Franklin, Alfred White, 1905-1984
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Franklin, Alfred White, 1905-1984
Philip Franklin was born on February 1, 1878, in San Francisco, California. His father, J. L. Franklin. Philip became an aural surgeon and had dealings with Dr. Osler. In 1903, he married Ethel Julia White, who was originally from London, and they had a daughter named Betty.
Philip Franklin was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and served on the board of governors for the American Hospital in London as well as the position of Honorary Organizing Secretary. He was Acting Aural Surgeon at Evelina's Children's Hospital in London in 1920. Franklin was a signee, along with Dr. Osler, on certificates for the Fellowship of Medicine's Emergency Post-Graduate Course.
Franklin authored several works, including "Importance of Nose-Breathing in Infancy", published in National Health in 1919. He also authored "Elements of Nasal and Aural Hygiene". Franklin passed away in 1951.
Born in Murray Bay, Canada, Alexander Fraser began working for the North West Company as a clerk around 1789. During the years of 1802-1803 he worked at the King's Posts before returning to the North West Company in 1804. He returned to the North West Company in 1804. He settled at Rivière-du-Loup shortly afterward in 1806, where he had purchased the seigneury of Rivière-du-Loup-en-Bas, and lived there until his death in 1837.
Alexander Fraser was born in 1763 in Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont, Quebec.
He was a fur-trader. In 1787, he left for the Western prairies to trade furs. In 1799, he became one of the partners of the North West Company. In 1802, Fraser acquired from Henry Caldwell the seigneury of Rivière-du-Loup and Madawaska where he built a house. He retired from the fur-trade about 1806. In 1823, he moved with his family to Cabano (Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac) to develop the Madawaska seigniory. In 1835, he returned to Rivière-du-Loup.
In 1789, he married Angélique Meadows, a daughter of an Amerindian chief who saved his life after quarreling with his clan. After the revocation of this marriage, in 1815, he married Pauline Michaud. He died on June 14, 1837, in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec.
Fraser, C. F. (Charles Frederick), Sir, 1850-1925
Sir Charles Frederick Fraser was born on January 4, 1850, in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
He was an educator, editor, and businessman. He became blind through an accident at age seven and then went to study at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in Boston. In 1871, he established the Halifax School for the Blind, the first residential school for the blind in Atlantic Canada and became its first superintendent (1873-1923). The school stressed literacy, the skills required for social and economic independence as well as physical education, mobility, and musical training. It also offered industrial programs, e.g., broom- and basket-making and similar kinds of craft production. In 1891, typewriting was introduced, and later massage, shampooing, and bookkeeping were added. In 1881, he established a provincial circulating library of Braille books. He edited a weekly literary and commercial journal called the Critic (1884-1894). Fraser was a member of the North British Society and was elected its president in 1885. He was knighted in 1915.
In 1891, he married Lady Ella Jane Hunter (1867–). He died on July 5, 1925, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Fraser, D. Torrance (David Torrance), 1840-1902
David Torrance Fraser was born on February 19, 1840, in Montreal, Quebec. The 1901 Census lists his profession as public accountant. In 1883, he married Anna Bancroft (1847–1926). He died on April 20, 1902, in Montreal, Quebec.