James Thompson Garrow Explained

James Garrow
Office1:Ontario MPP
Term Start1:1890
Term End1:1902
Predecessor1:Alexander Ross
Successor1:Malcolm Graeme Cameron
Constituency1:Huron West
Party:Liberal
Birth Date:March 11, 1843
Birth Place:Chippawa, Canada West
Death Place:Toronto, Ontario
Occupation:Lawyer
Cabinet:Minister Without Portfolio (1898-1899)

James Thompson Garrow, (March 11, 1843  - August 31, 1916) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Huron West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1890 to 1902.

He was born in Chippawa, Welland County, Canada West in 1843, the son of Edward Garrow, a Scottish immigrant. He studied law, was called to the bar in 1868, entered practice in Goderich with Malcolm Colin Cameron and was named Queen's Counsel in 1885. In 1872, he married Mary Balfour Fletcher. Garrow served as reeve of Goderich from 1874 to 1880 and served one year as warden for Huron County. He died in 1916.[1]

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  1. Web site: Person Details for James T. Garrow, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947" — FamilySearch.org . . 2013-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233650/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JD89-JN1 . 2016-03-03 . dead.