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Born: Feb. 15, 1891
Mother: …. Conolly
Father: H.T. Argue
Part 1
John McLean Argue was the son of H.T. Argue, lumberman. His mother’s name was Conolly. He got into the lumber business in the 1930’s. He had three brothers: Henry, Forrest, and Arthur. He went to school in Shawville, and Miss McGregor was one of his teachers. He remembers the fire of 1906 that wiped out the town. « It was a bad fire. It wiped out the town. » He went out west a few times to work on the harvest.
Part 2
He attended the Mike Murphy murder trial, and remembers the victims, Harry Howes and Bill Dale. « Some people thought that they shouldn’t have been down there. They went down to serenade Mike Murphy and he objected to them. »
His father’s first lumberyard was by the station, and his own was across the railway tracks.
Credit: Summary by Chris Seifried