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Note: H6
Note: Valentine bought the family farm on May 21, 1915, after his father's death. He was a farmer by profession. He was born and he died on the family farm.
During the 1910's, he put the addition on the rear of the house. Newspapers found in the wall of the addition date from this decade.
He attended school in Wilmot Center as his father did. He also went to Berlin High School. One of his classmates was William Lyon MacKenzie King, the future Prime Minister of Canada. He loved to write and draw and attained top honours for his drawings in school.
Farming was a most important part of his life and he took pride in his apple orchard, his wheat fields and his ability to plow a straight furrow.
He followed his father's path into politics and served on Wilmot Township council as a councillor from 1919 to 1924 and was deputy reeve from 1925 to 1928 and was reeve from 1929 to 1932. While representing the municipality at a convention in Toronto in the early 1930's, he was called home to learn his wife had suffered a paralytic stroke. She passed away the next morning without regaining consciousness. She was 52. He was left with two young sons.
He was also president of the Wilmot Agricultural Society in 1934 and 1935 and was honorary director in the following years.
His farm was sold to his son, Austin, after his death in 1955
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