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secretary-treasurer, and commissioner of ag- riculture, which position he acceptably filled until 1904, when, because of ill health, he relinquished the portfolio and practically re- tired from public life.

Mr. Rogers has twice been married, first on the 20th of February, 1862, to Miss Susana A. Hubbard, a daughter of Capt. William Hubbard, of Tignish, and to their union were born the following children: Frances G., the wife of George H. Gordon,

of Brocton, Massachusetts; Frederick Llew- '

ellyn, who is associated in business with his father; Charles Renfrew, residing in Sum- merside, this Island; Addie Y., the wife of J. E. C. Hunter, of Kilhumaig, Prince county, Prince Edward Island; Sibella Margaret, the wife of C. J. Stewart, of Charlottetown; Reginald Heber, B. C. L., who is engaged in the practice of law in British Columbia. Mrs. Susanna Rogers died in I897, and on the 28th of December, 1898, Mr. Rogers married Miss Annie M. Hunter, a daughter of the late James Hunter, of Kilhumaig. -Mr. Rogers has left his impress on the history of the Island in no uncertain degree and enjoys a wide acquaintance and the confidence and good will of his former constituencies.

LEMUEL M. POOLE, who was promi- nently engaged in the lumber business in Charlottetown was born in Lower Montague, Prince Edward Island, on June 6, 1839. His parents were John and Matilda (Aitken) Poole, the former a native of London, Egg— land. and the latter of Panmure Island, this province, and a daughter of George Aitken. The subject’s paternal great-grandfather was

\ a South African missionary of the Wesleyan

Methodist church. The grandfather, John

Poole, who was a native of Portsmouth, England, came to Prince Edward Island in I808 and located at Charlottetown. He was a miller by trade and conducted mills in va— rious parts of the Island. The subject’s fa- ther learned the trade of a millwright with Benjamin Chapel, in Charlottetown, after which he moved to Lower Montague, where he engaged in milling and farming and where he occupied a high place in the esteem of his fellow citizens. He was the father of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the sixth in order of birth.

Lemuel M. Poole attended the district school at Lower Montague and then learned the trade of ship carpenter. Coming to Char- lottetown, he here spent some time at this trade and in 1858 went to the United States locating at East Boston, Massachusetts, where he went to work in the shipyards of Donald McKay, who acquired a world-wide reputation because of the splendid clipper ships built by him. After working there about two and a half years, and a year in Boston, Mr. Poole, in 1861, enlisted in the United States navy, being assigned to the cruiser or transport “Kensington.” He was later transferred to the frigate “Mississippi,” and subsequently back to the “Kensington.” with which he went to New Orleans and back to New York They arrived at the _ latter port during the Andrews riot and twenty- eight of the ship’s crew, including Mr. Poole, were detailed to guard the custom house. This duty engaged them for three months - and they then returned to their ship. They were later assigned to the first-class gun-boat “Mindota,” under Admiral Porter, as a part of the James River fleet, but were later trans- ferred to the dispatch boat “Gamma.” While serving on this boat Mr. Poole’s time expired and he received an honorable discharge. He