tenure as treasurer was not to last long: he caught a chill while attending the convention that nominated him as the Liberals' Claresholm candidate in the 1913 election, and by the time he returned to Edmonton on March 10, 1913, he was sufficiently ill to confine himself to bed. He had developed peritonitis, and died from it early in the morning of March 15, 1913. The Liberal Edmonton Bulletin, in mourning his passing, said that "no lawyer in the province had such a firm grasp in legal matters. No member of the house performed his legislative duties so admirably and so well. He has left his impression on more legislation than any other member." He was survived by a wife and one son. Electoral record Provincial elections Federal elections References Notes 1913 deaths Alberta Liberal Party MLAs Lawyers in Alberta Candidates in the 1904 Canadian federal election People from Bruce County People from the Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 Queen's University at Kingston alumni 1863 births Members of the Executive Council of Alberta Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons