Frank Killam

Frank Killam
MP for Yarmouth
In office
1869–1882
Preceded by Thomas Killam
Succeeded by Joseph R. Kinney
Personal details
Born September 3, 1843
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Died April 23, 1911 (aged 67)
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Ellen Hood
Residence Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Occupation Merchant & shipowner
Religion Methodist

Frank Killam (September 3, 1843 April 23, 1911) was a Canadian politician and a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Yarmouth in Nova Scotia.[1]

Biography

He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam[1] and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick. Killam entered business in Yarmouth. In September 1967, he married Ellen Hood.[2] On September 21, 1867, he lost his left arm when a cannon prematurely detonated during an election celebration. The accident killed one person.[3] 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.[1]

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.[1] In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frank Killam – Parliament of Canada biography
  2. Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
  3. Morning Chronicle - September 27, 1867
  4. Pryke, K. G. (1976). "Thomas Killam". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Retrieved 2009-09-12.