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20/THE WHIG-STANDARD, Wednesday, .June 20, 1990 -------------'- ' _ S d h h t th ' _ ti ' tyU'tdE ireL 1istsA 't'g With Loughborough Township B-I--..-. to his home on his shoulder. He . ranking next to Adolphustown in Xefmgggfte‘i’t‘”; continual cutting wood well into early United EmpireIoyaiist \Efifiefigifihgfi’g*“x‘lx‘i‘ii‘”; his 80s. settlement, Sydenham seemed an igfscig.z§§a§‘+i>ie?;;; _ His grandfather Ambrose Oiser appropriate place for the summer «:gis‘ggflccl’e: V was a miner at Holleford, while meeting of the Kingston and Dig. ”"fiséwwczw Ambrose's son, Wellington Orser, trict United Empire Loyalist Asso. agaifit/gba father of the speaker, farmed at ciation. Local historians, Betty yfygfigpvse’u‘c Kepler, where his son, Lawson Roberts, Kenneth Slgsworth and ifift2i'i2A'i' rrt's's':jiffii'??r?'ii'r'j':al ""'"-‘- Olser, resides today in retirement Lawson Orser traced the area's " 'iiisiiiS%rs:;'j r from a successful teaching career, _ historical highlights. . VPC Betty Roberts showed a series of Kenneth Slgsworth, in speaking L,....,...,?..-...?!...'),.,-,.. pictures of long-standing local on early' schools, noted that T _ _ , homes. An early po.tash kettle is George Rutledge, who arrived q _ still used for. watering cattle on from Ireland in 1819, was the first Ral1ton, and serves as a rental Gordon Morrison'starm. school teacher. Although Mr. Rut- tynle today.John Walsh was the t The Keeley Inn at Rallton is now ledge became the most prominent tirst teacher th.e..re. _ . _ . the s.pyies home of Michael and , early settler, he was not among the . The first lyblie. SChOOlS were m Patricia Grainger and family, as first, having been preceded by school section four. The stone. well as Michael's mother, Mrs. others' in the 1790g. school built in 1876 is now the com- Irene Crainger. ' The first British settler was Mi- “name home ot Ronald and Betty Chm Graham, immediate past V _ bhael Sleat, while Lawrence Raile t 2l"irrtg,g2/1i'g,tf1'rser1t bed I'resrdeet ot the tassociation, was was the first Irish settler, after -lt would ism-ironic that master of ceremonies. Mr. ,» whom the present community of _ Graham traces his ancestry to ' . George Rutledge, who served M Capt. Michael Grass a prominent I Rallton is named. Other early plo- ion as a local educator did not .r '. . _ nears were Lawrence and John T '/l',h'l, see the 0 min in Au ust early settler in Kingston. lis. _ Sills, Elijah and Moses Spafford, 1873 of a newphi hg'schoogl in _ father, qhrist?phtr .GIahilrn St" Peter Ruttan, John Amey, Ben S denham havin did in A ril of achieved a unique distiry?tionr.1o Boyce, Hosea Purdy, John gm ear . g p far unmatched by any other citi- Freeman, Henry and James Wood. ’ 1',tlJi, Orser a descendant of :eItIhTms 1'ilt.'r,rg'Lt 'st',') “SHE Absolom Hornbeck followed Charles and iG'aiiir whocamer a'lf'd 1stlnra2'r/l'e,flnl'r' rg Ill), George Rutledge asteacher. Igatér from Holland where they were re- Townshit and durin his Hie as ones were: William Irvine, John ported to be r’elatives of King Wil- reeve was warden ogf Frontenac _ Walsh, GAlyEma.m James Lskey liam and Mary of Orange, told bl County in 1926. Charles Young, the and James W,Davis. . this family's arrival in .King.st.on. association's incoming president, G e o r g e R ll t I e d g e ' 9 n Fate Iterted that only the yidtw was introduced. as was a special Orangeman, and Lawrence Rane, Ann with five sons and two daugh- guest, Shirley Gibson Langille, an a Roman Catholic, were lifelong ters would arrive, the father hav- artist who ex ects to aint some . . r p p friends, no doubt stemming from ing died at Sorel, Quebec, during of the historic sites. their first winter in Canada, when the journey. _ _ rev-rm the Rutledge family stayed at the The family settled on land which Raile home. is now the site' of St. Mary's Ca- This pioneer teacher was paid thedral. They arrived in July, too . $50 a year. The first log school was late to plant anything but turnips, on land now owned by John and which they did, and grew enough Fran Willes. When George Rut- to provide their main food the next A ledge became settled on land in winter. Lot 10, Concession Four, he do. _ Mr. Orser noted he is descended _ nated a corner of his property for from Arthur Orser of the first tam.. the building of the first little red ily. James Orser, his great- frame schoolhouse. The site is now grandfather, received crown land owned by Allan and Shirley Tre. at Desert Lake in Northern Lough- T genza. The first separate school borough Township. He often car- C" was built of stone in 1894 at ried 50 lbs. of flour from the store