Andrew Miscampbell

He began work as a bookkeeper at Bell Ewart, Ontario in 1872.[1] In 1873 he moved to Midland, Ontario to become a bookkeeper at Hermon Henry Cook's sawmill.[2] Later when Cook's British Canadian Lumber Company failed in 1882, Andrew became manager of Richard Power's Victoria Harbour saw mills.[3] In 1886 Miscampbell returned to Midland to operate H. H. Cook's former mill on his own account.[4] In the same year, R. A. Loveland of the Emery Lumber Co. of East Saginaw, Michigan, arranged to have that firm's Georgian Bay logs manufactured into lumber at Miscampbell's mill.[5] He sold the mill to the Emery Lumber Co. of Michigan in 1891.[6]

He was born in Simcoe County, Canada West in 1848, the son of Irish immigrants, and educated in Barrie. From 1864 to 1866 he was drill instructor of the volunteers of Simcoe and he was engaged in the Fenian repulse as sergeant-major of the provisional battalion of the companies from the north put together in Toronto.[7] In 1874, he married Jessie Spooner.

He died in Toronto in 1905 of typhoid fever and was buried in Barrie.

Miscampbell was godfather to Ontario premier Leslie Frost.

• The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891 JA Gemmill
• Ontario Legislative Assembly parliamentary history
• Death record from Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History database