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high standard of excellence, all the build- ings and other improvements on the place being up—to-date in their character and the general appearance of the farm indicating the owners to be men of progressive ideas and excellent judgment. On January 18, 1899, Mr. Jones married Gertrude E. Green, of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, a daughter of Harry C. Green, and to them have been born three children: Harry, Mar- garet and George.

ROBERT H. MCDONALD, who enjoys an excellent reputation as a successful agricul- turist in Lot I 7, Prince county, was born at Glasgow, Scotland, on December 15, 1833, and is a son of Ronald and Agnes (Hamil- ton) McDonald, natives also of Glasgow. The paternal ancestors were natives of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, while the Hamiltons were of Lowland Scottish stock. The sub- ject’s father was a carpenter and sawyer by trade, and spent his entire life in his native land, dying at the age of seventy years. He was the father of eight children, four of whom are now living, one being a resident of New Zealand, one of Glasgow, Scotland, and two of Prince Edward Island.

Robert H. McDonald spent his school days in Glasgow, Scotland, subsequently ac- companying his family upon their removal to Edinburgh, where he learned the trade of tanner and currier. In the fall of 1852 he removed to Prince Edward Island, locating at Charlottetown, where he was in the em- ploy of Richard Heartz for a short time and afterward for two years with John L. God- kin. He then went to work for Mr. Read, father of Captain Joseph Read, of Summer- ‘side, with whom he continued a short time

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and then went to St. Eleanor’s and engaged with Benjamin Derby, with whom he re mained two years. Removing then to West Cape, Prince Edward Island, he engaged in business on his own account for five years, at the end of which time he sold out and re- moved to his present location, near St. Eleanor’s, on the Linkletter road. Here he built a tannery, which he conducted success- fully until 1895, and during the same pe~ riod he embarked in the general merchandise business at St. Eleanor’s, conducting the two businesses simultaneously for twenty-seven years. At the end of this period he sold the store and has since confined himself to the cultivation of his fine farm of fifty acres which he has brought to a high state of cul- tivation and on which he is enjoying .life in a way entirely to his own satisfaction. He has taken an active part in public affairs and served as postmaster of St. Elmnor’s for twenty years and. tax collector for a number of years, and was a member of the school board for twenty years. He was also a member of the commission on valuations of the land when the govemment bought out the landowners. He has been an active temper- ance worker practically all his life and has

spent much time in the advocacy of this I cause, having lectured in various sections of the Island. He was also one of the origina- tors of the Farmer’s Mutual Agricultural So- ciety and for fourteen years spent much of his time and means in the furtherance of this excellent organization, visiting all parts of the Island and doing much to perpetuate its prosperity. Mr. McDonald was one of the originators of the Mutual Agricultural Fire Insurance Company of Summerside, and is now a member of its board of directors. On the 7th of April, 1862, Mr. McDonald mar— ried Miss Dorcas Ann Boundy, a native of