Item 0012 - Letter, 14 October 1889

James Hoyes Panton was born on May 7, 1847, in Scotland.

He was an educator and author. He attended the University of Toronto (B.A., 1877; M.A., 1878). He moved to Winnipeg in the early 1880s, where he was the Principal of the Collegiate Department of the Central School in 1884. He was a member of the Manitoba Historical Society, collecting geological specimens around the province and adding substantially to the society’s fossil collections. In early 1884, he offered a series of public lectures on geology in the MHS offices, some of which were published. He returned to Ontario in late 1884 to become Professor of Geology and Natural History at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph (now Guelph University), where he remained until 1897.

In 1880, he married Mary Jemima Drummond Cattanach (c.1849–1886), and in 1891, he married Fannie B. Harrison (1854–1915). He died on February 2, 1898, in Guelph, Ontario.