Notes:

Arthur Reginald Whittemore, born 13 Mar 1886, is the son of Louisa McCord & Francis Belding Whittemore.

. 1903-4 Mights Toronto Directory:
Whittemore, Arthur R, Clk, John Stark & Co., 1 67 Henry
E Frank, clk, 167 Henry
Whittemore, Harry T, Rent Clk Tor Genl Trusts Corp., 1 67 Henry
Whittemore, Louisa, wid. Francis B, h. 67 Henry
Whittemore, L Holt, Salesman, Aikenhead Hardware Ltd. 1 67 Henry.

. 1905 1903-4 Mights Toronto Directory: as above, but for
new address 1 18 Springhurst av.
Whittemore E Frank, clk Dunlop Tire co., 1 18 Springhurst ave.
Whittemore, Frederick M, clk Royal Ins co., 1 34 Rose Ave.
Whittemore, Frederick T, ins agt, h 34 Rose ave.
Harry T, rent clk tor Genl Truts cop., 1 18 Springhurst av.
Whittemore, Arthur R, Clk, John Stark & Co., 1 67 Henry
E Frank, clk, 1 67 Henry
Whittemore, Harry T, Rent Clk Tor Genl Trusts Corp., 1 67 Henry
Whittemore, Louisa, wid. Francis B, h. 67 Henry
Whittemore, L Holt, a, Aikenhead Hardware Ltd. 1 67 Henry.
1911 Census, 21 Hawrthorne Ave., Toronto.

. Canadian Passenger Lists,
Departed Glasgow, Scotland, arrived 29 Jul 1909, Quebec on the Ionian.

. Arthur Reginald Whittemore,
13 Mar 1886, Toronto, Ontario to 19 Mar 1953, Victoria, Bc. Married, Spouse: Jean Isabell Hart. {Second Wife, Verify. - - -

Birth:
231 Gerrard St. East.

Buried:
Stone #14 -11.

Arthur married Mabel Frances SCANLAN on 20 Oct 1915 in Port Elgin, Bruce Co., Ontario. Mabel (daughter of Rev. Richard William SCANLAN and Eleanor Martha NELLIE JOHNSTON) was born on 26 Aug 1888 in Caistorville, Lincoln Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sheila Margarete (Living) WHITTEMORE

Notes:

Attended Upper Canada Collage, Toronto.

. 1846 May 23, Sat. Home District Assizes, spring:
. 1846 May 23 Chief Justice Beverly Robinson, Queen VS James Larceney; Our: E F Whitthimore, Verdict Guilty, 5 years hard labour,
. Queen Vs Oliver Badgero & Wm. Vanzant: larceny: Jury E F Whittemore, Verdict Guilty, Sentence & years hard labour in penitentiary. [Markham Gang: Murder &K Mayhem]

. 1866 York Peel Directory: Whittemore, Mrs. Margaret (Wid E F) h. 78 Bay, Toronto.
Whittemore F B, Clerk, Gas Co., H. 78 Bay.

. 1871 Lovell's Cdn. Dominion Directory
Consumers Gas Co., 19 Toronto St., Directors: F. F. Whittemore, clerk.

. Francis enjoyed attending Jarvis St. Baptist Church, supported the YMCA & other good works. Every winter he gave a steroview exhibit to thousands.

. 1874 - F B Whittemore, chief clerk is Toronto-born & has been in the employment of the since 1864.
[W H Pearson Co., Toronto Water & Gas Light Co., since called Consumers' Gas. ]
Ref: History of Toronto & County of York, Vol 1,1885.

Witness at a wedding: 13302-77 Charles SYMONS, 23, laborer, London England, Toronto, s/o Charles SYMONS & Margaret THILSTON,
married Margaret FARRELL, 23, Oakville, Toronto, d/o Edward FARRELL & Margaret COUGHLIN,
witn: F. WHITTEMORE & Hannah FARRELL, both of Toronto, 13 Feb 1877 at St. Michaels Palace.

The Globe, Toronto.
. 1888 Jan 26 - Mountain Land of the Switzer
A most enjoyable evening was spend Tuesday in the lecture room of the Jarvis St. Baptist church, which was crowded to its utmost capacity. A lecture was delivered by Rev Hugh Johnston on "Switzerland," illustrated with the aid of a powerful stereopticon by Mr. F F Whittemore. In addition, a choice musical programme was disposed of. As the general arrangements were supervised by Mr. Whittemore.

. 1891 Sep 26, Sat. - YMCA COURSE OF ENTERTAINMENT
Two illustrated lectures by the Rev H Johnston, DD & Rev D G Sutherland, DD, illustrated by Mr. F F Whittemore's stereopticon views. Members of the association are allowed privileges for securing reserved seats for this entire course at $1 each - nom members at $2. each seat.
Note: YMCA is Young Men's Christian Association.
. 1891 Dec 15 - YMCA Anniversary address next Monday evening at the YMCA. An evening in European Cities illustrated by Mr FR F Whittemore's beautiful views.

. 1893 Apr 26 - Rev. Dr. Whithrow's Lecture, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid society of the Metropolitan Church."Egypt & the Holy land." Dr. Withrow's lecture was illustrated with striking realism by the aid of stereoscope operated by Mr. Whittemore.
. 1893 Oct 10 - YWC GUILD Rev Dr Withrow deliver his lecture on Egypt & Holy Land, ... was beautifully illustrated by Mr Whittemore with his stereoscopic views & was very much enjoyed by the large number who were present.
. 1893 Dec 13 - There will be a fine exhibition of World's Fair pictures by Mr F B Whittemore in Association Hall Next Friday evening.
. 1895 Feb 15 - Mission Work in India in Assoc. Hall cast a flood light on the great work which is being carried on there in the spread of Christianity & the difficulties which are met with in the propagation of religious truth. The lime-light views, which belonged to Mr. F F Whittemore, were of a most interesting character.
. 1895 Jun 7 -Spending summer at Lorne Park are Mr J McMaster & family, E Burke, W Watson, Mr. f B Whittemore & family. Ref: Toronto Star Newspaper.
. 1895 Jul 27 - The Temple at Grimsby Park, the annual camp meeting held in the open air ...The Stereopticon entertainment are given by Mr F B W of Toronto, to illustrate descriptive lectures upon various scenes of foreign travel.
. 1895 Aug 21 Grimsby Park News - on Aug 20. Mr. FBW gave a stereopticon lecture on Ireland, enjoyed by all.

. 1896 Apr 21 - On thus evening a public missionary meeting will be held in the Guild Hall, McGill St., when the Bishop of Toronto will be in the chair & some light views of the far north, Mackenzie River, will be shown by Mr. Whittemore.
. 1896 Jul 2 - Mrs. Miller, of Dry harbor, Jamaica is visiting the family of F B whittemore, on Church St. Ref: Toronto Star.
. 1896 Apr 26 - Rev. Dr Withrow, assisted by Mr. Whittemore gave an illustrated talk on "The Home & Walks of Christ".

. 1897 Feb 12 - Erskine Presbyterian church on Tues. next, Subject being Scotland. A fine collection of views of the "auld land' will be presented by Mr FBW.
. 1897 Mar 2 -Rev. W G Wallace will repeat his lecture on Scotland in the school room of Old St. Andre's Church, illustrations by MR FBW. ...also as above, Under the auspices of the YWCA of Elm St., by FBW.
. 1897 Apr 14 - Views of Toronto, A gathering of the Aldermen in the Council Chamber witness & exhibition of stereopticon views by Mr FBW. The affair was got up by Ald. Lamb for the purpose of enabling Council to inspect the view of Toronto which it intended to send to England in response to a request of the Commission of Canada. The programme was materially lengthened by a number of excellent views which Mr. Whittemore threw on the canvas in addition.
. 1897 May 1 - Sunday School of Bonar Congregation ...lecture on Canada illustrated by 130 views by Mr. BFW.
. 1897 Nov 16 - Rambles in London, tonight, Masonic Hall, Parkdale, a stereopticon entertainment & descriptive lecture, views by MR. FBW.

