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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Ferguson, John , Farmer, Harrington. Mr Ferguson was born in 1852, at Balson, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and worked as a miner for some years before coming to the Bluff in 1877, by the ship “Pomona.” He worked as a farm labourer for about five years, and in 1882 bought a small section of twenty acres at Fernhill. This he sold some time afterwards, and took up “Clover Park,” a farm of 106 acres in the same district. Finding this too small, Mr Ferguson sold out and bought his present farm of 316 acres in the Harrington district, which he works successfully. He has been a member of Fernhill school committee for twelve years, and about 1878 he was a member of one of the Invercargill volunteer corps. Mr Ferguson was married, in 1876, to a daughter of the late Mr W. Wilkie, of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and has a family of four sons and four daughters.