PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 147 a member and chairman of the city school board and took a deep interest in education. He was truly the father of the Prince Ed ¬ ward Island or Protestant Hospital, a mem¬ ber of its board of trustees and senior mem¬ ber of its medical staff. He took a deep in¬ terest in all its concerns and was ever ready to promote its interests, as well as that of every good work in church and state. His medical brethren meeting in session on the day of his death fully expecting to meet him in person, were shocked at the news that he had passed away, and promptly gave testi¬ mony to the high esteem in which he was held. Strictly conscientious in all the af¬ fairs of life, Doctor Johnson had great rev¬ erence for truth, manliness and genuine loy- ality, and scorn for littleness and unfair ad¬ vantage. He was generous, amiable and kind- hearted in a large degree, and the prevailing opinion of »the community fully endorsed the eulogy paid to his memory by his pas¬ tor, the Rev. G. M. Youn ^. at his funeral. The following resolution was passed by the Prince Edward Island Society: \\v >k«. niomliers of the Prince Edward Uland Medical Society, in session assembled, desire to place upon record Our sense of the irreparable loss we have sustained in the death of our most beloved brother member, Dr. Richard Johnson . His genial character, his uniform courtesy and kindness towards all with whom he had any busi¬ ness relations, his straightforward manliness and unimpeachable integrity, gained for him the re¬ spect and esteem of his brother practitioners, as well as that of the community at large. His de¬ parture from amongst us, ripe with years and full of honour, leaves a vacancy in our ranks that can not easily be filled. His memory will find an abiding place in the hearts of his medical friends, as well as on the records of the medical council of this province, of which he was the efficient and dignified reg¬ istrar. We, his medical confreres, who mourn for him, desire to convey to the wife and family of the lamented deceased our heartfelt sympathy with them in this, the hour of their great bereave¬ ment. F. F. Kelly , M. D. , P. Conroy , M. D. , R. MacNeill , M. D. , Committee. Charlottetown , March 18, 1903. James Heron Conroy , M. D. , was among the early pioneers of medicine in this Island. The following, from his tomb¬ stone, will show that he was eminent in his profession: "Sacred to the memory of the Honourable James Heron Conroy , M. D. , a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and a native of the county of Wexford , Ireland, who emigrated to this Island A. D . 1830, endowed with a highly gifted mind and a most benevolent disposition. All his nu¬ merous acquaintances may be said to have been friends. On the ailing poor an<| ae-1 cessitous a large share of his professional services and income was generously he- stowed. He departed this life July 6, i 8jJ6,; aged fifty years." In the Royal Gazette of December ap, 1831, there is published a letter of Alexan¬ der Hayden, of Shipyard, Head of Hilfe- borough, dated December 18, 1831, ttecjting, a wonderful surgical operation performed: by Doctor Conroy on a child aged four years, who fell from a loft nine feet high, on an iron pot, injuring his head over the ear and a portion of the brain protruding, and paying a great tribute to the skill of the Doctor. He had an extensive practice all over the province from East Point to and was always considered a very skillful man. As the Doctor was travel¬ ing along one of the country roads he was hailed from a farm house and asked to set the fractured leg of a hen. Nothing