Samuel Bacon Hillocks (February 11, 1869 – 1937) was a politician, Presbyterian minister and inventor of the Grain Door. From Alberta, Canada, he was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick.[1]
Religion
Hillocks was one of the two ministers who presided over the Union Service in Calgary, Alberta, after the death of King Edward VII on May 20, 1910.[2]
He resigned from his congregation on August 1, 1912[3]
Hillock would run again in the 1921 Alberta general election attempting to regain a seat in the legislature, he would be badly defeated in the new block vote system and finish a disappointing 18 place out of 21 candidates.
Hillocks invented the Grain Door and was issued a patent by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on May 24, 1938.[4]