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he continued one year, and then came to his present location in the Cameron block. He here carried a large and complete stock of jewelry, watches, clocks, silverware and all kindred lines usually to be found in a first class jewelry store. Mr. Taylor exerts every effort to please his customers and has long enjoyed a large share of public patronage. He possesses good business ability and has been fairly successful.

I Mr. Taylor married Miss Ann Isabella Hutchinson, who was born in Canso, Nova Scotia, a daughter of Elias Hutchinson, and to them have been born the following chil- dren: Ann Ellen is at home; Roland was educated at West Kent and Prince of Wales College and then entered the employ of his father; when the call came for volunteers for the South African war, he enlisted in Company G, under Colonel Otter, and was killed in the action at Paarderburg, a monu- ment being afterward erected in the Square to the memory of those who fell at the same place; Gladys, Marion, Edwina Belle (de— ceased) and John Stewart. Mr. Taylor is an honorary member of the Sons of England and stands high in the regard of the people generally, his thirty-seven years of life among them having been passed in useful in- dustry and without reproach.

SILAS FREDERICK HODGSON, who has for a number of years been oflicially connected with the Prince Edward Island Railway, and who is counted among the representative citizens of Charlottetown, was born at Hope River, Prince Edward Island, on Decem- ber I 3. 1846. His parents were John and Catherine (Barnard) Hodgson, the former having been born in York, England, while

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the latter was a native of Charlottetown. The paternal grandfather was Richard Hodgson, of York, England, and the family history is contained in an old family Bible, which was printed and delivered in sections and was afterward bound, the Old and New Testaments separately. In this book, which is now in the possesion of Richard Rodg— son, of Alberton, this Island, is traced the family record back into the eighteenth cen- tury. The maternal grandfather, Jabez Barnard, was born at Alconbury, Hunting- donshire, England, and was engaged in con— tracting for many years in Charlottetown. Richard Hodgson came to Prince Edward Island in 1831, locating at Tryon, of which he was a pioneer. His son, Thomas, was a lay preacher at Tryon, and through favour- ble reports by him the father and family were induced to come to the Island. The father lived at Tryon for some years and then removed to Hope River, where he spent the balance of his life. He followed the v0- cation of farming and was also an extensive building contractor, making a specialty bf church buildings. He was an expert on Gothic windows, having learned his trade in England. He was an Episcopalian and while in England was a constant attendant at Yorkminster Cathedral, York. The Bam— ards in this county were Methodists, but at Hope River there being no church of either denomination, both families were taken into the Presbyterian church of Cavendish, under Rev. Dr. Geddie, who afterwards became noted as a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands. John Hodgson died in 1873, aged sixty-fouryears, and the mother died on May 30, 1894, at the age of eighty-four. Of the eight children born to these parents, the sub- ject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth.