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'William Workman' (May, 1807 – February 23, 1878) was an Irish-born Canadian businessman and municipal politician.
Born in Ballymacash, County Antrim, in what is now Northern Ireland, he immigrated to Montreal, Quebec in 1829.
He served as mayor of Montreal from 1868 to 1871.
Workman was buried in Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery.
William Workman, originally from Texas, was a homesteader in Southern California (present-day location of the city of La Puente) in the 19th century. He as an associate of John Temple and Pio Pico, as well as a rancher and a banker. Bad business dealings resulted in desperate financial conditions for Workman and Temple, the former of whom committed suicide in his seventies as his home was about to be confiscated. See [[1]] William Workman was born in England, A. D. 1800, and came to America while quite young. He settled in St. Louis, Missouri, then a frontier town, and engaged in business. From there to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where for a number of years he followed trapping and trading. He accompanied his partner Rowland to Los Angeles in 1841, and they settled together on the Puente Ranch. He was a partner of F. P. F. Temple in the banking business at Los Angeles, 1868 to 1875-6, and the failure of that enterprise so preyed upon his mind that he committed suicide May 17, 1876. His remains were interred in the little chapel at La Puente. ''History of Los Angeles''. Thompson & West: 1888, 37. [2]

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★ Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
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