PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 5ii pleted a three-story warehouse, twenty-five feet by fifty feet in size, in the rear of the store, for wholesale stock, and occupy a large three-story warehouse, fifty by one hundred feet in size, on Fitzroy . Their business has rapidly grown to mammoth pro¬ portions in both the retail and wholesale de¬ partments, and in addition they do an ex¬ tensive upholstering and repairing business, this department alone employing ten men. The stock carried in all departments is first- class in every respect and is of such quality and selection as would grace any metropoli¬ tan store. Mr. Beer takes an active part in the management of the extensive busi¬ ness, and also, as before stated, carries on the fire insurance business, in which he con¬ trols a large share of local business. In 1901 Mr. Meer was chief census officer for Prince Edward Island . Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On August 7, 1889, Mr. Beer married Miss Fanny A. Leigh , who was born at Plymouth, England , a daughter of Charles Leigh , late fleet paymaster of the British navy, and a sister of Maj. Charles Leigh , who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. To this union have been born three children: Bessie B., Walter L . and Charles A. Mark Wright, whose name is identi¬ fied with one of the most important business houses of Charlottetown , and who as a pub¬ lic spirited and progresive citizen stands high in the general regard of the community, was born at Bedeque , Prince Edward Island , on February 21, 1857, and is the son of George and Elizabeth (Butcher) Wright, both also natives of the Island. The pater¬ nal grandfather, Nathaniel Wright , was an ardent Loyalist , and after the Revolution¬ ary war came to Prince Edward Island , lo¬ cating at Bedeque . At eleven years of age, the subject lost his father by death, and he then came to Charlottetown and com¬ pleted his education in the Prince of Wales College. He then apprenticed himself with his uncle, Mark Butcher , to learn the cabinet- making business and, with the exception of a couple of years spent in Souris , Prince Edward Island , he remained with his uncle until the latter's death in 1883. He then bought out the business and continued it under the firm name of Mark Wright & Company fpr four years, when it was formed into a corporation, under which arrange¬ ment it continued until the liquidation of the business, at which time Mr. Wright and E. H. Beer bought the interests and have since continued the enterprise under the style of the Mark Wright Furnishing Com¬ pany. This firm is enjoying a high degree of prosperity and is now numbered among the leading house furnishing firms in the province. Their main store, on Sunnyside, has a frontage of fifty feet, and they also occupy the third floor of an adjoining build¬ ing and contemplate the occupancy of a four- story building situated two doors west of their store. For the care and storage of their immense stock, they ocupy two warerooms. respectively, twenty-five by fifty feet and fifty by one hundred feet in size. In June, 1887, Mr. Wright was united in marriage witli Miss Elizabeth McKechnie . a native of Ontario , whose father was, in the early days superintendent of the Prince Edward Island Railway . This union has been blessed in the birth of six children, namely: Louis, Ruth, Alice, Edith, Anna and Martha. On November 26, 1903, the