=Grant, Rev. R. N.=, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Orillia, was

born in the neighbourhood of Peterborough, Ontario. His father,

Alexander Grant, was a native of Sutherlandshire, Scotland. He came to

Canada in 1832, and began his Canadian life in what was then called the

Newcastle district, where he taught school for about nine years. In 1840

he moved to that part of Western Ontario known in those days as the

Huron Tract, and settled in the township of North Easthope, now one of

the wealthiest townships in the county of Perth. Alexander Grant was a

man of much more than average ability and attainments. His services were

soon sought by the settlers around him, and he was elected to the

positions of township clerk and treasurer for several years. He

afterwards represented his township in the county council for twelve

successive years, and finished his long municipal career in the warden’s

chair in 1859. He was frequently urged to stand as a candidate for

parliamentary honours, and it was believed by his friends that he could

easily have carried his county in the Liberal interest at the general

election of 1854 had he entered upon the contest. Like many of his

countrymen, Alexander Grant had a fair share of the military spirit. He

was one of the oldest and most enthusiastic captains of his battalion,

and was the first to offer his services during the _Trent_ difficulty.

Though a decided economist in ordinary matters of public expenditure, he

was always in favour of giving liberally for the defence of the country.

He had several relatives and connections in the Highland regiments that

took part in the Crimean war, and his enthusiasm knew no bounds when

news came that the kilted soldiers had carried the old flag to victory.

He died in January, 1863, and his remains were followed to their last

resting place by large numbers of sorrowing friends, among whom were

representative men from all parts of the surrounding country. Mrs.

Alexander Grant, mother of the subject of the present sketch, was born

in Wick, Caithness-shire, Scotland. She was, though for many years an

invalid, a woman of strong character and high ambition, and nothing

gratified her so much as to see her family rise to positions of honour

and usefulness. Their other children were Alexander Grant, barrister,

late mayor of Stratford, who died about two years ago—Mrs. Hislop, wife

of the late Rev. J. K. Hislop, and Miss Grant. Both daughters are at

present residents of the young city of Stratford. Having received such

an education as the common schools of those days could afford, Robert

was sent to the Grammar School of the county—an institution which was

then in its infancy, but which has now become one of the leading

collegiate institutes of the province. The scholars met in a small room

in the north-eastern angle of the court house. Some of the boys who met

in that room have since made a fairly good mark in Canada. Among others

might be mentioned James P. Woods, the present county judge of Perth,

and James Fisher, the well known barrister of Winnipeg. The school was

then and for many years afterwards taught by C. J. McGregor, M.A., the

first mayor of the young city of Stratford. Following the usual line of

aspiring young men in those early days, young Grant left school when he

got a first-class certificate, and went into the teaching profession to

earn some money, his intention being to study law. One of the trustees

of the school he taught was James Trow, M.P., the present popular member

for South Perth, and one of the whips of the Liberal party in the House

of Commons. Having taught for a year, he entered the Georgetown

Collegiate Institute, in 1858, and continued his studies chiefly under

the Rev. Malcolm MacVicar, the present principal of McMaster Hall,

Toronto. In the following year he taught for a few months in the village

of Millbank, in his old county, and began the study of Greek under the

Rev. W. T. McMullen, then pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of

Millbank, and for the last twenty-seven years pastor of Knox Church,

Woodstock. For reasons which need not be given here, Mr. Grant had

abandoned his long cherished ambition to become a lawyer, and had

decided to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian church. Not the least

potent factor in bringing about the change was the earnest searching and

thoroughly evangelical preaching of the youthful Presbyterian pastor of

Millbank who was then beginning his long and honoured ministry. In 1859,

Mr. Grant entered Knox College, Toronto, and pursued his literary

studies under Prof. George Paxton Young, then of Knox College, and in

University College, Toronto. His theological teachers were Prof. Young,

and Drs. Burns and Willis, for all of whom he left the college

cherishing feelings of profound respect. Graduating in April, 1865, he

was soon afterwards licensed by the Presbytery of Paris. In the autumn

of that year he received calls from the Presbyterian congregations of

Markham, Picton, and the united congregations of Waterdown and

Wellington Square. The call from the last named congregation was

accepted, and the ordination and induction took place on the 23rd of

January, 1866. For five years and a half Mr. Grant laboured in this

field with a good measure of success, and did his full share of work for

his neighbours, especially in Hamilton where his services were often

sought on the platform. He was the greater part of the time a member of

the Board of Education for the county of Wentworth. Under his ministry

two young persons united with the church whose names are now well known

to the Presbyterians of Canada—the Rev. W. A. Wilson, M.A., one of the

missionaries in India, and Mrs. Builder, wife of the Rev. Mr. Builder,

another missionary in the same distant field. Owing to ill health caused

partly by driving between his congregations, Mr. Grant decided that he

must change his field of labour, and in July, 1871, accepted a call from

Knox Church, Ingersoll. Here he laboured for nearly eleven years,

identifying himself with all the interests of his town, and doing a

considerable amount of work in the pulpit and on the platform for his

neighbours. In 1877 he received a call from St. Andrew’s Church,

Chatham, offering some tempting inducements, among others a considerable

increase in salary. The congregation of Knox Church strongly resisted

the proposed translation, and in addition to the steps usually taken in

such matters, presented a petition to the presbytery, signed by the

whole congregation, asking that their pastor’s services be retained. Mr.

Grant declined the call, but afterwards had some grave doubts as to

whether he had taken the proper course. In the early part of 1882, some

informal steps were taken by a number of persons to unite the two

Presbyterian congregations of Ingersoll. Mr. Grant had no confidence in

the movement—a movement which afterwards turned out a disastrous

failure—but not wishing to oppose it, determined to remove to another

field of labour. In May he received a unanimous and enthusiastic call

from the Presbyterian congregation of Orillia, which he accepted, and

was inducted and warmly welcomed on the 19th of July. Previous to

leaving Ingersoll, a large and influential farewell meeting was held at

which all the religious denominations of the town were represented. Mr.

Grant was presented with three hundred and seventy-five dollars as a

farewell gift, and Mrs. Grant with a valuable silver service. In the

early part of 1880, Mr. Grant, believing that his _alma mater_ was

placed at a disadvantage on account of not having the power to confer

degrees in divinity, prepared an overture to the general assembly,

asking that this power be granted to Knox and the Presbyterian College

of Montreal. He supported the overture in the presbytery of Paris and in

the synod of Hamilton and London by both of which it was adopted, and

sent on to the supreme court. After a lively debate the prayer of the

overture was granted by the Assembly, and the necessary legislation by

the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec at their next session. On the 9th

of May, 1866, Mr. Grant was united in marriage with Marianne McMullen,

third daughter of the late A. McMullen, of Fergus, and sister of the

Rev. W. T. McMullen, of Woodstock, and James McMullen, M.P. for North

Wellington. Besides ministering to the large and influential

congregation of which he is pastor, Mr. Grant is a voluminous

contributor to the press. He has also written about a dozen popular

lectures, some of which have been frequently delivered.

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=Chauveau, Hon. Justice Alexandre=, B.C.L., Q.C., Justice of the Court

of Quarter Sessions, Quebec, second son of Hon. P. J. O. Chauveau, Q.C.,

D.C.L., now sheriff of Montreal, and late prime minister of the Province

of Quebec, in 1867, first provincial government, and ex-speaker of the

Senate, was born on the 23rd day of February, 1847. He was educated at

the Jesuits’ and Montreal Colleges, at Laval and McGill Universities, at

which latter he took the degree of B.C.L. in 1867. He studied law with

S. Leliëvre, Q.C., in Quebec, and with the late Sir George Cartier, in

Montreal; and was admitted to the bar of his native province, on the 4th

of March, 1868, and practised in partnership with the late Hon. Justice

Alleyn up to the date of his appointment to his present position, viz.,

Justice of the Court of General Sessions. Mr. Chauveau entered the

political arena at the early age of twenty-four, and contested the

county of Rimouski, in April, 1872, against Dr. Fisét, and was elected

by a large majority, as the ministerial candidate. His father was then

premier of the province. During the sessions of 1872-73-74, Mr. Chauveau

gave an independent support to the Conservative government, although

often voting with the opposition during the last session of that

parliament. He was unanimously returned by the same constituency at the

general election of 1875 as an independent member, and continued during

the sessions of 1875-76-77 to judge political questions on their merits

when brought before the legislature. He was appointed solicitor-general

in the Joly administration, in March, 1878, after the _coup d’état_ of

Mr. Letellier, and was re-elected as such at the general election of the

same year. On the 19th of March, 1879, he was appointed provincial

secretary and registrar for the province of Quebec, which office he held

until the 12th of September in the same year, when, after the

adjournment of the house for the space of two months, during the

dead-lock caused by the refusal of the Legislative Council to pass the

supply bill, Mr. Chauveau sent in his resignation. The Joly government

was defeated on the 29th of October, 1879, Mr. Chauveau, with a number

of former supporters of the administration, voting with the majority on

a motion presented by Hon. Mr. Lynch, favouring a coalition as the only

remedy to settle the difficult position of the province brought about by

the fact that both parties were unable to obtain in the house sufficient

strength to form a strong administration. On the 15th of January, 1880,

Hon. Mr. Chauveau was appointed Judge of the Sessions for the province

of Quebec, and is also a commissioner of the provincial police force.

Hon. Mr. Chauveau was twice elected—1884-85—president of the Société

St. Jean Baptiste, the French-Canadian national society in Quebec. He is

also a commissioner to act judicially in extradition matters, under the

Extradition Act of Canada. He married on the 1st of August, 1871, Adèle,

eldest daughter of Hon. U. J. Tessier, judge of the Court of Queen’s

Bench.

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=Keating, Edward Henry=, Civil Engineer, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the

fourth son of William H. Keating, barrister-at-law, was born at Halifax,

N.S., on the 7th August, 1844. He is a twin, his twin brother dying in

childhood. His father when a child, in company with his parents, left

Nottingham, England, in 1812, with the intention of settling in

Pennsylvania, North America, but learning while on the passage out that

war had been declared between Great Britain and the United States, the

family changed their plans, and went to Surinam, in South America, where

shortly afterwards Mr. Keating, sen. (grandfather), died. William H.

