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Land Purchase Act. which resulted in mak- ing the dissatisfied tenant farmers of the province contented and prosperous free- holders. He was a supporter of the railway legislation, which gave a railway to the province before confederation, and of all measures which he believed were for the public benefit. '

In local affairs we find him chairman of the committee for building St. Dunstan’s cathedral, treasurer of St. Vincent de Paul Society for the relief of the poor, president of the Charlottetown Club and ex:president of the Caledonia Club. ‘

On NOVember 25, 1863, Senator Mac- donald married Miss Elizabeth Owen. a daughter of the late Thomas Owen, Sr.. for- merly postmaster general of Prince Edward Island, their children being Aeneas A., men- tioned in the following paragraph: Archi- bald Percy, in business at Moyie, British Columbia; Reginald Hugh, who was an offi— cial of the People’s Bank of Halifax until his death in 1893. and A. D., an accountant and bookkeeper.

Aeneas A. Macdonald was born at Georgetown, Prince Edward Island. on No- vember 30, 1864. He received his element- ary education in private schools in Char- lottetown, after which he attended at Prince of Wales College and at St. Dunstan’s. In December. 1883. he began the study of law under the preceptorship of Peters & Peters. and in July 1889. he was admitted as an at- torney. In July. 1890. he took up the prac— tice in association with C. B. McNeill. under the firm style of McNeill & Macdonald. which continued for about three years, when Mr. McNeill went to British Columbia, after which Mr. Macdonald continued the prac- tice alone until May, 1903, when he en- tered into a professional partnership with

PAST AND PRESENT OF

Patrick J. Trainor, one of the Island’s most promising young attorneys, but who met his death by drowning on December 5. 1904. Thereafter the subject practiced independ- ently until May I, 1905, when he formed a partnership with J. A. Mathieson, under the firm name of Mathieson & Macdonald. In August, 1904. the subject married Miss Mar garet J. Macdonald, of Glenandale, Lot 36-. a daughter of John Archibald Macdonald. an old and respected farmer of that section. To this union has been born one child.

A. ERNEST INGs, a leading and well known member of the bar at Charlottetown, was born in this city on May 11, 1866, and is a son of John and Mary Jane (Yeo) Ings. the former born in Portsmouth. England, in 1815, and the latter a daughter of the late James Yeo, formerly one of the largest ship merchants of the province. The pater- nal grandfather, John Ings, was born at Portsmouth, England, in 1787, and was a draughtsman in the navy yard at that place. later coming to Prince Edward Island and engaging in shipbuilding on his own account. He died in 1885, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. John Ings was for up- wards of thirty years engaged in the publi- cation of the Islander. and was for many years president of the Prince Edward Is- land Steam Navigation Company. He is still living. at the age of ninety-one years. Of his five children living, four sons and one daughter. the subject of this sketch is the youngest.

A. E. Ings attended Prince of \Vales Col— lege, and finished his education in Chelten- ham College, England. Upon the comple-