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lowing children: Sadie D., J. B. 12., Mar- garet D., Francis W., Alex, Lydia L., David G., Elizabeth J., Sinclair and Willard.

ALEXANDER MARTIN, M. P., who has ably represented his district in the local Par- liament, was born at Springton, Prince Ed- ward Island, and received a district-school education, upon the completion of which he engaged in teaching, following this calling for nine years, six years of this time in Val- ley Field. He was highly successful and was conceded to have one of the best schools in Kings county. In 1869 he embarked in the mercantile business at Valley Field, which he has successfully followed to the present time, a period of thirty-six years, during which he has achieved an enviable reputation for square dealing, strict integrity and business ability. In addition to this he has conducted a farm near Valley Field in which he has also achieved a fair degree of success. The farm comprises eighty acres and is highly improved, being considered one of the choice and productive famis of this locality. In 1884 Mr. Martin was elected a representa- tive to the Provincial Legislature and has continued to serve acceptably in this position until the present time. On the 18th of Feb- ruary, 1868, Mr. Martin married Miss Ann McLeod, and to them have been born the following children: Albert John, a gradu- ate of Cornell University, is an electrical en- gineer and is connected with the Bell Tele- phone Company in New York City; Rode- rick M., who resides at home, looks after his father’s business interests, for which he is well adapted, having received a good educa- tion in Prince of Wales College, at Char- lottetown, and the Charlottetown Business

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College; Isabella Katherine, who resides at home, received advanced education in the Halifax Ladies’ College. The family are members of the Presbyterian church and are Well and favorably known throughout the community. Mr. Martin is a man of wide general information and marked ability and has achieved a distinctive success not only in business but as a legislator.

PETER MACNUTT, well and favorably known as a successful merchant and leading citizen of Malpeque, was born at Damley, Prince Edward Island, on the 5th of April, 1834, and is a son of Hon. Peter S. Mac- Nutt, also a native of Prince Edward Is- land, born in 1796,, the son of James Mac- Nutt. Peter S. MacNutt was a member of the Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island for many years, and was a successful farmer, merchant, builder and owner of ships; he died in 1846. The subject’s mother, who‘ was a daughter of the late Francis Longworth, of Charlottetown, was born in 1798 and died in 1875. The paternal grand- father, James MacNutt, who was born in Londonderry, Ireland, came to Prince Ed- ward Island in 1770, as private secretary of Governor Patterson, the Island’s first gov- ernor. His wife, Penelope Stewart, was a daughter of the then chief justice of Prince Edward Island. They first resided at Rus- tico, but later removed to Damley, Prince county.

The subject of this sketch was educated at Damley and in Central Academy (now Prince of Wales College), in Charlottetown. He was appointed commisSioner of small debts and continued to hold the office until the county courts were-established. During