Keating then went to England to receive his education, and having

accomplished this object, recrossed the Atlantic, and made his home in

Nova Scotia, where for many years, he filled the important office of

deputy provincial secretary of the province. Edward Henry Keating, the

subject of our sketch, was educated in his native town, at the Free

Church Academy, under George Munroe, subsequently the great New York

publisher, and afterwards at Dalhousie College; on leaving college,

early in life, he went into the employ of an architect and builder, with

the view of following architecture as a profession. For three or four

years he was engaged in architectural pursuits, and was concerned in

preparing the drawings and specifications for several public and private

buildings in Halifax and elsewhere under different architects. During

this period he devoted the greater part of his evenings and leisure to

the study of mathematics and in improving himself in other branches. In

1863 he obtained an appointment as rodman on the Nova Scotian government

railways, and from that time devoted his attention exclusively to

engineering pursuits. He was engaged on the surveys and construction of

the Pictou Railway, under Geo. Wightman, C.E., and afterwards under

Sandford Fleming, C.E., C.M.G, from the commencement to its completion,

and in consequence of his studious and painstaking habits, he rapidly

rose in the estimation of his superior officers and the government, and

in less than three years from the time of his appointment was called

upon to exercise the duties of assistant engineer. In the early part of

1867 he was appointed in charge of the draughting office on the Windsor

and Annapolis Railway by the English company who were then building the

line, and designed many of the works and structures on that road, but

finding the work of too sedentary a nature, he resigned that position in

less than a year to take part in the surveys and construction of the

Intercolonial Railway, on which he was engaged for several years in

laying out the line in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,

and in the execution of the heaviest and most difficult works on that

railway in the province of Nova Scotia. In 1871 he left the

Intercolonial Railway on the general reduction of the engineering staff,

and opened an office in Halifax for the private practice of his

profession, but being solicited by the government to undertake the

charge of an exploration survey for the then proposed Canadian Pacific

Railway, he abandoned his practice and undertook that service. After

spending the greater part of the year 1872 in this work, he returned on

a visit to Halifax to find that the civic authorities during his absence

had elected him to the office of city engineer and engineer of the water

works. Believing that the federation of the provinces and the completion

of the Intercolonial Railway would have the effect of building up his

native place and making it of the first commercial importance to Canada,

he decided to throw up his connection with the government works, and

accept the position offered him. He at once devoted himself to improving

the public works of the city and the various services which then came

under his control. Besides preparing and perfecting a plan for a general

scheme of sewerage for the town, he effected large alterations and

improvements in the water works, and was the first engineer in America

to introduce and apply successfully self-acting scraping machines in

removing, by means of hydraulic power, deposits and iron rust from the

interior of water mains and pipes. The machines he used for this purpose

were made under his own directions and from his own designs, which he

had patented both in the United States and Canada. Besides attending to

his official duties, Mr. Keating has acted as engineer to other

corporations on special occasions, and has designed and constructed

sewerage and water works in some of the neighbouring towns in his own

and the adjoining province. Amid these labours he continued to take a

deep and practical interest in the great public works of the country,

especially those affecting the welfare or interests of the Maritime

provinces and the city to which he belonged. In 1885, at the time of the

agitation over the route for the proposed so-called “Short Line Railway”

connecting the Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal with the principal

Atlantic seaports of the Dominion, Mr. Keating, at the request of the

Halifax Chamber of Commerce, investigated and reported to that body upon

the respective merits of the different rival routes. He earnestly

advocated the construction of a railway bridge across the river St.

Lawrence at Cap Rouge, near Quebec, and the adoption of a line by way of

that city as by far the best commercial route, in the interests of the

Maritime provinces, that had so far been brought under consideration. In

this view he received the unanimous support of the Chamber as well as of

the Board of Trade of Quebec. Although unsuccessful in obtaining the

adoption of the line he advocated, he offered, as his contribution to

the undertaking, to conduct the necessary connecting surveys through the

state of Maine free of charge, in order to prove the correctness of his

assertions, and his able reports and arguments on the whole question

have not yet been successfully met or answered. It might also be

mentioned that the city of Quebec offered to grant a sum of money

towards completing the surveys on the route advocated, but, for reasons

which it would be impolitic to enter upon here, the project fell

through, and a more southerly route was selected, although protested

against by the commercial community both in Halifax and Quebec. Mr.

Keating was also prominently concerned in securing a graving dock for

the port of Halifax, strongly advocating native granite as the best

material for its construction. He visited, inspected, and reported upon

all the graving docks along the Atlantic coast of America, including the

docks at Quebec and St. John’s, Newfoundland. Recently he has been

offered by the Halifax Graving Dock Company, Limited (of London), the

position of resident engineer for the new dock and coaling station now

under construction at Halifax. This office he has accepted and holds in

combination with his civic offices. In 1875 he procured leave of absence

from his civic duties, and went on a professional tour through England,

France, and Italy, visiting and inspecting many of the principal

engineering works in those countries. He has been for many years

connected with several scientific societies, and is a member of the

Institution of Civil Engineers of London; a member of the American

Society of Civil Engineers, New York; and a member of the American Water

Works Association of Cincinnati, to each of which bodies he has

contributed professional papers for study and discussion. In 1869 Mr.

Keating married Mary Little, eldest daughter of James Fleming Blanchard,

of Truro, N.S.

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=McRitchie, Rev. George=, Minister of the Methodist Church, Prescott,

Ontario, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1827. His parents, James

McRitchie and Elizabeth Miller, with their family of three children,

came to Canada in 1844. The Rev. Mr. McRitchie received his primary

education in Mr. Gilbert’s academy in Dundee; and after coming to this

country entered Victoria College, Cobourg, where he studied literature

and theology, and laid a foundation for future usefulness. He received

his early religious training in connection with the Presbyterian church,

until he reached his sixteenth year, when he began to change his

theological views, and in September, 1847, joined the Methodist

denomination, shortly after coming to this country. In 1850 he entered

the ministry of the Methodist church as a probationer, and was ordained

in Belleville, in 1854, since which time he has worked hard in the

Lord’s vineyard. He has been chairman of the Kingston, Brantford,

Brockville and Perth districts successively; and is now superintendent

of Prescott circuit and chairman of the Brockville district. The Rev.

Mr. McRitchie was a member of the committees on union in the years 1874

and 1883; in 1879 he was president of the Montreal Conference; and he

has been a delegate to each general conference since he entered the

ministry. In 1855 he was married to Eliza Eakins, of Newburg; she died

in Brockville in 1876. He was again married in 1877, to Jamesena Dunlap,

widow of the late C. D. French, of Pembroke, Ontario.

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=Graveley, Lieut.-Colonel John Vance=, Fortieth Regiment of Canadian

Militia, Cobourg, is a Canadian by birth, having been born at Cobourg,

on the 17th December, 1840. He is the eldest son of William and Margaret

Christiana Graveley. The former was born at Knasboro’, Yorkshire,

England, and was the son of John Graveley, a celebrated surgeon, who was

mainly instrumental in the discovery of the murder of Daniel Clark by

Eugene Aram, and on which Lord Lytton’s celebrated novel was founded.

His grandmother was a Locock, and closely related to Sir Charles Locock,

physician to Queen Victoria. His mother was the youngest daughter of the

late Hon. Captain Walter Boswell, R.N., one of the first settlers in

Cobourg, and who named the place. Lieut.-Colonel Graveley was educated

at Upper Canada College, entering in the first and going out in the

sixth form; and studied law, first in the office of the Hon. Sidney

Smith, Cobourg, and next in the office of Cameron and Moss, Toronto, the

firm at that time consisting of Hector Cameron, Q.C., and the late Chief

Justice Moss. He afterwards practised his profession in Cobourg for many

years. Having a strong liking for a military life, he first served as a

trooper in Colonel D’Arcy Boulton’s troop of dragoons, where he soon

rose to the rank of sergeant-major, and was then given an ensign’s

commission in the Cobourg Rifles in 1864, having held from the sixteenth

year of his age command as an ensign in the sedentary militia. In 1866

he entered the Military School at Toronto, and was attached to her

Majesty’s 47th regiment, under Colonel Lowrey, and received a second

class certificate the same year. His corps having been called on for

active service in consequence of the Fenian invasion in June of that

year, he served during the whole campaign, and earned his promotion to a

lieutenancy. On the formation of the fortieth regiment of infantry, he

was gazetted captain No. 1 company, and on the 14th November, 1876, was

made the brevet lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. During the Fenian

raid in 1870 he was again on active service. He has always taken a deep

interest in rifle-shooting, and has served on various occasions as

brigade musketry instructor for the 3rd district; and at present he is a

member of the Council of the Dominion Rifle Association, and is

president of the Cobourg Rifle Association. He was elected to the town

council of Cobourg for the years 1876-7; mayor, by acclamation, in 1880,

and held the office for six consecutive terms until 1885, when he

retired, although urged to occupy the position for a longer period; and

for these years he was also commissioner of the Cobourg town trust. He

was nominated by the Conservative party for the Ontario legislature, but

failed to secure his election in the contest that took place in

December, 1886. Lieut.-Colonel Graveley has always been a

Liberal-Conservative in politics, is an earnest supporter of all

measures having for their object union and progress, and as a native

Canadian is thoroughly loyal to his country, and expects a great future

for her. He is a Master mason, a member of St. John lodge, No. 13, and

takes a lively interest in Masonic work. He has travelled a good deal in

his day, and spent some time in England, Ireland, and France. He was

married in 1870 to Mary Jane Angell Campbell, eldest daughter of Thomas

Clifford Angell, of London, England, and his wife, Charlotte Elson, of

Hertfordshire, England, and adopted daughter of the late Major David

Campbell, of her Majesty’s 63rd regiment, who was for many years on the

staff. He with his brother, Lieut.-Colonel Robert Campbell, of H.M. 52nd

regiment, were the first settlers in Seymour, and founded what is now

the flourishing town of Campbellford, taking its name from its founder.

They both had high records for military service, but the latter Colonel

Campbell was famous as the leader of the forlorn hope at the storming of

San Sebastian in the Peninsular war, for which, and other brilliant

services during the campaign recorded in Napier’s History, he was

mentioned in Lord Wellington’s despatches, and received a gold medal and

clasp and his majority. Only three such medals were ever issued, and

were only given for special service. Colonel Campbell died of his wounds

at Campbellford; his brother, the major, survived him many years, dying

in 1881 at the advanced age of ninety-seven. Four bullets received at

San Sebastian, and taken from the colonel’s body after death, are

preserved with the gold medal and clasp, sabre and epaulets, with highly

commendatory and friendly letters from the Duke of Kent, the Duke of

York, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Palmerston, and the Prince Regent, are

preserved as sacred relics, and afford interesting study of departed

greatness. “_Sic gloria transit mundi._”

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=Roche, William=, jr., M.P.P., Coal and Commission Merchant, Halifax,

Nova Scotia, was born in Halifax in 1842. His father, William Roche, is

a merchant in Halifax, and his mother was named Susan M. Roche. His

uncle, Charles Roche, represented Shelburne, N.S., in the Provincial

Assembly from 1830 to 1835. The grandparents of Mr. Roche were

loyalists, and moved from the state of New York in 1783 to Nova Scotia,

and settled in Shelburne. The family is of Irish descent. William

received his education at the Halifax, Dalhousie, and Free Church

academies, and on leaving school selected commerce as a profession. He

now carries on a large coal and commission business, and is agent for

several steamship companies. For some years he was a member of the

school board, and in 1886 occupied the position of chairman of that

body. In politics Mr. Roche is a Liberal, and at the general elections

held in 1886 was chosen, by a majority of 950, to represent Halifax in

the Provincial Assembly, and is a firm supporter of the present

government. He is a director of the Union Bank of Halifax. Mr. Roche is

an adherent of the Episcopal church.

