John Frederick Whear

WHEAR, JOHN FREDERICK, lawyer, post office inspector, and postmaster; b. 1 January 1867, son of John Whear and Margaret Barnard; m. 5 September 1895 Florence J. Murchison, and they had two children, Marion B. and Constance C.; Methodist; d. 1951. Whear, a Liberal, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1900 for 5th Queens, and was appointed to Executive Council. He resigned his seat in 1904. In 1900 Whear was elected to the Charlottetown City Council for Ward Four, and in 1902 was elected for Ward Five. Whear received his early education in local public schools, before attending Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He studied law in the office of L. H. Davies*. Whear was admitted to the Bar in January 1890. He practised in Davies' firm until 1901, when he began his own law' firm. He later formed a partnership with Major W. A. Weeks under the name Weeks and Whear. George McPhee would later article with the firm. Whear continued his work as a lawyer until he was appointed Postmaster of Charlottetown and Post Office Inspector for the province. John Whear died in 1951. Florence Whear was the daughter of James and Ann Murchison of Point River, Belfast. She died in 1961.