William Addison Child

William Addison Child
Born	1862
Died	1935
Residence	389 Hess Street, Hamilton, Canada
Occupation	business
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1935 deceased elected_AI 1921.03.02

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1921.02.22 proposed by T.F. McIlwraith, seconded by L.W.G. Malcolm
death noted in Report of the Council 1935-1936

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William Addison Child was born in 1862 in Mayville, Wisconsin. After completing a master's degree in history at Kenyon College in Ohio, William emigrated to Canada in 1883 and became a secretary of the Ontario Rolling Mills. The company would later amalgamate with the Hamilton steel and Iron Company, and eventually become the Steel Company of Canada; from 1883 to when he retired just before the First World War, William Child would be a key player in the development of Hamilton’s steel industry, and one of the city’s more prominent citizens.
In 1892, William Child married Elizabeth Helen Harvey (b. 1857), of Hamilton; within a year they had a daughter, Helen Mary Child (b. 1893). Five years later, they would have a son: Philip Albert Gillet Child was born on January 19, 1898.
In 1902, the Childs purchased a new family home on 389 Hess Street South in Hamilton. Noted for its beautiful gardens, this stately Victorian home would later form the basis of Philip Child’s 1951 collection of poetry, The Victorian House and other poems.
The Child household was affluent, scholarly, and civic-minded. William Child was a keen historian, a fellow of the RAI, an officer and honorary president of the Hamilton Scientific Association, as well as a member of the Hamilton Library Board and the Hamilton Health Association. Elizabeth Child hosted numerous society events in support of Hamilton’s arts and culture institutions, as well as being active in the charitable programs of Hamilton’s Anglican Church. [God’s Sparrows by Philip Child]

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