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=Mitchell, Samuel E.=, Bookseller and Publisher, Pembroke, Ontario, was

born on the 8th of December, 1836, at Bury, Lancashire, England. He is a

son of John Mitchell, J.P., formerly of Bury, but now of Clitheroe,

Lancashire, England, senior member of the firm of John Mitchell and

Sons, paper manufacturers, Primrose Paper Mills, Clitheroe. Samuel was

educated at the Bury private and grammar schools. He came to Canada in

1858, and settled in Pembroke, where he has ever since resided. He

commenced business in 1863, in company with John G. Cormack, as

druggists, booksellers and stationers, which business partnership was

dissolved in 1866, Mr. Cormack taking the drug, and he the books and

stationery, and the latter he has carried on continuously to this time.

Mr. Mitchell was appointed clerk of the county council of the county of

Renfrew, in January, 1869, and has continued to hold this office ever

since. He has never missed a meeting of council since his appointment,

from illness or other cause. He was high and public school trustee of

the town for several years, until his appointment to the above clerkship

brought him under that law which says that no municipal officer shall be

a school trustee. He was made a justice of the peace for the county of

Renfrew in June, 1876; police magistrate in and for the town of Pembroke

on the 17th April, 1884, and police magistrate in and for the county of

Renfrew, on 1st June, 1887. As a magistrate Mr. Mitchell has been very

successful, and has received high commendations from both political

local newspapers. The Pembroke _Standard_ (Conservative) of the 20th

November, 1886, thus spoke kindly of him:

The charge of murdering her husband brought against Mary Dunlop,

of Mink Lake, was investigated last week before S. E. Mitchell,

Esq., police magistrate, at great length, occupying five days

and the half of the intervening nights. Many questions of an

important nature had to be decided by his worship, and the

ability and learning with which he disposed of them are shown by

the fact that at the close of the evidence the counsel on both

sides expressed their entire satisfaction and appreciation of

the fairness shown to each by the bench. It is almost needless

to say that no other justice of the peace for the county could

have displayed as much ability and skill in the hearing of this

important case. At the close his worship delivered a most

eloquent and instructive address on the gradual development of

our criminal law and the duties of the court on such a case

arising. There was no evidence brought out that would point to

the guilt of the prisoner. She was consequently discharged, and

the matter remains as great a mystery as ever.

The same paper again, in its edition of the 25th January, 1887, thus

alludes to Mr. Mitchell:—

There is an agitation on foot at present to get the county

council . . . . to recommend the appointment of Mr. S. E.

Mitchell as police magistrate for the county of Renfrew, with a

view to the better enforcement of the Scott Act. Mr. Mitchell

has made it a special study, and, so far as we have been able to

learn, the decisions rendered by him since he has occupied the

position of town police magistrate have not only been in

accordance with the facts of the cases in question, but from a

legal point of view have been eminently satisfactory to those

who are versed in the law and understand its meaning. He is also

a pronounced temperance advocate, and would no doubt render

valuable assistance to the temperance people, who are anxious to

see the Scott Act properly enforced.

The Pembroke _Observer_ (Liberal) of 28th January, 1887, has also a good

word to say in favour of Mr. Mitchell:—

The question of recommending the Ontario Government to appoint

S. E. Mitchell, Esq., police magistrate for the county of

Renfrew, will come before the county council now in session

here. Every member of the council will, of course, admit that

Mr. Mitchell is a gentleman in every way fitted for the position

of county police magistrate. He is scholarly, and well versed in

the law; and his appointment would be a gratification to the

supporters of the Scott Act. It is said, however, that many of

the councillors are opposed to the appointment, on the ground

that it would entail considerable expense on the county. The

committee will probably report on the matter to-day, and then we

shall see how the matter stands. One thing is certain—Mr.

Mitchell will bring eloquence, ability, and good judgment to the

bench, should he receive the appointment.

Although the council, being decidedly anti-Scott Act, failed to

recommend Mr. Mitchell for the office, nevertheless the Ontario

government, to its credit, on the recommendation of the License Board

and the county branch of the Dominion Alliance for the suppression of

the liquor traffic, appointed him to the office. Mr. Mitchell has had a

hand in almost every public and private movement inaugurated in Pembroke

during his long residence of about thirty years. Among others, the

establishment of the Pembroke Philharmonic Society; the building up of

the Pembroke lodge, No. 128, G.R.C. Free and Accepted Masons, the

mastership of which he held during the years 1870 and 1871; the Pembroke

lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, and temperance societies

in general. He delivered an address on “Oddfellowship” at the

anniversary celebration of the Renfrew lodge, which at the time was

characterised by the Noble Grand as the finest presentation of objects

of the order he had ever listened to, and after hearing Mr. Mitchell

give a song, the same high dignitary said “Mr. Mitchell had proved

himself as good a singer as he was an orator.” Mr. Mitchell is a staunch

Reformer, and was for many years president of the Pembroke Reform

Association, up until 1886, when he found the position somewhat

incompatible with that of police magistrate, and resigned. He has always

occupied a foremost place in the councils of his party in his district,

and has on some occasions been spoken of as the coming man for

legislative honours, but various considerations have prevented him from

complying with the kind solicitations of his political friends. He was

brought up in the Church of England, but in 1859 he joined the Methodist

church of Canada, and has continued to be a member of that church over

since. He has served on some of the most important of the church

committees for about a quarter of a century, and was a member of the

General Conference of 1878. Mr. Mitchell has been twice married. First,

in 1860, to Mary Ann, daughter of D. B. Warren, of Allumettes Island,

county of Pontiac, Quebec province, who died in 1868, leaving three

children, who still survive. Second, in 1869, to Ellen Jane, daughter of

John Deacon, J.P., of South Sherbrooke, county Lanark, Ontario, and

sister of John Deacon, county judge of Renfrew, by whom he has two

surviving children.

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=Beek, James Scott=, Auditor-General of the Province of New Brunswick,

Fredericton, is an Irishman by birth, having been born in Bandon, county

of Cork, on the 1st June, 1814. His parents, Joseph and Mary Beek, both

natives of the same county, were born in Cork city. James came with his

father, his mother having died in Ireland, to New Brunswick in 1823, and

settled in Fredericton, where Mr. Beek, senr., held the office of

registrar of deeds and wills at the time of his death. James Scott Beek

attended for some time the public school at Fredericton, but most of his

education was obtained by private study, he acting as his own tutor,

both before and while serving as a merchant’s clerk. After this he went

into business for himself in Fredericton, and for about twenty years he

dealt in general merchandise, retiring in 1856. For the past thirty

years or more Mr. Beek has been constantly in one or more offices

connected with the municipality of the city of Fredericton, or of the

province of New Brunswick. He was alderman for about a dozen years,

mayor for three consecutive terms, commencing in 1859; judge of the

Court of Common Pleas for several years; has been a justice of the peace

for a long period; was librarian for the Legislative Assembly from 1864

to 1867, and from the latter year has acted in the capacity of

auditor-general for the province. In this latter position he has proved

himself a most painstaking official, as the reports he issues annually

amply prove. His motto seems to be: “Whatever is worth doing is worth

doing well.” Mr. Beek is a Liberal-Conservative in politics, and in his

younger days was an energetic worker for his party. He is a member of

the Masonic fraternity, and occupies the position in the order of master

mason. In religious matters he is an adherent of the Church of England,

and has on several occasions been a delegate from the Cathedral to the

Church Society. He is a firm believer in total abstinence from the use

of intoxicants as a drink, and of late years has done good service to

the cause of temperance by working hard as a prohibitionist, and as the

president of the United Temperance Association of New Brunswick, to

suppress the liquor traffic, and as a Son of Temperance. He is a man of

warm feelings and a true friend to his brother man. Mr. Beek has been

three times married; first, to Margaret Barker, of Mangerville; second,

to Mary Elizabeth Garrison, of St. John, both deceased; and then to Emma

R. daughter of the Hon. John K. Partelow, of Fredericton. He has one

child living by the first wife and one daughter by the second, and has

lost children by both wives.

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=Lord, Major Artemas=, Agent of the Marine Department, Charlottetown.

Prince Edward Island, was born at Tryon, P.E.I., on the 10th May, 1835.

His father, James Lord, and his mother, Lydia Lea, were both of English

descent. His paternal grandfather was among the number of loyal

Englishmen who, at the outbreak of the American revolutionary war, gave

up all their worldly possessions, refused to fight against their

rightful sovereign, left the state of Massachusetts and moved to Prince

Edward Island, where they found a home more congenial to their tastes.

Artemas Lord, having been deprived of the tender care of his mother, who

died when he was only sixteen months old, was adopted by his uncle, W.

W. Lord, who afterwards provided for all his wants and set him afloat in

the world. When he was five years old his uncle and aunt removed to

Charlottetown and took the boy with them. And here they sent him to a

private school; next to the Central Academy (now the Prince of Wales’

College), and then to the academy at Sackville, New Brunswick, where he

received a thorough mercantile training. At eighteen he left school, but

finding his health considerably impaired through confinement and close

study, he resolved to take a few sea voyages with the object of

restoring his health, and for three years thereafter he sailed in one of

his uncle’s ships trading between Charlottetown and England. In 1856 he

entered into partnership with his uncle, under the firm name of W. W.

