John R. Ronald Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Jody Goodson - kestrell@prodigy.net

Surname: RONALD
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 996

     JOHN R. RONALD, proprietor of the Exeter Custom Laundry,
conducts a business which he has seen profitably expand since he estab-
lished it in September, 1909. He is one of the recognized business men
of the city. His birth took place at St. John, New Brunswick, May 24,
1864, and he is a son of John Reid and Elizabeth (Brown) Ronald. 
John Reid Ronald was born in Scotland, but it is probable that he
went to New Brunswick in early manhood, for he married there and
spent the rest of his life at Glassville. He owned and cultivated land
and at the same time was bookkeeper for a business firm with which
he was connected continuously for twenty-seven years. He was twice
married, first to Elizabeth Brown, and after her death to Marjorie King.
To the first marriage three sons were born; John R., Andrew, and
Atexander. To his second marriage two children were born, Robert
and Catherine, and they, with their mother, still live in New Brunswick.
     John R. Ronald had a small amount of school training at West Glass-
ville. N. B., before he went to Scotland, in his thirteenth year, where he
remained five years, and during that time went to the same school
which his father had attended. At the age of eighteen years he rejoined

Page 997

his father in New Brunswick, and for two years assisted on the home
farm, and then started out for himself, chosing emigration to the United
States as a beginning. He spent the next six years in the lumber
regions near Marinette, Wis., during five years of this period being in
the employ of one firm. For two years he was foreman for the Ingalls,
White Rapids and Northern Railroad Logging Company, and for one
year was foreman for the Holmes & Son Logging Company. The
life of a lumberman is a hard one, and after this long time in the woods
Mr. Ronald decided to learn a trade that would subject him to less ex-
posure, making choice of shoemaking, which he followed for fifteen
years. He came then to Exeter, where business conditions seemed to
warrant the establishing of a first-class laundry, and the soundness of
his judgment has been proved by his success.
     Mr. Ronald was married May 23, 1900, to Miss Agnes Miller, who
was born at Exeter, and is a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Johnston)
Miller. The mother of Mrs. Ronald was born in the north of Ireland
and is now deceased. The father afterward married her sister, Eleanor
Johnston, who survives. His two daughters were born to the first
union; Agnes, and Jane, the latter of whom is the wife of Fred Vorck.
Alexander Miller, who still survives, was born in Scotland, and when
he came first to Exeter worked for such well-known business men as
the Gilman brothers, the Merrils, and the Hurds, for twenty years was
janitor for all of the buildings of Phillips Exeter Academy, and also
was fireman and engineer for the Exeter Machine Works. Mr. and
Mrs. Ronald have two children: Alexander Miller, and Mary Catherine.
The family attends the Phillips Congregational Church at Exeter. In
politics Mr. Ronald votes with the Republican party. He belongs to
the Masonic lodge at Exeter, and to the Order of United Workmen at
Lynn, Mass.

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