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old homestead with his mother, to whom he renders every attention which a loving filial solicitude can suggest, and he enjoys the full confidence and respect of all his neigh- bors and associates.

0. W. ANDERSON, a well known and suc- cessful agriculturist and public-spirited citi- zen of Lot 41, Kings county, was born at ’St. Peter’s Bay, this county, on the fine farm on which he now resides and which has been his home continuously since his na- tal day. His parternail great-grandfather, David Anderson, Sr., who was a native of Scotland, came to Prince Edward Island in 1772, landing at Murray Harbor and later settling on the VVarrell estate, which he cleared and developed into a good farm. He was the father of the following children: Da- vid (grandfather of the subject); William, and James, all of whom settled at St. Peter’s Harbor. The grandfather, David, who also

was born in the Scotch Lowlands, and who .

came to this Island with his parents in 1772, married Miss Robbin, a daughter of James Robbin, of St. Peter’s Bay and also a native of Scotland, and to them were born the fol- lowing children: David, father of the sub- ject; Capt. John, of Charlottetown, for many years in command of a packet boat to Boston; William, a farmer at Greenwich, Prince Edward Island; James, a farmer at St. Peter’s Bay; Henry, a farmer at Cable Head, this province; Margaret, the wife of Captain Davidson, of St. Peter’s Harbor; Eliza, wife of Andrew Coffin, shipbuilder, Greenwich; Sophia, wife of Hon. Dr. John Jardine, of Morrell, who was speaker of the provincial House of Parliament; Jesse; E1- len, wife of William McEwen, of St. Peter’s

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Bay; Harriet, wife of William McEwen, a farmer at Greenwich. The subject’s father, also named David, who was born at St. Peter’s Harbor, spent his life and died on the farm on which the subject now lives, his death occurring in 1891, at the age of eighty- four years. He was a Liberal in politics and for many years served as justice of the peace for Kings county. By vocation he was a farmer and shipbuilder on his own account and stood high in public esteem. He became the father of the following children: Jane, wife of John Webster, of St. Peter’s Bay; Robert, a farmer at St. Peter’s Bay; Henry, a farm at Sumner, Washington; G. L., an excise officer in the United States revenue service and now located at Santa Cruse, Cal- ifornia; O. W., subject of this sketch; E. A., a merchant and ex-mayor of Marshfield, Oregon; A. L., of Boston, Massachusetts; David, a farmer at St. Peter’s Bay; Alice, the wife of Judson Webster, of St. Peter’s Bay; Annie, the wife of John G. Passmore, manager for Beer & Goff, at Charlottetown.

O. W. Anderson was given the advan- tage of attendance at the public schools and is considered a well informed man, being a constant reader and a close observer. He has followed agricultural pursuits all his life on the parental homestead and is highly re- garded in the community in which he lives. the farm is highly improved, is well situated and is considered one of the valuable ag- ricultural properties of the locality. Mr. Anderson stands high and is acceptably serv-

' ing as a justice of the peace for Kings

county. In politics he is a Liberal while in religion he is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder. Mr. Ander- son married Miss Maria Hayden, a daugh- ter of Charles and Barbara (Vickerson) Hayden, and to them have been born the fol-