Lord & Co., general merchants and shipowners, and this partnership

lasted until 1864, during which time they built and owned ships which

traded to the West Indies, to the southern cotton ports, to the River

Plata, to Great Britain, and to the East Indies, when his uncle retired,

and he continued the business under the old name, until 1878. In 1864

Mr. Lord joined the first battery of volunteer artillery, and in 1868 he

was appointed to the command of the second battery, which position he

held until 1873, when Prince Edward Island became part of the Dominion

of Canada, at which time he applied to be, and was placed on the retired

list, with the rank of major. When the question of providing Prince

Edward Island with a railway was before the public Mr. Lord took a very

active part in the agitation, and helped to carry the measure. He, too,

was found among the ranks of those who went in for confederation; and

when the people agreed to throw in their lot with the other provinces,

he chose the party led by Sir John A. Macdonald, and has ever since

supported it on patriotic grounds. In 1859 Mr. Lord joined St. John’s

lodge, and has continued to keep up his connection with the Masonic

order ever since. In 1881 he was appointed agent of the Marine

department for the province, and retired from active mercantile life to

attend to the duties of the office. His connection with the shipping

business enabled him in his younger days to see a good part of the

world; and he made no less than nineteen round trips across the

Atlantic. He spent three winters in London, Liverpool, and other towns

in England, and also visited the Highlands of Scotland, part of Ireland,

and other places in the old land, combining business with pleasure. In

political matters, as we have seen, he is a Liberal-Conservative; and in

religious matters, though brought up in the Wesleyan Methodist fold, he

saw fit, in 1876, to change to that of the Presbyterian church. In 1859,

he was married to Carrie M. Rich, daughter of Lathley Rich, of

Frankfort, Maine, who died in 1864, leaving a little boy who survived

his mother only seventeen months. Four years after, in 1869, he married

Margaret P. S. Gray, daughter of colonel the Hon. John Hamilton Gray,

chairman of the first convention called in Prince Edward Island to

consider the question of confederation. This gentleman, in 1869, held

the position of adjutant-general for the province of Prince Edward

Island, and at the time was well known throughout the Dominion as a

large hearted, prominent public man. A few years ago he retired into

private life. Mr. Lord has a family of three boys and two girls alive,

and three boys dead. His uncle and aunt are still alive—his uncle being

now (1887) eighty-nine years and his aunt eighty-seven years of age—and

having been married over sixty years. This venerable couple are now

enjoying the fruits of a happy life spent in each other’s society. They

are highly respected by all in the city in which they have spent the

greater part of their useful lives. They never had any children of their

own, but many nevertheless bless them this day for assistance and

counsel given them in the past. Hon. W. W. Lord, we may add, was for

more than thirty years an active politician, and sat in the local

legislature as representative for his native county, and took an active

part in council with such leaders as Coles, Pope, Whelan, Mooney and

others in all measures that had for their object the good of his

country. Mrs. Lord is an active worker in the church, and prominent in

all works of charity and mercy.

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=McLeod, Hon. Neil=, M.A., Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Member

of the Executive Council, M.P.P. for Charlottetown and Royalty, is of

Scotch descent, and was born on the 15th December, 1842, at Uigg, Queens

county, Prince Edward Island. His parents were Roderick McLeod and Flora

McDonald. He was educated at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia,

and received from that institution the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He chose

law as a profession, and was called to the bar of Prince Edward Island

in 1872. He is now a member of the well known firm of McLeod, Morson,

and McQuarrie, with offices at Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I. Mr.

McLeod was first elected to the House of Assembly at the general

election in 1879; was sworn in a member of the Executive Council, and on

the 11th March, of the same year, appointed provincial secretary and

treasurer. This office he held until March, 1880, when he resigned, with

the object of applying himself more closely to his professional duties,

but still remained a member of the government without a portfolio. He

was re-elected to the Assembly at the general election of 1882, and

again at the last general election, and is now a member of the

government. Hon. Mr. McLeod holds the position of chairman of the

Poorhouse Commissioners, and is also a trustee of the Provincial Lunatic

Asylum. In politics he is a Liberal-Conservative, and in religious

matters he has, from youth up, been a member of the Baptist

denomination. He stands high among his fellow citizens as a man of

probity, intelligence and culture. In June, 1877, he was married to

Adelia, only daughter of James Hayden, of Vernon River, Prince Edward

Island.

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=Le May, Léon Pamphile=, _Homme de Lettres_, Quebec, Chief Librarian of

the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, was born at Lotbinière, on the 5th

of January, 1837. His ancestor was Michel Le May, or Le Mée, who came to

Canada more than two centuries ago, from the diocese of Angers, France.

He settled, in 1666, at Three Rivers, where he was a farmer, and in

1681, removed to Lotbinière. Some members of the family are still

residing in the latter place. He had thirteen children, whose

descendants are scattered over the Dominion and the United States. The

father of our subject was Léon Le May, farmer and merchant; and his

mother, Louise Anger. They had a family of fourteen children. Léon

Pamphile Le May received his education at the Quebec Seminary, studied

law for some time, and then went to the United States, in search of a

fortune. At the end of two years he returned to Canada, and engaged

himself as a clerk in a mercantile house, in Sherbrooke, Quebec

province. He soon discovered that he had no taste for mercantile

pursuits, and soon after we find him in Ottawa, invested with the

cassock, and studying theology. In 1861, dyspepsia compelled him to

leave the cloister. In 1862, he was given employment as a French

translator in the Legislative Assembly, Quebec, at the same time

resuming his legal studies. He was admitted to practice in 1865, and

went to reside in his native place, Lotbinière. In 1872, he returned to

Quebec, and took the position he occupies at the present time—chief

librarian of the Legislative Assembly. As Mr. Le May is a “book-worm,”

the employment is congenial to him. When a young man, he commenced

writing for the press, and his writings at once attracted the notice of

the _littérateurs_ of Canada, the United States and France. In 1865, he

published his first work, “Essais Poétiques,” a volume of over 300

pages, which was cordially received, and placed him in the first rank.

In 1870 appeared a translation of Longfellow’s “Evangeline,” which

raised Mr. Le May to a high position among the Canadian poets.

Longfellow sent a congratulatory letter to the poet, and ever afterwards

treated him as a friend. The translation is looked upon as Mr. Le May’s

master-piece, and he can safely rest his reputation on it. The pathetic

story of the Acadian exiles is admirably told; the poet’s soul seems to

have been invaded by the sorrow he is describing; in fact, he _lives_

his subject, while the harmony and flexibility of the verse leave

nothing to be desired. There have appeared since that time, in the order

mentioned: “Deux poèmes couronnés,” Quebec, 1870, for which the author

received two gold medals; “Les Vengeances,” Poème, Quebec; “Les

Vengeances,” drama in six acts; “Le Pèlerin de Sainte-Anne,” a novel, 2

vols., Quebec, 1877; “Picounoc, le Maudit,” a novel, 2 vols., Quebec,

1878; “Une Gerbe,” miscellaneous poetry, Quebec, 1879; “Fables

Canadiennes,” 1 vol., Quebec, 1882; “L’affaire Sougraine,” novel, 1

vol., Quebec, 1884. The following criticism is from the pen of Louis

Honoré Fréchette, the poet-laureate, whose works “Les Fleurs Boréales et

les Oiseaux de Neige,” have been crowned by the French Academy. Mr.

Fréchette, as is well known, is not tender, as a rule, to his brother

poets and _confrères_: “It has not the booming of the mad torrent: it is

the purling of a fountain on a mossy bed; it has not the roaring of the

lion: it is the cooing of the dove; it has not the bold swoop of the

eagle: it is the timid undulation of the cygnet.” Mr. Le May married, in

1863, Selima Robitaille, of Quebec, and they have twelve children, five

sons and seven daughters.

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=Murchie, James=, St. Stephen, ex-M.P.P. for Charlotte county, New

Brunswick, and one of the leading merchants, lumber manufacturers, and

ship owners of that county, is a native of St. Stephen, having been born

on the 16th of August, 1813. His father, Andrew Murchie, was from

Paisley, Scotland, and his mother, Janet Campbell, was a native of New

Brunswick, and a daughter of Colin Campbell. James Murchie was educated

at St. Stephen, and remained on his father’s farm until he became of

age, and since that period has been engaged in manufacturing lumber on

the St. Croix river, merchandising, and shipping, being one of the most

extensive operators in those branches of industry in this valley. The

firm of James Murchie and Sons has mills at Benton, Deer Lake, and

Edmundston, on the New Brunswick Railway, as well as at Calais, Maine,

and are cutting about 20,000,000 feet per annum. This firm also owns

200,000 acres of timber land, nearly half of it being in the province of

Quebec, and about 38,000 in Maine, and the balance in New Brunswick. Mr.

Murchie, who was a captain of militia in his younger days, is one of the

oldest magistrates in this part of the country. He served for some years

as school trustee, and has held, in fact, nearly all the local offices

in the gift of the people, being painstaking and efficient in

discharging the duties which he assumes. He represented Charlotte county

in the House of Assembly from 1874 to 1878, being sent there by his

Liberal-Conservative friends, and while in that legislative body secured

the repeal of the Wild Land Tax Act, which had been attempted in vain by

previous representatives from his county. He also carried other bills

regarded as very important, and proved himself a diligent law as well as

a lumber maker. He is one of the directors of the St. Stephen Bank; of

two bridge corporations; the Calais Tug Boat Company, and other

incorporated companies; vice-president of the New Brunswick and Canada

Railway; president of the Frontier Steamboat Company; St. Croix Lloyds

Insurance Company, and the St. Croix Cotton Mill Company. He was a

leading force in engineering this last enterprise, giving several weeks’

time to getting the company organised, its capital ($500,000) taken, the

site secured for the mill, the corner stone laid, &c. The last act

mentioned was done by the Masonic order on the 24th June, 1881, and

marked an epoch in the history of the town of Milltown, in which our

subject resides, being the owner of the finest house in the place. This

cotton mill is 517 feet long, 98 feet wide, and four stories above the

basement, in addition to which are dye house, &c., which cover nearly

two-thirds as much ground as the main building. The erection of this

mill has converted one of the most squalid parts of the town into the

most thrifty and industrious, and added from 800 to 1,000 inhabitants to

the place. Mr. Murchie has done, and is doing, a great deal to encourage

home industry, knowing that all such enterprises tend to increase the

value of his own property as well as the prosperity of the country. It

is a few such men as he—men of energy, push, and pluck—found in St.

Stephen, Calais, and Milltown, that have built up this trinity of towns,

and given them their present air of thriftiness. Milltown, the smallest

of all, is just now probably the liveliest of the three. Mr. Murchie was

also a leading stockholder and organiser in the Calais Shoe Factory,

which employs 300 or 400 hands. He is a member and trustee of the

Congregational Church, Milltown, which body has a house of worship which

is a gem of architecture; and it is the impression of the community that

no such elegant and costly structure could have been reared in the

little town without both the shaping and the plethoric pocket of Mr.

