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Father: Thomas ACHESON
Mother: Elizabeth CLARK
Born in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, [1810], 1808 being the sixth child in the family of ten children.
His parents Thomas Acheson and Elizabeth Clark. In 1822 the family came to Canada and located on a cleared farm of two hundred and fifty acres near Brockville, where the mother died, age ninety-four; in 1841 the father returned to Ireland where he died at the age of eighty-six. James Acheson spent his early life on the farm and was educated in the common schools. In 1827 he went to Brockville to learn the trade of a tanner with Isaac Beacher; he spent four years there.
In 1831 he came to Toronto and began work with the late Jesse Ketchum. In 1839 he started business for himself, east of the Don, in a tannery owned by one John Smith; but in two years he gave it up and went to Ireland for his health, where he remained eighteen months. On his return he built a tannery on Yonge Street and ran it for three years at the end of which Mr. Ketchum gave him his business. He carried that on for three years and then removed to Charles Small's farm on the Kingston Road. Where he built a tannery which was soon afterwards burnt down. He then occupied a tannery which was built on the present site of Union Station. When that property was sold to the Grand Trunk Railway he went to Acton where he built a tannery in partnership with Alexander McGlashan. On the latter's death at the expiration of five years, Mr. Acheson retired and removed to Toronto where he now lives at 40 Maitland Street. In politics he is a Reformer. In 1845 he married Mary, daughter of John Hamilton by whom he had one child now dead.
Source: History of York County, Vol.2, p.1
Father: Thomas ACHESON
Mother: Elizabeth CLARK
Born in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, [1810], 1808 being the sixth child in the family of ten children.
His parents Thomas Acheson and Elizabeth Clark. In 1822 the family came to Canada and located on a cleared farm of two hundred and fifty acres near Brockville, where the mother died, age ninety-four; in 1841 the father returned to Ireland where he died at the age of eighty-six. James Acheson spent his early life on the farm and was educated in the common schools. In 1827 he went to Brockville to learn the trade of a tanner with Isaac Beacher; he spent four years there.
In 1831 he came to Toronto and began work with the late Jesse Ketchum. In 1839 he started business for himself, east of the Don, in a tannery owned by one John Smith; but in two years he gave it up and went to Ireland for his health, where he remained eighteen months. On his return he built a tannery on Yonge Street and ran it for three years at the end of which Mr. Ketchum gave him his business. He carried that on for three years and then removed to Charles Small's farm on the Kingston Road. Where he built a tannery which was soon afterwards burnt down. He then occupied a tannery which was built on the present site of Union Station. When that property was sold to the Grand Trunk Railway he went to Acton where he built a tannery in partnership with Alexander McGlashan. On the latter's death at the expiration of five years, Mr. Acheson retired and removed to Toronto where he now lives at 40 Maitland Street. In politics he is a Reformer. In 1845 he married Mary, daughter of John Hamilton by whom he had one child now dead.
Source: History of York County, Vol.2, p.1
Updated and maintained by Deborah Glover, UE
Father: Thomas ACHESON
Mother: Elizabeth CLARK
Born in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, [1810], 1808 being the sixth child in the family of ten children.
His parents Thomas Acheson and Elizabeth Clark. In 1822 the family came to Canada and located on a cleared farm of two hundred and fifty acres near Brockville, where the mother died, age ninety-four; in 1841 the father returned to Ireland where he died at the age of eighty-six. James Acheson spent his early life on the farm and was educated in the common schools. In 1827 he went to Brockville to learn the trade of a tanner with Isaac Beacher; he spent four years there.
In 1831 he came to Toronto and began work with the late Jesse Ketchum. In 1839 he started business for himself, east of the Don, in a tannery owned by one John Smith; but in two years he gave it up and went to Ireland for his health, where he remained eighteen months. On his return he built a tannery on Yonge Street and ran it for three years at the end of which Mr. Ketchum gave him his business. He carried that on for three years and then removed to Charles Small's farm on the Kingston Road. Where he built a tannery which was soon afterwards burnt down. He then occupied a tannery which was built on the present site of Union Station. When that property was sold to the Grand Trunk Railway he went to Acton where he built a tannery in partnership with Alexander McGlashan. On the latter's death at the expiration of five years, Mr. Acheson retired and removed to Toronto where he now lives at 40 Maitland Street. In politics he is a Reformer. In 1845 he married Mary, daughter of John Hamilton by whom he had one child now dead.
Source: History of York County, Vol.2, p.1
Father: Thomas ACHESON
Mother: Elizabeth CLARK
Born in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, [1810], 1808 being the sixth child in the family of ten children.
His parents Thomas Acheson and Elizabeth Clark. In 1822 the family came to Canada and located on a cleared farm of two hundred and fifty acres near Brockville, where the mother died, age ninety-four; in 1841 the father returned to Ireland where he died at the age of eighty-six. James Acheson spent his early life on the farm and was educated in the common schools. In 1827 he went to Brockville to learn the trade of a tanner with Isaac Beacher; he spent four years there.
In 1831 he came to Toronto and began work with the late Jesse Ketchum. In 1839 he started business for himself, east of the Don, in a tannery owned by one John Smith; but in two years he gave it up and went to Ireland for his health, where he remained eighteen months. On his return he built a tannery on Yonge Street and ran it for three years at the end of which Mr. Ketchum gave him his business. He carried that on for three years and then removed to Charles Small's farm on the Kingston Road. Where he built a tannery which was soon afterwards burnt down. He then occupied a tannery which was built on the present site of Union Station. When that property was sold to the Grand Trunk Railway he went to Acton where he built a tannery in partnership with Alexander McGlashan. On the latter's death at the expiration of five years, Mr. Acheson retired and removed to Toronto where he now lives at 40 Maitland Street. In politics he is a Reformer. In 1845 he married Mary, daughter of John Hamilton by whom he had one child now dead.
Source: History of York County, Vol.2, p.1
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