Frank Killam Explained

Frank Killam
Birth Date:3 September 1843
Birth Place:Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Death Place:Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Residence:Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Office:MP for Yarmouth
Term Start:1869
Term End:1882
Predecessor:Thomas Killam
Successor:Joseph Robbins Kinney
Party:Liberal
Occupation:Merchant & shipowner
Spouse:Ellen Hood

Frank Killam (September 3, 1843  - April 23, 1911) was a Canadian politician and a member of the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Yarmouth in Nova Scotia.

Biography

He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick. Killam entered business in Yarmouth. In September 1867, he married Ellen Hood.[1] On September 21, 1867, he lost his left arm when a cannon prematurely detonated during an election celebration. The accident killed one person.[2] Following the death of his father, he ran for his father's former seat in the 1st Canadian Parliament in a by-election held on April 20, 1869. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party.

Like his father, he had worked as a merchant and a shipowner. He was re-elected three times before being defeated in the 1882 federal election. In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Johnson, J.K. . The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 . 1968 . Public Archives of Canada.
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bZUHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pzoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3054,3142744&dq=manus+kane&hl=en Morning Chronicle - September 27, 1867
  3. Encyclopedia: Pryke . K. G. . Thomas Killam . . 1976 . September 12, 2009.