Murchie. He was first married, in 1836, to Mary Ann Grimmer, daughter of

John Grimmer, late collector of customs, at St. Stephen. She died in

1857, leaving ten children. He was married the second time, in 1860, to

Margaret Thorpe, daughter of Jackson Thorpe, of St. George, Charlotte

county, having by her three children. She died in 1872. All of the

children excepting one boy, who is at school, are settled in life. Five

of the sons—John G., William A., James S., George A., and Henry S.—are

in business with their father. The first, John G., ex-mayor of the city

of Calais, is director of the Calais Tug Boat Company, and St. Croix

Lloyds Insurance Company; the second, William A., is treasurer of the

Calais Tug Boat Company, director of the Calais Shoe Factory and

vice-consul of Brazil and the Argentine Republic. Two other sons,

Charles F. and Horace B., are in the commission business on Wall Street,

New York. His daughters are all married.

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=Morse, Hon. William Agnew Denny=, Amherst, Judge of Probate for

Cumberland, Marshal in Court of Vice-Admiralty, Halifax, Chairman of the

Liquor Licence Board, Judge of the County Courts of Pictou and

Cumberland, and Revising Barrister, Halifax, was born on the 13th

January, 1837, at Amherst, county of Cumberland, N.S. His father, the

Hon. Shannon Morse, studied law with the Hon. Ames Botsford, of

Westmoreland, who was one of the most distinguished men of his day in

the Maritime provinces. He afterwards entered public life, and from 1819

to 1842 took a most active part in all the leading questions of these

times, and for several years of this period he represented the town of

Amherst in the local legislature. In 1842 he resigned his position in

the Legislative Council, and retired into private life and devoted his

time to the reclaiming and draining a large tract of marsh land, which

operation, his son, Judge Morse, is now carrying on and completing.

Judge Morse’s grandfather, A. Morse, settled on a tract of land granted

by the Crown to his father (the judge’s great-grandfather). This

gentleman had been an officer in the British army, serving under Lord

Amherst (then Sir Jeffrey Amherst) during the French and Indian wars,

which closed by Britain becoming possessed of the North American

provinces, and in connection with Colonel F. W. Desbarres, Colonel

Franklyn, Captains Gmelin and Gorham settled that beautiful and fertile

tract of country situated at the head of the Bay of Fundy, and known by

the French as Beaubassin. In an old document in the possession of Judge

Morse, we find the following interesting record: “At the close of the

war which accomplished the conquest of all the territories occupied by

the French in North America, six individuals proposed, in concurrence

with the intentions of his Majesty’s government, to carry on settlements

in the then infant colony of Nova Scotia, praying suitable tracts of

land for that purpose, and thereupon orders were passed which obtained

for Joseph Morse and his associates 34,000 acres of land, in the town of

Cumberland, 23rd day of November, 1763.” And under this grant Mr. Morse,

and the four gentlemen alluded to above, laid the foundation of the

first English settlement, formed after the expulsion of the French,

which has grown in wealth and prosperity ever since. In the biography of

Jos. Morse, written by his kinsman, the Rev. Dr. Morse, this tract of

land is spoken of as having been granted him, to compensate him for his

services and losses in the French and Indian wars. He died at Fort

Lawrence, in Cumberland, and his cousin, Colonel Robert Morse, who, as

colonel of the Engineers under Sir Guy Carleton, was the author of the

“Report on Fortifications and Defences of Nova Scotia,” a document now

deservedly ranked among the most interesting of the historical documents

of our archives. Judge Morse’s mother, Augusta Agnew Kinnear was the

grand-daughter of Andrew Kinnear, who commanded at Fort Cumberland in

1808, and was with Ames Botsford, the first members for the county of

Westmoreland, who sat in the New Brunswick legislature after that

province was separated from Nova Scotia. Judge Morse received his

education at the private school taught by Dr. Hea, and at Sackville

Academy, where he received a sound English and classical education. He

afterwards studied law, and for years successfully practised his

profession. He was then called to the bench, and appointed judge of

Probate for Cumberland, and subsequently marshal in the Vice-Admiralty

Court at Halifax, chairman of the Liquor Licence board, judge of the

County Courts of Pictou and Cumberland, and revising barrister under the

Dominion election law. Since his elevation to the bench, Judge Morse has

ceased to hold the offices of marshall in the Vice-Admiralty Court and

judge of Probates. Judge Morse takes quite an interest in agricultural

matters, and has succeeded in reclaiming by ditching and draining large

tracts of marsh land and adding haygrounds and increasing the taxable

property of Cumberland, and is removing the obstructions from the River

La Blanche, by which the tide waters of the Bay of Fundy are permitted

to run up the marshes of Cumberland, and thereby convert, by drainage,

bog lands into solid hay yielding lands, some of which are now producing

two to three tons to the acre. In religious matters, Judge Morse is an

adherent of the Church of England, and in politics leans to Reform

principles. He was married on the 16th December, 1873, to Ella Frances

Rebecca Boggs, whose family were among the first of the old Halifax U.

E. loyalists who came from the United States, in 1780, on account of the

rebellion.

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=Morrow, John=, Toronto, Inspector of Inland Revenue for the District of

Toronto, was born in the county of York, near Toronto, Ontario, in 1832.

His father, James Morrow, came to Canada from the county of Cavan,

Ireland, in 1819, and his mother, Miss McNeil, came from the same

district in Ireland in 1824. The vessel in which she, her mother, and

brother, embarked for America, suffered shipwreck on St. Paul’s island,

at the mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, when nearly all on board

perished, including Mrs. McNeil. John Morrow was brought up on the farm

possessed by his parents in York county, and received his primary

education in the public school of the district, but when he was about

sixteen years of age was induced by the late Dr. Ryerson to go to the

Normal School in Toronto, and he attended its sessions during

1849-50-51, and then graduated. He took up teaching as a profession, and

successfully taught school for about twelve years. In 1866 he was

appointed by the Dominion government deputy collector of inland revenue

for the Toronto division; in 1873 he was promoted to the collectorship;

and in 1881 was appointed inspector of the Toronto district, which

office he now satisfactorily fills. Mr. Morrow is an adherent of the

Methodist church. He was married in 1855 to Miss Sankey, the eldest

daughter of the late John Sankey, builder, of York county.

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=Meredith, Sir William Collis=, K.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Quebec, who for a

great number of years occupied the position of Chief Justice of the

Superior Court of the province of Quebec, was born in the city of

Dublin, on 23rd May, 1812. His father was the Rev. Dr. Thomas Meredith,

rector of Ardtrea, in the county of Tyrone, Ireland; and his mother,

Eliza, daughter of the Very Rev. Richard Graves, D.D., dean of Ardagh.

Rev. Dr. Thomas Meredith having died, his widow in 1824 married the Rev.

Edward Burton, and came out to Canada with that gentleman, bringing with

her four of her children by her first marriage, the eldest being William

Collis, the subject of our sketch. The family settled at Rawdon, north

of Montreal, where the Rev. Mr. Burton had a mission under the Society

for the Propagation of the Gospel. Before leaving Ireland William had

passed some years at Dr. Behan’s school in Wexford, and after his

arrival in Canada his education was continued under the care of his

step-father, who was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He was also

greatly aided and encouraged in his studies at this time by his mother,

who was a woman of great culture and refinement, and possessed of great

energy and force of character. Mr. Meredith’s legal studies were

commenced in 1831, in the office of S. de Bleury, and continued in that

of J. C. Grant, Q.C., Montreal, both advocates of eminence. He was

admitted to the bar in December, 1836, and was made a Queen’s counsel in

1844. In the same year he was offered and declined the office of

solicitor-general, and subsequently that of attorney-general; and in

1847, having been again offered the position of attorney-general, he

once more declined that high position in the Draper administration. In

December, 1849, Mr. Meredith was appointed a judge of the Superior Court

of the Province of Quebec by the Lafontaine-Baldwin administration, and

abandoned with some regret the practice of a profession to which he was

greatly attached, leaving to his partner, Strachan Bethune, Q.C., and

the late Hon. Judge Dunkin, we believe, the largest legal business which

at that time had been brought together by a single professional firm in

the Province of Quebec. At the earnest solicitation of the government of

Canada (Sir George E. Cartier being then attorney-general), and in

compliance with the wishes of the leading members of the Montreal bar,

Judge Meredith consented to be removed from the Superior Court to the

Court of Queen’s Bench—that being the Court of Appeal for the

province—and this appointment was approved of by a unanimous resolution

of the Quebec bar. While a member of this court, several of his

judgments were highly spoken of by the lords of the Privy Council in

England. Judge Meredith continued to occupy a seat in the Queen’s Bench

until the death of the Hon. Edward Bowen, chief justice of the Superior

Court in 1866, when he was appointed to that high office, which he held

until 1884, when failing health forced him to resign the position which

for so many years he had held, and the duties of which he discharged

with his characteristic energy and ability to the entire satisfaction of

the profession and the public. As far back as 1844 Judge Meredith was

requested to accept the professorship of law in the University of McGill

College, in Montreal, by the then principal, Chief Justice Vallières,

but the pressure of his professional duties compelled him to refuse the

proffered honour. In 1844 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from

Lennoxville University, and eleven years afterwards (6th September,

1865), upon the nomination of the Lord Bishop of Quebec, he was

unanimously elected chancellor of that university—but his judicial

duties were such that he could not assume the responsibility of the

office. In 1880 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Laval

University, Quebec; and in the month of June, 1886, her most Gracious

Majesty Queen Victoria conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. In

1847 Judge Meredith was married to Sophia Naters, youngest daughter of

the late Dr. W. E. Holmes, of Quebec, and the union has been blessed

with a numerous family, of whom three sons and four daughters are still

living.

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=Harris, Very Rev. William Richard=, B.D., Dean of St. Catharines, in

the Roman Catholic Arch-Diocese of Toronto.—Among the clergy of the

Roman Catholic arch-diocese of Toronto, there are many learned, earnest,

and pious priests, but among them all we doubt if there is one of his

age who ranks higher in the estimation of his fellow priests and all

those of the laity who have had the privilege of his acquaintance than

does the Very Rev. William Richard Harris, parish priest of the city of

St. Catharines, and dean of that portion of the Roman Catholic

arch-diocese of Toronto known as the Niagara peninsula. Dean Harris can

hardly yet be said to have reached the prime of life, yet so mature is

his mind and well disciplined are his faculties that it is not

surprising to those who know him that he has so suddenly and prominently

come to the front in his church. For a young man he is remarkable for

vigour, both of mind and body—a vigour which is always wisely and well

directed in the discharge of whatever duties he undertakes. The church

has in him, if he is spared, the staff which must place him in a high

and useful position in its service. There is before him a bright and

brilliant career, or else we are much mistaken. The very reverend

gentleman was born on the 3rd of March, 1847, in the city of Cork,

Ireland, the birthplace of many of the most distinguished sons of the

Green Isle. At an early age he came to this country with his parents,

entered St. Michael’s College, Toronto, and having finished his

classical course in this well-known institution of learning, went to

Ste. Anne’s Seminary, Quebec, to complete a course of metaphysics and

philosophy. In 1869 he was appointed secretary to his Grace the

Archbishop of Toronto, and accompanied that distinguished prelate to

Rome when summoned by Papal brief to attend the Œcumenical Council.

