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Letter, 8 March 1888
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John Sharp Shearer was born on March 11, 1834, in Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
He was a businessman. He was educated in Scotland, and as a young man, he moved to Canada. He spent forty years as a commission and general wholesale merchant in Montreal. He owned a wholesale dry goods business with John Mackedie, called Shearer, Mackedie & Co. He was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and a governor of the General Hospital. He occupied the offices of treasurer of the Microscopical Society and the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society. He was first vice-president of the Natural History Society, a Chevalier des Alps, Maritimes of Nice, France, and president of the Montreal Dispensary and the Canadian National League. He was the chairman of the finance committee of the Maisonneuve Monument.
In 1874, he married Caroline Henrietta Pelton (1846–1922). He died on May 15, 1901, in Montreal, Quebec.
Letter from J.S. Shearer to John William Dawson, written from Montreal.