Andrew Miscampbell
Canadian politician
Andrew Miscampbell (June 28, 1848 – March 25, 1905) was an Ontario political figure. He represented Simcoe East from 1890 to 1902 and Sault Ste. Marie from 1902 to 1903 as a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Career
He began work as a bookkeeper at Bell Ewart, Ontario in 1872. In 1873 he moved to Midland, Ontario to become a bookkeeper at Hermon Henry Cook's sawmill. Later when Cook's British Canadian Lumber Company failed in 1882, Andrew became manager of Richard Power's Victoria Harbour saw mills. In 1886 Miscampbell returned to Midland to operate H. H. Cook's former mill on his own account. In the same year, R. A. Loveland of the Emery Lumber Co. of East Saginaw, Michigan, arranged to have that firm's Georgian Bay logs manufactured into lumber at Miscampbell's mill. He sold the mill to the Emery Lumber Co.
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