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William Kirby

Died in 1906

William Kirby (1817-1906), born in Kingston-upon-Hull in England, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1832, then settled in 1839 in the Niagara region of Upper Canada, where he was a tanner, and in Niagara itself after his marriage in 1847. A convinced Loyalist and Anglican, he ran the Niagara Mail from 1850, buying it in 1853, then was collector of customs from 1871 to 1895. He corresponded with the Quebec antiquarian James MacPherson Le Moine, whose writings supplied him with his legends. He died in Niagara in 1906.

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