. 1898 Feb 5 - Lecture on Palestine at Westminister Presbyterian Church Bloor St. Tues., Feb 8, 8 p.m. The lecture will be illustrated with magnificent stereopticon views by Mr. Frank Whittemore.
. 1898 Apr 1 - Upper Canada College course, "Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The set of stereopticon views furnished by Mr. Whittemore is said to be the best yet obtained.
. 1898 Aug 28 - Mr. & Mrs. L H Whittemore, Mr. Lawrence & Aubrey Whittemore of Chicago, who have been staying at Dr. Oldright's summer residence, Jackson's Point, return to Chicago next week.
. 1898 Apr 18 - 'Halifax to the Kondike' lecture YWC Guild, McGill St., illustrated by limelight pictures exhibited by Mr. WBW.
* "The Indian, his haunts, homes & journeyings among them by canoe & dog train, by Rev. Young, missionary to the Northwest Indians, at Jarvis St. Baptist Sunday School. Illustrated by stereopticon views by HP Whittemore. As there is no person in Canada better acquainted with this subject about Indians, a large attendance is looked for.
. 1898 Dec 7 - Rev. Cody lectured before Guild of Holy Trinity Church on his trip up the Line. illustrated with stereopticon views by FBW.
Ref: Toronto Evening Star.

. 1899 May 3 - Travels Through Palestine, illustrated by the latest limelight views by Mr. FBW. At the close of the lecture Mr. Whittemore cast upon the canvas a number of the most recent views of the Philippines, the seat of the present war troubles.
. 1899 May 17 - 47 Anniversary of Elm St. S.S. Dr. Lloyd lectured on Eternal city Rome, stereopticon vows by Mr. Whittemore. Ref: Toronto Evening Star.

. 1900 May 17 - Mr. F. B. Whittemore, the late cashier of the Consumers' Gas Company left an estate of $3,005, chiefly in life insurance. - - -

Birth:
Francis B. is the second son of E F Whittemore.

Died:
Age 53, 133 Bloor St. East. COD: Pistol shot wound. Dr. S Spencer.

Buried:
Vault 50

Francis married Anna LOUISA MCCORD on 22 May 1872 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. Anna was born on 21 Jun 1846 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died on 2 Jan 1938 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anna L. is the daughter of Charlotte Taylor, Dublin, Ireland & Andrew T McCord, born 1806, Belfast, Ireland.

. 1911 Census 21 Hawthorne Ave., Toronto. - - -

Birth:
d/o Andrew Taylor McCord.

Died:
Aged 91y 6m 12d. Arteriosclerosis, thromboisis from the process of living over 90 y. Sock of several severe falls during the past year.

Notes:

Married:
Francis Bending Whittemore, Aged 26/1846 son of Ezekiel Francis Whittemore & Margaret Whittemore, married Anna Louis McCord, dau. Charlotte & Andrew McCord.

Notes:

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. Whittemore, E.F. - 624. Photograph colored size 4 X 5 inches, Head & shoulders. President of Consumers' Gas Co.
Ref: Landmarks of Canada, What art has done for Canadian history: A guide to the J Ross Robertson Historical Collection, Toronto Public Reference Library, Volume 1. 1917.

. 1840 Member of Temperance Reformation Society, First a partnership with Thos. Rigney, Retail merchant, progressed into private banking house & Consumer Gas Co., Toronto Gas & Lighting Co., & Toronto Stock Exchange. Toronto Alderman 1858.

. 1842 Census Upper Canada, Toronto, St. Andrews Ward
E.F. Whittemore, from Church Wards, Owner, Clerk, 1 room.

. Checked Store King St.,Toronto, housed Globe & Mail Newspaper, Established Toronto Stock Exchange. Ref: Globe & Mail Newspaper.

. Toronto: WHITTEMORE, RUTHERFORD & CO., wholesale merchants & general dealers in dry goods, groceries & hardware, King st. east, See card, page 445. Ref: 1851 Canada Directory.

. 1846 Organized first telegraph company in Toronto.
1846 Brown's Toronto City & Home District Directory, E E Whittemore, Toronto, wholesale merchant.

. In 1846 Whittemore tore down the old checkered store & erected in its place the structured demolished 2 years ago. [1886] ...business partners were Thos. Rigney, Rutherford, Elswood Chaffey, Edmund Morris. It was a private bank, eventually becoming the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Whittemore died 1859. About 1860 rear portion of building was divined into shops with an entrance on Toronto St.: A Bacas bookseller & news dealer, postage stamps... Wm. Lyon Mackenzie frequented...lawyer's offices, Mayor Sheard was the architect & G. Brown the builder.

. 1851 WHITTEMORE, RUTHERFORD & CO., wholesale merchants & general dealers in dray goods, groceries & hardware, King st. east, See card, page 445. Ref: 1851 Canada Directory & The Globe & Mail for a multitude of advertisements.
Toronto Assessments Rolls, 1853 owned by E F Whittemore, Merchant: Addresses
26 - 27 King St., North Side Occupant: Rutherford & Whittemore Co.
1230 Wellesley St., Vacant Lot
377 Bay St. Occupant: R J Smith, Surgeon St. George's Ward
760 Bay St. Homeowner: E F Whittemore
Toronto Street Occupant: E F Whittemore.

. 1847, Mar 10, Tues. Robt. Murray, A Bankrupt. Court House, in the City of Toronto, on Sat. 31 Jul, a lot of land & premises in the Village of Streetsville, Assignee E F Whittemore.
. 1847 Mar 10, Toronto - Public Notice, in the matter of Robt. Murray. Bankrupt, Court House, City of Toronto on Sat. 31 Jul next, 12 o'clock, A lot of land & premise in the Village of Streetsville, 5 Con. W of Hurontario St., Twp. of Toronto, Home District. E F Whittemore, Assignee.
Ref: The Gazette Canada. Many repeat issues.

. 1848, Mar 27. Letter to Toronto Mayor & Common Council complaining of the unnecessary destruction of property at recent fires by excited & uncontrolled mobs. Ask that measures be taken to prevent such. Signed, Ed G O'Brien & E F Whittemore, Agents, Aetna & Hartford Insurance Companies.
Ref: Fonds 200 Former City of Toronto, Series 1081 Toronto Council Communications from the 19th Century, at Spadina Records Centre, Box 143263.

. 1849 Apr 2, Letter to Chas. Tendering his resignation as Common Councilman for St. Geo.'s Ward.
Ref: Spadina Records Centre, Box 143264. City of Toronto

. 1849 Jun 18 Petition of Whittemore, Rutherford & Co. & Robt Beekman, requesting the use of the Phoenix Engine & House until a permanent organization of the Fire Department takes place. Box 43264. Ref: Spadiana Records Centre.

. 1851 Toronto Directory - Whittemore, Rutherford &Co., wholesale merchants & general deals in dry godos, groceries & hardware, King St., East;
HartfordFire Assurance Co., Whittemore, Rutherford & Co., agents, King St. East.

. 1853 Apr 9 - SHERIFF'S SALE OF LANDS.
United Counties of Lincoln & Welland, t ~ Fieri Facias, issued of Her Majesty's Court, Queen's Bench & to me directed, against the lands & tenements of MOSES, Andrew Vanderburgh, at the suit of THOMA S RIGNEY, Ezekiel F. Whittemore & Edward If. Rutherford, I have seized & taken in execution the following property, viz: the north halves of lots 16 & 17, in the 8 Con of Twp. of Pelham in Co. of Welland, one of the above named counties; all of which lands, together with the buildings & erections thereon, I will offer for sale at my Office in the Court House, in the town of Niagara, on SATURDAY, the 9th day of APRIL,1853 at the hour of TWELVE o'clock noon. W. Kingsmill, Sheriff U.C.L.&W., Sheriff's Office, Niagara, 30th December, 1852. [First published 8th January, 1833.]

