(12 Aug. 1844-22 July 1914), physician. Born near Williamstown. Parents: Mr and Mrs John McLaren. He attended Williamstown high school, and graduated in medicine from Queen’s University in 1865. He was appointed as a surgeon to the wounded in the American Civil War, but the war ended before he was able to take up the appointment. Thereafter, he practised medicine at Riceville, Demorestville and Shannonville, all in Ontario. At Shannonville he is said to have served also as Indian agent for nearby Tyendinaga. Having settled as a physician at Lancaster in 1884 or 1889, he continued to practise there till a few years before his death. He was married to Jane McArthur (1844-1906). (three children) His period of medical practice at Lancaster overlapped by about a decade with that of his son, Dr T. O. McLaren. Another son, Dr Arthur McLaren (1874-1930), practised medicine in the Yukon, Cornwall and Ottawa. Arthur’s son, Alex Grant Maclaren [spelling thus], married Hilda, the daughter of Col. A. G. F. Macdonald.
Glengarry News 24 July 1914 * Harkness 456 * Ross, Lancaster, 102-103, 245, 276, 280 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 162 * obituary of his mother, GN 17 Feb. 1893, printed Fraser Obits., I, 231-2 * Dr Arthur McLaren on way to Klondike, GN 29 Oct. 1897 * Macdonald, Sandfields, 70 * obituary of Alex G. Maclaren, GN 26 July 1973