PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Irish stock, came to Prince Edward Island in an early day and located at East Point, where he engaged in farming up to the time of his death. George Moran learned the carpenter's trade and in young manhood removed to Charlottetown, where he still follows that vocation. His only child is the subject of this sketch, who received his elementary education in the Charlottetown public schools, supplementing this by attend- ance in Prince of Wales College. He then took up the study of shorthand under W. H. Crosskill, after which he was for some six years engaged in the shoe business in Char- lottetown. Believing the opportunity ripe he then Opened a business college, under the name of Union Commercial College, which he has since conducted and which has been successful to a most marked degree. The school, which is located on Queen street, oc- cupies two floors and the rooms are com— modious and well equipped for the purpose. Professor Moran isthoroughly familiar with every detail of modern business methods and many of his pupils are now occupying suc- cessfully important commercial positions. The subject is ably assisted by E. S. Easton, B. A., and together they are giving the col- lege a reputation second to none in the prov- inces. Mr. Moran is a man of fine personal qualifications and stands high in the estima- tion of those who know him'best.

ALFRED \V. P. GOURLIE, the well known pharmacist and druggist at Summerside, is a native of the city in which he now resides, having been born on March 5, 1880, and is a son of the late J. Alfred Gourlie, a native of Miramichi, New Brunswick,and his wife.

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Summerside. The paternal grandfather, James Gourlie, who was a native of Glas- gow, Scotland, came to New Brunswick about 183 5 and located in Miramichi, where he remained until 1850, when he removed to Prince Edward Island and settled at Sum- merside. He was actively engaged in mer- cantile affairs and for some years was man- ager of the Dominion Savings Bank. Dur- ing the last ten years of his life he served as city clerk, his death occurring in 1905, at the age of eighty-one years. J. Alfred Gour— lie studied the drug business under the late - Thomas McKinley and in 1871. having been employed in it for five years, he bought out Mr. McKinley. This was the first drug store in Prince county and he successfully continued its operation until the time of his death, which occurred on September 11, 1903, at the age of fifty-eight years. He was twice married, and to the first union, with Miss Stuart, of Malpeque, were born, two daughters, Helen Emma, now the wife of Arthur W. McKinley, of Toronto, Can- ada, and Bessie, the wife of Harry Hayes, manager of the First National Bank, of St. Louis, Missouri, and a son of ex.G0vem0r Hayes, of Missouri. Mrs. Gourlie died, and in 1879 Mr. Gourlie married Miss Ade- laide C. Graves, of Summerside, to which union were born the following children: Alfred W. P., subject of this sketch; Fran- ces, the wife of C. N. Beal, of St. John, New Brunswick; Arthur, in Assiniboia: Eva and Ruth, at home.

Alfred W. P. Gourlie secured his ele- mentary education in the public schools of Summerside, after which he attended the Ontario College of Pharmacy. at Toronto, where he graduated in 1902. He then went to Maple Creek. Assiniboia, where he spent a year, but upon the death of his father he