. 1853 Feb 1 - Sheriff's Sales, in the common pleas, Ezekiel F Whittemore, Elwood Chaffy & Edmund Morris, Plantiffs Vs. Wm. Lines, Geo S Wilkes & Fred T Wilkes Defendants, Town of Brantford.

. 1853 May 14, Toronto, CANADIAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE, According to announcement, a meeting of the friends of Temperance was convened in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening last. …re forming liquor laws.
Mr. Whittemore was of opinion that the proper time for legal restriction to the sale of intoxicating liquors had arrived. He depreciated the opposition raised by some temperance men against a prohibitory liquor law & conclude by expressing a desire that those who had entertained conscientious scruple in reference to secret societies, would lend their co-operation to the object of the league.
Appointed, York County until 1st July next: E R Whittemore, Esq., President; Committee of Management: Peter Lawrence, Seur, York Mills.
Note1: E F Whittemore was married to his Peter's cousin Margaret Lawrence Johnston.
Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto.

. 1853 Sept 10, Quebec. His Excellency the Administrator of the Gov. has been please to make the following appointments: Ezekiel F Whittemore & Brewer or Toronto, Visiting Commissioner of the Prov. Lunatic Asylum at Toronto.
* Upper Canada Journal of Medical Surgical & Physical Science created a narrative based on reports culled from various "city papers" (378). In their account two merchants, Whittemore & Brewer, visited Potter's Field in November 1851 & noticed that a coffin, which they knew had been sent from the Lunatic Asylum, seemed unnaturally light. ... In November the sexton investigating the lightness of the coffin of a deceased patient on its way to burial in potter's field, discovered that someone had removed an arm, a leg, & the head for "anatomical purposes". ...The coroner's jury subsequently discovered that Dr. Scott had performed a postmortem on the body after Mr. Coroner Duggan's own examination. Dr. King decided not to pursue the matter, but the Board of commissioners of the Lunatic Asylum censured Scott for '"indiscretion & a want of judgment.'"
While respectful toward the public's sensitivities to human dissection, they insist that it was of utmost importance to medical science. Moreover the public's sensitivities would not have been so offended, had Scott & other officers at the Asylum merely taken the precaution of securing the coffin before sending it to Potter's Field. Then the public would have been as ignorant (& uncaring) whether the body of Andrews, a pauper lunatic. The principal objects of editorial censure are not the doctors but Whittemore & Brewer, who, according to the editors, would not have broadcast their discovery had they really been motivated by human sympathy. The editors desired to know why the pair investigated the coffin in the first place. They suggested that it had something to do with "the furtherance of private views or the display of political partisanship" Thus they turn the tables on, as well as "shoot" the messenger.
. 1848 Oct 20 - The Commissioners also censured the Dr. Park for the mistake of parading in carriages, the inmates of the Asylum at the same time as the 12th of July Orangeman's Parade.
Ref: Tropping the Asylum, by John Thomas Rowland, 1999.

. SHERIFF'S SALE OF LANDS., Co. of Northumberland & Durham - on Sat. 24 Dec. 12, 1853, noon in town of Cobourg. In the County Court.' Thomas Rigney, Ezekiel Francis Whittemore & Edward Henderson Rutherford, plaintiff; vs. Benjamin Weller, defendant: Lot 23 3 Con Twp. Cramahe, Crandall Rd. 1800 A. Ref: 24 Sept 1853 888-6. & Sheriff's Sale of Lands, Co. Prince Edward, sold by Auction, Court House, Town of Picton, Sat 31 Dec, next 1853., lands & tenements of Benjamin Weller, several Writs of Fieri Facias, Rigney, Whittemore & Rutherford, plaintiffs, VS. Benjamin Weller, defendant.

. 1853 Sept 21, Toronto. C.W. Dissolution of Copartnership of the firm of Whittmore Rutherford & Co., by mutual consent, Edward H Rutherford, Esq., retiring therefrom.

. 1859 May 23 - Sheriff's Sales of Lands Peterborough & Victoria Co., Ezekiel Whittemore, Plaintiff, vs. P M Grover, defendant, Lot 16- 20, 9 Con Twp. Asphodel, Peterborough.
. NOTICE is hereby given, that the undersigned will apply to Parliament at its next Session, for an Act to incorporate a Company, with authority to construct a Railway from London to Amherstburg, or to such other point on the Detroit River as may be deemed most advantageous. E. F. WHITTEMORE,. H. HOLTON. Ref: 10 Dec 1853.

. Appointments, EZEKIEL WHITTEMORE, Esquire, reappointed Commissioners for visiting the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Toronto, under the Act 16, Vict. ch. 188. Ref: 23 Sept. 1854 & again Appointments, Secretary's Office, Toronto 29th Dec 1855, His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz: Ezekiel F Whittemore to be Commissioners of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Toronto.

. 1856 Nov 13. Grand Truck Railway Co. of Canada: At the 3 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, held in Toronto: Messrs. Crawford, McGill & Whittemore, re-elected as Directors of the Co.

. 1857 Nov 2, Accounts of Trinity House of Montreal, Paid W & E F Whittemore & Co. Sperm Oil, Vchr. 29, £1 12s 3p.
Ref: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Prov. of Ontario.

. 1858 Dec 31 - Northern Railway, A deputation from the Board of Trade, consisting of EFW +5, printed a petition to Parliament, Northern Railroad has been the means of developing the resources of country to a great extent than any other road … Ref: York Commonwealth Newspaper, Richmond Hill, ON. - . -

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. On December 28, 1846, a public meeting had been convened by the Board of Trade for the purpose of hearing a proposal from Captain Archibald Taylor for the establishment of a line of freight propellers between Toronto & Oswego. EF Whittemore, a merchant, told the meeting that the line was necessary because Toronto businessmen in the previous year had year had experienced inconvenience because of delays in transference of their goods from Oswego. He assured potential investors that the line would turn a profit & that one or more of the propellers could be diverted to carrying grain & other produce to Montreal & Quebec City in slack periods in the Oswego trade. Whittemore's reference to the St. Lawrence route fired Globe publisher Geo. Brown to counsel businessmen to undertake great national effort with their brother merchants int he cities & towns of Canada West to crush the stranglehold of the Laurentian forwarding firms by establishing a broad stock company to operate freight & passengers boats from Toronto to Quebec City direct. In subsequent meetings that winter, it was agreed to establish the Canada Steam Navigation Company.
Ref: Changing Patterns of Great Lakes Vessel Ownership As a Factor in the Economic
Development of Toronto, 1850-1860.

. Obituary1: 1859 Feb 23 - At Toronto, on Saturday last, Ezekiel Frances Whittemore, Esq., aged 41years. The illness of Mr Whittemore was very brief. the Toronto Globe Says: Mr. Whittemore was one of our most public spirited, enterprising merchants, zealous in eve good work, open to the calls of charity & of every duty which devolved upon him as t a member of society. As an Alderman of the city, as a member of the Board of Trade & director of many public companies, he was always ready both with his purse & his time to forward any worthy object. In business he was upright & faithful. Once entirely independent in his means, the recent criss had injured him severely & he had just got over his troubles & appears to be recommencing his career of prosperity & usefulness, when he was struck down by the fell destroyer. He leaves a widow & 5 children to lament the kindest of husbands & fathers.
Ref: New York commercial Advertiser, NY.

