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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Claxton, T. James (Thomas James), 1830-1900
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Description area
Dates of existence
1830-1900
History
Thomas James Claxton was born on December 13, 1830, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England.
He was a wholesale dry goods merchant. On November 25, 1851, he became one of the founders of the first Young Men’s Christian Association in Canada and North America organized at St. Helen Street Baptist Church in Montreal. He later became president of the Montreal YMCA.
About 1855, he married Jane Cridiford (1835-1912). He died on January 14, 1900, in Montreal, Quebec.