Empey, Michael Peter
Born: c1807
Died: 1888, Dec 6 (died at the age of 81 years)
Municipality: Wellesley
Years on local council: 1854 Reeve
Years on County Council: 1854
Occupation: General merchant and postmaster
Spouse: Maria
Children: Frances (m. T.W. Vardon); Emily; Pembrooke; Arthur; Alexander; Charles; William; Lillian
Landholdings: Conc11 E, lots 19 and 20, near Hawkesville
Religion: Presbyterian
Notes:
Died: 1888, Dec 6 (died at the age of 81 years)
Municipality: Wellesley
Years on local council: 1854 Reeve
Years on County Council: 1854
Occupation: General merchant and postmaster
Spouse: Maria
Children: Frances (m. T.W. Vardon); Emily; Pembrooke; Arthur; Alexander; Charles; William; Lillian
Landholdings: Conc11 E, lots 19 and 20, near Hawkesville
Religion: Presbyterian
Notes:
- Wellesley Council, under Reeve Empey, passed regulations to govern auctioneers, shopkeepers, tavern and inn keepers, as well as those who kept billiard tables (WHS1988 76:141)
- 1856 - petitioned for the Waterloo Saugeen Railway, which was never built (WHS1961 49:57)
- 1858-1872 - Hawkesville postmaster (WHS1968 56:66)
- 1860s - clerk of the 6th division court as well as agent for issuing marriage licences and a commissioner for taking affidavits.
- He became a wealthy man, able to hire many workers, among them a coloured coachman, Daniel Brown, a governess for his daughter, housemaids and a gardener, as well as clerks for the store and post office" (WHS1986 74:114)
- Died in Harriston, Minto Tp
This information is excerpted from: "Waterloo County Councillors: A Collective Biography," researched and complied by Elizabeth Bloomfield and Linda Foster. (c) 1995 Caribou Imprints. It is reproduced by permission of Dr. Bloomfield. The full text of the book can be seen here.