. Obituary2: Death & burial of Mr EF Whittemore, Abridged from the Globe.
It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we announced the death of E F Whittemore, which took place at his house onBay Street, at 10 o'clock Saturday night. He was taken ill about a week ago of inflammation of the kidneys & notwithstanding the exertions of numbers medical med, continued to grow worse until he was attacked t=with typhus & death speedily put a stop to his sufferings. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon from his late residence & a very large number who attended to pay the last sad mark of respect to his remains, justly showed the high estimation in which he was held by all classes of the community. The stores on King, Yonge & her stress were all closed as the mournful procession passed along on its way to the cemetery. The cortege was upwards of 20 minutes in passing a given xx & was composed of over 400 persons on foot & about 70 carriages.
Ref: York Commonwealth Newspaper

. Obituary3: Mr. E F Whittemore, Saturday night in his house on Bay Street, leaving a wife, & 5 children. Mr. Whittemore was an Alderman, Member of the Board of Trade. 2 Mar. 1859, Ref: Globe Newspaper, Toronto.

Ezekiel Francis Whittemore began his commercial career in Montreal in the 1830s but his first modest ventures ended in bankruptcy by 1840. Making a new start, he moved to Toronto to work as a clerk for the mercantile firm of Thomas Rigney & Company. The business prospered greatly in the commercial boom of the 1850s in Toronto & Whittemore was said to have achieved financial independence. Even financial difficulties in the panic of 1857 forced him to sell land & other assets & his firm failed. ...Widely respected for his integrity & business acumen, Whittemore was a leading participant in several of the financial & commercial institutions which had emerged in Toronto. A founding member in 1844 of the Toronto Board of Trade. Whittemore participated in organizing Toronto's first telegraph company. He was also a founder, treasurer, & director of the Toronto Exchange (organized in 1854-55 as a focus for the grain trade), a founder (1847) & president (1856–59) of the Consumers' Gas Company of Toronto. A Congregationalist, he worked with strong conviction in a number of temperance, mission & sabbath observance organizations. Ezekiel Francis Whittemore was one of the outstanding figures in Toronto's dynamic business community of the 1840s & the 1850s. His comprehensive career, despite its brevity, reflects exceptionally well the city's business & political history in his time.
Ref: Excerpts from Dictionary of Cdn. Biography Online, Archives of Canada.

. Dissolutions of Partnerships: Whittemore, E F & Co., 345. Ref: Canada Gazette, Annual Index, 1859, page 5 & NOTICE: - The Co-partnership heretofore existing between the subscribers under the name & firm of WHITTEMORE RUTHERFORD & Co. has been dissolved by mutual consent, Edward. Rutherford, Esquire, retiring therefrom. The business will be continued by Thos. Rigney & E F Whittemore under the same name & firm, who will liquidate & receive all debts due by or to the late firm. Toronto, C . W., 21st September, 1853.
Ref: Vol12, No. 49, 10 December 1853, page 50.
. 1859 Feb 24 (Publishing date) - Died: On 19 February, at Toronto, Ezekiel Francis WHITTEMORE, age 41 years. Ref: Markham Economist.

. 1859, Mar 25, Necropolis Cemetery, EFW, Aged 41years, born Montreal, died Toronto. VAULT Plot O43.50. COD: Inflammation of Kidneys. Plot O 43.50. Property of Wm. Whittemore. 'INTERRED 25 MAR 1859' Placed in vault Feb 19, Burial service March 25th, by Rev. Mc Marling.
Note2: Perhaps this refers to a official funeral, due to withholding telling his pregnant wife, Margaret, of his death - PJA.

...the firm of Whittemore, Rutherford & Company. In 1855 the partnership was dissolved & Mr. Whittemore started a general banking & brokerage business which, owing to the collapse of the boom of 1857, was not a financial success. The business of these firms was conducted in a four-story building at the north-west corner of King & Toronto Streets, owned & erected by Mr. Whittemore, & which later on was torn down & the building occupied until recently by the Quebec Bank was erected in its place. Mr. Whittemore died at the early age of 41 years, on February 19th, 1859. He was a man universally esteemed & his funeral was one of the largest that had ever taken place in the city & was attended by nearly all of Toronto's prominent citizens.
Ref: Recollections & Records of Toronto of Old. - Pub. 1914.

Page Three: York County Estate Files
. Whittemore, Ezekiel Francis, 1859 Feb 19,
Fifty-five pages of legal banter, oaths etc. E F Whittemore [ EFW ] died intestate, perhaps implying a sudden death, or was he ailing or depressed? His last year he failed to post a statement & his books were in disorder. No mention is given of the results or is there even a signature of Margaret Lawrence Whittemore or family. Here are a few summaries of the salient documents.

1. To York Surrogate Court. EFW died wholly intestate, largely indebted & insolvent ...numerous creditors... -partnership is owned about $40,000 ..it will take careful & prudent care to benefit the creditors... Administration should not be granted to the widow or next of kin, but by the Court, under Statute 22 Victoria. Signed Edward Chafferty, Attorney, 19 May, 1859.

2. York Surrogate Court, Petition of Herbert Mason, Accountant of those whose subscribed creditors of the Estate of EZF who died 19 Feb. 1859, Toronto, leaving a widow & several children under the age of 21 years. He died much involved in debt & unable to met its liabilities. William Brown Philips should be appointed administrator. EFW 's personal estate is about $16,000. Signed, 7th day of July, 1859. W. Mason, Ross Mitchell, John Gladtone Holy, Their Attorney, E L Inis, Thomas Rigney {i.e. the other partner}.
[Evidently Mr. Philips didn't become the administrator, as Mr. Mason took the position -PJA].

3. Herbert Mason report to the York Surrogate Court:
Your petitioner was urgently requested by a number of the Creditors of the late EFW to undertake the administration of estate. He was required to post a bond of $28,000 at some inconvenience & loss to himself, thereby placing himself under obligation friends, although he had nothing to gain himself.
Mason was obliged among other things to take proceedings to protect the household furniture belonging to the estate which was under seizure from the Canada Life Assurance Co. to the amount of 2 Policies on the life of Mr. Whittemore. The Chancery Court compelled Mason take the steps of renewal of Insurance on the life of A B. Townley which had nearly lapsed. Inducing Mr. Townley to go to Fort Erie from Buffalo where he resided to undergo a medical examination & now a considerable sum can now be realized on said Policy.

The creditors also filed with the York Chancery Court who also compelled Mason to give an account of balance & expenses of the EFW Estate. The creditors demanded an account of the funeral expenses for E F Whittemore: Undertaker's bill by John Ross was £8 15 schilling & 0 pence.

EFW in his lifetime was largely engage in business transactions of different kinds, wholesale Hardware merchant & grocery business, a banker, an exchange broker & an agent of several insurance companies.

By reason of numerous & varied transactions was complicated & greatly increased by the loose & careless manner in which the books were kept. Before his death they had not been posted for more than one year. They were voluminous extending to many thousand folios. Funds amounted to $10,784 received ... causing him to attend to much correspondence ... thus necessary to employ a solicitor & an accountant. Herbert Mason's bill for approval is $447.45 for expenses incurred.
The Court considered a reasonable compensation to be $1000 & including $339 to be paid the accountant. Signed, 30 August, 1861, Surrogate Court.

4. Page 5 of five pages of extracted INVENTORY: E H Rutherford said to be settled £388.4.6; A H Tisdale total acct. said to be doubtful £ 43. 5.4; Streetsville Plank Rd. Co.; Erie & Ont. Rail Rd. stock; Toronto Guelph Rd. Co., Ont. & Simcoe Rail Rd. stock; Peterboro & Pt. Hope RR stock; Pt. Credit & Hurontario Plank Rd., Scarboro Markham Plankroad Rd. were all said to be doubtful. £468; ROBERT JOHNSTON [a relative] £32.10.2; Consumers Gas Co. Stock $1000. a Cash installment $60. GRAND TOTAL: £15, 715. 4. 6
Note3: The use of both pounds & dollars in 1861. - PJA.

