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Note: sher of the Quebec Morning Chronicle from 1864 to 1878 when he sold the paper to his brother John Jackman Foote. Samuel then moved to Montreal where he founded <a href="http://www.ourroots.ca/e/viewpage.asp?id=413312">The Shareholder</a> , a financial paper. 1881 census show him living in St.Antoine Ward of Monreal. Of the Mount Hermon cemetery, he wrote this poem: <i>Oh, Hermon! oft I wander o`er, Thy silent records of the past, In fancy, when the storm and roar Of icy winter holds thee fast, But, when the gentle spring-time tells `Tis time to rove amid the flow`rs, I love to walk amid thy dells, And dream once more of happy hours. All seems a dream! thy lovely slopes, O`ershadowed with primeval trees, Are rich with many blighted hopes, And ceaseless tears, He only sees What broken hearts, and scatter`d homes, And grief of mourners ne`er since met, One pictures by these solemn tombs, This scene of parting and regret! Bless`d spot! though long, long years ago That loving one was buried here, My soul still ever seeks to know When once again we shall be near! A day ne`er pass`d in foreign climes, At home, or on the restless sea, But I have sought thee many times, Oh, Hermon! ever dear to me.</i>
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