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Goff was elected a member of the Provincial Legislature and in 1863 was appointed a member of the Legislative Council, of which he remained a member for a number of years, when he resigned. He served as high sheriff of Kings county, was a member of the board of education, a member of the roads commission, chief magistrate for Kings county, and one of the three who composed the court for the settlement of small debts. He was a Conservative in politics and in reli— gion was a member of the Episcopal church. He died in 1892, at the age of seventy-eight years. He married Miss Elizabeth Hayden, a daughter of Alex Hayden, a shipbuilder at Erinvale, this province, and to them were born the following children: Rev. Edward Fade, pastor of the First Congregational

church in Riverside, California; Lewis, who ‘

is the president of an oil company at San Diego, California; William Pemberton, an extensive farmer and landowner at Drayton, North Dakota; Richard Cardigan, a mem- ber of the firm of Golf Brothers, boot and shoe manufacturers, at Charlottetown; Anna Amelia, the wife of Charles Strangman, owner of the Canadian Brewing Company, of Montreal, Canada; Harry Neville, a successful physician at San Diego, Califor- nia; Mary Louisa, the wife of Arthur Jenks, an assayer in British Columbia; George Er- nest, the immediate subject of this sketch; Alice Elizabeth, the wife of John McKinnon, of Seattle.

The youngest son, George E., was reared under the parental roof and was taught by a

private governess and afterwards studied for '

three years at the Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown. He was reared to the life of a farmer and, as before stated, has devoted his active years to this pursuit. He now re- sides on the old homestead farm, which com-

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prises seven hundred and fifty-five acres of as good land as can be found in the county. The property is well improved with ‘a full set of neat and substantial buildings, while the gen- eral appearance of the placeindicates the owner to be a man of good judgment and ex- cellent taste. Mr. Gofi is now engaged in starting the Newport Fish and Ice Company for the purpose of supplying fishing vessels with ice and bait and the Island with fresh and salt fish. He is chairman of the Wood- ville District and was also one of the first directors in the Fruit Growers’ Association of Prince Edward Island. In politics Mr. Golf is a Conservative, while in religion he is a member of the Presbyterian church, at Cardigan Bridge, in which he is an elder and trustee.

Mr. Goff was married in Trinity church, Boston, to Miss Alice Montgomery Dock- erty, of Cardigan Bridge, a daughter of Capt. Donald Dockerty, of Belfast, Prince Edward Island, and to this union have been born the following children: John, Mary Elizabeth, Alice Strangman and Edward Fade, all of whom remain at home.

ANGUS MCMILLAN, than whom no man is more highly respected in Prince Edward Island, and who is now living at VVheatley River, in the enjoyment of that rest which he so richly earned during the active years of his life, is a native of Argyleshire, Scot- land, where he was born on the 30th of Oc- tober, 1817, and is a son of Hugh and Cath- erine McMillan. Hugh McMillan came to Prince Edward Island in 1835 and settled on a farm near New Glasgow, in the operation of which he was engaged until the time of his death, in 1870.