BIOGRAPHY

SADLER, DAVID S., retail merchant; b. Napan, 27 Feb 1876, s/o David Sadler Jr and Elspeth Johnstone; m. 1st, Margaret I. Dickie, of River Charlo, N.B., and 2nd, Emily W. Dickison, sister of Charles M. Dickison; d. Chatham, 17 Jan 1962.

A grandson of David Sadler, the surveyor, David S. Sadler kept a dry-goods store near the post office on Water Street in Chatham. In the 1940s his clothing advertisements were among the most prominent in the Chatham newspapers. It was stated in his obituary in The Commercial-World in 1962 that he had been in business for more than sixty years.

In 1909 Sadler was elected an elder of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. In a later period he was a trustee of the United Church and superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1918 he was elected chairman of a "revived" Chatham Retail Merchants' Association. He subsequently sat on the Chatham School Board and served as treasurer of the Highland Society.

At his death, at age eighty-five, Sadler left his second wife, Emily W. Dickison, two daughters, and two sons. Another son, John Sadler, was killed in action in World War II while serving with the RCAF.

SOURCES: [b] church records [d] Commercial World 18 Jan 1962 / Commercial World 14 May 1942; MacMillan; World 10 Apr 1909, 6 Feb 1918

Source: W.D. Hamilton, Dictionary of Miramichi Biography (1997), pp. 337-338.