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Harold McMurrich Rathbun was the child of Edward Wilkes Rathbun and his second wife, Bunella McMurrich. He lived all his life in Deseronto, Ontario. He married Nora Stoddart (1903-1996).

The Deseronto High School was designed by architect Thomas Hanley. The Rathbun Company was awarded the construction contract and work began in June 1889. The school opened in January 1890 and was in operation until 1963.

Louise Rathbun was born in Deseronto, Ontario, on March 16th, 1859, daughter of Hugo Burghardt Rathbun and his wife Louise (Storm). She married Edward Clement French on October 22nd, 1884 in Deseronto. He died on April 23rd, 1895 in Deseronto. She married Frederick W. Powell on June 30th, 1896 in Deseronto. He died December 3rd, 1915 in Ottawa. She died in Ottawa on September 7th, 1922.

Gagen & Fraser was a firm of photographers which was active at 79 King Street, Toronto, Ontario between 1878 and 1896.

Almonte Douglas Alkenbrack was a lumber merchant and politician. Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Alkenbrack

Edgar Tumak is an architectural historian and former resident of Deseronto, Ontario. He served as a Councillor for the Town from 2006 to 2014.

Langley & Burke was an architectural partnership based in Toronto, Ontario. The two partners in the firm were Henry Langley and his nephew, Edmund Burke.

Thomas Samuel Carman was born in Prince Edward County, Ontario, on 24 October 1840. He was the proprietor of The Ontario Chronicle and also of the Carman Opera House in Belleville, Ontario. He died on 13 April 1926 at 228 Dundas Street East, Belleville.

Stephen Washburn was born in Potsdam, New York. He published the Victoria Chronicle newspaper in Belleville, Ontario between 1843 and 1849. He died in Seabright, New York, in 1906.

Joseph Wilson was the publisher of a newspaper called Wilson's Experiment in Belleville, Ontario, in 1848.

Rollin Corrobus Benedict was born in Vermont in 1812. He published the Hastings Times and Farmer's Journal in Belleville, Ontario, in 1833. He died in Kingston, Ontario on 22 January 1879.