(23 June 1858-12 June 1911), lawyer and judge. He is said in the Morgan biographical dictionary to have been born in GC, but elsewhere his place of birth is given as Vankleek Hill in Prescott County (and “Vankleek Hill, Glengarry County” in his Globe obituary). Parents: Neil McCrimmon (son of Donald Ogg McCrimmon) and his wife Mary McInnis. Educated locally. “He began life at lumbering on the Upper Ottawa, and afterwards lived for three years in Wyoming and Utah territories as agent for the well known ‘Star Stage Route,’ which occasioned the celebrated ‘Star Route Fraud’ case.” (Cochrane) Somewhat clumsily mentioned in this quotation, the various cases of the Star Route fraud scandal, in which McCrimmon had no personal involvement, were prominently before the American public in the first half of the 1880s, and related to corruption in the U. S. postal services. McCrimmon, who studied law at St. Thomas and Ridgetown, Ont., and Osgoode Hall, was called to the bar in 1887. At St. Thomas, Ont., he was a law partner of his relative Angus McCrimmon. Afterwards, he was a partner in a Toronto law firm till he became a judge. The appointment, on 10 March 1900, was to be judge of the County Court, Ontario County. He remained a judge until his death. He was president of the Young Men’s Liberal Club in Toronto, and of the Canadian Club at Whitby, Ont. He was married to — Ferguson. (two children surviving him) McCrimmon is said to have been a prominent, well regarded speaker for the Liberal Party in both federal and provincial campaigns. He died at his home in Whitby “after a lingering illness.”
Toronto Globe 12 June 1911 (QF), Glengarry News 16 June 1911 * Morgan (1912) 756 * Cochrane, I, 381 (with portrait) * Lochinvar to Skye 134-153 (esp. 149) * Neil McCrimmon, of Toronto, is one of two defence lawyers in the Narcisse Larocque murder trial at L’Orignal, Toronto Empire 28-30 April 1891