William Andrew Amos

1876 - 1967  (91 years)

• Name	William Andrew Amos
  Birth	9 Feb 1876	East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Dec 1967	Listowel, Ontario, Canada
  Burial	15 Dec 1967	Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I11272	Whisperspast | Thomson
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2007

  
  

  Family	Robina Mary Thomson,   b. 17 Mar 1879, Orillia, Ontario, Canada d. 24 Dec 1952, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	27 Jul 1909	Orillia, Ontario, Canada
  Children	1. William Albert Ross Amos,   b. 4 May 1910, Stratford, Ontario, Canada d. 27 Dec 1986, Lachine, Quebec, Canada (Age 76 years)   2. Donald Clark Amos,   b. 15 May 1911, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada d. 1 Aug 1994, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Age 83 years)   3. Robert Douglas Amos,   b. 22 Sep 1913   d. 13 Mar 1991, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F2462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Birth registration 024265 Archives of Ontario microfilm MS929 reel 25. Birth attended by Dr McKay. Born on a farm at Bond's Corners, east of Woodstock, Ontario. He received his elementary education there and when he had finished collegiate in Woodstock, taught school for a year on the Tenth Line of Zorra. He graduated from University College, University of Toronto 1902, and from Knox College in 1904. Following a brief period in the old country he was ordained in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in April 1906 at the Essa Road Presbyterian Church, Allandale (now Barrie). In his marriage registration he was listed as a Clergyman, and a Presbyterian living in Barrie, Ontario. After his marriage he was called to the Atwood Pastoral Charge and served there for a period of six years. He then turned from regular pastoral work to farming. Farmed south part, 100 acres, Lot 11 Concession 11, Wallace Township, Perth County, Ontario, Canada, 1 1/2 miles east of Palmerston, Ontario (purchased the farm in 1915 from James Ronald and sold it in 1944 to J. Stanley Campbell. In 1990 the farm was still in the Campbell family). On the upsurge of farming organization, he found an outlet for his organizational and speaking talents and was one of the pioneers of the Ontario Farmers' Movement, being successively president of the United Farmers of Ontario, the United Farmers' Co-Operative (1930-1935), the Canadian Council of Agriculture and served on the executive of the Farmer's Publishing Co. He was a member of Ontario Hydro-Electric Radial Commission, on the board of the Ontario Royal Winter Fair and during the Depression served on the board of the Federal Farmers' Creditors' Arrangement Act. He led the farmer's march on Ottawa, against conscription, in 1918. He stood unsuccessfully as a United Farmers candidate for North Perth in the provincial election in 1919, and the federal election in 1921. During and after World War II, he returned to serve as supply minister at Troy, Kenilworth, Ameliasbury, Corunna and Watford. He lived in retirement in Erindale, Toronto and latterly in Atwood and Listowel. He had been a member of Guelph Presbytery since its formation in June 1928. (From the Hamilton Conference Minutes 1968). In his newspaper obituary, Rev. William Andrew Amos, B.A.. was former President of United Farmers Co-operative. He married a second time (in 1956) to Ethel (Mae) Hutchison, (1880-1964). Funeral was from Turner & Porter Funeral Home, Yorke Chapel, Toronto, Ontario. Buried in Park Lawn Cemetery, Section S, E1/2 Lot 1016, Toronto. He was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.