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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. John Chisholm
Mr. John Chisholm and Mr Hugh Chisholm were born in the parish of Kirk Hill, Inverness-shire, Scotland, where they were brought up as blacksmiths. They came out to Port Chalmers, in 1875, by the ship “Auckland,” were employed for a time in Central Otago, and worked on the first bridge erected over the Molyneux river at Roxburgh. They acquired their present business in 1879. The Messrs Chisholm are members of the Fortrose school committee, of which Mr H. Chisholm has been chairman since 1902, and they are also members of the Fortrose Domain Board. In 1883 Messrs Chisholm sent home to Scotland for their father and mother, who sailed in the ship “Wild Deer,” but were shipwrecked in the Irish Channel. They ultimately arrived in New Zealand by the ship “Caroline,” and died in 1891. Mr H. Chisholm was married, in 1887, to a daughter of Mr Robert Blair, of Otara, and has three sons and three daughters. Mr John Chisholm married a daughter of the late Mr John Riddle, of Fortrose, and has two sons and five daughters.