Matthew Teefy

Matthew Teefy (April 18, 1822 – December 19, 1911) was postmaster, a general merchant, village clerk and a justice of the peace in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

[1] Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Teefy came to York, Upper Canada with his family at the age of two.

In 1846 he married Betsy Clarkson, with whom he would go on to father nine children, six of whom survived to adulthood.

[6] Teefy was appointed postmaster of Richmond Hill on December 3, 1850, and the village's treasurer in 1873.

He was buried in St. Luke's Catholic church cemetery in Thornhill, Ontario.