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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Sexton, Silas

Sexton, Silas , County Serfaceman, Lumsden. Mr Sexton was born in 1849, in Devonshire, England, where he was educated and brought up as a baker. He came out to New Zealand in 1873, by the emigrant ship “Asia,” in which he was engaged as ship's baker. Mr Sexton worked at his trade in Dunedin for eight months, when he removed to South Canterbury, where he engaged in road contract work in the Timaru and Wai-mate districts till 1880. He then removed to Southland, where he was employed for four years in rabbiting at Mararoa and Linwood stations, and afterwards commenced business as a baker in Lumsden. He subsequently relinquished this business, and found employment as a carrier and coal merchant for two years. Mr Sexton was appointed county surfaceman by the Southland County Council, for the Lumsden district in 1896. His district extends from Athol to Nokomai and Lumsden, and in another direction as far as Black bridge, near the Mararoa river. Mr Sexton has served on the Lumsden school committee, and is a member of the Loyal Lumsden Lodge of Oddfellows. He was married, in June, 1894, to a daughter of Mr John Maxwell, of Dumfries, Scotland, and has four sons and two daughters.