PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 577 and the Dominion Plymouth Rock Associa¬ tion ; and executive officer of the C. M. B. A ., the M. S. B. A ., the C. F. A ., and the Mari¬ time Board of Trade, besides being con¬ nected in a leading way with other organiza¬ tions, social, fraternal and industrial. He is still in the prime of life, and is occupied all the time in writing, speaking or organizing, in all of which he is proficient. He is much beloved by his own parishioners at Alberton , where lie has a charming home; and at the time of this writing his name is popularly connected in the public mind with the arch¬ bishopric of Halifax, which has recently become vacant. Harry Compten Green, now living re¬ tired from active life in his comfortable home in Summerside , was born at St. Eleanor's, Prince Edward Island , on April 3,1817, and is a son of the Hon . Samuel and Elizabeth (Cox) Green, both natives of England , the former born in London and the latter at Stockton-on-Tees. They were married in 1800 and in 1808 the father came to Prince Edward Island and located at North St. Eleanor 's. He first landed at Cassumpec, now Alberton, and at once moved to a tract of five hundred acres which he purchased from the Hon . Harry Compten , after whom the subject of this sketch was named. Here the father engaged in farming and ship¬ building, though he discontinued the latter pursuit jn about 1826. He was a man of considerable means and for a number of. jears served as a member of the Provincial Legislature, being subsequently appointed a nember of the Legislative Council in which le served with signal ability. He was a man 37 of great energy and public spirit and served many years as justice of the peace. He died in 1864, at the age of eighty-six years and his wife in 1854, at the age of seventy-six, they having spent fifty-four years of con¬ genial married life together. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the only survivor. Harry C. Green spent his boyhood days in St. Eleanor's, being educated in the pay schools of that locality, and during the early days he had to travel three miles to and from school. His education was completed in the old at Charlottetown (now Prince of Wales College). Mr. Green remained on the old homestead after com¬ pleting his studies and shortly afterward the homestead was divided between him and his older brother Charles. He remained here until 1857, when he sold the farm and re¬ moved to summerside, where he engaged in the mercantile business, conducting a suc¬ cessful grocery business until he was ap¬ pointed ' postmaster at Summerside , which position he filled acceptably for some twenty- five years, also serving, prior to the Coni federation, as collector of customs. On March 3, 1850, Mr. Green married Mis* Caroline Ellis , born in Bideford , Devonshire , England , and a daughter of Robert Ellis , the latter a resident of Summerside . The latter came to the Island in his young man¬ hood, and here married, returning to Eng¬ land, where he remained a number of years, but spending his latter days in Prince Ed ¬ ward Island. To Mr. and Mrs. Green have been born the following children: Fanny, the wife of James Clarke , of Massachusetts ; Erbert, now manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia at Digby, Nova Scotia ; Catherine, the wife of H. Mills , of Summerside ; Hen- rieta, the wife of William Mills , of