John Waterhouse Daniel

[1] Born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Daniel attended the New Kingswood College in Bath, Somerset, England, taking further education in London and then in New York.

[2][3] Daniel served in the United States Army for a year and a half, afterwards which he returned to England and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

[4] After a three-year term as an Alderman in Saint John, New Brunswick, he was elected Mayor, a post he held from 1900 to 1902.

[5] Less than a month after his final election in 1911, Daniel resigned, triggering a by-election which John Douglas Hazen won by acclamation.

On January 11, 1933, Daniel died in his Saint John home at the age of 87 due to complications from influenza.