PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

ber of the Knights of Pythias and is deputy

grand chancellor of that order for Prince Edward Island.

HORATIO GRAHAM, who enjoys a high standing among his fellow citizens as a suc- cessful merchant, lobster packer and farmer at Gasperaux, Kings county, was born at this place on September 10, 1864, and is a son of John M. and Ann C.(Collins) Gra- ham, the father a native of Gasperaux and the mother of Charlottetown, her death oc- curring in 1892. The paternal grandfather, James Graham, was also a native of Gas- peraux, while the great-grandfather, Wil- liam Graham, was a native of Locherby, Scotland, and came to Prince Edward Island in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His two sons, James and William, died of small-pox, William leaving a family of six children: James, Jeanette, William, John, George and Benjamin. The great-grand- father held a large estate at Gasperaux and gave it the name of New Locherby, by which name it was known for many years.

Horatio Graham received his early edu— cation in the common schools of the neigh- borhood and upon attaining mature years entered upon the vocation of farming, which he has always followed, though not to the exclusion of other pursuits. He has been

quite successful as a lobster packer and also operates successfully a store at the old home- stead. He is a man of sound discrimina- tion and good business ability and is counted a successful man. Politically he is a Liberal, and in religion a member of the Presbyte- rian church. On November 27, 1890, he was married to Miss Mary Isabella Creed, a

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Creed, the former born at Sturgeon and died January 4, 1906, and the latter born at Mur- ray Harbor North.. Mrs. Graham was born at Sturgeon on November 27, 1870, and re- ceived a good district-school education. She has been a true helpmate to her husband and with him is highly esteemed throughout the , community.

JABEZ B. S. HODGSON, a successful and well known fruit grower of Lot 28, was born at Tryon, Prince Edward Island, on March 25, 1841, a son of John and Katherine (Barnard) Hodgson. The paternal grand- father, Richard Hodgson, was born in York- shire, England, in 1765 and died in 1843. In 1830 he came to Amerim with his wife and two sons, William and John, on the ship “Lord Mulgrove,” Captain Cordingly, and here followed farming during the remainder of his life. His wife, who in maidenhood bore the name of Katherine B6815, was born in 1765 and died in 1852. William, with his wife and one child, settled in Charlottetown. John Hodgson, father of the subject, who was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1809, accompanied his father to Prince Edward Is- land in 1830, and bought land in Tryon, ,where he lived for a time. He then moved to Charlottetown, but two years later re- turned to ’I‘ryon and finally located at Hope River, where he engaged in agricultural pur- suits during the remainder of his life, his death occurring on September 20, 1873. In 1832 he married Katherine Barnard, a daughter of Jabez Barnard, of Charlotte— town, and they had the following children: Richard, deceased, born October 15, 1834; Hannah Ann, born April 28, 1806, became the wife of George R. Garrett, of Murray Harbor South; William, born April 28,