Immediately after the opening of this memorable council, our subject

entered the famous College of the Propaganda, where he finished his

course of theology, and took his degree of Bachelor of Divinity. On the

21st June, 1870, he was ordained priest by Cardinal Patrizzi, in the

historic church of St. Mary Major. The venerable Archbishop of Toronto

and he left Rome on the first day of July of that year, and visited the

principal cities of the continent of Europe. On his return to Canada he

continued to fill for some time the responsible position of secretary to

his grace, when, in recognition of his services and abilities, he was

appointed to the rectorship of Adjala, at that time the most important

rural parish in the diocese. Here he continued to labour for five years,

having during that time faithfully discharged the onerous and

responsible duties associated with that position. Under his pastorship

was erected St. Mary’s Church, West Adjala, and improvements to the

amount of $7,000 dollars were made in that parish. In 1875 he was

summoned to the rectorship of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Toronto, bearing

with him to that very responsible position the best wishes of the people

of Adjala, and a substantial recognition of his labours and services

among them. We may here remark, that he did very much to create and

perpetuate that friendly feeling of toleration and liberality which is

so characteristic of the people of that section of the country. In fact,

it is said of him that in whatever position he has been placed he has

shed around him a kindly influence, which has been instrumental in

removing the asperities of religious rancour, and bringing into more

friendly association the members of the various religious denominations.

In his position of rector of St. Michael’s Cathedral, a large field for

the exercise of his conspicuous administrative abilities lay open before

him. The pressure of hard work gradually told on his constitution, and

in consequence he resigned the rectorship of the cathedral, and sought

the seclusion which the smaller parish of Newmarket afforded him. Here

he continued to labour for eight years, during which time he completed

the church in that town, erected the fine modern presbytery, and built

the large brick school house adjoining the church. His improvements in

this parish during those eight years represented an expenditure of over

$12,000. His health having improved, he was again selected to fill one

of the most responsible positions in the arch-diocese, and was appointed

to the important and influential parish of St. Catharines, and dean of

the Niagara peninsula, which position he holds with great credit to

himself and advantage, both spiritual and temporal, to those over whom

his ecclesiastical superior has wisely placed him. During his short

administration of his present parish he has shown a wonderful amount of

administrative ability, and up to the present writing has wiped out a

debt of $8,000. Showing his deep interest in the education of his

people, he has just begun the important work of erecting for the Roman

Catholic separate schools the finest school building on the Niagara

peninsula, in which are introduced all modern improvements calculated to

add to the health and comfort of both teachers and pupils. In all

probability before the expiration of two years he will have completed

buildings costing in the aggregate $30,000. While devoting much time and

great energy to the work peculiar to his priestly office, he finds time

for close and careful study, which is evidenced by the manner and matter

of his sermons and pulpit discourses. He also takes a deep interest in

popular education, and has lost no opportunity of pushing on the

education and improvement of the masses, irrespective of creed or

nationality. As an evidence of this, we may mention that for many years

he was prominently identified with the Mechanics’ Institute, an

association of which he was twice chosen vice-president. Indeed, such

was his standing among the delegates that when, in 1882, his name was

put in nomination for the presidency he was elected by acclamation. This

honour was conferred upon him by a convention of eighty-four

representatives, all of whom were Protestants. When the control of the

association passed into the hands of the Minister of Education, the

reverend gentleman was presented by the members of the executive board

with an embossed address and a handsome testimonial. While on the

executive board of the Mechanics’ Institute Association, he was selected

to represent the society on the executive committee of the Industrial

Exhibition Association. Before his departure from Newmarket, the

inhabitants of that town, irrespective of creed or nationality, heartily

joined in congratulating him on his promotion, and in a public meeting,

presided over by the reeve of the town, presented him with a most

flattering address, accompanied with a valuable testimonial. With such a

record did the Very Reverend Dean Harris come to the city of St.

Catharines, and we are in a position, from close observation of his

actions since he came, to assert that he is as useful and popular here

as he was in Newmarket, and if his health holds out for a few years he

will leave the impress of his enlightenment and manly character on the

inhabitants of that city.

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=Hearn, David A.=, Barrister, Arichat, M.P.P. for Richmond county, Nova

Scotia, was born in Arichat, N.S., on the 14th of February, 1853. His

parents were James Hearn and Isabella Campbell. His paternal grandfather

came from Waterford, Ireland, and settled in Newfoundland, in 1817, and

removed to Arichat, in 1822. His mother was a descendant of the

Campbells, of the Island of Coll, Scotland. David received his education

in the academy at Arichat, and studied law, first in the office of his

brother, James H. Hearn, at Sydney, and afterwards with the Hon. Senator

William Miller. He read up at the Law Library of Halifax for four months

previous to his final examination, and was admitted to the bar of Nova

Scotia, in 1878; and has successfully carried on his profession at

Arichat ever since. In 1879 he was appointed a school commissioner, and

still occupies the same position. In 1881 he was made a census

commissioner; and in 1883 he was chief inspector of licenses for

Richmond county under the Liquor License Act passed that year. In 1882-3

he filled the office of county solicitor, and in the following year was

elected a member of the municipal council of Richmond county, and was

re-elected in 1886. He was chiefly instrumental in the council in having

steam communication renewed at Lennox Passage. He also succeeded in

changing the system of assessment, so as to equalise the burthen of

taxation on the ratepayers; and also inaugurated retrenchment and reform

in the council. In 1878 he was chief organiser for the Conservative

party in Richmond; but refused to recognise H. Paint as the Conservative

candidate in 1882; and again in 1887 he supported E. P. Flynn, the

Liberal candidate for the House of Commons at Ottawa, in preference to

Mr. Paint. At the general election of 1886 Mr. Hearn was elected to

represent the county of Richmond in the Legislative Assembly of Nova

Scotia. His position in the house is thoroughly independent of party,

and he thinks there should be no party politics in the local

legislature. He, however, believes in the fiscal and general policy of

the Dominion government. He is opposed to the repeal agitation in Nova

Scotia; is in favour of a legislative union of the Maritime provinces;

abolition of the Legislative Council, and approves of manhood suffrage.

In politics Mr. Hearn may be classed as a supporter of the Conservative

party, though holding advanced views on certain questions of great

public moment. In religion he is an adherent of the Roman Catholic

church. He was married on the 18th August, 1879, to Elizabeth Ida,

eldest daughter of Francis Quinan, of Sydney, and niece of the Rev.

James Quinan, of Sydney, John Quinan of Mainadieu, and the Hon. Senator

Miller, of Arichat. The fruit of this marriage has been one child.

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=Girouard, Désiré=, Q.C., D.C.L., M.P. for Jacques Cartier, residence

Quatre Vents, Dorval, Quebec province, was born at St. Timothy, county

of Beauharnois, on the 7th July, 1836. From l’Abbé Tanguay’s

“Dictionnaire Généalogique,” it is learned that he is a descendant of

Antoine Girouard, a native of Riom, Auvergne, France, who emigrated to

Canada about 1720, and was private secretary to Chevalier de Ramezay,

the then governor of Montreal. Mr. Girouard received his education at

the Montreal College, and graduated in law at McGill University, where

he obtained the degrees of B.C.L. and D.C.L. On the 1st of October,

1860, he was called to the bar, and in 1876 was made a Q.C. As a law

writer, Mr. Girouard enjoys a well-earned reputation, his first work

being an “Essai sur les Lettres de Change et Billets Promissoires,”

which appeared in 1860, before he was admitted to the practice of his

profession. Of this production Chief Justice La Fontaine said: “I have

read attentively your Essay on Bills of Exchange, etc., and I take

pleasure in acknowledging that you have, with very rare talent,

collected all that could possibly be written on this subject which could

interest Lower Canada. The opinions you express on the laws relating to

the subject and on the decisions of the tribunals, show that your essay

is the result of profound study on your part. Your book should be in the

hands of every trade and business man. It would certainly be of great

benefit to them. It will also be very useful to lawyers and judges.

Permit me to hope that your book may prove to you a sure and certain

guarantee of an honourable and brilliant career at the bar.” In 1865,

Mr. Girouard published an “Etude sur l’Acte concernant la Faillite,”

which he afterwards translated into English with many additions; and in

1868 he published another work entitled “Considérations sur les lois

civiles du Mariage.” He was also a contributor to many publications; and

in conjunction with W. H. Kerr, another leading barrister, founded _La

Revue Critique_. _La Revue Critique_ was founded at the time of the

great judicial crisis of 1873-4, the members of the Montreal bar having

refused to appear any longer before the Court of Appeal, so great was

the dissatisfaction against that bench, when it was reconstituted in

1874 by Justices Cross, Tessier, and Ramsay, under the presidency of

Chief Justice Dorion; and _La Revue Critique_ was then allowed to drop

out of existence. Mr. Girouard’s articles on the “Treaty of Washington,”

“The Indirect _Alabama_ Claims,” “Conflict of Commercial Prescriptions,”

etc., all written in English, attracted the attention of the press both

on this continent and in Europe. From 1858 to 1860, while a law student,

Mr. Girouard was actively connected with L’Institut Canadien-Français,

and delivered many lectures at the hall of the institute, and also at

the Cabinet de Lecture Paroissial. These lectures were published in the

French daily press of Montreal at the time, and highly praised. Among

these may be particularly mentioned two papers—“La Philosophie du

Droit,” and “L’Excellence des Mathématiques.” While spending the winter

in the south, in 1870, he contributed many letters on Louisiana and New

Orleans to _La Minerve_. In 1882 the same paper also published several

letters of Mr. Girouard on the North-West, and very recently, 9th July,

1887, an extensive study of the Fishery question. Mr. Girouard has

always maintained a high position as an intelligent and learned

advocate; hence he has often been retained in some of the most important

suits which have been brought before the courts of the country during

the past few years. Among politicians, Mr. Girouard is known as an able

debater. He first entered the political arena in 1872, when, at the

solicitation of the late Sir George Etienne Cartier, he presented

himself in the Conservative interest in the county of Jacques Cartier

against no less an adversary than Rodolphe Laflamme, Q.C., who enjoyed

consideration, prestige, and influence, and was defeated by forty-eight

votes. In 1874 the latter was returned by acclamation, Mr. Girouard

having been nominated for Beauharnois, in which county he was defeated

through the nomination of a third candidate. In 1876, he was requested

to oppose the Hon. Mr. Laflamme, minister of Inland Revenue, in Jacques

Cartier, and was defeated by twenty-eight votes. In 1878 he was again

solicited to present himself against his old opponent; and it was at

first reported that he had been defeated by fourteen votes, but on a

recount by Justice Mackay, he was declared elected by two votes,

although his majority was really over one hundred, as it was afterwards

shown in the celebrated St. Anne’s ballot-box case. He was again

returned for Jacques Cartier in 1882, and at the last general election,

22nd February, 1887. Mr. Girouard introduced in the House of Commons the

Deceased Wife’s Sister bill, which was carried in 1882 after a prolonged

debate and a strenuous opposition, especially from certain adherents to

the Church of England. He has been chairman of the Committee on

Privileges and Elections during the last and present parliaments.

