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THE ARNPRIOR MacGregors |
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(Submitted by daughters Jean Catherine MacGregor Lippincott and Rosemary MacGregor Cooke).
Allan Weston MacGregor was born to "Kate" Catherine MacGregor March 6th 1878 in Douglas Ontario. He died in Arnprior of kidney cancer Jan 19,1942. "Kate" and Allan lived with her parents John and Ruth MacGregor for a few years. Grandmother Ruth took well care of Allan. Catherine married John Kerr, a merchant. They lived in Douglas. Kate had a small millinery shop in the back of his store. They remained there until Kate’s health failed. Allan moved them to Arnprior and bought a house for them next to his own. Catherine died Nov. 1 1926 of kidney disease. John went to board with the Taylor’s until his death Sept. 14 1932.
Allan graduated from the University of Toronto, School of Dentistry about 1899. He tried practicing in British Columbia but the damp climate did not agree with him. He came to Arnprior and went practice with Dr. McPhee and remained there. He was a good dentist and was noted for making the best sets of false teeth around. When he came to Arnprior he boarded with the Dodd sisters Bessie and Jean on Havey’s Hill. "They showered him with kindness". He married Jean and he built a lovely home next to Bessie’s. They were very happy. Unfortunately Jean died of appendicitis in 1909.
On Nov. 12 1912 Allan married Irene Clark Givens from Pakenham, Ontario. They had four children Jean, John, Margaret, and Rosemary. Allan loved the outdoor life of hunting and fishing. He inherited a love of animals from his mother and passed that on to Jean and Rosemary. Uncle Peter (Kate’s brother) also loved animals and took good care of them. Lucy, Dan, and Brownie were his favourite horses.
Allan loved music and played the violin and concertina well he was an excellent fiddler and was often asked to play at dances, which he did occasionally. He loved to build things. He had a workshop over the garage where he built a launch named the Ibis and a canoe. He was a fine technician and owned the first X-ray machine in town.
Allan was a wonderful father, full of fun and enjoyed and loved his children and was dearly loved by them.
Irene was a beautiful woman and a good mother. She was very musical, played the piano well and had a good singing voice. She was a popular entertainer at parties. She was also an excellent housekeeper and cook. She died August 3, 1970 of cancer.
Jean C. MacGregor was born June 30, 1914. Arnprior was a good town to grow up in, at the junction of two rivers, the Ottawa and the Madawaska. Swimming, boating, camping in the summer and skating, skiing, sleigh-riding in the winter, with lots of snow. She inherited her parent’s love of music and played the piano in the high school orchestra. Later in life the organ was added and she was organist in churches for many years. She graduated from The Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 1936. Her love for nursing was the result of her love and admiration of her cousin Ida MacGregor. Among her most precious memories were the summers she and her brother John spent on "The Farm" with Ida, Uncle Peter and Auntie. One memorable Christmas was spent at "The Farm"; complete with Santa, sleigh-rides and cutter-ides, with Brownie in the red cutter.
Jean married Stuart Lippincott in 1939. He was a graduate of McGill Medical School.
During World War ll. when Stuart was stationed at Camp Barclay, Texas, Jean began classes at Hardin Simmons University. She graduated from Kilgore Junior College and received her BA at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts at the close of the war in 1946.
Stuart became professor of Pathology at the new medical school in 1946 in Seattle Washington.
Their daughter Jeanie was born in 1948. In 1969, while living in Richmond Virginia, Jean and Jeanie joined the Mormon Church and have remained active there in.
In 1974 Stuart retired from the Medical College of Virginia and they moved to Utah to be near Jeanie and her family. Stuart died of cancer in 1981 and Jean now lives in Orem Utah.
