Joseph Merrill Currier

He was born in North Troy, Vermont in 1820 and moved to Canada in 1837, where he began work in the timber trade.

In the late 1850s and early 1860s, he set up a sawmill and gristmill operation at Manotick, Ontario with Moss Kent Dickinson.

During that period, he was forced to resign on April 16, 1877, because his firms had done business with the government of Canada; he was re-elected in a by-election on May 9, 1877.

While viewing the machinery in the mill, Ann's dress became caught in a shaft and she was thrown against a wooden post.

Currier is said to have never visited Manotick again and he cut his ties to the business there in 1863, selling his shares of the mill to Dickinson.