About Silas Alward
Lived 1841 – 1919 (aged 78). Silas Alward was a Canadian politician.
Silas Alward (April 14, 1841 – June 12, 1919) was a Canadian politician in the province of New Brunswick.
Born in New Canaan, Queens County, New Brunswick, the son of John Alward and Mary A. Corey, Alward received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Acadia College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1860. In 1871, he received an A.M. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied law in Saint John, New Brunswick, and was called to the bar of New Brunswick in 1866.
He was elected by acclamation to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1887. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1890, 1892, and 1895 elections but was defeated in the 1899 election.
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Silas Alward was born on 14 April 1841 in New Brunswick.
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Silas Alward died on 12 June 1919.
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