Jacob Thomas Schell

Jacob Thomas Schell

Jacob Thomas Schell (December 27 1850 – July 29 1916) was a merchant and political figure. He represented Glengarry in the Canadian House of Commons from 1900 to 1908 as a Liberal member.

He was born in East Oxford Township, Canada West in 1850, the son of Jacob Schell, and eduated in Woodstock. In 1882, he moved to Alexandria and became a partner with David Murdoch McPherson in a cheese box factory there. The company also manufactured other wooden items. Schell was also involved in railway construction. He ran unsuccessfully for the same seat in the House of Commons in 1891. Schell served on the town council of Alexandria. After his death in 1916, he was buried in Woodstock.

His brother Malcolm Smith also served in the House of Commons.

External links

* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/ParlInfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=17421486-feaf-4f28-9943-a2a2a6f49d85&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=8653 "Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry : a history, 1784-1945", JG Harkness (1946)]


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