. WHITTEMORE'S STORE, King Street East at Toronto Street, for Edward H. Rutherford, 1846; demol. 1886 (Telegram [Toronto], 15 May 1886, 5; J.R. Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto, i, 1894, 81-3, illus. & descrip.)
CONSUMER'S GAS CO., Toronto Street, office block with dwelling for the Manager, 1852 (Daily Patriot [Toronto], 15 June 1852, 2)
Ref: Joseph Sheard, 1813-1883, Architects in Canada.

. Reference note: A slightly fuller version with photocopies is printed in my book. Otherwise please see the Estate File at the Archives of Ontario for the complete legal miscellanea. - P J Ahlberg, Toronto. 2009 - - -

Died:
COD: inflammation of Kidneys.

Buried:
VAULT Plot O43.50.

Ezekiel married Margaret JOHNSTON, .1 on 6 Apr 1843 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. Margaret (daughter of Robert W JOHNSTON, Jr. and Margaret LAWRENCE, .5 DUE) was born on 18 Dec 1823 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; died on 20 Sep 1896 in Waterdown, E Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario; was buried on 25 Sep 1896 in Toronto Necropolis Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Marriage, Home District. On the 6th day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1843,
Ezekiel Francis Whittemore, of the City of Toronto, in the Home District in the Province of Canada, Bachelor
& Margaret Johnson of the same place, spinster, daughter of the late Robert Johnson, of this City, Deceased, were joined together in holy Matrimony by me, Mathew Richey, Wesleyan Minister, KINGSTON, July 28, 1843.
Witnesses: John Bowes, Thomas Rigney.

. 1843 Apr 6, In this city, on 6th inst., E F Whittemore, formerly of Montreal,
to Margaret, second daughter of the Late Robert Johnston, of this city. By Rev. Mathew Ritchey.
Toronto British Colonist, Marriage Notice, Published 19 Apr 1843.

. 1851 - WHITTEMORE, RUTHERFORD & CO., wholesale merchants & general dealers in dry goods, groceries & hardware, King st. east, See card, page 445.
Ref: 1851 Canada Directory.

. 1871 Census gives Margaret's origin as Scotch, (that is, her father was Scottish.)
Frank, age 24, b 1849, Ontario, bookkeeper
William, age 22, b 1849, Ontario, clerk
Fred, age 16, b 1855, Ontario
Luther Whittemore, age 13, b 1858, Ontario, Scotch.

. 1881 Census Toronto: Margaret Whittemore, Wm. A., Fredk. T, Luther H. Whittemore.

. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Archives of Canada, says Margaret had 6 children & one of them died in infancy, 19 Feb. 1859 in Toronto. It is not apparent which child that may have been, as husband Ezekiel died on 19 Oct. 1858.

. Drawings of the 'Checked Store,' on King Street; were published in Toronto newspapers advertisements.
Whittemore, E F of T. Rigney & Co., residence 35 Bay Street. The Checked Store King St., Toronto, housed Globe & Mail Newspaper, Established Toronto Stock Exchange.

. After the death of Robert Johnston & also of his wife Margaret Lawrence, Ezekiel Francis Whittemore was married to their daughter Margaret & had a marriage portion as devised to her by the WILL of her father, which as a portion of the property on Toronto Street. She never had any claim on the Checked Store & lot on the corner of King & Toronto Streets.

. In this city on the 30th ultimo, the Lady of E F Whittemore, of a daughter., [Margaret.1 Whittemore.]
Ref: Toronto Mirror 18 Dec. 1846, Pg 3, Col 3 #21].

. 1846 - Birth in this city on the 24th Instant, Mrs. E F Whittemore, of a daughter. 24 Dec. 1849 Adeline A Whittemore, Toronto.
Ref: Toronto Mirror, 1846 Dec. 18, P 3 Col 3, # 2.

. 1862-3 Whittemore, Margaret, wid. E.F., h. 78 Bay. Colonel W B Jarvis, 82 Bay. Many tenants in the Whittemore buildings, Toronto St., Ref: Hutchinson's Toronto Directory.

. 1859 Caverhill's Toronto City Directory, Whittemore, Mrs. M. widow, 78 Bay St.
. 1866 York Peel Directory: Whittemore, Mrs. Margaret (Widow E F) h. 78 Bay, Toronto.
Whittemore F B, Clerk, Gas Co., H. 78 Bay.
. Whittemore's Buildings, Toronto cor. King, Prov. of Ontario Gazetteer 1869.
. 1874 - Whittemore Building, cor. Toronto & Queen Sts. Ref: Fisher & Taylor's Toronto Directory.

. ONTARIO DEATH CERTIFICATE:
Margaret Whittemore, died 20 Sep 1896, aged 72/1824, Widowed. Death Place: Waterdown, Wentworth, Ontario.

Note2: Her son Wm. Henry Whittemore & his wife & various other Whittemores lived at this house. William was a store clerk in the town of Waterdown, (near Hamilton, Ontario).
Note3: Date of habitation is estimated after 1880 or perhaps Margaret Johnston Whittemore arrived later.
X-Ref: Whitehern Museum Archives, Hamilton, Ontario. McQuestern Family's letters.

Note4: Reggie Whittemore was a friend of the McQuestern family of Whitehern. While the 'Mrs. Whittemore' who could also be Reggie's wife, the elder Marg. Johnson Whittemore would certainly be known to Mrs. McQuestern & more of her generation. - P J Ahlberg, 2010.

. 1871 Census Toronto West, Margaret Whittemore, Age 43/1828 in Ontario/ Scottish, Congregationalist.

Recorded for further research (Verify whose land is this):

. 1850 Jan 23 - For Sale, a most valuable farm of 200 A. of land, Twp. of Chinguacousy, Lot 24, 1st Con., East of Hurontario St, 30 miles from Toronto, Over 100 A. cleared & in a high state of cultivation, upon which is erected a good Brick Cottage. 40 Ft. Sq., well finished & now in thought repair, also an excellent Orchard, a new frame Barn 30 X 60 ft. a large frame Shed, Driving House. A never-failing stream of Water runs through the premises are near the Barn is a Spring that never freezes.
This Farm is well worthy the attention of persons wishing to purchase. Title is indisputable & Land of very finest quality. One-third of purchase money will be required in cash, the residue in 3 equal Annual Installments with interest.
For further particulars apply to Mr. James Merchant, James Town, Esquesing or to Messrs. Whittemore, Rutherford & Co., Toronto City.
Ref: The Globe, Sat. Feb 2, 1850. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB 12 Mar 1823.

Died:
Aged 72y. Heart disease with Dropsy [i.e edema or water retention.]

Buried:
Plot D-4S, Estate E F Whittemore.

Notes:

Married:
British Colonist Newspaper, Toronto:
In this city, on the 6th inst., E F Whittemore, formerly of Montreal, to Margaret, second daughter of the late Robert Johnston to this city.
(Rev. Mathew Ritchey, [Ritchie, Methodist]

Notes:

Birth:
Alt DOB 21 Jun 1786

Died:
Alt DOD 1852

Thomas married Priscilla BELDING on 12 Mar 1811 in Ashfield, Franklin Co., Massachusetts. Priscilla was born in 1792 in Vermont State; died on 12 Apr 1850 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Potter's Field, Toronto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Priscilla is the daughter of Pricilla Waite & John B. Bending.

. Died on Monday 8th April, Mrs. Priscilla Whittemore, relict of the late Thos. Whittemore, Esq. of Montreal, aged 58 years. [born 1792]
Ref: Toronto Mirror, pr 3, Column 5, Vol. 13 #17.

