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He was born in Peel County, Ontario in 1849, the grandson of Edward William Thomson , a member of the York militia who was a member of the Legislative Assembly Of Upper Canada . He served with the Union Army cavalry during the American Civil War . He worked as a land surveyor and later took up journalism, becoming editorial writer for the Toronto Globe . He published a book of short stories, ''Old Man Savarin and Other Stories'', in 1895 and, in 1909, produced ''The Many-Mansioned House and Other Poems''.