Biography of Rev. Robert Ure, D. D.

That branch of the Ure family from which the subject of this sketch is descended was originally from France, and supposed to be Huguenots, settling in Scotland, where, in the Parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire, Robert Ure was born, January 23, 1823. His parents were John and Barbara (Dalziel) Ure, his father being a manufacturer of the ironwork to machinery. At nineteen years of age our subject came to Hamilton, Ontario, and there, while following other employments, he pursued his studies in private with an ultimate view to the ministry, under Alexander Gale, M.A., entered Knox College, Toronto, in the spring … Read more