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City of Westmount. On the death of his first wife, Ethel, he married an old friend, Jean Dodd of Arnprior, who predeceased him. Dr. McNaughton died in 1964 in his 93rd year. Dr. Francis and Ethel McNaughton had six children, four of whom are still living. The second son, Francis, also a medical doctor, practices as a neurologist, and received training under the worldfamous Wilder Penfield, M.D., for many years Director of the Montreal Neurological Thstitute. Muriel McNaughton Smiley lives in Magog, Quebec; Ethel McNaughton Ingham in Montreal; and Eleanore McNaughton, R.N., also in Montreal. Malcolm, an engineer, died in Montreal in 1932, and John, a journalist died as the result of an accident in Switzerland in 1937. Muriel Payne, the third daughter of Matilda and Edward Payne, had a brilliant scholasticcareer, and taught in the Ottawa Public Schools. She married Henry M. Leppard, then vice-principal of the Ottawa Model School. Later he lectured in the Faculty of Geography of the University of Chicago, where he obtained his degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He subsequently lectured at the University of Washington in Seattle; and in the University of Lower California in Los Angeles, before retiring. Muriel died in 1964, and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, L.A. Dr. Leppard lives in Westwood, Los Angeles.

Emily

Emily Lothian married Dr. Joseph Campbell in a double wedding ceremony shared with her sister Matilda. The Caxnpbells lived for many years in the vicinity of Dresden and Oil Springs, Ontario. They had five children, of whom four died within a space of two weeks, presumably during the course of an epidemic. The survi­ving child, Maude, kept house for her father during his lifetime, then moved to Ottawa. Later she moved to Toronto, where she died about 1949.

John

John Lothian died a very young boy, aged four years.

Mary Jane

Mary Jane Lothian married William Rowan whose parents, I believe, lived in Pembroke, Ontario. Mary Jane and William Rowan moved to California in the midseventies. She died in Owens Valley in 1879, at the age of 27. The Rowans had three children. The eldest, Margaret or Retta was born in San Francisco, and while studying music there later, attracted the attention of Mrs. George Hearst. Mrs. Hearst sponsored the musical education in Germany of several young musicians in San Francisco, of whom Retta Rowaxi was one. Later Retta returned to eastern Canada, and while teaching music in Pembroke, met and married a young civil engineer, James Herbert Smith. His work took him to Haileybury and later to South America. Further information on the family is not available. William Lothian Rowan studied in Montreal for the ministry, married a Miss Lane of Montreal, and later entered the business world. He lived at one time in Bishop, California, and George Lothian last saw him at the PanPacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The third Rowan child, Annie, married Newell Stanley, and at one time lived in Portland, Oregon. A son, Merwin, or Mervin, is believed to have carried on a hardware business in Vancouver, Washington.