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Reginald, who is now in the store of his father; Muriel, a graduate of Prince of Wales College; V’Vilferd, who is learning the drug business; and Gwendylin, Arnold and Vera, who are in school. Reginald, who completed his education in the West Kent school, enlisted in the army medical corps on its organization in 1901 and has since been promoted to the rank of sergeant. F ratemally Mr. Taylor is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. while in religion he is affiliated with the First Meth- odist church of Charlottetown. He takes a commendable interest in every movement having for its object the betterment of the community and stands high in the esteem of his fellow citizens.

HON. SAMUEL ED. REID, secretary and treasurer of the province of Prince Edward Island, is a native of this Island, having been born at St. Eleanor’s, Prince county, on No- vember 14, i8 54, and is the son of James and Charlotte (Dawson )Reid, the former a native of Donegal, Ireland, and the latter of Tryon, Prince Edward Island. The sub- ject’s paternal grandfather, James Reid, a native of Glasglow, Scotland, came to America in 1830 from Donegal, Ireland. and located at St. John, New Brunswick. The subject’s father came to Prince Edward Island in his youth and located at St. Elea- nor’s. He was afterward located for ten years at Tryon, but the greater part of his active life was passed at St. Eleanor’s, the closing years of it being spent at Sum- merside, where he died in 1900, at the age of eighty-nine years. He occupied a prom- inent place in the community as a successful farmer and was commissioner of the court

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and also postmaster at St. Eleanor’s. He was the father of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth.

Samled E. Reid attended the public schools at St. Eleanor’s, finishing his schOol days in the high school at Summerside. He entered commercial life as a bookkeeper for his brothers, J. D. Reid and J. C. Reid, who were engaged in the business of general mer- chandise in Summerside. The former, for ten years prior to his death, in 1903, was manager of the Prince Edward Island Tele- phone Company, with headquarters at Char- lottetown. After three years with his brothers in Summerside. Mr. Reid went to Tryon and engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods, in which he was suc~ cessfully engaged for thirty years, first in association with his brother, J. D., but in about 1880 they formed a joint stock com- pany, known as the Tryon Woolen Manu- facturing Company, Ltd., of which J. D. Reid was president and the subject secretary and manager. They engaged in “the manu- facture of woolen tweeds, blanketings and flannels and did a very successful business, the product being marketed in Prince Ed- ward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Quebec. Mr. Reid was also extensively engaged in farming and organized the Tryon Dairying Company of which he was manager for ten years. In 1902 Mr. Reid’s health failed, and, his brother dying shortly afterward, it was found expedient to close out the business. In 1899 Mr. Reid was elected to represent the fourth district of Prince county in the Legislature, this being a bye-election, and at the regular election in 1901 he was re- elected and again in 1904. In 1901 he was appointed Speaker, which position he held

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