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farming. In 1882 he began the mercantile business at Southport, but three years later removed to Kensington, where until 1896 he was engaged in the operation of a general store. Since relinquishing this business he has been engaged in various offices, being also employed as conveyancer, and holds commissions for taking acknowledgment of deed and wills and for taking affidavits in the supreme court and court of Chancery. He is an expert accountant and has performed much valuable service in this capacity. He is now the eflicient and capable secretary of the Kensington Dairying Association, and a di- rector and secretary-treasurer of the Prince Edward Island Dairy Association and has done much to build up this industry to its present proportions. Politically he supports the Conservative party and fraternally is a member of the Independent Order of Forest- ers. For over twenty-seven years he has been a member of the Sons of Temperance, being grand worthy president of the order for one year, and grand worthy scribe for two years, and also was president in 1900 of the Pro- vincial Branch of the Dominion Temperance Alliance, and took a leading part in the in- troduction of the “Prohibition Act” of that year. On September 6, 1882, Mr. Anderson married Miss Sarah Ann Clark, a daughter of the late Andrew and Charlotte (Bagnell) Clark, of Cavindish, and to them have been born five sons: Nelson C., John A., Andrew (dead). \Veston E. and Dan.

ROBERT Hum—Among the successful agriculturists of Lot 32, Queens county, is he whose name appears at the beginning of this paragraph. He is a native of Prince Ed- ward Island, having been bom on March 8, 1876, on the old Hyde farm in Lot 32, lo-

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cated about ten miles from Charlottetown. His parents, Henry and Isabella (Adams) Hyde, were also natives of this Island, where the mother is still living, the father having died in 1903. The subject’s paternal grand- father was also bom in this Island, making the Hyde family one of the oldest of the prov- ince, the present farm having been in the pos- session of the family over one hundred years, it having been originally settled by the great- grandfather, a native of Ireland. The mem— bers of the family through all generations have generally been farmers. An interesting feature of this farm is what is supposed to be an old Indian fort, which was there when the great-grandfather settled on the land and which was at that time in about the same condition as at present, having changed but little in over one hundred years. There are breastworks thrown up in the form of a cir- cle and high enough for the concealment of a number of men, with a deep trench outside also capable of concealing a large number of men, the works being so elevated that the ones inside could make an attack without danger to those in the outside trench.

About ninety years ago, William Hyde, grandfather of the above mentioned Robert Hyde, was visiting relatives by the name of Aitken, near Gorgetown, and traveled both ways on horseback, which was about the only way of traveling in those days. When start- ing for home he took a willow twig to spur his horse along, and when he arrived home he stuck it in the ground, and it grew. To- day it measures thirteen feet in circumfer- ence, is in a flourishing condition and may be seen at the old homestead known as the “Point Farm,” now occupied by his grand- son, Harry Hyde.

Thomas Hyde, the head of the Hyde family, came, or it is supposed he came, to