Person:Amelia Shearer (2)

Amelia's ss# was 534-20-7466. According to her Granddaughter, when her father was a young boy, his mother took notes for and helped Ralph Connor, author of the Man From Glengarry. It is unclear as to which novel he may have been writing at the time, but,The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. has this to say....

  Gordon, Charles William pseud. Ralph Connor, 1860– 1937, Canadian clergyman and novelist.  His popular stories were based on his experience as a Presbyterian missionary in the lumber and mining camps of the Canadian Northwest. Of the long list of his somewhat didactic and romantic novels, the most widely read are The Sky Pilot (1899) and The Man from Glengarry (1901). 

See his autobiography, Postscript to Adventure (1938). It is possible( and probable) that she helped in the preparation of his autobiography. It is also possible that Charles William Gordon was familiar with the Shearer Family through Amelia's brother Rev. J.G. Shearer and that she was hired because of it.

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ada Jane Shearer and The Shearer Historians. Shearer Family History. (Created in Elma Township in 1938 and maintained by Shearer Reunion Historians. Information was reported by knowledgeable family members and was well maintained in the early years.).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Isa Cleland. Information that Isa researched on the Shearers. (This information was gathered by Isa until her death in 1999. Most is copied from the Shearer Family Tree.).