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About Sylvester Neelon
- Sylvester Neelon (January 7, 1825 – December 31, 1897) was an Ontario businessman and political figure.
- He represented Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member in 1875 and from 1879 to 1886. He was born in New York state in 1825 and came to St.
- Catharines, Upper Canada with his parents in 1832.
- In 1852, he formed a shipping firm in partnership with James Norris.
- The company also purchased a flour mill, which Neelon retained when the partnership was dissolved.
- He continued to own ships and also manufactured barrels for the transporting of goods.
- He was also involved in railways, banking, the sale of dry goods, a paper mill and a tavern.
- Neelon married Cinderella Read and married his second wife, Louisa Latham Chisholm, in 1884 after Cinderella's death.
- He served on the town council for St.
- Catharines.
- In 1875, he was elected to the provincial legislative assembly but unseated for buying votes; he was reelected in 1879.
- His construction company won a masonry contract for Toronto's city hall in 1889. He died in Toronto in 1897.
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