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born at Stoke-upon-Trent, England, and to them have been born the following children: Frances Helen is now the wife of William Strickland, of Calgary, Alberta; Joseph is employed in the wholesale department of Jordan, Marsh & Company in Boston, Mass- achusetts ; Anna McLean, deceased ; William Sargeant, deceased; Alice is connected with Moore & McLeod’s store in Charlottetown; Jessie; Mary, deceased; Gamott is taking a course in engineering; Bertha; Hazel; Wil— liam, deceased. Fratemally Mr. Poole is a Mason.

The subject’s eldest brother, Edward R. Poole, was colour sergeant and acting ser- geant major in the Sixty—third Lancashire Fusileers during the Crimean war. The reg- iment left home one thousand strong and Mr. Poole was one of the seventeen who re- turned home from that terrible conflict. He was previously with this regiment when it was located at Halifax. Soon after the Crimean 'war he purchased his discharge, after seventeen years of active service, and came to Nova Scotia, locating on the Guys- borough road, Halifax, where he served as justice of the peace up to the time of his death, in 1905, at the age of sixty-three.

D. R. H. SHAW, of the well known hard- ware firm of Stanley, Shaw & Reardon, Charlottetown, was born at Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island, on August 4, 1871. The paternal great-grandfather, John Shaw. was a native of Scotland, and, with others of the family, located at Brackley Point, this Island, where they became successful and well-to-do farmers and shipbuilders. The grandfather was James Shaw, born at

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Brackley Point, while the subject’s parents were James and Caroline (Rider )Shaw, the former a native of Brackley Point and the latter of Charlottetown Royalty. They became the parents of four children, namely: Herbert H., who is now a professor in Prince of Wales College; Victor Hunting- ton, who is engaged in farming in Charlotte- town Royalty; D. R. H., the subject of this sketch, and Vernon Hastings, who is practicing law in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

D. R. H. Shaw spent his boyhood at Brackley Point, where he attended the pub- lic schools. In 1889 he Went to Boston and there lamed the plumbing trade, continuing a while longer there as journeyman, and also for about a year he was in business on his own acount in Arlington, a suburb of Boston. He then returned to Charlottetown and started in the plumbing business in part- nership with Mr. Beariston, under the firm name of Shaw & Beariston, an association which continued about three years, when Mr. Beariston withdrew and is now lo- cated in Winnipeg. Mr. Shaw continued the business alone about a year when, in 1901, he entered into a partnership with Joseph K. Stanley and William Reardon, under the firm name of Stanley, Shaw & Reardon, and they are now doing a large and successful business in general hardware, plumbing and plumbing supplies. Their well arranged store is located at the corner of Kent and Great George streets and is forty by one hundred feet, they occupying the entire four stories of the building. They carry a full line of shelf and heavy hardware and have been doing a steadily increasing business from the start, the members of the firm be: ing men of sound business judgment and energetic and accommodating in their ef~ forts to give absolute satisfaction to their