. Toronto Necropolis Cemetery Registration # 5313, Priscilla Whittemore & 4 others of same family from Potters Field.
Reburied in Vault on Mch. 16, 1906. Plot O 50. Property of E F Whittemore.
Pricilla Whittemore & 4 others of same family from Potters Field.
Removed to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, 20 Dec., 1906. - - -

Birth:
Alt Location: Ashfield, Franklin, Mass.

Died:
Alt Loc. Montreal 'Widow of Thos Whittemore of Montreal.'

Notes:

Married:
Alt Location: Arlington, 1811. 03.12

Notes:

Two Johnston brothers Thomas & Robert
married two Lawrence sisters, Mary Ann & Margaret Lawrence.

. 1812 Sep 7 to 22nd, 3rd Reg. York Militia, Capt. Thomas Hamilton's Company, Robt. Johnston, 16 days, pd. £1 1s 4p., Priv. John Vanzante Junr. 16 days, pd. £10 8s 8p.
. 1813 JAN 6 - Capt. Thos. Hamiltons Co., 3rd York Militia, Sergt. ROBERT JOHNSON, Reduced to a Private. & in same document:
. 1813 Jan 7 - Jan 24, Private Robert Johnson, REDUCED FROM A SERGT. 6 Jan. - 7 Jan.
Recorded on the same Muster roll: Sergt. John Johnson [who is listed next to Robt. & Andrew Johnson.] Andrew Johnson, Promoted to Sergt. 7 Jan., Osburn Cox, Discharged 7 Jan.
. 1813 Feb 25 - Mar 24 & to Apr 24th - Robt Johnson. Employed in the Engineer Dept. Pay & Provisions stopped. Sergt. John & Andrew Johnson continued here. 3YM, Capt. Thos. Hamilton Co.
. 1814 May 15, York Muster Day: Robert Johnston of Capt. Thomson's Company, who was captured at York on the 27th April, 1813. Signed, Lt Col. W. Chewett, 3 Yk Militia, 1814.5.15.
. 1814 Dec 3 - Robt. Johnston, 3rd Regiment of York Militia.

. The account of Robert Johnston for making & fixing a bar for the office of the Clerk of Peace, which was ordered to be paid out of the Police funds amounting to £1. 11 shillings.

. 1812 Apr 30, York, Robert Johnson, Ordered that Clerk do notify him to shew cause &c. on the 9th May next.
. 1814 Apr 20, Constable, Town of York, Robert Johnson.
. 1827 Nov 22, King & Jane French, VS Franklin Page, Assault, Jury: Ricd Vanderburgh, Robert Johnson, Jr., Witness Pro: John Willson [3rd], Wit. Con. Anne Falieur, Esther & Chas. Ruggles, Verdict Guilty: Fine 5 shillings & Costs, Costs not paid, Ordered to be in Custody till fine & costs are paid.
King & Jos. Dale VS: Geo Laur, Assault. Jury, Wm. & Jacob Munshaw, William Johnson. Verdict Guilty. fine £2.10 & Costs, Costs not paid, ordered to be in Custody till fine & costs are paid.

. History of the settlement of York - King & Toronto St., was was across from Robt. & Marg. Johnston's store.
The first owner of the lot was Thos Robert. Johnston, a carpenter, who held the property from the Toronto street lane to King St.
. 1834, opposite the Cathedral, on the southeast corner of Church & King, was a framed building known as the Checkered Store painted like a checker-board,
1st owner of the lot was Thos. & Robt. Johnston, a carpenter, who first held the property from Toronto St. ... lane to King St. ...In 1831 a man named R. A. Parker erected the Checkered Store, a 2 story frame building, selling notions, everything from a needle to an anchor. Ref: Globe Newspaper advertisement.
Note1: Opposite it to the eastward stood, the stood the gaol where Lout & Matthews suffered on the scaffold in the 1837 Rebellion.
Note2: This substantial brick building was later the Consumer's Gas Company. 2 historical plaques are on the front the the building. - PJA 2009.

. 1833-34 York County Directory:
Johnston, Robert, carpenter, Toronto street, by the side of the Gaol, to Newgate St., Parker's Checkered Store at the Corner.

. 1834 Aug. 12, Toronto, Summary:
This is the last WILL & Testament of me Robert Johnston of the City of Toronto, Carpenter. First pay my just funeral & testamentary + expenses. It is may will & desire that my beloved wife do receive & take the annual Rents & proceeds arising from my Real & personal Estate during her widowhood for the support of herself & the education support & maintenance of all my children. From & immediate after my said wife shall depart this life or they reach 21 years or marry, I devise & bequeath my Estate on King Street to my children as follows:
Son Richard: The lot & house on the corner of King & Toronto Streets in which Mr. Perrin now lives. [1834];
Daughter Mary Ann: The house & Lot adjoining the one devised to Richard;
Son Robert: The house & lot west of Mary' Ann's with the privilege to the secure belongings;
Son Thomas: The house & Lot west of Robert's with the privileges to the same belongings;
Daughters Margaret & Sarah: My Lot on Toronto St., north of the right of way, to the rear of the Lot before mentioned, to be equally divided between them, share & share alike;

To my 2 adopted children MARY & MARGARET.2 JOHNSTON, daughters of my brother Thomas [& therefore, also wife Margaret's sister's children - PJA]: The sum of £150 each on their arriving at age 21 or marriage. I desire that they may be supported in the same way as my own children out of my Estates.
Executors: J. L. Perrin of King Street, merchant & my brother, John Johnston. 12 August, 1834, Robt. Johnston, Witness: J H Price.
J H Price was a witness to signing of the WILL, as was, signed:
Alexander Hamilton, 24 Sept., 1834. W. Baldwin, Surrogate Home District,
To Home District Surrogate Court: We, James Lewis Perrin, Toronto, Merchant & Margaret Johnson, executor & executrix, will give a full inventory & pay the debts & Legacies so far as his goods shall extend.
Signed, Margaret Johnston, Toronto, 24 Sept., 1834.
(1842 Aug 2, Exectors: John L Perrin & John Johnson Ref: Land Reg. Lot 2, Old Toronto St.)
Ref: Archives of Ontario, Probate Files 1834.

Note3: on Robt. Johnston's Will's References: Dr. W W Baldwin, 23 Yonge St. & Surrogate of Home District, round the corner in King St. No. 195.½, in 1833.
Alexr. Hamilton, Looking-Glass Mfgr., Carver Gilder, 118 King St., in 1833.
Perrin & Co., Dry goods store, 106 King St., Toronto, in 1837.
Ref: Toronto Directories, Toronto Public Libraries.

. Recorded for research: Margaret Johnstone, buried Potter's Field - Mt. Pleasant, Bloor & Yonge, buried 7 July 1834, years. Cholera, 201.

