for one fourth of his whole life, being a longer term than any other representative in this County has been able to retain the confidence of the electors. Mr. Pew was a candidate for the Local Legislature in the year 1898 and apparently inherits his ability to serve his electors satisfactorily from his father who was also a candidate for the Legislative in the first election after Confederation, and was a county councillor in the old united counties of Lincoln and Welland before separation of the counties, and after separation represented Stamford, in Welland County Council at the time of the building of the present Court House and Jail. The subject of this sketch was one of a company of three who developed the gas field in Crowland and to him is largely due the credit for Niagara Falls being able to burn gas today at 20 cents per M., or in fact any other price.
This was published on the front page of the July 28, 1904 edition of the Welland Telegraph. It was part of a series focused on prominent citizens of Welland County. The articles ran on the front page and featured a photograph and a brief biography. The series ran between March 1904-June 1905.
Text reads:
The subject of this sketch is the eldest son of the late John Pew, of the Township of Stamford, and is engaged in fruit growing and wine manufacturing, and erected the first wine factory in that immediate section of the country. He owns the farm taken from the Crown by his great grandfather over 100 years ago. He was chief inspector of license in the county under the McCarthy Act until that act was declared ultra vires by the Privy Council. Mr. Pew received his education in a private school, Bellevedere Academy and Stamford High School and graduated at the London Business College, where he also took a course of Commercial Law. Mr. Pew has represented his township and district (Stamford, Willoughby, Chippawa and Niagara Falls Village) in the County Council continuously for one fourth of his whole life, being a longer term than any other representative in this County has been able to retain the confidence of the electors. Mr. Pew was a candidate for the Local Legislature in the year 1898 and apparently inherits his ability to serve his electors satisfactorily from his father who was also a candidate for the Legislative in the first election after Confederation, and was a county councillor in the old united counties of Lincoln and Welland before separation of the counties, and after separation represented Stamford, in Welland County Council at the time of the building of the present Court House and Jail. The subject of this sketch was one of a company of three who developed the gas field in Crowland and to him is largely due the credit for Niagara Falls being able to burn gas today at 20 cents per M., or in fact any other price.
Creator
Welland Telegraph
Source
Welland Public Library Microfilm Collection
Publisher
Welland Telegraph
Date
1904/07/28
Rights
Public domain
Format
Microfilm
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Microfilm cabinet - 071.1338 WEL Tel #8
Coverage
Welland County
Files
Collection
Citation
Welland Telegraph, “Brief biography of J. Harrison Pew, c. 1904,” Welland Public Library Local History, accessed May 14, 2025, https://omeka.wellandlibrary.ca/items/show/11286.