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L. B es e e e e e e ces ced ie mesme ®MYSTERYANCESTORS ;/ gr#uAéEARLAPMD . 70DAY Fp 2 5/3 s CECILIA NASMITH & § 7 Northumberland Today A Great Canadian Retailer COBOURG â€" Professional success is ? always worth boasting about, and sevâ€" â€" ; C : : eral members of the Lakeshore | 2 o ,ui‘ s f Genealogical Society took the opportuâ€" 6i CeT P aYy S nity to do so, on behalf of their foreâ€" . â€"| Chartes Luthec Burton § * _altcr knibrtwe 1,,5&‘}"32 8 bears, at their annual Mystery Ancestor _ [(PSENHAARiARenaoast 7 & M ww Ni "4 Night in January. en iingintnonicns mne. NB\ A uon "wigte . _ C . Jim Sandham told the story of first . (k S mt hi martattoamkiener is ce â€" Cl cousin twice removed Charles Luther in i mt id 'N Haven olfi j { Burton, born in 1876 in the Pickering _ [maws are snabey, insorieds } Caw f & , Township village of Green River. His . nb bamt Imatto mtb nretie 3 e £ ‘ father kept the general store. His mother . |«as» C n nprsgmtiny. wallith (ootes I Eliza Barclay Burton shared the job, a _ (sia irelt n ce erpoim rmovies io tte CA Besien k 7 &ifia I wholeâ€"hearted homemaker who kept m‘;:,’:‘:;',,,":mfl"" Bs inerantities ‘ C ie | 8 house in the back of and above the stOre [ imthe forsfromtaf your mind atl das 6 t .. > 4 â€" and also provided the sense of order | P T . and cleanliness up front that kept the _ ‘eiks muw is Terenta in 18b al ase P ww store from descending INnt0 ‘CHAOS â€" |asiiagnosed as beinit much in need of P :4 > + during those days when barter.brought . [eiwef=bhtausermed sheres ol 7 _"-‘ (el Sn t as much produce into the store as cusâ€" nigee sup pot hi. His Hest futlime Fw*.. tomers took out. o m emanand 2. m f § The family moved to Toronto when | _ |Vitrh r, Th moved w be on n e â€" Charlie was 11, and he entered what is ' ? z. "hanig s now Jarvis Collegiate. He had to leave ® school at age 14, because his family : \:u._: k : could no longer support him, so he got a Submitted photo job with an attorney‘s firm. di . $ : ; flaxs & im Sandham stumped his fellow Lakeshore Genealogical Society members at Mysâ€" Of'2:;j:fiiggfemd;lg‘j‘i‘iftfé"d“;f;;’:}’:;fi tery Ancestry Night with the story of Charles Luther Burton (1912â€"1998), born to a Wholesafer N Fudger in 1891. It smallâ€"town merchant, rising to president of the Simpson‘s chain in 1929 and chairâ€" proved to be an excellent move. man in 1948, s : 3 In 1897, Robert Simpson Company founder Robert Simpson died, and his 2z C M business was sold to a syndicate of three s d $ 2? Toronto businessmen (including § : __ Fudger). Je l | This made Charlie an employee of the Es e (| ill<â€"~ e Robert Simpson Company, and his = f y3 : advancement came swiftly. He was s e maue . ® ® # assistant general manager by 1912, se es | S 4 president by 1929 and chairman of the ez s i ~ | * > jA board by 1948 â€" years during whichhe | _ "_ .. o P . built up a great Canadian retailing orgaâ€" .| _ f ;'5 | i ) nization that had few equals. faâ€" n N es 4 Tom Holden‘s English grandfather s Submitted photo ow MWm cotiemieos o h ols ates â€" dlogephicaiiets or ousker Wilan : # udwo ' â€" rallWay pioâ€" . 5 % g’:r‘h.”:f;;e;‘%i’ Ig'zl;"agfl’;ft‘z‘::‘:'; (ff neer, civil engineer, literatus and linguist § j f yearâ€"old boy at the time. s â€" did not help members of the _ s Submitted photo ; 3 ©He had a detou®, when he apprenâ€" Ifiiakesh;)rrle Genedaf!:fi:cal ?fll.c'e%“?;"hfy Bee Makepeace told the mysterious â€" j ticed in ship building, was briefly a _ "!M 35 the grandfather of fom Holden. _ gyory of her cousin Everett Nelson, who _ sailgr, then started his own shipbuilding ran a produce store under an assumed 5 business. But he gave it up to be a civil name and was the black sheep of the â€" eigineer for the Stockton & Darlington family. Y in 1840. Eie was engineer to the Kendal and j 4 Windermere Railway, which opened in ° 6\ ' ; 1847 against opposition for its intrusion _ t hasneny . ) w % i * < 4 w > ; >\