Richard Benedict Van Horne
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Richard Benedict Van Horne was Sir William's only son. He attended Military School in Sing Sing and later McGill. He trained to be an engineer. Like his father and aunt Mary, he possessed considerable artistic skill. His letters show a sense of humour and both affection and respect to his parents, not to mention a sense of humour. Richard married Edith Molson, daughter of a wealthy Canadian brewing family, and worked in both the CPR and Sir William. Richard was much enamored of sailing and brought several palatial yachts to Passamaquoddy Bay in the summer. In 1919 he self-published a comical and talented series of sketched called "The Covenhoven Follies of 1919," depicting the on-again, off-again relationship of his sister Adaline and her Model T Ford, reproduced below courtesy of Henry Clarke. Richard was a heavy drinker and died at Covenhoven in 1931 of complications relating to a diseased liver and was buried in the St. Andrews Rural Cemetery.. He was 51.
Richard and Edith had one child--William Cornelius Van Horne junior. William Junior was much beloved of his grandparents and himself had one child--Beverley Ann. Both William Junior and Beverly Ann were hard livers and heavy drinkers. William Cornelius Van Horne junior died at Weir, Quebec, in 1947 aged 39. He was buried alongside his father in the Rural Cemetery. William Junior was married twice: first to Audrey Fraser, of Montreal, who was killed in 1934 at Oak Bay in an automobile accident; and later to Margaret Hannon of Montreal, who survived him.
Beverley Ann Van Horne sold Minister's Island in 1960 to Harold Hossler and Company, from Tiffin, Ohio.
