After attending the public school as a boy he spent a year in an academy at Rochester, N.Y. About the year 1843 his father bought the S 1/2 of Lot 32, Con. 5, and the S 1/4 of Lot 32, Con. 4, in Majorville located in Pickering, Ontario where he finally settled.
The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers is the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland.