Alexander Fenton was the first of 10 children born to Robert Wright Fenton and Margaret Smith Scott Fenton. He was born on February 14, 1886 in Bilbo Park in Logie Buchan, Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
His siblings were: Margaret Jane, James Scott, Elizabeth "Minnie" (aka Lizzie), Robina Copland, William W., Robert Wright McDonald Fenton, Harry Stewart-Wynne, Mary Ann and Alice.
Alexander studied arithmetic, in Inverurie, Scotland. He also took a class in shorthand at the Elementary Technical Institute in Inverurie.
He immigrated from Scotland to Canada sometime between 1905 and 1911. His parents and some of his siblings arrived in 1911.
Between 1914 and 1916, he was a cash accountant in Canada.
From 1916 to 1920 Alexander served the Canadian Militia and the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Alexander was already a member of the Canadian Army when he agreed to go overseas to fight in World War I.
On June 8, 1916, he was given the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia.
On January 1, 1918, he was referred to as Alexander Fenton Esquire Captain in the Forestry Corps of the Candian Forces in the documents inducting him into the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (typically abbreviated to M.B.E.).
On May 25, 1918, he was promoted to Lieutenant of the Land Forces of the Canadian Army Service Corps, an appointment that appears to have been retroactive starting June 24, 1915.
On November 30, 1920 he was given the rank of Captain and Quarter Master in the 17th Duke of Yorks Royal Canadian Hussars. He left service as Major.
Besides his M.B.E., he was inducted into the National Geographic Society in 1920.
During the war, he married his first wife, Gladys Huntington on June 6, 1917 in St Andrew's and St. Leonardo, County of Fife, Scotland. He as apparently stationed in England during this time. Gladys and Alexander had a daughter together, Mhairi Fenton. It is believed that Gladys died in childbirth during the birth of a second child, who may not have survived either. Mhairi was raised by her mother's relatives and lived in Canada.
It is not known exactly when Alexander immigrated from Canada to the United States, but he married his second wife, Lucy Ethel "Mimi" Comando in New York on April 9, 1928.
Alexander worked for International Paper. He also was President of Donhart Sales Dept for Price Brothers, a large paper company. For several years, he commuted between Ontario and New York. He was a broker and a counselor; he went to mills and told them what they need to be more efficient. Sometime after 1929, he started his own business and opened an office in New York. His office was at 51 East 42nd Street (on the corner of Vanderbilt) and it overlooked Grand Central Station. He worked up to the time he was forced into the hospital for stomach cancer. His name might still be on a plaque in the office building where his business was.
He lived in New York from at least 1928 until 1942. He was living in Cornwall, CT in 1945. The family rented a farmhouse in Cornwall, called "the red house." Later, they bought a 105-acre farm in Cornwall before the end of World War II. It had three bathrooms but no running water or electricity because of the war. There was only one gas station on the highway. You had to pass through Cathedral Pines (named for the huge trees that unfortunately were later lost in a storm) to get to town.
His siblings were: Margaret Jane, James Scott, Elizabeth "Minnie" (aka Lizzie), Robina Copland, William W., Robert Wright McDonald Fenton, Harry Stewart-Wynne, Mary Ann and Alice.
Alexander studied arithmetic, in Inverurie, Scotland. He also took a class in shorthand at the Elementary Technical Institute in Inverurie.
He immigrated from Scotland to Canada sometime between 1905 and 1911. His parents and some of his siblings arrived in 1911.
Between 1914 and 1916, he was a cash accountant in Canada.
From 1916 to 1920 Alexander served the Canadian Militia and the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Alexander was already a member of the Canadian Army when he agreed to go overseas to fight in World War I.
On June 8, 1916, he was given the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia.
On January 1, 1918, he was referred to as Alexander Fenton Esquire Captain in the Forestry Corps of the Candian Forces in the documents inducting him into the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (typically abbreviated to M.B.E.).
On May 25, 1918, he was promoted to Lieutenant of the Land Forces of the Canadian Army Service Corps, an appointment that appears to have been retroactive starting June 24, 1915.
On November 30, 1920 he was given the rank of Captain and Quarter Master in the 17th Duke of Yorks Royal Canadian Hussars. He left service as Major.
Besides his M.B.E., he was inducted into the National Geographic Society in 1920.
During the war, he married his first wife, Gladys Huntington on June 6, 1917 in St Andrew's and St. Leonardo, County of Fife, Scotland. He as apparently stationed in England during this time. Gladys and Alexander had a daughter together, Mhairi Fenton. It is believed that Gladys died in childbirth during the birth of a second child, who may not have survived either. Mhairi was raised by her mother's relatives and lived in Canada.
It is not known exactly when Alexander immigrated from Canada to the United States, but he married his second wife, Lucy Ethel "Mimi" Comando in New York on April 9, 1928.
Alexander worked for International Paper. He also was President of Donhart Sales Dept for Price Brothers, a large paper company. For several years, he commuted between Ontario and New York. He was a broker and a counselor; he went to mills and told them what they need to be more efficient. Sometime after 1929, he started his own business and opened an office in New York. His office was at 51 East 42nd Street (on the corner of Vanderbilt) and it overlooked Grand Central Station. He worked up to the time he was forced into the hospital for stomach cancer. His name might still be on a plaque in the office building where his business was.
He lived in New York from at least 1928 until 1942. He was living in Cornwall, CT in 1945. The family rented a farmhouse in Cornwall, called "the red house." Later, they bought a 105-acre farm in Cornwall before the end of World War II. It had three bathrooms but no running water or electricity because of the war. There was only one gas station on the highway. You had to pass through Cathedral Pines (named for the huge trees that unfortunately were later lost in a storm) to get to town.
