# Samuel Drennan

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'''Samuel Trangott Drennan''' (November 20, 1819 &ndash; 1882<ref name=men/>) was an [Irish](/source/Ireland)-born merchant and politician in [Ontario](/source/Ontario), [Canada](/source/Canada). He served as mayor of [Kingston](/source/Kingston%2C_Ontario) in 1872.<ref name=mayors>{{cite web |url=http://archive.cityofkingston.ca/cityhall/council/mayor-history.asp |title=The Mayors of Kingston |publisher=City of Kingston |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195613/http://archive.cityofkingston.ca/cityhall/council/mayor-history.asp |archivedate=2014-09-10 }}</ref>

He was born in the [Moravian](/source/Moravian_Church) settlement, [County Tyrone](/source/County_Tyrone), and left Ireland as a boy, moving to [Scotland](/source/Scotland) with his father. Drennan was educated in Scotland. In 1841, he came to Kingston, where he worked as a clerk in a [dry goods](/source/dry_goods) store. Drennan next worked as a [purser](/source/purser) on a steamship. He then, with a partner, opened his own dry goods store; after the partnership was dissolved, he continued operating on his own. Drennan married Annie Boyd. He then became a furniture manufacturer. For a time, his furniture was being built by convicts at the [Kingston Penitentiary](/source/Kingston_Penitentiary).<ref name=men/>

From 1873 to 1877 and from 1878 to 1879, he represented St. Lawrence ward on Kingston city council. Drennan turned the first sod on the [Kingston and Pembroke Railway](/source/Kingston_and_Pembroke_Railway). He had also served in the hook and ladder company of the Kingston fire department.<ref name=men>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2wZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA480 |title=A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time ... |pages=480, 569 |last=Rose |first=George Maclean |year=1886 |volume=1}}</ref>

His son [William Melville Drennan](/source/William_Melville_Drennan)<ref name=men/> also served as a mayor of Kingston.<ref name=mayors/>

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