Person:Orvis Jackman (1)

1881 Census: Granby, SHEFFORD, QC, age 22, farmer, Meth.

1891 Census: Grandby, SHEFFORD, QC, 33, QC, USA, USA, farmer.

1901 Census: Granby, SHEFFORD, QC, Dec 25, 1858, 42

1911 Census: Granby, SHEFFORD, QC, Dec 1858, 52 as C.H

MEN OF TODAY IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, published 1917 by Sherbrooke Record Company with comments by V.E. Morrill and Erastus G. Pierce: Jackman, Orvis Harrison, Granby Que. - Born at Abbotsford, Que., Dec. 25, 1858, son of Elman and Jeanette (Rowell) Jackman; family came from N.H. and settled in Abbotsford among earliest in section; E. public schools; member A.F. & A. M., Sussex Preceptory, Sherbrooke, Karnak Temple, Montreal, P.D.D.G.M. for Shefford and Brome; president Granby Fish and Game Club; Conservative; Methodist: after leaving school farmed for several years near Granby, later took up residence in Granby village and entered employ of the Granbt Rubber Co.; in 1892 resigned said position and in 1892 took up life assurance work; one of the cheif promoters in organizing Protective Ass'n of Canada for masons only; sold interest in ass'n in 1909 and entered into partnership with W.S. Dresser & Co. mgr. North Am. Life Assurance Co. in Eastern Townships; in 1910 retired from said firm and accepted position with same company as inspector for P.Q.; resigned in 1913 accepted salaried position with the Sun Life as travelling solicitor in Quebec; qualified for membership in the MacAusley 100,000 Club with the Sun Life Co. and has now the distinction of being the largest personal producer of life assurance in the Eastern Townships and won the silver cup in 6 months contest in 1915 for greatest amount of personal business produced in his distrisct; 1916 elected councillor Granby, married Sybil E. Rowell, Abbotsford, Que., Nov 12, 1884; children, George W., 1885; Helen M., 1887; Mabel E., 1888; Alberta M., 1893; Ornice R., 1902.

1. ↑ Treman, Ebenezer Mack, and Murray Edward Poole. The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America: with the Related Families of Mack, Dey, Board and Ayers: Being a History of Joseph Truman of New London, Conn. (1666); John Mack of Lyme, Conn. (1680); Richard Dey of New York City; Cornelius Board of Boardville, N.J. (1730); John Ayer of Newbury, Mass. (1635); and their Descendants. (Ithaca, New York: Press of the Ithaca Democrat, 1901)
   Vol 2, pg. 1594.

   Orvis Harrison. Born Dec. 25, 1858.

2. ↑ 1938 Drouin collection for Granby United 1938 folio 11: Orvis Harrison Jackman, retired Insurance Agent, died at the home of his son Ornice R. Jackman, Lyman Avenue, Granby, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, on the 31st day of May in the year of our Lord 1938, in the 80th year of his life, and was buried by me, in the Pinewood Cemetery, Granby, on the 2nd day of June, in the year aforementioned in the presence of the subscribing witnesses. Thomas Scott, Minister assisted by. Witnesses [signed] Geo w. Jackman [son] & O. R. Jackman [son].
3. ↑ 1868 Drouin collection for Granby Methodist 1868, folio: Daniel Webster, son of Alman Jackman, _____ _______ and Jennett H Rowell his wife, born on the 28th of May 1854 and baptized on the 10th of December 1868, also Mary Ayers born on July 12th 1856 and Orvis Harrison born on Dec. 25th 1858 all children of above, in presence of subscribing witnesses, by me ____ ____, Minister. Witness: Jennett Jackman.