Alexander Fenton was the first of 10 children born to Robert Wright Fenton and Margaret Smith Scott Fenton. He was born on February 14, 1886 in Bilbo Park in Logie Buchan, Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
His siblings were: Margaret Jane, James Scott, Elizabeth "Minnie" (aka Lizzie), Robina Copland, William W., Robert Wright McDonald Fenton, Harry Stewart-Wynne, Mary Ann and Alice.
Alexander studied arithmetic, in Inverurie, Scotland. He also took a class in shorthand at the Elementary Technical Institute in Inverurie.
He immigrated from Scotland to Canada sometime between 1905 and 1911. His parents and some of his siblings arrived in 1911.
Between 1914 and 1916, he was a cash accountant in Canada.
From 1916 to 1920 Alexander served the Canadian Militia and the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Alexander was already a member of the Canadian Army when he agreed to go overseas to fight in World War I.
On June 8, 1916, he was given the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia.
On January 1, 1918, he was referred to as Alexander Fenton Esquire Captain in the Forestry Corps of the Candian Forces in the documents inducting him into the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (typically abbreviated to M.B.E.).
On May 25, 1918, he was promoted to Lieutenant of the Land Forces of the Canadian Army Service Corps, an appointment that appears to have been retroactive starting June 24, 1915.
On November 30, 1920 he was given the rank of Captain and Quarter Master in the 17th Duke of Yorks Royal Canadian Hussars. He left service as Major.
Besides his M.B.E., he was inducted into the National Geographic Society in 1920.
During the war, he married his first wife, Gladys Huntington on June 6, 1917 in St Andrew's and St. Leonardo, County of Fife, Scotland. He as apparently stationed in England during this time. Gladys and Alexander had a daughter together, Mhairi Fenton. It is believed that Gladys died in childbirth during the birth of a second child, who may not have survived either. Mhairi was raised by her mother's relatives and lived in Canada.
It is not known exactly when Alexander immigrated from Canada to the United States, but he married his second wife, Lucy Ethel "Mimi" Comando in New York on April 9, 1928.
Alexander worked for International Paper. He also was President of Donhart Sales Dept for Price Brothers, a large paper company. For several years, he commuted between Ontario and New York. He was a broker and a counselor; he went to mills and told them what they need to be more efficient. Sometime after 1929, he started his own business and opened an office in New York. His office was at 51 East 42nd Street (on the corner of Vanderbilt) and it overlooked Grand Central Station. He worked up to the time he was forced into the hospital for stomach cancer. His name might still be on a plaque in the office building where his business was.
He lived in New York from at least 1928 until 1942. He was living in Cornwall, CT in 1945. The family rented a farmhouse in Cornwall, called "the red house." Later, they bought a 105-acre farm in Cornwall before the end of World War II. It had three bathrooms but no running water or electricity because of the war. There was only one gas station on the highway. You had to pass through Cathedral Pines (named for the huge trees that unfortunately were later lost in a storm) to get to town.
His siblings were: Margaret Jane, James Scott, Elizabeth "Minnie" (aka Lizzie), Robina Copland, William W., Robert Wright McDonald Fenton, Harry Stewart-Wynne, Mary Ann and Alice.
Alexander studied arithmetic, in Inverurie, Scotland. He also took a class in shorthand at the Elementary Technical Institute in Inverurie.
He immigrated from Scotland to Canada sometime between 1905 and 1911. His parents and some of his siblings arrived in 1911.
Between 1914 and 1916, he was a cash accountant in Canada.
From 1916 to 1920 Alexander served the Canadian Militia and the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Alexander was already a member of the Canadian Army when he agreed to go overseas to fight in World War I.
On June 8, 1916, he was given the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia.
On January 1, 1918, he was referred to as Alexander Fenton Esquire Captain in the Forestry Corps of the Candian Forces in the documents inducting him into the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (typically abbreviated to M.B.E.).
On May 25, 1918, he was promoted to Lieutenant of the Land Forces of the Canadian Army Service Corps, an appointment that appears to have been retroactive starting June 24, 1915.
On November 30, 1920 he was given the rank of Captain and Quarter Master in the 17th Duke of Yorks Royal Canadian Hussars. He left service as Major.
Besides his M.B.E., he was inducted into the National Geographic Society in 1920.
During the war, he married his first wife, Gladys Huntington on June 6, 1917 in St Andrew's and St. Leonardo, County of Fife, Scotland. He as apparently stationed in England during this time. Gladys and Alexander had a daughter together, Mhairi Fenton. It is believed that Gladys died in childbirth during the birth of a second child, who may not have survived either. Mhairi was raised by her mother's relatives and lived in Canada.
It is not known exactly when Alexander immigrated from Canada to the United States, but he married his second wife, Lucy Ethel "Mimi" Comando in New York on April 9, 1928.
Alexander worked for International Paper. He also was President of Donhart Sales Dept for Price Brothers, a large paper company. For several years, he commuted between Ontario and New York. He was a broker and a counselor; he went to mills and told them what they need to be more efficient. Sometime after 1929, he started his own business and opened an office in New York. His office was at 51 East 42nd Street (on the corner of Vanderbilt) and it overlooked Grand Central Station. He worked up to the time he was forced into the hospital for stomach cancer. His name might still be on a plaque in the office building where his business was.
He lived in New York from at least 1928 until 1942. He was living in Cornwall, CT in 1945. The family rented a farmhouse in Cornwall, called "the red house." Later, they bought a 105-acre farm in Cornwall before the end of World War II. It had three bathrooms but no running water or electricity because of the war. There was only one gas station on the highway. You had to pass through Cathedral Pines (named for the huge trees that unfortunately were later lost in a storm) to get to town.
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