522 PAST AND PRESENT OF Island, and is now president of the Prince Edward Island Telephone Company, presi¬ dent of the Patriot Publishing Company, a director of the Charlottetown Steam Navi¬ gation Company and a director and stock¬ holder in several other leading enterprises. During eight years he represented Char¬ lottetown in the Provincial Legislature, per¬ forming effective service in behalf of his constituency. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, in which he was honored by election to the office of grand master, and in this fraternity he has risen to the degree of a Knight Templar. Though well along in years, Mr. Rogers is still vigorous in all matters that engage his attention and is considered one of the leading business men of the Island. Benjamin Rogers , Jr., attended the pub¬ lic schools in his youth and completed his education in Prince of Wales College and in the Montreal Collegiate Institute, graduat¬ ing from the latter institution in 1893, He then entered the hardware house of his father and in 1893 took charge of the counting house. In 1904, upon the incorporation of the business as the Rogers Hardware Com¬ pany, he became a partner, assuming the dual position of secretary and treasurer, in which he has since continued. Aside from his business duties, Mr. Rogers has found time to give attention to matters of public import, and February 14, 1906, he was elected a member of the Charlottetown city council for the second time, from the fifth ward, heading the poll in this ward. In February, 1902, Mr. Rogers married Miss Winnie Collings , a daughter of John Collings , and to them has been born one son, Benjamin, and one daughter. Helena. Fra¬ ternally Mr. Rogers is a Mason, in which order he has taken the degrees up to and including that of Knight Templar, and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine, the Sons of England , the Canadian Order of For¬ esters, the Ancient Order of United Work¬ men and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The subject's eldest brother, George J. Rogers , was born in Charlottetown October 3, 1869, and was educated in St. Peter 's and the public schools. In 1885 he entered the hardware establishment of Dodd & Rog¬ ers, and in 1904, upon the incorporation of the business as the Rogers Hardware Com¬ pany, he became vice-president. He is also vice-president of theW. K Rogers Company , insurance brokers, has been a director of the Charlottetown Steam Navigation Company, and for six years served on the committee of management of the Charlottetown Club. Neil McLeod , a representative attorney at Summerside , is a native of bonnie Scot¬ land, having been born in the Isle of Skye , in January, 1853. His parents, Roderick and Catherine ( Mclnnis ) McLeod, and his paternal and maternal grandfathers, John McLeod and Laughlin Mclnnis , were also natives of the Isle of Skye . The grand¬ parents, who never left their native land, were farmers and stock raisers. Roderick McLeod followed farming in his native land and in 1871 came to Prince Edward Island , locating at Long River , New London , where he was engaged in farming up to the time of his death in 1889, at the age of eighty years; the mother died in 1003. at the ad¬ vanced age of ninety-two years. They were the parents of nine children, six of whom are now living. Neil McLeod attended the district schools