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| DEDICATED IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE JAMES LEITCH AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH STRICKLAND BY THEIR DAUGHTERS MARGUERITE C. FOWLER TRESSA E. LEITCH ERECTED 1964 AND THEIR SON JOHN S. LEITCH |
James Leitch (June 2, 1850 — February 17, 1917) was born in Williamstown, Ontario. He received his early eduction at Williamstown and Cornwall Grammar Schools. He studied law in Cornwall and Toronto, was called to the bar of Ontario in 1876, and began practicing law in Cornwall. That same year he married Elizabeth Srickland. He was elected Reeve of Cornwall in 1884, and acclaimed Mayor of Cornwall in 1885 and 1886. He served as an Unattached Judge in the Superior Court of Ontario, in Toronto, from 1912 until his death in 1917. He is buried in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church in Williamstown, Ontario.
