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carriage factory, and Franklin, who is en- gaged in the bank business at Summerside. and three daughters, Alma, Pearl and Ethel. Miss Ethel B. is training for a nurse in New York City and Misses Alma and Pearl are at home. Mr. Bowness is a man of many fine personal qualities and of business ability. and enjoys the confidence and respect of all with whom he comes in contact.

WILLIAM J. MCLEAN, a successful tiller of the soil and a public spirited citizen of Lot 44 Kings county, was born at New London, Lot 20, Prince Edward Island, and is a son of Malcolm and Christina (McKay) McLean, natives of Scotland. the former born in the Isle of Skye and the latter the daughter of Donald and Christina (McKay) McKay. Malcolm McLean came to Prince Edward Island in 1835 and located on a farm at New London, where he has lived ever since, being now eighty—seven years old. He has been active in church, political and public affairs and enjoys a high stand- ing in the community. In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion a Baptist. The subject’s paternal grandfather, Donald Mc- Lean, who also was a native of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, married Miss Mary Mc- Lean. To Malcolm and Christina McLean were born the following children: Maggie. now deceased, was the wife of James John- son, of Dubuque, Iowa; John, deceased, was at one time editor of a Presbyterian paper in Prince Edward Island and afterward of the Scotchman, a paper published in New York City, being regarded as one of the brightest men in journalism and having a wide acquaintance especially among Scotch- men. Owing to ill health he retired and aft-

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erwards was severely injured in a railroad accident, from the effects of which he never recovered. He was married and left one son. John Malcolm McLean; Rev. Donald, who died at the age of twenty-seven years, had just completed his education at Bethany College. preparatory to entering the ministry of the Christian church; James A., who for seven years was president of Ballart Col- lege, New South Wales, is now a leading attorney at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia; James, Sr., is a successful merchant tailor at Sussex, New Brunswick; Rev. Archibald, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a prominent minister of the Christian church. He was president of the Foreign Missionary Society for many years and was also president of Bethany College, Ohio, but ill health obliged him to retire from this position; the subject of this sketch is the next in order of birth; Malcolm is engaged in the operation of the homestead farm at New London; Mary Jane, deceased, was the wife of Judson Gaylord, of Dubuque, Iowa; Alexie is the wife of William Catto, a successful real estate dealer at Boston, Massachusetts; Christina is the wife of William Whitehead. a farmer at Clinton, this Island; Mary is the wife of Alex Glennie, who is engaged in the real estate business at Boston, Massachusetts; Sarah is the wife of George Cannon, of Sum- merside; Nettie is the wife of Alex Buntin, a farmer at Clifton; Margaret is the wife of Ephraim Read, a civil engineer at Van- couver, British Columbia.

William J. McLean was educated in the schools at New London and was reared to the life of a farmer. to which calling he has devoted the greater part of his attention during the subsequent years. He is the owner of a fine, well situated farm at Souris West and gives his personal attention to