3 i 8 PAST AND PRESENT OF "Oh, how swaet it would be in that beautiful land, When li-te from all sorrow and pain. With songs on our lips, and with harps in our hands, To meet one another again." Major J. R. Allan has had extended mili¬ tary service, having joined the regular mili¬ tia as a private in 1878, and by fidelity to duty has been promoted from time to time, until he now holds the rank of major of the Eighty-second Regi¬ ment, and is a possessor of a "long service medal." In politics he is a Liberal, in reli¬ gion a Presbyterian, while fraternally he is a member of Court Lenox Lodge, Independ¬ ent Order of Foresters, at York . E. M. Vesey , who is now completing his medical studies preparatory to making that profession his life work, was born in Lot 34, Prince Edward Island , on the 7th of May, 1881. His paternal grandfather, koli ert Vesey, was a native of Yorkshire, Eng¬ land, and came to Prince Edward Island dur¬ ing the Peninsula war, settling in Lot 34, where he took up a farm of seventy acres and thereafter followed agricultural pur¬ suits. He was the father of nine children. The subject's parents were Thomas and Emma (Gill) Vesey. The former, who fol¬ lowed farming all his life, acquired the farm now occupied by the family and there made many valuable improvements. The old farm, which comprises one hundred acres is now run by the subject's brother, Hammond Vesey , who was born on the 4th of Decem¬ ber, 1865. Thomas Vesey resided in Lot 34 to the time of his death, which occurred on April 5, 1897. The subject of this sketch received a good public-school education, after which he spent two years in Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown , graduating in 1900. He taught school three years in Stanhope , Prince Edward Island , and having decided to take up the practice of medicine, he matriculated in 1903 in the medical department of Mc- Gill University, at Montreal, which he is now attending. He will complete his studies in 1907, at which time he expects to go to the Northwest and engage in active prac¬ tice. In politics Mr. Vesey votes with the Conservative party, and in religion he is an adherent of the Methodist church. With a clear perception of the hardships incident to the practice of medicine in the country, he yet moves forward to the accomplishment of his purpose with undaunted courage. He is a young man of many fine personal qualities and is popular with all who know him. Dr. John Francis Martin, a highly es¬ teemed citizen and leading member of his pro¬ fession at Eldon, Queens county, is a native son of Prince Edward Island , having been born at Road, Lot 33, and is a son of Alex and Margaret (Bell) Martin. The father was a native of the Isle of Skye , Scot¬ land, and a son of John Martin , who brought his family to Prince Edward Island in 1820 and located on a farm in Lot 33. He had married in his native land Miss Catherine Robinson . The subject's father was one of a family of twelve children, and after attain¬ ing mature years he married Miss Margaret Bell , a daughter of Adam and Mary ( Roger - son) Bell, the former of whom was born near Locherby, Dumfries, Scotland . To Alex and Margaret Martin were born the following children: John Francis , subject of