death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor religion imagesize office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
january 13 , 1920 ottawa samuel bingham manotick , ontario william dowler morris roman catholic 150 mayor of ottawa july 6 , 1853 1899 thomas payment
 1900 thomas payment
thomas payment

thomas payment -lrb- july 6 , 1853 -- january 13 , 1920 -rrb- was mayor of ottawa , ontario , canada , from 1899 to 1900 .
he was born in manotick , ontario , in 1853 .
he worked as a bookkeeper with a railroad company in maine .
later , he studied at the ontario college of pharmacy and opened a drug store in the byward market area of ottawa .
during his term as mayor , a massive fire , the hull-ottawa fire of 1900 , started in hull and burned across the river at the lebreton flats , reaching as far as dow 's lake .
he died in ottawa in 1920 and was buried in the notre-dame cemetery .
