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About Samuel Drennan
- Samuel Trangott Drennan (November 20, 1819 – 1882) was an Irish-born merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada.
- He served as mayor of Kingston in 1872.He was born in the Moravian settlement, County Tyrone, and left Ireland as a boy, moving to Scotland with his father.
- Drennan was educated in Scotland.
- In 1841, he came to Kingston, where he worked as a clerk in a dry goods store.
- Drennan next worked as a purser on a steamship.
- He then, with a partner, opened his own dry goods store; after the partnership was dissolved, he continued operating on his own.
- Drennan married Annie Boyd.
- He then became a furniture manufacturer.
- For a time, his furniture was being built by convicts at the Kingston Penitentiary.From 1873 to 1877 and from 1878 to 1879, he represented St.
- Lawrence ward on Kingston city council.
- Drennan turned the first sod on the Kingston and Pembroke Railway.
- He had also served in the hook and ladder company of the Kingston fire department.His son William Melville Drennan also served as a mayor of Kingston.
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