David Nisbet
Warden, 1872.
Born in Scotland, April 17th, 1814. Printer and steamboat engineer. Farmer and Justice of the Peace for many years. Came to Canada in 1821 and settled at Lanark County. Served in the Rebellion of 1837 and 1838. Came to Plympton in 1848. Assessor in 1851 and 1867. Councillor 1856 to 1860. Reeve 1861, 1866, 1871, 1874, 1876. Died at Plympton on the 21st of May, 1895. Age 81 years. Was buried in Plympton Cemetery. His son William was Warden in 1895.
Robert Fleck
Warden, 1873.
Born in the County of Lanark, January 22, 1883. Farmer. Justice of the Peace for over fifty-nine years. Police Magistrate for part of County six years. Unsuccessfully contested riding for Provincial Legislature in 1889. Extensively engaged in arbitrations for nearly thirty years. Twenty-nine municipalities, three railways, as to right of way, and private parties concerned.
John D. Eccles
Warden, 1874.
Born in Ireland in 1817, and came to Canada in 1835. Farmer. Justice of the Peace for many years. One of the oldest Magistrates in the County, having been appointed when Essex and Kent were known as the Western District. Secretary of East Lambton Farmer's Mutual Insurance Company. Took part in the Rebellion of 1837. Died at Watford in 1882, aged 65 years, and buried at Bethel Cemetery, Warwick.
John Lowrie
Warden, 1875.
Born in Scotland, February 22nd, 1833. Came to Canada in early life. Elected Councillor of Sarnia Township in 1865 and 1866. Reeve in 1867, held latter office continually until 1878, when he was appointed Clerk and Treasurer of the Township, position which he held until his death on November 13th, 1890. He was 57 years of age, and was buried in Lakeview cemetery, Sarnia.
George Shirley
Warden, 1877.
Born in Lanark County, Ontario, December 1823. Came west in 1846 and settled in the Township of Brooke. Taught school in the forties in Lanark County. Appointed Clerk of the Township of Brooke in 1851, holding that position until 1870. Reeve 1873 to 1878. Farmer. Reeve of Watford 1891. Contested East Lambton unsuccessfully for Provincial Legislature in 1879. Justice of the Peace for many years. Died at Watford, October 1859. Age 76 years.
Duncan McNaughton
Warden, 1878.
Born in the Province of Quebec, in July 1838, while his parents were quarantined on arrival from Glasgow, Scotland. Farmer. Family moved to Plympton Township in 1846, and in 1861 Duncan moved to Enniskillen Township, where he died January 17th, 1898. Buried in Hillsdale Cemetery, Petrolia. When his father came to Sarnia in the 40's he was secretery and bookkepper for Hon. Malcolm Cameron.
William H. McGarvey
Warden, 1879.
Born in Hull, Quebec, November 27th, 1843. Moved West in 1857. Settled in Wyoming. Entered business there in 1861. Moved to Petrolia in 1866, and was its first Reeve in 1867. Mayor of the Town in 1875-1876. Contested the West Riding unsuccessfully in 1879. Was a manufacturer and oil producer. He acquired great wealth, but lost heavily after the invasion of Galicia in the war of 1914, where his property was chiefly located, which doubtless helped to end his life. He died November 27, 1914. Buried in Vienna, Austria.
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