BROCK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
MlrIlt frog, L857 to 1864. He was ■ barrister, and a Bencher, and Becorderat Kingston, and formany rears a partnerwitb Sir John a. Maedonald, Prime Minister ol Canada. His only son is the well- known Lient-CoL John a. Macdonell, Alexandria, Ontario, now the bead ol the Greenfield tamily, w hose patriotic sentimenti and antiquarian tasi have often found eloquent and useful expression. He Lb a grandnephew ol Colonel llacdonell (Queen- st, .11 1 and fifth ol Greenfield.
Donald Oreenfleld Macdonell, who commanded ■ company at Ogdensburg (broker of Colonel Mac- donelTQueenston), became D.A.Q.M.G m kbewar,
- an a Colonel of Militia and Deputy Adjutant Gen-
era] from L846to L861. Hehad thehonouro lay- in- the corner-stone ol the monument to Sir Isaac Brocs at Qneenston in L853. Among his grand- bom are Donald Oreenfleld Macdonell, barrister, Vancouver, heir male, after Lieut-Coi John A. Mac- donell, Alexandria, Ontario, and A McLean mac- donell K.C.. the well-known barrister ol Toronto. The connection ol Mr. A licLean Macdonell, K.C., of Toronto, with the War ol 1812 ifl perhaps , luiMUt , N(l , only had Lis paternal greatgrand- father and three sons, the Macdonells of Greenfield, commissions in the War of 1812, as above stated, but his maternal greatgrandfather and three sons also held commissions in that war, vis., the Honourable Neil McLean and Lis three sons: 1st. the Honour- able Archibald McLean, afterwards Chiei Justice ol rjpper Canada, it is said that when J olonel Macdonell fell, McLean was near him, and he called out to him: "Help h -»' 1 - **■
McLean, afterwards Sheriff ol Kingston; and Srd, Colonel Alexander McLean, who shows an excellent militaPy record, and whose daughter married John Macdonell of Greenfield, Mr. Mclxan Macdonell ■ rather. Thus, Mr. McLean Macdonell had two great-grandfathers, two grandfathers, and four
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