33<> PAST AND PRESENT OF enlisted in the service as a fireman and had received several promotions, being at the time of his discharge chief engineer of the "Gamma." Upon quitting the naval service, Mr. Poole returned to Prince Edward Is ¬ land and went to work at his trade. In 1866 he entered the employ of Peake Brothers & Company, with whom he remained until 1874, and then accepted a position with the Prince Edward Island Railway as bridge inspector, which he held until 1878. In the year mentioned he opened a general lumber business in Charlottetown , commencing on Queens wharf and later buying out Peake's' No. 3 wharf. He conducted a large and suc¬ cessful business here until May 1, 1905, when he retired, giving the control of the business into the hands of Simon P. Paoli , who had held various positions with him for twenty-two years. Mr. Poole married Miss Eliza Brundage , a native of Tryon , Prince Edward Island , and a daughter of the late Captain Joseph Brundage , who was lost with his ship and crew on Bord Rocks , near Canso, Sco¬ tia. To Mr. and Mrs. Poole have been born two children, Ethel B. M . and Anna Myrtle . Fraternally Mr. Poole is a member of the M;isonic order. Edward Chandler , of the firm of Prowse Brothers, Ltd., Charlottetown , was born at Southport , Prince Edward Island , November 29, 1857, and is the son of Ed¬ ward and Jane (Crawford) Chandler, the former born at Norfolk, England , in 1812, died at May 23, 1891, and the latter born at Tryon , Prince Edward Island , in 1822, died at January 17, 1889. Edward Chandler , Sr., came to this Island in 1832, and first spent some years at Charlotte¬ town, where he conducted a blacksmithing business, and afterwards moved to South- port where he followed the same line of busi¬ ness. Of his five children, three sons and two daughters, the subject of this sketch is the eldest. He received his education in the public schools, and at an early age he en¬ gaged as a clerk in the hardware store of Stone & Bovyer, with whom he remained un¬ til the firm was discontinued, when he en¬ tered the employ of Robert Orr & Company, dry goods, with whom he remained some years, after which he was variously employed with such well known firms as W. & A. Brown , W. A. Weeks & Company and James Paton & Company. In 1886 he married Mrs. A. Morrison , of Boston, Massachusetts , widow of the late Archibald Morrison , who was chief engineer of the Boston & Savan¬ nah Steamship Company. She died at Char¬ lottetown February 15, 1894. In 1893 ne acquired a financial interest in the carpet and house furnishing department of Prowse Brothers, the department being conducted under the name of Prowse Brothers & Com¬ pany, with Mr. . Chandler as manager, and this is how one of the leading carpet stflres of the Island. They carry a full and com¬ plete line of all grades of carpets and kin¬ dred articles and command a large share of the public patronage. Mr. Chandler pos¬ sesses those qualities which make for friend¬ ship and beget confidence, and has demon¬ strated unmistakably his business ability and fitness for his present line of enterprise. In 1899 Mr. Chandler was united in marriage to Miss Julia Hanford Sayre , a na¬ tive of Nova Scotia , and to them have been born three children: Edward Sayre , Mar¬ garet, deceased, and Gordon Crawford . Fra¬ ternally, Mr. Chandler is a prominent mem-