Andrew Miscampbell (June 28, 1848 – March 25, 1905) was an

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political figure. He represented

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from 1890 to 1902 and

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from 1902 to 1903 as a

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member of the

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Career

He began work as a bookkeeper at

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in 1872. In 1873 he moved to

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to become a bookkeeper at Hermon Henry Cook's sawmill. Later when Cook's British Canadian Lumber Company failed in 1882, Andrew became manager of Richard Power's Victoria Harbour saw mills. In 1886 Miscampbell returned to Midland to operate H. H. Cook's former mill on his own account. In the same year, R. A. Loveland of the Emery Lumber Co. of East Saginaw, Michigan, arranged to have that firm's Georgian Bay logs manufactured into lumber at Miscampbell's mill. He sold the mill to the Emery Lumber Co. of Michigan in 1891.

Personal life

He was born in

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in 1848, the son of Irish immigrants, and educated in

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. From 1864 to 1866 he was drill instructor of the volunteers of Simcoe and he was engaged in the Fenian repulse as sergeant-major of the provisional battalion of the companies from the north put together in Toronto.The Canada Lumberman magazine, May 1891 In 1874, he married Jessie Spooner. He died in

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in 1905 of

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and was buried in Barrie. Miscampbell was godfather to Ontario premier

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References

External links

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Death record from Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miscampbell, Andrew 1848 births 1905 deaths Politicians from Simcoe County People of the Fenian raids Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Deaths from typhoid fever