Frank Killam (September 3, 1843 – April 23, 1911) was a

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politician and a member of the

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for the riding of Yarmouth in

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Biography

He was born in

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in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and

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. Killam entered business in Yarmouth. In September 1867, he married Ellen Hood. On September 21, 1867, he lost his left arm when a cannon prematurely detonated during an election celebration. The accident killed one person.Morning Chronicle - September 27, 1867
/ref> Following the death of his father, he ran for his father's former seat in the

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in a by-election held on April 20, 1869. He was elected as a member of the

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. Like his father, he had worked as a merchant and a shipowner. He was re-elected three times before being defeated in the 1882 federal election. In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.

Electoral record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Killiam, Frank 1843 births 1911 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia Politicians from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada