15th Montreal Mayor. He served in that position from 1873 to 1875. He was born the son of Loyalists in the Beebe Plain region of the Eastern Townships of Quebec in 1810 but his exact date of birth is unknown. When he was older he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to become a dentist, and eventually, he spent some time practicing dentistry in the Southern states and ended up in Maryland where he met and married his first wife Mary Webb Meredith. He moved back to Canada with his new wife and settled in the Niagara area before moving back to Montreal in 1841. He opened up his first dental practice soon thereafter. In 1845, his wife passed away unexpectedly and he was left alone to raise their child. In 1847, when the Canadian government was planning a governing organization for doctors, he lobbied to have dentistry included in the law that would establish the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada. Unfortunately, his efforts were unsuccessful largely due to the medical establishment's negative view of dentistry at the time. He married again in 1852 this time to Sarah Couch and the two would go on to have seven children. He then decided to enter politics and he became a municipal Montreal City Councillor for the ward of Montreal Centre, serving in that position from 1858 to 1861. In 1866, he again served as a city councillor under Mayor Francis Cassidy until Cassidy's death in June of 1873. In 1869, he was a founder and first President of The Dental Association of the Province of Quebec. In 1872, while he was chairman of the finance committee, he successfully negotiated the first city loan on the London market. The treasurer of Montreal at the time who had been sent to England for this purpose had failed in the face of various difficulties. He was also chairman of the committees on public order and health and he helped with regulations allowing the creation of the City Passenger Railway Company of the City of Montreal. He also provided for the inspection of milk and forbade the sale of spirits on Sundays. In 1873, he was named as interim mayor after some 10 ballots and he finished out the rest of Mayor Cassidy's term. He was elected Mayor by popular vote the following year during city elections. As Mayor, he helped to establish urban parks, including Dufferin Park, Île Sainte-Hélène, and Mount Royal Park and helped to build the new city hall. In 1875, he retired from the Mayor's office and returned to public life. He later moved with his wife and children to San Jose, California, and passed away there at the age of 75.