Sous-fonds SF28 - Macpherson Trust sous-fonds

This sous-fonds forms part of the Kirkpatrick-Nickle legal collection. The documents came from the law firm of Nickle and Nickle, which was founded by Thomas Kirkpatrick in 1828, and which continued under various names (Kirkpatrick Nickle) and with various partners until 1968. The Macpherson Trust papers were deposited, along with the papers of other clients of the firm, in Queen's University Archives during the 1960's.

The Macpherson Trust was created through the marriage settlement of John Macpherson and Jane Catherine Herchmer. In general practice it is usually one or both of the marriage partners, or their parents, who arrange the settlement in order to benefit the children of the marriage. Upon the death of Jane Macpherson on February 26, 1903 the trust was left to the children of the marriage: Naomi Ann Macpherson, Frances Amelia Macpherson and John Lawrence Macpherson (a retired Colonel of the Royal Engineers). The fund was dissolved within a number of years of John Lawrence Macpherson's death in 1908.