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J. B. (James Blair) Bonar
1826–1905
A 19th-century Presbyterian minister and sermon writer, he published addresses and memorial discourses that moved between church life, local history, and the religious culture of his day. His surviving works trace a ministry connected with Montreal, New Milford, and later Louisville.
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New Milford. A memorial discourse, delivered in the Congregational church, New Milford, Conn., Sunday, July 9, 1876
by J. B. (James Blair) Bonar
About the author
Born in 1826 and remembered as J. B. or James Blair Bonar, he was a Presbyterian clergyman whose published work includes sermons, farewell addresses, and historical reflections. Library and archive records link him to books and pamphlets such as The Early New England Colonists, The Christian Profession, and Farewell Words to Montreal, showing a writer concerned with faith, community memory, and public occasions.
His career appears to have included a pastorate at the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal in the 1860s; one of his published sermons was delivered at the close of that ministry in January 1869. Another later work, New Milford. A Memorial Discourse, identifies him as pastor in New Milford, Connecticut, suggesting a ministry that crossed both Canadian and American settings.
Bonar died in 1905. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, the record that remains presents him as a minister-author whose writings preserved the tone of 19th-century Protestant preaching and civic remembrance.