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Biography
Private Angus John Laughie MacDonald was born September 11, 1896 in Frasers Mills, Antigonish County. MacDonald was the son of John Lauchlin McDonald and Mary MacDonald. His twin brother Peter MacDonald, and younger brother Alexander J. MacDonald also served in the war. Prior to the war he farmed at his family’s farm in Frasers Mills. MacDonald enlisted in the service April 30, 1918 as a gunner with the No. 10 Siege Battery. He was discharged due to demobilization in Halifax on April 1, 1919.
Following the war, MacDonald continued to farm on his family farm in the early 1920s. By 1935, MacDonald had immigrated the United states and lived in North Arlington, New Jersey. By 1940, he had married Anna MacDonald had a son born in 1937 and a daughter born in 1939. MacDonald was employed as an electrician and a lineman for Public Service Electric and Gas Company in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey for over twenty years until his retirement in 1961.
MacDonald died April 22, 1970 in North Arlington. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, New Jersey.
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