Although one of the staunchest supporters of Sir John A. Macdonald, he

took a leading part in the movement against the execution of Riel, on

the ground of insanity, and with ten or twelve other French Conservative

members constituted for a time a separate group of the Conservative

party, known as the “Bolters.” His letter published November, 1885, in

answer to the defence of the government by Sir Alexander Campbell, was

published by all the newspapers in Canada. Mr. Girouard was married for

the first time to Mathilde, a daughter of the well-known and much

respected merchant, John Pratt. This lady having died, he again married,

in 1865, this time an American lady, Essie Cranwill, sister of Samuel

Cranwill, cotton merchant, New Orleans and St. Louis. She died in

Montreal, on the 30th June, 1879, leaving five children. Mr. Cranwill

was the agent in Montreal for the Confederate states during the civil

war. The eldest of Mr. Girouard’s sons, Emile, resides in Paris, France,

where he is the administrator of the newspaper, _Paris-Canada_; the

second, Percy, a graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, is an

engineer; another, Désiré, B.A. of Laval University, has just been

admitted to the study of law in Montreal. Mr. Girouard married a third

time, on the 6th October, 1881, Edith Bertha Beatty, youngest daughter

of Dr. Beatty, of Cobourg, Ont., and has two sons of this marriage.

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=Stewart, Geo., jr.,= D.C.L., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.C., Editor _Morning

Chronicle_, Quebec. Among Canadian litterateurs, Geo. Stewart, jr., has

fairly won for himself the distinguished position and reputation he

enjoys, both in England and Canada, as a man of letters, and one of the

brilliant literary lights of which our dominion is so justly proud. Dr.

Stewart was born November 26th, 1848, in New York city, and at an early

age removed, with his parents, to St. John, New Brunswick, where he was

educated. He is, comparatively speaking, a young man, to be the

recipient of so many favoured marks of recognition by societies of

learning for his valuable contributions. At the early age of sixteen

years he edited a little journal, _The Stamp Collector’s Gazette_, and

two years later published _Stewart’s Quarterly Magazine_, to whose

support he brought the pens of all the leading writers in Canada. In

1878 Dr. Stewart accepted the editorship of the _Rose-Belford’s Canadian

Monthly_, and a year later that of the _Quebec Morning Chronicle_, which

latter position he still holds. It is owing to his ability and talents

that this paper has become an authority on all leading Canadian

questions of the day. He was elected, in 1879, a member of the

International Literary Congress of Europe—an honour conferred on no

other Canadian,—and having the celebrated French veteran writer, Victor

Hugo, for president. The few Americans similarly distinguished were

Longfellow, Bancroft, Holmes, Emerson and Whittier. The Royal

Geographical Society has bestowed its degree of Fellow upon Dr. Stewart,

and King’s University of Nova Scotia was proud to grant him a D.C.L. The

Royal Society of Canada elected him, at its inauguration, secretary for

the English section, which important trust he still retains; while the

time-honoured Literary and Historical Society of Quebec has three times

called him to the presidency. He has been a member also of the Council

of the Royal Society since its second year. The exclusive literary club

of London, the Athæneum, admitted him an honorary member, his sponsors

being Matthew Arnold and Lord Tennyson. His principal works are

“Evenings in the Library,” “Canada under the Administration of the Earl

of Dufferin,” nine leading papers in the “Encyclopædia Britannica,” and

this high authority names Dr. Stewart among its strongest and most

brilliant contributors amid a galaxy of learned and world-renowned

names; “Frontenac and his times,” in Justin Winsor’s “Analytical and

Critical History of America,” and “The Story of the Great Fire in St.

John, N.B.” He is also the author of several articles in “Appleton’s

Cyclopædia of American Biography,” and a contributor to the _Scottish

Review_, London; Toronto _Week_, etc., etc. In May of 1878 the

Independent Order of Odd Fellows of St. John, N.B., presented him with a

handsome and very valuable gold watch and illuminated address, and a

public dinner was given him by the citizens in 1872, upon his retirement

from the editorship of _Stewart’s Quarterly_. In style of composition

Dr. Stewart is graceful and dignified. His historical works bear the

imprint of deep research and careful summarizing. Leading English and

American magazines are frequently enriched by his articles, which are

eagerly perused by the reading and deep-thinking _savants_ of our day.

Canada is proud of such a worthy literary representative, whose genius

and versatile abilities make him the rival and equal of the best writers

the old world can produce. He was married on the 28th of April, 1875, to

Maggie M., niece of the late E. D. Jewett, of Lancaster Heights, St.

John, N.B.

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=Ruel, James Rhodes=, Collector of Customs and Registrar of Shipping at

the Port of St. John, New Brunswick, was born at Pembridge House, Welsh

Newton, Herefordshire, England, on the 22nd of October, 1820. His father

was John Godfrey Ruel, a lineal descendant of the famous Dr. Johann

Rühl, chancellor of the Cardinal Archbishop of Mayntz, the Elector

Albert of Brandenberg, and also the favoured councillor and

representative of Count Mannsfield in 1540 at the Diet of Nuremberg, and

at other similar assemblies. Dr. Rühl was the brother-in-law of Luther,

and stood boldly at his side in the great historic interview with

Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg. His devotion on this occasion drew from

Luther the promise that he would never fail to reciprocate it to himself

and to his children. He was one of the chief and most honoured guests at

the great Reformer’s wedding, and was never addressed by him but with

the profoundest expressions of official respect and brotherly affection.

They appear to have lived together in the closest friendship. The family

was of senatorial rank in the city of Heilbronn, and was related to the

Counts Fugger of Kirchberg and Weissonhorn, the head of which at the

present time is the Prince of Babenhausen, who is related to Queen

Victoria through the house of Hohenlohe Langenburg. By a curious

coincidence the Counts Fugger acted as the bankers of the Pope for the

sale of those very indulgences against which Luther had opened the

greatest crusade which was ever fought in Christendom. Gottfried Rüehl,

a rich and distinguished member of the family, settled in London about

one hundred and seventy years ago, and his grandson, John Godfrey Ruel,

was born there; educated at Harrow, and served as an officer in the

Royal marines in H.M.S. _Thetis_ and other ships with considerable

distinction until the peace in 1815. He married, in 1817, Catherine B.

Cléry, a daughter of a descendant of a French count of that name, and

came to New Brunswick in 1833 with his family of six sons and three

daughters. He returned to England in 1849, and died there in 1852, and

his wife in April, 1887, aged 98 years. James R. Ruel, his second son,

was educated at the High School in Monmouth, England, and at the Grammar

School in St. John, N.B. He entered the service of the city corporation

in the common clerk’s office in July, 1839, and became successively

deputy common clerk and clerk of the peace, auditor of county and city

accounts, chamberlain of the city, and on 1st November, 1870, was

appointed by the Canadian government to the offices he now holds. In

September, 1850, he was associated with the Rev. Dr. I. W. D. Gray in

the editorial management of the _Church Witness_, a newspaper

established to counteract the teaching of the High Church party, and in

1855 took the sole management of the paper until its publication was

closed in 1864. Previous to 1845 he had espoused the views of the

Tractarian school, and was an ardent supporter of them, but finding

about that time that they were not in accord either with the scriptures,

or the doctrines of the great teachers in the Church of England of the

Reformation era, he abandoned them, and has held ever since with a firm

grasp the doctrines of grace as taught in the Evangelical school. He has

been connected with St. John’s Church since October, 1833, and on its

erection into a separate parish in 1853, he was elected a vestryman and

vestry clerk, and has been one of the wardens of it for the last twenty

years. On the occasion of the movement for the confederation of the

provinces, he was chairman of the British American Association, which

was formed at that time to promote it. And in all questions or projects

to advance the welfare of the city of St. John he ever took a deep

interest. He married in 1854 Harriet, a daughter of John Kinnear, who

died in 1859, leaving no issue; and in 1861, Sophia M., daughter of the

Hon. Hugh Johnston, by whom he has three sons and one daughter now

living.

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=Earle, Sylvester Zobieski=, M.D., St. John, New Brunswick, was born at

Kingston, Kings county, New Brunswick, on the 7th August, 1822. His

parents were Sylvester and Maria Earle. His paternal grandfather served

as a captain in the royal army, during the American revolution, and on

the proclamation of peace his company being disbanded, he came to New

Brunswick where he settled. On the paternal side Dr. Earle is descended

from John Zobieski, King of Poland. He received his education at the

Kingston Grammar School, and then studied medicine under the celebrated

Doctors Valentine Mott and Gunnay L. Bedford. He graduated from the

University of New York, in 1844, and afterwards visited the several

medical schools of Great Britain and the continent of Europe. He removed

to St. John, in 1864, and began practice, and shortly afterwards was

appointed surgeon to the 62nd St. John volunteer battalion, now the 62nd

Royal Fusiliers. In 1845 he was made surgeon to the Kings county

militia; and in 1846, in company with the late Colonel Saunders, raised

the A troop of cavalry, which formed the nucleus of the present 8th

cavalry, “Princess Louise Hussars.” During the Fenian raid in 1866, he

was on active service with his regiment, the Fusiliers, at St. Andrews

and at Campo Bello, and retired from the service in 1875, holding the

rank of major. In 1867 he was appointed coroner for the city and county

of St. John, and this office he still holds. In 1877 Dr. Earle was

elected mayor of the city of St. John, the year of the great fire, and

as a reward for the services he rendered on that trying occasion, was

re-elected for another term by acclamation. He occupied the position of

warden of the city and county during the same period; and in 1878 he was

made a justice of the peace. He is a commissioner of the General Public

Hospital, and a member of the St. John Board of Health. He has been a

member of the Canada Medical Association since its formation, and is now

its vice-president; is a past president of the New Brunswick Medical

Association; is president of the New Brunswick Medical Council, and

consulting physician to the General Public Hospital. He belongs to both

the Masonic and Oddfellows’ orders, and occupies high positions in both

organizations. The doctor has travelled a good deal, and is familiar

with the leading cities in Europe and America. In politics he is

Liberal-Conservative; and in religion is an adherent of the Episcopal

form of worship. In 1847 he was married to Catherine McGill, daughter of

Captain Allen Otty, R.N., and has issue four sons and two daughters.