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Ontario Lands Abstract, Toronto Book 654 - East Side Old Toronto St., pages 3-5, p18, 55 & 68; (& dup. Book 683, p179.)
Town Lot 1, East Side Old Toronto St,. Blocks 1- 2 & Blocks 5 - 6;
{now fronting on the west side of (new-present) Toronto St.]
[Transactions of Lot 1 Blocks all done on same date, as indicated below:}

. 1810 Jul 1801, Patent, Crown, to James Green, Town Lot 1;
. 1818 Aug 12, Memorial Bargain&Sale, Robt Jackie Jnr. & Margaret his wife, to Robert Johnston, York, Yeoman, 2 parts, £150 [each of 3 blocks], [to land of Geo Ridout]… Certificate of voluntary Executor, to hold unto said grantees, heirs & consignees. Signed, R W Johnson;
. 1820 Jan 18, B&S, Robert Johnston, to Jacob & John Cummer, £125. [for each Block]. Half of Half of Lots 1 - 2 & 5- 6;
. 1820 Apr 5, Reg. 1830.2.17, Memorial B&S, Robert Johnson & Margaret his wife, to Caleb Humphrey, York, Carpenter 2 pts., £250, commg. at N Lots 1- 2, & Lots 5 - 6, Dower barred xxx of voluntary execution to hold unto said heirs & assigns forever to Caleb Humphrey.
. 1842 Jul 30, Reg. 1842 Aug 2, T R Johnston et all, to Bank America, Discharged;
. 1834 Aug 12, Reg. 1842 Aug 2, WILL Robt Johnston;
. 1844 Nov 26, Mortgage, R L Johnston, to Bank America, Discharged.
. 1846 Apr 7, Lease & Release, E F Whittemore ete, Frank Widmier
. 1852 Oct 1, B&S, John Cummer, to Paul Kane, £650, 53ft S, Block 1- 2 -5, Adelaide St. [Note: Paul Kane - famous early Canadiana painter.]
. 1866 Mar 27, B&S Ricd L Johnson, to (Govt). Queen, £100, Lot 1 & 2, N side King St.
. 1868 May 9 Forclure, Robt Mulroy, to Wm Osborne Defs.
. 1870 Jun 30, Grant, Elizabeth Graham Morrison, to John Ross Robertson*, $12,000. Block 1&2, [John Ross Robertson - history newspaper & Landmarks of Toronto]
. 1884, Pt. Dis., John F Taylor, to Globe Printing (i.e. Newspaper), $1.00.

Town Lot 2, ES Old Toronto St. , Toronto Book 654, being 88ft. North side King St by 105 deep on West side of Toronto Street,
Block 1, pages 148-154 {Duplicate version: Metro TO. Book 683,p184]
. 1818 Aug 12, B&S, Robt. Lackie The Younger & wife Margaret, to Robert Johnston, York, yeoman, SW Corner, King St. of land reserved of a gaol & Courthouse, to Toronto St., signed Robt. Johnston, E halves of 1 & 2;
. 1834 Jul [26?], Mem. Mortgage, this Ridout & Johnston, his wife, devises of Robert Johnston, to xblurry, £450, consignment St N corner of store & premises on King St.;
. 1834 Aug 12, Reg. 1842.8.2., Mem. WILL, Robt. Johnston, to John L Perin & John Johnston & wife, Execors;
. 1841 [Feb 26], Mem. Mort, Richard L Johnson & Robt Johnston decd., to British Am. Fire Life Assoc., £300., 30 ft. N side of King St. & Toronto St., & right of way;
. 1844 No 26, Mortge., R L Johnston etux, to Bank America, Discharged
. 1845 Feby 26, Mem. Mort, Chas Park & wife Margaret Divisee of Robt Johnston
. 1845 Oct 30, BA Fire & Life Assoc., to R L Johnston, Mtgee 23620;
. 1845 Dec 5, B&S, Richard Lawrence Johnston & Julia Ann, his wife , to Charles Garner Parks, Gent., sale & mo., [i.e. to brother-in-law]; £00, Remarks: recipes devise by Robert Johnston to grantor, Commencing 23 ft for King St, along division line of wall in course of erection by E F Whittemore, assigns for ever, signed, Chas G Parks.
. 1845 Dec 5, Thomas Robert Johnston & Chas G Park & Mary Ann his wife, to John Eastwood, Toronto, merchant;
. 1845 Dec 5, Memorial B&S, Richard Lawrence Johnston & Julia A his wife, to Ezekiel Francis Whittemore, Toronto, merchant, £1100, Remarks: Recites WILL of Robt. Johnson, King St, N side by 100 ft. on the West side of st. dowd barred, signed E F Whittemore;
. 1845 Dec 3, Mort., Ezekiel F Whittemore & Margaret his wife, to Richard L Johnson, £800;
. 1847 Jan 21, Morgt., Wm. Cawthra, to E F Whittemore, Remarks Mtge. sd by Wm Cawthra;
. 1846 Jany 16, B&S, Robt. Thos. Ridout & Parks an infant & John Jones Evans, his guardian in a suit on Chancery, Richard L Johnston, Charles G Parks & E F Whittmore & John Maynard?, granted;
. 1846 May 14, Mtge., Robt. Johnson [Jr?], to Hon Chi Wiemar, ‹200 land in seizure & mortgage;
. 1847 Mar 31, Meml. for Chge., Robt Johnston, to Hon C Widmer, £125, Lands;
. 1851 Apr 28, B&S, Hon Chris Widmer & Hannah his wife, to Ezekiel Whittemore & rear 10 ft of land;
. 1851 Apr 21, B&S, Robt. Johnston & Robt. Baldwin, to Chis Widmer;
. 1851 May 31, Mem. Lease, Hon Chris Widmere
. 1851 Jul 21, Recognizance, Wm. Cawthra, to E F Whittemore, £500, Lands to hold by W Cawthra;
. 1857 Oct 8, B&S, E F Whittemore & Margaret his wife, to Luther Hamilton Halton, Montreal, Esq., £6,500, 23 ft NS of King St & Toronto, signed, E F Whittemore;
. 1862 My 13, John Naggan, to Wm. Osborne, Toronto, Lands Agent, £881.

Block 5, Town Lot 2, ES Old Toronto St., p 179-182.
1801 Jul 10, Patent, Crown, to Maria Green;
. 1818 Aug 31, Ins.xx, Robt Lackie & wife Margaret, to Robert Johnston, York, yeoman, having frontage N side Corner, King St. , running westerly to Market St. to a lane known as the OLD POST OFFICE.
. 1842 Jul 30, WILL, Robt Johnston, to John L Perrin & John Johnston & wife, Exors, & Excors. -. -

Block 2, Town Lot 5, ES Old Toronto St., p213-218.
[Checked Board Store location]
. 1818 Aug 12, B&S, Robt Lackie & wife Margaret, to Robert Johnston, York, yeoman, £150, SW Corner King St. of land reserved of a gaol & Courthouse, to Toronto St., signed Robt. Johnston;
. 1842 Jul 30, WILL, Robt Johnston, to John L Perrin & John Johnston & wife, Exors, & Excors.
. 1845 Dec 3, Mort., Ezekiel F Whittemore, Executor, to Richard L Johnson, £800;
. 1846 Apr 15, Lease & Release, Fred Rogers, to Ezekiel F Whittemore, Toronto, Merchant, £5
. 1846 Apr 22, E F Whittemore & wife Margaret & Sarah & Thos. Stortt Keough, to T Rogers, £4;
. 1846 Oct 16, A of M, Richd. Lawrence Johnston, to Wm Cawthra, Esq. Toronto;
. 1849 Nov 2, B&S, Thos. Stott Keogh, to E F Whittemore, Toronto, Merchant, £700, signed, Thos. S Keogh;
. 1851 Jun 13, Grant & Release, Thomas Rigney, to E F Whittemore, £350;
. 1851 Jul 21, Recovery, Wm. Cawthra, Assigns forever Ef Whittemore, £400;
. 1851 Aug 2, B&S, E F Whittemore, Her majesty the Queen, £1137;
. 1866 Mar 27, Grant. Richard L Johnston, eldest son & heir-at-law of Robt Johnston, decd, eldest brother & heir-a-law of Sarah Mckeough, formerly Sarah Johnston, dec, & Mary Johnston his wife [i.e. Mary Stevenson], to HM The Queen, $100, signed Mary & R L Johnson.

