Northumberland Co.
M.L.A.
GOUGH, Jacob Carvell (1840 –
Born May 9th, 1840, at Fredericton, NB. Of Scottish-Irish and Loyalist ancestry. Son of James Gough (b. 1813 – d. Dec 6th, 1847), and his wife, Isabella Carvell (b. May 11, 1822 – d. April, 1892).
(Father, James Gough, died in Portland, NB, from injuries received from an unknown assailant while in the performance of his duty as a policeman for the toen of Portland.)
(Mother, Isabella Carvell, was a daughter of Jacob Carvell (1793 – 1847), and a grand-daughter of Jacob Carvell (1749 – 1821), a New Jersey Loyalist who settled in York Co., and his third wife, Lavinia Slason.)
(Following the death of her husband, James Gough, Isabella Gough married a second time to the Hon. Peter Mitchell (q.v.), and moved to Newcastle, NB. She died in Toronto, Ontario in April 1892.)
Educated at the public schools, and at Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S.
Located at Newcastle, N.B. and engaged in business as a merchant and ship builder. (Probably under the patronage of his step-father, the Hon, Peter Mitchell).
Married, December 22, 1862, to Miss Henrietta Porter, youngest daughter of Henry Porter, Esq., St. John, N.B. Family of two daughters.
First elected to the House of Assembly as one of the members for Notrhumberland Co., at a bye-election held August 10th, 1867, along with W.M. Kelly, as colleague, to fill the vacancies created by the resignations of the sitting members, Hon. John M. Johnson and the Hon. Edward Williston. He sat one session of the Legislature and resigned in order to contest Northumberland Co. for the House of Commons.
Unsuccessfully contested Northumberland Co. for the House of Commons at a bye-election held December 24th, 1868, to fill the vacancy created by the death of the sitting member, Hon. John M. Johnson, being defeated by R. Hutchinson.
Again elected to the House of Assembly, as one of the members for Northumberland Co., at the bye-election held February, 1869, and sat the remainder of that Legislature. Re-elected at the G.E. of June 1870 and sat as a member until the dissolution of the Legislature in 1874. At the G.E. of May 1874, he was defeated, and subsequently retired from local politics.
He subsequently suffered business reverses; engaged in construction work on the I.C.R. Railway; and later moved to Ontario, where he acquired a reputation as a temperance lecturer.
In December, 1883, he was appointed Customs Inspector at Port Arthur, Ontario. He resigned this position in order to contest the G.E. in Ontario, June 26th, 1885, as Conservative candidate for the constituency of West Algoma, being defeated by the Liberal candidate, James Conmee.
Died in Ontario, [date]
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