Joseph Wrigley
Inducted In
1972
Joseph Wrigley helped administer the municipal affairs of North Dumfries Township for forty years. He was a councillor from 1880 to 1884, deputy reeve in 1885 and 1886 and reeve in 1887 and 1883. In 1887 he was warden of Waterloo County, was appointed North Dumfries township clerk and treasurer in 1889 and served in this joint capacity until 1924.
He was also the first secretary of the Ayr Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., founded in 1893, serving until 1922.
Like his father, Sylvanus Wrigley, he farmed at Wrigley’s Corners, eight miles south of Galt, for fifty years. Wrigley often proudly recalled the distinguished and interesting history of the Wrigley family. His grandfather, the original Joseph Wrigley, was greatly interested in education and formal schooling was conducted in his home before a tiny log school was built in 1834.