PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

MAJ. JOHN R. ALLAN, a ”successful farmer in Lot 34, Queens county, was born at Cove Head on the 29th of April, 18 59, and is a son of Rev. James and Grace Jane (Mc- Donald) Allan. Rev. James Allan was born in Dunbar, Scotland, on July 20, 1817, and was a son of Richard Allan, a school master. During his early years his surroundings were such as to give his mind a bent toward so- cialistic matters, in the discussion of which he afterwards became noted. Until sixteen years of age he attended the parish school and November 5, 1833, he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he remained seven years, graduating with honor. The follow- ing four or five years were spent in teaching school in Edinburgh and preaching through various parts of Scotland. Having decided to make the preaching of the gospel his life work, Mr. Allan, in 1845, at the age of twen- ty-eight years, came to Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a probationer. Cove Head and West St. Peters extended to him a hearty and unani— mous call the following winter, offers being also extended from other churches, particu- larly St. James’ kirk, Charlottetown, and London Dairy, Nova Scotia. However, he accepted the Cove Head appointment and was ordained and inducted into charge of that congregation in July, 1846. After six years of faithful service, during which the congregations had grown in numbers and in material prosperity, Mr. Allan felt justified in separating the two charges, organizing West St. Peter as a separate charge on July 28, 1858. He remained in active service until January, 1891, when he retired shortly afterward, but was taken with a severe at- tack of lagrippe, which terminated fatally on January 14, 1891. His funeral services were largely attended by the clergy and laity,

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the services being conducted by Rev. J. G. Cameron, assisted by a number of leading ministers of both the Methodist and Presby- terian churches. On the following Sunday Rev. D. Sutherland, of Zion church, Char— lottetown, preached a most touching memo- rial sermon, at the request of the session of which he was moderator. Rev. James Al- lan was characterized by stern integrity and uprightness of character, which gained for him the confidence and respect of all who knew him. Equivocation was abhorrent to him. As a writer he had few equals, being able to express himself in a most terse man- ner, while as a student of theology he had a high standing among his clerical colleagues. It is said that many of his brother ministers, when troubled in the interpretation of a bib- lical passage, would come to him for help and in his own unique way he would ex- pound to them the true meaning and correct exposition of the Word. Strong in exe- gesis, he maintained a careful study of the Scriptures to the very last. The latter years of his life were especially devoted to the study, of Paul’s writings, which to use his own words, “were the most intricate, ab- struse and difficult of comprehension in the English language.” He married Grace Jane McDonald and to them were born the fol- lowing children: John R.; Archibald, a physician at Cardigan Bridge; Maggie, who died in childhood; Maggie, second, died in 1873; Emma, the wife of E. Campbell, of Vancouver, British Columbia; James B., chief clerk in the railway mail service in Vancouver, British Columbia; Helen, the wife of Hon. John S. McLeod, of Yan- couver; Mabel, the wife of W. F. Trent, who is also in the railway mail service at Van- couver.