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Levi Hart (1826-1907), merchant and trader, was born March 18, 1826 at Guysborough, Nova Scotia, the youngest of 14 children born to Tyrus Hart and Martha Hull. He married Jane Dorcas Whitman of Canso, NS in 1852 and moved to Halifax in 1857. They had 5 children: Havelock McColl (b.1857), Frederick Walter (b.1861), Arthur Lee (1864-ca.1878), Eugene Eliza (b.1867), and Maud Maria (1878-1884). Levi Hart worked for Benjamin Weir & Company, then as a partner with Wylde, Hart and Co., as wholesale-retail traders with Americans. During the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) both companies were agents in Halifax for the Confederate government (the South), supplying coal and other goods to Confederate gunboats when they arrived in port. It is rumoured Levi Hart was involved in the escape of the Confederate blockade runner “Tallahassee” when it stopped in Halifax for repairs and fuel in August 1864, evading the Union vessels chasing it. In 1874 Wylde, Hart and Co. dissolved and Levi Hart continued the business in his own name, eventually becoming Levi Hart & Son Ltd. in 1902 when his sons joined him. He died in Halifax 23 December 1907.
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created 2018-Mar-07
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Nova Scotia Archives. Halifax Herald newspaper December 24, 1907, “Levi Hart Has Passed From Earth”, microfilm #6765.
David A. Sutherland, “WIER, BENJAMIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 7, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wier_benjamin_9E.html.
David A. Sutherland, “WOOD, JOHN TAYLOR,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 7, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wood_john_taylor_13E.html.
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Karen White