James Dalgarno was born in the village of Creetie near Glasgow, Scotland; his parents were John Dalgarno and Jane Petrie. Upon the death of his mother in Scotland, James Dalgarno came to Detroit in 1844 at the age of fourteen with his father and two sisters. He lived in Detroit until after his marriage to Ann Handford in 1853 and then moved to Chatham, Ontario, where he built the family home on Selkirk Street. He and Ann had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. James was a skilled pattern maker and inventor and after several years in Chatham he returned to Detroit in 1883 where he made the pattern for the paddle wheel of the first side-wheeling steamer on the Great Lakes. He was employed at that time by the Buhl Iron Works, and later with the Rowe-Stevens Manufacturing Company of Detroit where he invented a special type valve which became the main product of the company.
James Dalgarno was born in the village of Creetie near Glasgow, Scotland; his parents were John Dalgarno and Jane Petrie. Upon the death of his mother in Scotland, James Dalgarno came to Detroit in 1844 at the age of fourteen with his father and two sisters. He lived in Detroit until after his marriage to Ann Handford in 1853 and then moved to Chatham, Ontario, where he built the family home on Selkirk Street. He and Ann had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. James was a skilled pattern maker and inventor and after several years in Chatham he returned to Detroit in 1883 where he made the pattern for the paddle wheel of the first side-wheeling steamer on the Great Lakes. He was employed at that time by the Buhl Iron Works, and later with the Rowe-Stevens Manufacturing Company of Detroit where he invented a special type valve which became the main product of the company.
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