Daniel Near was an Ontario

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 political figure. He represented Welland

Welland (electoral district)

Welland is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988, and since 2004. Its population in 2006 was 112,875....

 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1879 to 1883 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Humberstone Township in 1825, the son of John Near, and grew up there. He married Elizabeth Cronmiller in 1851 and then, in 1855, Mary Harwisch, after his first wife died. He served five years as reeve of Humberstone and was also a justice of the peace.

External links

• http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32954The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1880 CH Mackintosh
  Charles H. Mackintosh
  Charles Herbert Mackintosh was a journalist, mayor of Ottawa from 1879–1881, represented Ottawa City as a Liberal-Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1887, and from 1890 to 1893, and served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1893 to 1898.-Parentage and...
  
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• Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• The History of the County of Welland, Ontario, its past and present (1887)