W. H. Waller

William Henry Waller

Mayor of Ottawa
Incumbent
Assumed office 1877
Preceded by	G. B. Lyon-Fellowes
Succeeded by	C.W. Bangs
Personal details
Born	May 14, 1835 Castle Waller in Newport, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died	December 24, 1885 Ottawa

William Henry Waller (May 14, 1835 – December 24, 1885) was mayor of Ottawa in 1877.^[1]

He was born at Castle Waller in Newport, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1835 and came to Canada with his family in 1853. He settled in Toronto and was employed at The Globe. In 1861, he came to Ottawa as a member of the editorial staff of the Ottawa Union. He later became an insurance broker in partnership with Roderick O'Connor.

Waller was an alderman on city council from 1874 to 1875 and became mayor upon the death of G. B. Lyon-Fellowes. He served as president of the Capital Mutual Building Society of Ottawa from 1876 to 1874. He was named registrar for Carleton County in 1879.

References

↑ Dave Mullington "Chain of Office: Biographic Sketches of Ottawa's Mayors (1847-1948)" (Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005)

Historical Sketch of the County of Carleton (1971) - originally published in 1879, reprinted by Mika Press, Belleville, Ontario

External links

A Cyclopæedia of Canadian biography : being chiefly men of the time ..., GM Rose (1886)

Mayors of Ottawa

Bytown (1847–55)	J. Scott J. B. Lewis Hervey Sparrow R.W. Scott Turgeon Friel

Ottawa (1855–2001)	J. B. Lewis McGillivray Workman Friel Dickinson Lyon Rochester Martineau Featherston Lyon-Fellowes Waller Bangs Mackintosh St. Jean Bate McDougal Stewart Erratt Birkett Durocher Cox Borthwick Bingham Payment Morris Davidson Cook J. Ellis Hastey D. Scott Champagne Hopewell Hinchey J. Ellis McVeity Porter Fisher Plant Watters Balharrie A. Ellis Allen Nolan J. E. S. Lewis Bourque Goodwin Whitton Nelms Reid Fogarty Benoit Greenberg Dewar Durrell Laviolette Holzman Watson Higdon

Ottawa (2001 amalgamation – present)	Chiarelli O'Brien Watson

Political offices
Preceded by G. B. Lyon-Fellowes	Mayor of Ottawa 1877	Succeeded by C.W. Bangs

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 104512563

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