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Edwin Procter attended a private school in Charlottetown in his youth, but before completing his education removed to the country and engaged in work on the farm. At the age of about eighteen years he learned the blacksmith trade under his brother’s in- struction and served two years at this trade with James Cairns, machinist, in Charlotte- town. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Margate and was there employed at this trade for two years and then went to Sum- merside and was employed there for a like period. Returning to Margate in 1856 he remained there twenty-one years and then came to Kensington and there followed his trade until recent years, when he has prac- tically retired from active business. He was a capable and skilled workman and at all times c6mmanded the bulk of work in his line in the communities where he resided, his abilities being generally recognized. He is a man of many fine personal qualities of character and has at all times and in all places commanded the universal respect of all his fellow citizens. His political aflilia- tion is with the Conservative party, while in religion he is a Methodist and takes a deep interest in advancing the welfare of his church. Fratemally he is a member of the Masonic order and the Sons of Temperance. On February 16, 1854, he married Miss Re- becca Mountain, a daughter of William and

(Warren) Mountain, also natives of Prince Edward Island, and to them have been born two children. both now deceased. George A. and Sarah M.

PETER J. D. EDMONDs, a well-to—do farmer and the present postmaster at Sum- merville, Kings county, and magistrate for

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Kings county for thirty-five years, was born on October 31, 1841, at the homestead now owned by him and which was formerly his father’s. His parents were Nicholas and Mary (Delaney) Edmonds, the father a na- I tive of County Wexford, Ireland, though of English descent, and the mother of Kilken- ney, County Kilkenney, Ireland. He came to Prince Edward Island in 1824 and he and his wife became the parents of fourteen chil- dren, of whom the subject of this sketch was the tenth in order of birth.

The latter received his education in the district schools and has followed farming during his active years. His farm comprises one hundred sixty acres of land, all under a high state of cultivation and improved with a fine set of farm buildings, well kept fences and other essential attributes of an up-to- date homestead. He is practical and pro- gressive in his methods. giving proper atten- tion to every detail of his work. and has achieved distinctive success in his operations. His home has been from time immemorial a hotel or stopping place for the public and it has also served for over half a century as the postofiice, during which time not a letter or a cent of money was ever lost in transmission here. Politically Mr. Edmonds is a Liberal, and he and the members of his family are ad- herents of the Catholic church. On July 6, 1875, Mr. Edmonds was married, by Rev. James Phalen, to Miss Maria Bassett, a daughter of William and Catherine (Dele- hanty) Bassett, she being a native of Dublin, Ireland, while her parents were natives of County Kilkenney, Ireland. Mrs. Edmonds came to Prince Edward Island in 1870. To the subject and his wife has been born one son, Daniel Sophus, who was born July 31, 1877, and died May I 5, 1900. and one daughter, Mary Gertrude, wife of James B.