Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1906 — An Old Independent. [ARTICLE]

An Old Independent.

The death of Senator David Wark, the oldest member of the Canadian Parliament, recalls an anecdote which Illustrates his remarkable Independence. At the age of 101 he was still holding the seat which had been his for almost half a century. During his last years his family had been worried about his habit of traveling alone In mid-winter from his home in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to liis post in Ottawa. They urged him to let his daughter accompany him. Senator Wark Would have none of her. “A man of rpy age,” he said, “has all he can do taking care of himself, without having a woman to look after.”