350 PAST AND PRESENT OF Scotia, and is of Loyalist descent. After attending the public schools he completed his education at Prince of Wales College, lottetown. He entered at once upon jour¬ nalistic work, enjoying varied experience in the capacity of reporter, city editor and as¬ sociate editor and at one time was marine reporter for one of the large Boston daily newspapers. In November, 1898, upon the resignation of Hon . David Laird , the edi¬ torial department of the Daily and Weekly Patriot, of Charlottetown , was placed under his control, and he has since efficiently dis¬ charged the duties of the position. Mr. Nash has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as a writer and has contributed articles to the Youth's Companion, of Boston, the Canadian Magazine, the Prince Edward Island Maga¬ zine, and other periodicals. He is the Prince Edward Island correspondent for the To¬ ronto Globe, as well as for leading Liberal papers in Canada , and is the editor for this province of the Canadian Labour Gazette . He has written a number of serial stories and poems for foreign publications, and was the winner of the first prize in a competition con¬ ducted several years ago by one of the lead¬ ing Scottish journals. He takes an active and prominent part in politics, is now serv¬ ing as president of the Young Liberal As¬ sociation and several times has been invited to become a candidate for political honors. These invitations he has invariably declined. He has lectured in many places in Prince Edward Island on political and other sub¬ jects, and is regarded as one of the best plat¬ form speakers in the province. He takes a deep interest in educational matters and is a trustee and active member of the Charlotte - town school board. He is also president of the Zion Presbyterian Church Literary So¬ ciety, and a member of the council of the Charlottetown Board of Trade. Mr. Nash is a man of fine personal qualities and pleas¬ ing address, and since locating in Charlotte¬ town has won a host of warm personal friends. Charles Coles , a successful farmer in Lot 32, Queens county, was born in Lot 24, near his present home, on September 11, 1846, and is the son of William and Mary A. (Aldridge) Coles, the latter a native of Eng¬ land. William Coles was born in Lot 24, Prince Edward Island , and lived to the ad¬ vanced age of eighty-two years, being highly respected by all who knew him. The subject received his education in the district schools, and upon attaining mature years took up the pursuit of farming, which he has followed ever since. He is the o\v of two hundred and thirty acres of good land, nearly all of which is under the plow and in a fine state of cultivation. He car¬ ries on general farming and gives some at¬ tention to stock raising and dairying, in all of which he has met with a gratifying degree of success. In 1872 Mr. Coles was united in mar¬ riage to Miss Constance Elizabeth Crabbe , daughter of Richard and Mary (Barrett) Crabbe. In politics Mr. Coles is aligned with the Liberal party and religiously is a mem¬ ber of the Episcopal church. Mrs. Coles ' paternal grandfather, William Crabbe , built some of the earliest carding and grist mills in the Island, and was considered one of the leading early pioneers. Richard Crabbe , who was born in 1821, in Lot 32, was for many years a successful farmer of his locality. The subject of this sketch takes a live interest in all local affairs and stands high in the esti¬ mation of all who know him.