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Source: George Elder fonds:
 George Elder, the son of Catherine Curran and Alexander Elder, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick on 24 August 1850. The Elders raised no fewer than 3 other children, namely, Robert, Catherine, and Samuel. In 1889 George Elder was farming in Carleton, New Brunswick. On 16 April of that year he married Mary Jane McDougal of Carleton County. They had at least 4 children, namely, Samuel Rutherford (b. 23 July 1892), Mary (b. 26 January 1894), George William (b. 7 April 1895), and Jean McDougal (b. 16 February l897).
 By 1895 George and Mary Elder were living at Passekeag, Kings, and both were active in the local Reformed Presbyterian Church. George was employed as a colporteur or travelling salesman by the Canadian Bible Society, and he travelled widely in south-central New Brunswick selling Bibles and other religious books. In 1903 he was president of the Upham and St. Martins branch of the Bible Society, and about 1905 he was appointed for missionary work in the lumber camps of the Miramichi by the Miramichi Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church.
 About 1906, the Elders were residing at Salmon Creek, near Chipman, New Brunswick. Mary Jane Elder died prematurely on 4 October 1907. Son George William Elder married Margaret E. Vail of Belleisle Creek on 1 July 1919. On 12 November of that year his father George Elder married Jennie Straight (b. 14 February 1871) of Gagetown, Queens County. She predeceased him on 3 September 1926.
 Throughout his life, George Elder contributed poems and numerous letters to the editor to several newspapers, including the Presbyterian Witness, the Witness and Canadian Homestead, and the Telegraph-Journal. Many of his letters to the editor dealt with religious subjects. George Elder died at Belleisle Creek, New Brunswick on 11 January 1931, aged 80.

George married Mary Jane McDOUGALL on 16 Apr 1889 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick. Mary was born on 16 Oct 1856 in Carleton, New Brunswick; died on 4 Oct 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Katherine CUNNAN. Katherine was born in 1807 in Ireland; died on 10 Feb 1888 in Foreston, Carleton, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Curran