Biography of the Day

Read the story of a subject who died or was born on this day.

 

JUKES, JOSEPH BEETE  
10 Oct. 2016  

b. 10 Oct. 1811 at Summerhill, near Birmingham, England

 
SHADD, MARY ANN CAMBERTON (Cary)  
9 Oct. 2016  

b. 9 Oct. 1823 in Wilmington, Del.

 
BRUCE, WILLIAM BLAIR  
8 Oct. 2016  

b. 8 Oct. 1859 in Hamilton, Upper Canada

 
SCHOULTZ, NILS VON (baptized Nils Gustaf Ulric)  
7 Oct. 2016  

b. 6 or 7 Oct. 1807 in Kuopio (Finland)

 
DUROCHER, EULALIE (baptized Mélanie), named Mother Marie-Rose  
6 Oct. 2016  

b. 6 Oct. 1811 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada; d. 6 Oct. 1849 in Longueuil, Lower Canada

 
KEITH, ALEXANDER  
5 Oct. 2016  

b. 5 Oct. 1795 in Caithness-shire, Scotland

 
RICHARDSON, JOHN (John Frederick)  
4 Oct. 2016  

b. 4 Oct. 1796 probably at Fort George (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada

 
HOERNER, OLYMPE (Tanner)  
3 Oct. 2016  

d. 4 Nov. 1854 in Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montreal)

 
SIROIS, JOSEPH (baptized Louis-Philippe-Marie-Joseph)  
2 Oct. 2016  

b. 2 Oct. 1881 in Quebec City

 
BLISS, JONATHAN  
1 Oct. 2016  

b. 1 Oct. 1742 in Springfield, Mass.; d. 1 Oct. 1822 in Fredericton

 
SULLIVAN, Sir WILLIAM WILFRED  
30 Sept. 2016  

d. 30 Sept. 1920 in Memramcook, N.B.

 
McVICAR, VICTORIA  
29 Sept. 2016  

d. unmarried 29 Sept. 1899 in Port Arthur (Thunder Bay). Ont.