Person Record

Metadata

Name

Lemon, Elias

Born

1854

Places of residence

954 1st Ave. West, Owen Sound, Ontario

Titles & honors

Mayor of Owen Sound

Nationality

Canadian

Notes

Elias Lemon was born in 1854.

S. E. Lemon's grocery store was listed in an 1894 source as having been established in 1884. Mrs. J. B. Lemon was somehow connected to the business as well. In the 1911 book ILLUSTRATED OWEN SOUND ON THE GEORGIAN BAY, there is an advertisement for Lemon Bros. (re their wholesale fruit / produce).

In 1917, the "Lemon Bros." business was located at 764 2nd Ave. East. It was still operating there c. 1926. Mr. Lemon's residence was 954 1st Ave. West

There is a photograph (1980.238.001), that shows the Elias Lemon home with Mr. and Mrs. William Lemon and Mrs. Lemon's daughter, ________ (Mrs. W. C. Macneill), her husband and son Bill (then a baby).

In the 1912 publication, OWEN SOUND ON THE GEORGIAN BAY, there is a composite photograph that includes Mayor Elias Lemon "in the chair". In 2008, Tracey Dejong owns an original of this 1912 town council photograph. Also see another town council photograph that is in the archives.

In 1915, E. Lemon was a trustee and life governor of the Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital, while Mrs. Elias Lemon was Chairman of the House Committee there.

Elias Lemon passed away in 1933. He and other Lemons are buried at Greenwood Cemetery.

1969.088.167 Stationary Engineers souvenir booklet has a welcome from Mayor E. Lemon at the front, 1913
1980.101.001 Souvenir booklet, c. 1911, has advertisement for Lemon Bros. wholesale fruit and produce
1980.141.159 Photograph of 1920 Owen Sound City Council includes E. Lemon (1960.057.001 is a copy)
1981.057.062 Photograph of Owen Sound Town Council, 1908, includes Mr. E. Lemon
1994.059.008 Annual report of General & Marine Hospital, 1915, pp. 3 and 25.
1994.059.009 Annual report of the General & Marine Hospital, 1916-1917, p. 3.

Occupation

Town of Owen Sound Councillor / Alderman
Mayor c. 1913
Wholesaler / Lemon Bros.

Publications

THE OWEN SOUND HERALD (MAGAZINE OF INDUSTRY), 1911, p. 6, has information about the Lemon Bros. wholesale produce business (and has an illustration of their building)
Croft, Melba Morris, GROWTH OF A COUNTY TOWN: OWEN SOUND 1900-1920