Block 2, Part Town Lot 6, ES Old Toronto St., p219-222,
Masonic Hall Building (Masonic Bldgs. Block)
. 1818 Aug 12, Wife Margaret & Rob.t Lackie Junr., to Robt. Johnston, York, Yeoman, £150, commencing King to SW corn received for a Gaol & Court House, of Lot 2 Toronto St.;
. 1842 Jul 30, WILL, Robt. Johnston, to John L Perrin & John Johnston & wife, Exors, & Excors.;
. 1846 Apr 7, Fred Rogers, to Thos. Stott Keogh, Palermo?, Merchant, £5
. 1849 Nov 2, B&S, The Stott Keogh & wife Sarah, to E F Whittemore, Toronto, Merchant, £120 or £20 faint;
. 1865 Aug 23, Mary & Richard Lawrence Johnston of Esquesing, eldest heir & brother of Sarah Johnston Keogh, dec., to Sam Nordoheimer, £500. - . -

Birth:


Died:
- date of his Will.

Buried:

Robert married Margaret LAWRENCE, .5 DUE on 14 Dec 1813 in St. James Anglican Cathedral. Margaret (daughter of Lieut. Richard LAWRENCE, , UE and Mary WILLSON, DUE) was born est 1797 in Town of York (Toronto), York Co., Ontario; died on 3 Jun 1842 in Town of York (Toronto), York Co., Ontario; was buried in 1842 in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Potter's Field, Toronto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Two Johnston brothers Thomas & Robert married two Lawrence sisters, Mary Ann & Margaret Lawrence.

Date of Birth Estimate: If the correct, Margaret Johnston, she was 43 when buried, or born 1796; UCLP 1818 at an estimated age of 21 /1797;
:. Married 1813 at an estimated age 16 or 15.
. 1797 Town of York Minutes Census: 2 female children (= Elizabeth, then Margaret Lawrence. Brother John Lawrence is possibly older than them.)

. 1813 December 14, by special License by Rev. Dr. John Strachan, Robert Johnstone & Margaret Lawrence, of the Township of York. Witnesses, John & Thomas Johnstone.

. 1819 York Inhabitants: Robert Johnston: Males 1, women 1, girls 2, Total 4. or xxx;
. 1819 Inhabitants, Robert Johnston Senr. Males 1, boys 1, women 2, girls 1, Total 6.

. Upper Canada Marriage Bond # 127 on 10 Dec 1813
Robert, Johnston, carpenter, Town of York
Margaret Lawrence married. 1813 Dec 10,
Bond signature: John Johnston, Calb. Humphing?
Wit: John Johnston & Thomas Johnston,
14 DEC 1813, by special License, St. James Cathedral.
Film C6777, Vol. 13. Bond 127. [Toronto, Ink on the Bond is very faint. - PJA.]

. Religious Service at St. James Cathedral:
York 14th Dec. 1813. This day were married by special license, Robert Johnstone & Margaret Lawrence, both of the Township of York.
John Strachan, minister.
This marriage was solemnized between us, Robert Johnstone & Margaret Lawrence.
Witnesses: John Johnstone & Thomas Johnstone.

. 1813 Jul 11, by Banns, John Johnston & Mary Edend, both of the Township of York.
Witnesses: Thomas Johnston, Hannah Johnston. 11 July, 1813, by Banns.
Note2: In-laws of Margaret Lawrence & Thomas who married 6 months after them, also at St James Cathedral.

. UCLPetition 27, J Bundle 11 Ref: C2110, p5.
Margaret Lawrence Johnston of Town of York, Appeared personally at the York General Quarter Session of the Peace today 1818 April 14. She is recognized to be a daughter of Richard Lawrence, formerly York Twp., now of Woodhouse, an UE Loyalist, who maintained his loyalty in the late war. Her husband is Robert Johnston of the Town of York, as her agent, he may locate in 200 acres. Husband Robert Johnston, Town of York, Carpenter, did his duty in defense of the Province during the late war.
Ref: UC Land Petition #27, 1818 Apr 19: Lot 1, Con 2, Toronto Gore, Ontario.

. Checkered Store, In the spring of 1886 the building was torn down at the NW corner of King & Toronto streets to make room for the new Quebec Bank bluings. Opposite, to the eastward stood the jail.
. After the death of Robert Johnston & also of his wife Margaret Lawrence, Ezekiel Francis Whittemore was married to their daughter Margaret & had a marriage portion as devised to her by the WILL of her father, which as a portion of the property on Toronto Street. She never had any claim on the Checkered Store & lot on the corner of King & Toronto Streets. [i.e. beside their house].
Ref: Robertsons Landmarks of Toronto, Vol1 p 110.
X-Ref: See Globe & Mail for many advertisements with store illustrations.

. WILL of Robt. Johnson: 12 Aug 1834. It is my will & desire that my beloved wife do receive & take the annual Rents & proceeds arising from my Real & personal Estate during her widowhood for the support of herself & the education support & maintenance of all my children. From & immediate after my said wife shall depart this life, the children shall share & share alike, including his adopted daughters Margaret & Mary Johnson, daughter of her sister Mary Anne Lawrence & brother-in-law Thomas Johnston.

. 1833 York Commercial Directory: Robert Johnston, carpenter, Tormto St.
. 1836 & 1837 Toronto Directory: Johnson, Margaret, widow, Toronto Street. Toronto, Ontario.

. Potter's Field Cemetery,
Margaret Johnston, widow of Robert, born Toronto, Buried 3 June 1842. 46 years. [1796] Spinal Affection. (1508).
St. James Anglican Cathedral, Burial 1842. Ref: Book 2, # 3198.

* Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, Registration Numbers 5303-7:
Elizabeth Johnston, Robert Johnston, Margaret Johnston, Thomas Johnston & Sarah Kough*
. Removed from Potters Field. Interred March 1876;
Interred: F 160 & 151, Ground property of C G Parks.
. Mrs. Priscilla Belding Whittemore was similarly reinterred the next day on March 1876. Priscilla Whittemore's record reads, Removed to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Dec. 20th, 1906. It is noted further that all are recorded on the same page in the Necropolis Record Vol. 5 1875-1877.
Note2: *Sarah Kough, dau. of Thos. Johnston, is recorded together with the Johnston, although Mrs. Belding, Whittemore record's says four other family members were removed to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

. Toronto's Potter's Field, also known as the York General or Strangers Burial Ground was the first non-denominational cemetery in Toronto. Situated on the north west corner of of Yonge & 1 Bloor streets, in what today is the centre of Toronto known as Yorkville. It owes it's existence to Thomas Carfrae Jr., a wealthy retired merchant of Scottish ancestry. Mr. Carfae was appointed by a committee to purchase a burying ground, which he selected & bought the the 6 acres at Yonge & Bloor in May, 1826. The land was bought from Mrs. Elmsley for £75, which would be $300 in today's economy (2016).

. 1832 the great cholera outbreak killed many people in Toronto. During the outbreak the cemetery filled every quickly, especially during the summer of 1832. The cemetery's last interment took place on 21 January 1855, making 6,685 burials over 6 acres of land.
After the closure of the cemetery burials were moved Toronto Necropolis & Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Ref: Find A Grave, Toronto Potters Field. - - -

Birth:
Est 21 years old /Order in Council, Land Grant.

Died:
46 years = 1876.

Buried:
Aged 46 y. COD: spinal affection. Potters Field is the older part of the Necropolis Cemetery.

Notes:

1. Upper Canada Marriage Bond 127,
Lawrence, MARGT, York, Marriage Bond X Johnston, Robert, carpenter
1813 DEC 10,
Bond Signature: John Johnston, Calb Humphrey
(Wit: John JOHNSTON and Thomas JOHNSTON both of York, carpenters.)
14 DEC 1813, by special License, St James Film C6777, Vol 13. - - -

2. St. James Cathedra Registry, Queen St. East, Toronto.
Wedding, by special License,
Robert JOHNSTON and Margaret LAWRENCE, both of the Township of York.
Witnesses, John JOHNSTON and Thomas JOHNSTON - - -

Married: