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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 29 Number 1418
Date November 17 1870
Newspaper Saint Croix Courier
m. Calais (Maine) 10th Nov., by Rev. Wm Carruthers, Archie McDUGALL of P.E.I. / Miss Kate CATHRINE, Calais.

Archibald graduated from Dalhousie University, and was a Presbyterian "consistent and true" from 1883 to 1889. In 1891, he was accepted as a minister in the Unitarian Church.

Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 70 Number 1439
Date December 4 1888
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
There are no less than five ministers occupying St. John pulpits who claim P.E.I. as their birth place says 'Island Farmer'. Rev. Archibald McDOUGALL of Hamilton and Rev. Leander G. McNEILL s/o Alex. McNEILL of Cavendish fill Presbyterian pulpits. Rev. John A. GORDON of Kings Co., Rev. Mr. MELLICK of East Point and Rev. J.A. FORD occupy the pulpits of Baptist churches.

In 1881, Archibald and Kate were in Nova Scotia with Mary A. (4, born PEI), Archie (3, born New Brunswick) and Ch?, a son, age 5/12, born Nova Scotia.

In the 1891 census, in Saint John, NB
Archibald, b. PEI, Unitarian Minister
wife Kate, b. US
Mary, 14, b. PEI
Archie, age 13, born NB
Charles born NS, age 10
Ethel J, 6
Gordon Scott, 4

He was also at a Universalist Church in Putnam, Conn. before 1898, when he reapplied to be a Presbyterian minister in Brooklyn, according to an article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

1900: in New Haven, Connecticut
In the US 1910 census, the family was living in New Haven Connecticut with Ethel and Gordon at home. On this form, Catherine said she had had 5 children, of whom 4 were living. One son had been killed in the Spanish American war. The family had emigrated in 1896.

Archibald, Gordon and Ethel were at home in 1920 in Glen Rock, Bergen, New Jersey. In 1930, Gordon was a lawyer and the head of household with his widowed mother and sister Ethel.

Name John Arthur Mcdougall
Birth Date 10 Dec 1888
Birthplace New Brunswick, Canada
Father's Name Revd A. Mcdougall
Mother's Name Brite Mccathein
Citing this Record "Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2H9-T94 : 9 March 2018), John Arthur Mcdougall, 10 Dec 1888; citing New Brunswick, Canada, 10 Dec 1888, reference 2; FHL microfilm 2,024,626.

Birth: 1849
Death: Nov. 22, 1923
Paterson
Passaic County
New Jersey, USA
Burial: Valleau Cemetery
Ridgewood
Bergen County
New Jersey, USA

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