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Reverend Abraham Walton Tonge [textual record]

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Date:

1889.

Reference:

R11213-0-X-E, Volume number: 1

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Item ID number:

212559

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Reverend Abraham Walton Tonge
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Date(s):

1889.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

0.1 cm of textual records (1 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Item consists of one letter written by Sir John A. Macdonald to Rev. Abraham W. Tonge, Blyth, Ontario, 15 October 1889, acknowledging the Reverend's previous letter and noting the date of Thanksgiving for the year. Also an undated newspaper obituary for Rev. Tonge.

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Tonge, Reverend Abraham Walton, 1852-ca. 1922

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Tonge, Reverend Abraham Walton, 1852-ca. 1922 : Abraham Walton Tonge was born in Ashton on Mersey, Cheshire England, April 22nd 1852. He emigrated to Canada in 1873, when he was 21 years old. Shortly after he entered the ministry and became a Methodist minister. He married Eliza Jane Still in Barrie, Ontario in 1884 and they had five children. After preaching forty years on various Ontario circuits, Rev. Tonge retired in Amherstburg, Ontario. Rev. Tonge died circa 1922.

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General note:

Donated by S. Stuart in 2004.

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See also the Sir John A. Macdonald fonds, MG 26 A.

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Private

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2004-01173-4
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