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church. On April 14, 1897, Dr. Smith mar- ried Miss Ada May Parkman, a daughter of Edward and Mary (Livingston) Park- man, of Montague.

S. P. DOUGHERTY, a leading citizen and successful farmer of Lot I 3, whose postoflice address is Port Hill, was born on the farm where he now resides and is a son of Francis Dougherty, a justice of the peace and magis- trate for Prince county, who was also born and lived all his life on this farm. He was a stanch Conservative in politics, and Epis- copalian in religious belief, his death occur- ring in 1900, at the age of seventy-four years. The subject’s paternal grandfather, Thomas Dougherty, was a native of Ireland and came to Prince Edward Island in I820 and at that time located on the present farm, which he bought of Sir Francis Seymour. The tract was at that time in a wild condi- tion, but he cleared and made it a fine and productive farm, comprising one hundred and forty acres and containing a neat house. substantial barn and productive orchard. He was the only one of his family to come to Prince Edward Island, and before his emi- gration, had married, in Ireland, a Miss Hughes. They were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Robert, Thomas, Arthur. William, John and Francis, the latter remaining on the homestead. The subject’s mother bore the maiden name of Diana Craswell, a daughter of Charles and Isabella (Hardy) Craswell, of Alberton, the father having been agent for the late John Hill for upwards of twenty years. Charles Cras- well was the only magistrate in the west end of the Island and performed all the legal work for the people, such as drawing

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deeds, mortgages, leases, wills, etc. He was educated in England, being a native of Essex. and came to Prince Edward Island with his father, William Craswell, who located at St. Eleanors, where the repre- sentatives of the family now reside. Mr. Craswell was drowned while crossing Grand River Ferry, in company with the late Sam- uel Green. The subjecthas always been an abstainer from strong drink and has been provincial deputy, grand worthy patriarch for Prince Edward Island of the Sons of Temperance. and is also secretary of Lot 14 Presbyterian church. In politics he gives his support to the Conservative party and is active in its interests. He now owns the old homestead farm and his mother and two sisters, Mary Jane and Ada, and his nephew. William H. S. Dougherty, now reside there with him. The other members of his parents’ family are Artemus, of Cedar Key, Florida; Henry, of Vancouver, British Columbia; David, a farmer at Port Hill; Albert, who died at the age of twenty-five years; Lewis, a merchant at Pacific, Mis- souri: \Villiam, of Cape Traverse, who is a graduate of the New York Medical Uni- versity; Louisa, the wife of J. A. Weeks, of Alberton; Eliza, the wife of Cyrel Dobie. a farmer at Port Hill.

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ALBERT VICKERSON, who is numbered among the successful business men of Lot 58, is a native of Marshfield, Lot 34. Queens county, and is a son of George Vickerson, a highly respected and successful farmer. In his youth he received his education in the district schools of the community and has practically followed tanning all his life. He began business at Pinette in 1881, building