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SOME NOTABLES WHO HAVE MADE BLENHEIM'S HISTORY SAMUAL T. BASTEDO. Chief of Annuities Dept. at Ottawa and grandson of Mrs. Peter Bastedo, who is believed to have been the first white child born in Township. ELDER GEORGE PATTEN A Baptist preacher of the early days of Drumbo and the River Church. Maj. G. R. PATTULLO. Registrar of the County of Oxford. COLONEL THOMAS COWAN Formerly officer commanding 22nd REgiment. Oxford Fifles and organizer of the Princeton Rifle Company. CAPTIAN WESLEY HOWELL Organizer of Drumbo Infantry Company and a prominent miller of the early days. at Moscow in 1860's CAPTIAN HOGN LAIDLAW Successor to Captian Howell in command of Drumbo Infantry Company, and a most enthusiastic soldier. b 1834 d 1874 ANDREW LAIDLAW Postmaster of Drumbo and an active Member of the Board of Trade REV. W. H. LANDON. An Early educationist of Oxford, and prominent Baptist clergyman of the early days RED. H. McQUARRIE. Formerly pastor of Willis Chruch, Blenheim, whose sermon at Drumbo was the feature of the Sabbath services. 1869 REV. DR. NEWTON WOLVERTON. Former Principal of Canadian Literary Insitute, and son of Enos Wolverton, who founded Wolverton village. June 22/1871 100 YEARS The gallant volunteers of 38th Battalion arrived home from Niagara-on-the-Lake via train and were met at the station. Headed by Grand Trunk Band, officers and men paraded down town. They all looked well, On the train beside the Brantford unit were those from Paris, Burford and Drumbo. Drumbo Buisness Chart of 1865 Village Boasted of Foundry, Brick Yard, Hotels, Carriage Makers, and Good Stores __________ The Ayr News is indebted to Mrs. Geroge Pellow of Woodstock for a copy of the Drumbo "Advertiser" of April 15, 1891, and also for the full-page business chart of Drumbo for the year 1865. This latter sheet was printed by Patterson, Ayr. Mrs. Pellow, the former Beatrice Passmore of Drumbo, formerly worked as a compositor on the Drumbo "Banner." The Blenheim House R. S. Mann, dry goods and groceries; Blenheim House; Hames Henderson, merchant tailor; Drumbo Brick Yard, Wm. Stevenson, prop.; New Cheap Store, Peddie & Co. (Hutton's old stand); Thomas P. Gray (Richwood C.W.), auctioneer; James McKenzie, druggist. Drumbo Foundry G. E. Barr, cabinet maker and undertaker; Jacob Daniels, saddle and harness maker; Drumbo Foundry, S.D. Brown, prop.; J.B. Rounds, M.D., physician; A.S. Markle, blacksmith; Wm. Brogan, carriage maker; Oliver Miller, carriage maker; -- Rogers (bill torn here). The Laidlaw and Anderson Families Of Pioneer Days (Formerly Jean Laidlaw Anderson, Ayr, now of Brantford). Andrew Laidlaw and his wife, Elizabeth Anderson, came from Scotland 102 years ago when their families almost "grown up" 1848 THey took up 200 acres of land on the seventh concession of Blenheim a short distance from Drumbo. This land, which extended to the eight concessions, was cleared by Andrew Laidlaw. Former Postmaster Was Grandson Andrew Laidlaw, a former Drumbo postmaster, was the grandson of this pioneer; as was Walter Murray, a former reeve of Blenheim Township and Andrew Laidlaw Easton, formerly secretary-treasurer of the Ayr Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Fergus Anderson, first president of Blenheim Agricultural Society, was a nephew of the first Mrs. Andrew Laidlaw, his father being her brother James Anderson. My grandfather, the original Andrew Laidlaw, was also the grandfather of my brother, Robert Laidlaw Anerson of Ayr, and my late sister, Bessie Anderson of Ayr, the mother of Mrs. J. A. Schmidt, wife of Ye Editor. Wide Connection He was thus the great-great-grandfather of her sons, Robert and James Schmidy of The Ayr News. John Patrick Schmidt, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Schmidt, of Ayr is a great-great-great-grandson. (You ought to feel pretty great by now, Pat.-Ed.) My father, Thomas Muir Anderson, married Janet Laidlaw. They were cousins. Under the circumstances these two old pioneer families of Drumbo