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number of the most important charges in in three neighbouring provinces. Fred S. Lodge spent his early school days in Fredericton, where he also attended col- lege. after which he took a course in A. W. Young’s Business College. He then engaged as bookkeeper with Hon. Alexander Gibson, at Marysville, near Fredericton, but shortly afterward took up the study of dentistry at Moncton, New Brunswick. Later he went to the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, where he grad- uated in 1891 with honourable mention. Im- mediately upon conclusion of his technical studies he came to Charlottetown and opened offices in the Brown block, where he has since continued, having built up a large and successful practice, the extent of which is indicated by the statement that the Doctor now requires the help of two assistants. He is a man of broad general knowledge and of pleasing personality and commands the respect of all with whom he comes in con~ tact. He is a member of the Prince Edward Island Dental Association, of which he is ex-vice president, and of the Maritime Den- tal Association.

MAJOR CHARLES LEIGH, senior member of the well known firm of Weeks & Com- pany, Charlottetown, and prominent in lo- cal military circles, was bom at Plymouth, England, on April 2, 1869, and is the son of Charles and Fanny (Peake) Leigh, the former born at Exeter, Devonshire, Eng- land, and the latter the daughter of James Peake, referred to elsewhere in this volume. The paternal grandfather was Thomas Leigh, who died when Charles Leigh, Sr.,

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was but a boy. The latter was educated in his native country and entered the British navy, in which he remained for twenty-two years, rising to the responsible rank of fleet paymaster. He was married in England and in 1878 came to Prince Edward Island in the barquentine “Ethel Blanche” and lo- cated at Charlottetown, where he lived a retired life until his death, which occurred in 1902. He was the father of six children, three sons and three daughters, five of whom are now living.

The subject of this sketch first attended St. Peter’s Boys’ School in West Kent, and completed his education at Sackville, after ' which he took a course in the Charlotte- town Business College. He then entered the employ of Horace Haszard, Esq., and subsequently engaged with the firm of Weeks & Beer, with whom he remained as an employee until the firm was dissolved and also later with the re-organized firm of W. A. Weeks & Company until 1899. In the year mentioned Mr. W. A. Weeks re- tired from the firm and Mr. Leigh became a partner of the new firm known as Weeks & Company. which has since been continued and which has uniformly enjoyed a marked degree of prosperity, being considered one of the leading mercantile houses of Char- lottetown. Much of the recent success of ' the business has been due to the careful judgment and discriminating management of the subject, who enjoys the confidence and high regard of his business associates.

In 1886 Major Leigh joined the Char- lottetown Engineering Company as a sapper and two years later rose to the rank of lieutenant. He took a three months’ course of instruction in the Kingston Military Col- lege, and then remained with the Engineers