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moral or benevolent movement. Nearly four score and ten years have passed since the honorable subject of this sketch first saw the light of day, and his life has been one which has reflected honor upon him—one in which there has been neither shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil, and now as he approaches the golden sunset of life his contemplation of the past can have in it no sinister shadow of regret. His acquaintance is large through- out the Island and his circle of friends is limited only by the list of those who know him.

REV. MARTIN MONAGHAN, D. D., L. C. J., the popular and able priest in care of the Catholic parish, at Miscouche, was born at Kelly’s Cross, Prince Edward Island, on the 27th of May, 1869, and is a son of Charles and Mary (Kiggins) Monaghan, natives of the same place. The paternal grandfather, Patrick Monaghan, who was a native of Donagh, County Monaghan, Ireland, came to Prince Edward Island in 1839, bringing with him his wife and seven children, the subject’s father and a sister being born after their settlement here. The family located at Kelly’s Cross, where the father engaged in farming until his death, in 1875, at the age of sixty years. His wife died in 1884, at the age of ninety-eight years. They were the parents of nine children.

Charles Monaghan, the subject’s father, purchased, about the time of his marriage, a farm at Kelly’s Cross and has since been successfully engaged in the prosecution of agricultural pursuits. To him and his wife have been born fourteen children, twelve of whom are living. Each of these children re-' ceived as good an education as conditions permitted. Those now living are: Annie,

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the wife of George McGuigan, of Hunter River, Prince Edward Island; James, a farmer at Kelly’s Cross; Martin, of this re- view; Patrick, engaged in the real-estate business at Edmondton, Alberta; Amos, an employee of the Prince Edward Island Rail- way; Katie, the wife of Peter McMahon, of Emerald Junction; John, living in Colorado; Frederick, a successful school teacher in this province; Mary Alice, a Sister of Notre Dame, and living at Montreal; Joseph, vice- principal of Queen Square School, Charlotte- town; and Jerome and Angelina (twins), at home.

Rev. Martin Monaghan received his elementary education in the district schools at Kelly’s Cross, and then spent a term (1885) in Prince of Wales College, at Charlotte- town. Receiving a teacher's license he was engaged as a pedagogue during the follow- ing year and a half, after which he entered‘ St. Dunstan’s College, where he took a four- years’ course and then entered Grand Semi- nary, at Montreal, where he pursued his philosophical and theological studies during the succeeding four years. In 1894 he went to Rome, and in June of the following year was ordained to the priesthood. He then spent two additional years in the Propaganda and Appolinaire Universities as a post-grad- uate student, taking there his degrees of D. D. and L. C. J. He then returned to Prince Edward Island and was at once made vice-rector of St. Dun- stan’s College, in which position he continued three years. In 1900 he was appointed as- sistant priest at the Cathedral, at Charlotte- town. In June, 1905, he was appointed to his present charge at Miscouche, Prince county, where he has done much effective work. The congregation comprises one hun- dred and twenty—six families, who worship