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very successful in every enterprise to which he has turned his hands. He has taken an active part in political affairs and is a writer and speaker of considerable merit, wielding a deep influence throughout his part of the Island. He is widely known and highly re- spected by all. At present he is president of the New Perth Dairying Company, secretary of the Liberal-Conservative conference for Kings county, president of Maple Leaf Farmers’ Institute, chairman of the board of trustees of the Christian church at Mon- tague, a director of the Fruit-growers’ Asso- ciation of Prince Edward Island, as well as a member of the Montague Rifle Club, tak- ing a deep interest in rifle practice.

The remote history of the Dewars has never been the subject of much inquiry by the present generation of colonials. There is a tradition, as the name would imply, that they sprang from a race of warriors, whose original home was in the beautiful and famed Bradalbane region, in the Perthshire Highlands. The past history of any people is not so much a matter of vital concern as their performance in the living present. If they fail to measure up to the one true stand- ard—that of merit—they must expect to be left behind. The Dewars have left their im- pression on the political, scientific and indus- trial life of the motherland and in the “em- pire beyond the seas” they have not failed to take up the “white man’s burden” and can be found to the front in every line of human activity.

GEORGE STRONG INMAN, a well known barrister at Montague, was born at Bedeque, Prince county, on the 25th of June, 1870, and is a son of Nelson and Martha B. In- man, natives of Prince Edward Island and

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of English and Scottish Lineage respectively. The subject was educated in the public schools and supplemented this by attendance at the Prince of Wales College, at Charlotte- town, and Dalhousie College at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1892 he entered upon the study of law with H. C. McDonald, now judge at Charlottetown, and in 1897 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced his pro— fession at Charlestown for one year and in 1898 removed to Montague, where he has since remained and where he has maintained a large and lucrative practice. In 1900 he was appointed law clerk to the local Legis- lature and in 1905 he became stipendiary magistrate for Kings county,.in which posi- tion he is still serving. Mr. Inman is a stanch Liberal in politics and for a number of years has served capably as secretary of the Kings County Liberal Association. In 1904 he was nominated to contest the Mur- ray Harbour district. for the Local Legis- lature, but was defeated by a small majority. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and belongs to St. Andrew’s Lodge, while his religious afiil- iation is with the Methodist church. He is a man of wide intelligence and many fine per- sonal qualities and enjoys the warm regard of all who know him.

EDWIN PROCTER, who, after a long and active career as machinist and blacksmith at Kensington is now retired from active labor, was born at Charlottetown, on January 6, 1831, a son of George and Jane (Cantelo) Proctor, the former a native of London. Eng- land, and the latter of the Isle of Wight, the father having come to Prince Edward Island in about 1810.