Thomas J. O. Earle, M.D., is practising medicine at Young’s Cove, Queens

county; Allan O. A., barrister, practising in St. John; William Z.,

divisional engineer, Canadian Pacific Railroad; S. Z. Earle, also an

engineer, Canadian Pacific Railway; two daughters, Eliza Crookshank and

Marie.

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=Kennedy, George Thomas=, M.A., B.A.Sc., F.G.S., Professor of Chemistry,

Geology and Mining, in King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was born on

the 4th January, 1845, in the city of Montreal, Quebec province. His

father was the late William Kennedy, builder, who was born in York,

Yorkshire, England, on May 21, 1790, and died in Montreal, October 22,

1855. His mother, Ann Evans, was a native of Shrewsbury, Shropshire,

England, born 3rd April, 1800, and died in Montreal, 13th August, 1870.

This couple were brought up as members of the Church of England, and

were married by the late Dean Bethune, of Montreal, and their children

christened by the same clergyman; but they afterwards joined the

Congregational body, and the family were brought up in that church. This

worthy couple had a large family, five of whom still survive, two

sisters and three brothers. The sons are, George Thomas, the subject of

our sketch; William, a retired builder, who from 1873 to 1876 sat as

alderman in the city council of Montreal, and is at present (1887) a

member of the same body, and also holds a commission as

lieutenant-colonel of the Montreal Engineers; and Richard A., M.A.,

M.D.C.M., who is a practising physician in Montreal. He is also emeritus

professor of obstetrics and diseases of children in Bishop’s College,

Lennoxville, and consulting physician to the Montreal Dispensary,

physician to the Western Hospital, etc., Montreal. Professor Kennedy was

educated in Montreal, first at a private school, then at the Church

Colonial School, and at the McGill Model and High schools. He then

entered the arts department of McGill University, in September, 1864,

and graduated B.A., with first rank honours in geology and natural

science, in May, 1868. During the winter of 1869-70 he attended the

Sheffield Scientific School, in connection with Yale College, New Haven,

U.S., and whilst in New Haven he took a select course of post graduate

studies, including practical chemistry, mineralogy, mining, assaying,

German, etc. After his return home in the winter of 1870-71 he became

assistant to Sir J. William Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., in the chemical

laboratory and museum of McGill College. In the fall of 1871, Mr.

Kennedy entered as a graduate student in the applied science department

of McGill, and in May following received the degree of M.A. (in course).

In May, 1873, he graduated B.A.Sc. in civil and mechanical engineering

in the same college. In the summer of 1873 he was elected professor of

chemistry and natural science by the governors of Acadia College,

Wolfville, N.S., and in October of the following year entered upon these

duties. In 1881 he resigned the chair of chemistry in Acadia College;

and in the fall of 1882, the chair of chemistry and geology in King’s

College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, becoming vacant, he was offered the

position by the late Dr. Binney, bishop of Nova Scotia, president of the

Board of Governors, which he accepted, and entered upon his duties in

January, 1883. In the spring of 1885, when the teaching staff of the

college was re-organized, Mr. Kennedy was re-appointed to the same

professorship. On the 29th June, 1887, the governors of the college

elected him vice-president of the institution. In 1883 he was appointed

librarian and scientific curator of the college museum, both of which

positions he still holds. In November, 1876, Professor Kennedy was

elected an associate member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural

Science; in August, 1880, a member of the American Association for the

Advancement of Science; in December, 1883, a Fellow of the Geological

Society of London, Britain; in August, 1884, a member of the British

Association for the Advancement of Science, and before leaving Montreal

he was a member of both the Natural History and the Microscopical

Societies of that city. In the summer of 1869, Dr. G. M. Dawson, F.G.S.,

of the Canadian Geological Survey, and Professor Kennedy assisted Sir J.

W. Dawson in the geological examination of the Devonian rocks of Gaspé

Bay. And during a portion of the summer of 1871, in company with J. F.

Whiteaves, F.R.S., palæontologist of the Canadian Government Survey, the

professor also assisted in dredging, in the Canadian government

schooner, for marine life in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. During the summer

of 1832, Professor Kennedy commenced dredging the Basin of Minas, Nova

Scotia, with the view of studying the marine life in that basin; and the

work he is still carrying on. For several years past, as time permits,

he has been examining the geology of Nova Scotia, and has also found

time to contribute a series of articles to our scientific papers and

magazines. He is an adherent of the Episcopal church. On the 17th July,

1878, he was married to Emma, daughter of John D. Longard, of Halifax,

Nova Scotia.

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=Adams, Hon. Michael=, Barrister, Newcastle, New Brunswick, was born at

Douglastown, Northumberland county, N.B., on the 13th August, 1845. His

parents were Samuel Adams and Mary Ann Adams, who were both natives of

Cork, Ireland, and emigrated to this country. Mr. Adams received his

education in the common school of the place of his birth. Having chosen

law as a profession, he entered the law office of Hon. E. Williston in

1864, and continued to study under this gentleman until 1867, when he

entered with the Hon. Allan A. Dawson, and in 1869 he was admitted to

the bar of New Brunswick. The following year, 1870, he presented himself

as a candidate for parliamentary honours, and was elected to represent

Northumberland in the New Brunswick legislature. At the next general

election he again offered himself for election, but the education

question being before the county, and he being a strong supporter of the

separate school system, he was defeated by about two hundred votes.

Again, in 1878, he came before the electorate, and was returned by his

old constituency; and in June of the same year he was made a member of

the government, with the portfolio of surveyor-general. This

necessitated another appeal to his constituents, when he was elected by

acclamation. This office he held until 1882, when a general election

took place and he was once more returned to parliament. In 1883, the

government, of which he was a member, having suffered a defeat on a non

confidence motion, he and his friends retired from office. At the

general election held in 1886, the Hon. Mr. Adams was again returned;

and in 1887 he resigned his seat in the local assembly to contest the

county of Northumberland, in the interests of the Liberal-Conservative

party, against the Hon. Peter Mitchell, an Independent Liberal, and was

defeated. Since then Mr. Adams has been attending to his professional

business, which is large and claims nearly all his attention. Hon. Mr.

Adams visited Leadville, Colorado, some years ago, in the interest of a

silver mining property partly owned by his brother, Samuel Adams, who is

now State Senator for Colorado, and another, John J. Adams, United

States Congressman for the city of New York, and who has a large

interest in the Adams Manufacturing Company. As will be seen, Hon. Mr.

Adams is a Liberal-Conservative in politics, has worked hard for his

party, and we have no doubt that at no distant day he will be found in

the House of Commons at Ottawa. He is an adherent of the Roman Catholic

church. He was married in 1869 to Catherine L. Patterson, who died in

1881. He was married again on 29th November to Miss Nealis, daughter of

Simon Nealis, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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=Stephen, Sir George=, Baronet, Montreal, President of the Canadian

Pacific Railway of Canada, was born at Dufftown, Banff, Scotland, on the

5th of June, 1829, and received his education in the parish school of

his native place. On leaving school at the age of fourteen, he was

apprenticed to the late Alexander Sinclair, draper and dealer in dry

goods in Aberdeen. After serving the usual apprenticeship of four years,

he entered the service of the well-known wholesale and shipping house of

J. F. Pawson & Co., of St. Paul’s Church Yard, London, where his

business education was completed. In 1850 he came to Canada, and entered

the service of his cousin, the late William Stephen, of Montreal, with

whom, in 1853, he formed a partnership under the style of William

Stephen & Co. Mr. Stephen having died in 1862, George purchased his late

friend’s interest in the business, and at once entered largely into the

manufacture of cloth. This venture having proved highly remunerative, he

withdrew from the wholesale trade, and devoted his attention exclusively

to this branch of business. He was elected a director of the Bank of

Montreal, the largest banking institution in Canada; and in 1876, on the

retirement of Mr. King from the presidency, he was chosen

vice-president. On the death of the late David Torrance he was elected

president. Sir George Stephen’s first connection with railway

enterprises, and with which his name will always be connected in the

annals of our country, was his joining a syndicate for the purchase of

the interests of the Dutch holders of the bonds of the St. Paul and

Pacific Railway, which gave them control of this partially constructed

line. Realising the importance of this road as a link in the chain of

railway communication with the North-West _via_ the Pembina branch of

the Canadian Pacific Railway, they carried the work of construction

rapidly forward, and soon found themselves in possession of an

exceedingly profitable line. They were in a position to control not only

the entire traffic of the Canadian North-West, but to render tributary a

large part of Minnesota and Dakota. The large profits made from this

monopoly they devoted to extending the sphere of their operations by

constructing lines in various directions, making St. Paul the focal

point of this system, and re-naming their line the St. Paul and Manitoba

Railway. This led to Sir George’s connection with our great national

line, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and in 1881 he was elected its

president. In 1885, in conjunction with his cousin, Sir Donald A. Smith,

he founded the “Montreal Scholarship,” tenable for three years, and open

to the residents of Montreal and its neighbourhood, in the Royal College

of Music of London; and again in 1887 he joined his cousin in presenting

the munificent sum of $1,000,000 ($500,000 each) to build a new

hospital, to be called the Victoria Hospital, at the present time (1887)

in course of erection. In 1885 the government of Canada presented him

with the Confederation medal, and in 1886 Her Majesty the Queen created

him a baronet, in recognition of his great services in connection with

the Canadian Pacific Railway. Though married, he has no family of his

own to inherit his great wealth and honours. A few years ago his adopted

daughter was united in marriage to the son of Sir Stafford Northcote,

and resides in England. Sir George is one of the most popular,

charitable and kind-hearted men in the dominion.

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