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and good .will of every employee of the road.

In November, 1877, Mr. Sharp was mar- ried to Miss Isabel Brittain, a native of Kings county, New Brunswick, and a sis- ter of Dr. John Brittain. Fratemally Mr. Sharp is affiliated with the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows.

T. J. JAMES, manager of the Anglo- American Telegraph Company’s lines in Prince Edward Island, with headquarters at Charlottetown, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in October, 1846, and is the son of T. C. and Jane (\Vest) James, the former a native of County Carlow, Ireland, and the latter of Fredericton, New Brunswick. In young manhood the father came to Hali- fax and engaged in business, but in I849 he went to St. John’s, Newfoundland, and was there engaged in business up to the time of his death, in 1854. Of his seven children the subject of this sketch is the youngest. The latter attended the public schools and the Episcopal College at St. John’s, after which he taught school in that city for two and a half years. At the age of nineteen years he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he held a position in the office of W. P. West & Company. In the summer of 1866 he returned to Newfoundland and in September of the same year he accepted a position with the New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Company at St. John’s. this being at the time when the famous Alex M. McKay was in charge. In 1869 Mr. James was sent to Port Hastings, Cape Breton, and in December, 1870, was trans- ferred to New York, where he was located in the office of the late Cyrus Field. In June.

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1871, he returned to Newfoundland and in September of the same year he was appointed to take charge of the Prince Edward Is- land lines, with headquarters at Charlotte- town, which responsible position he has since retained, his long retention being a marked testimonial to his efficiency and faithfulness.

Mr. James has twice been married. In October, 1871, he was married to Miss So- phia McKeen, a daughter of the late James McKeen, of Port Hastings, Cape Breton, and to them were born two children, T. C., now in Seattle, Washington, and Margaret, who is engaged in teaching school in Char- lottetown. Mrs. James died in 1879. and in 1881 Mr. James married Miss Hales, a na- tive of Charlottetown and a daughter of F. W. Hales, of the Charlottetown Steam Navigation Company. They are the parents of two daughters. In religion Mr. James is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder and in which he takes an active and influential interest. Because of his genuine worth and genial disposition. Mr. James has many warm friends on the Island.

D. J. RILEY, of the well known firm of T. B. & D. J. Riley, tobacco manufacturers, at Charlottetown, is a native of this city,

where he was born on January 3, 1873, and is the son of Charles and Flora (McDon- ald) Riley. The father and the paternal grandfather, Michael Riley, were natives of the north of Ireland, while the subject's mother is a native of Souris. Prince Edward Island. Michael Riley came to Prince Ed- ward Island in I848 and settled in Char- lottetown, where he spent the remainder of his life. Charles Riley, who also came to Charlottetown, engaged in the hide and wool