The
Municipal World for July among its portraits and sketches of
Municipal Clerks, has those of the town of Simcoe and the township
of Houghton. The sketches say:
Mr. W. C. McCall was born
near Simcoe in 1853.
He is of Scotch descent and his forefathers were U.E.
Loyalists.
He
was educated for a civil engineer, but abandoned the idea of a
profession and went into the lumber business.
He
was a Canadian Voyager in Egypt to the relief of General Gordon at
Khartoum in 1881 and 1885. He was appointed Clerk of the town of
Simcoe in 1897.
Mr.
James Boyd was born in 1843 in the township of Bayham, county of
Elgin, of Irish parentage. He moved to the township of Houghton,
county of Norfolk, in 1851.
He
received his primary education at the public school, and finished
his education at the Simcoe High School. He then engaged in teaching
for some time. Was
engaged in mercantile business but is now a farmer.
He
has always taken an active part in municipal affairs. He was first
appointed assessor, then councillor [sic] and Deputy Reeve and was
appointed Clerk in 1892.
