592 PAST AND PRESENT OF with his father and is now engaged in op¬ erating the home farm, and Gordon, who is also at home and who is now engaged in teaching school. The latter is also a botan¬ ist of some note and is the possessor of a fine herbarium. In politics Mr. Warren votes with the Liberal party, while his religious connection is with the Baptist church. The Warren family has been estab¬ lished on the Island since a very early day and the members of the family have taken a deep interest in the promotion of the com¬ munity's welfare. Alexander MacNeill , M. D. , C. M ., who has a deservedly high standing among the medical practitioners at Summerside , was born at Canoe Cove , Queens county, Prince Edward Island , on February 17, 1853. His paternal grandfather, Alexander MacNeill , was a native of Colonsay, Scot¬ land and in 1S19 came to Pictou , Nova Scotia in the ship "Economy," but subse¬ quently removed to Prince Edward Island , locating at Canoe Cove , where he spent the remainder of his life engaged in farming. His son, John MacNeill , the Doctor's father, who also was born in Colonsay, Scotland , was a farmer like his father, though during his later years he lived retired in Kensing¬ ton, where he died at the age of seventy-five years. To his marriage with Miss Catherine McKenzie were born ten children, of whom the Doctor is the eldest. Alexander MacNeill attended the dis¬ trict schools and then went to Charlotte - town and learned the drug business with P. G. Fraser . He then attended Prince of Wales College three years, after which he studied medicine three years with Dr. F. P. Taylor . To complete his professional studies, he entered the medical department of Mc- Gill University, where he was graduated in 1883, with honours. He.began the practice of his profession at Kensington , where he was successfully engaged in it for fifteen years, at the end of which period he re¬ moved to Summerside . He has demon¬ strated his ability in a definite manner and is now enjoying a large and lucrative prac¬ tice. He keeps in close touch with the latest advances in the healing art and in order to keep abreast with up-to-date meth¬ ods he went abroad in 1902 and took post¬ graduate courses in different hospitals in London, England ; and also at various times he has taken special post-graduate courses in Montreal, Chicago and other cities. He is a member of the Canada Medical Associa¬ tion, the Maritime Medical Association, the Prince Edward Island Medical Association and the British Medical Association. His fraternal relations are with the Masons, in which he has advanced to the Royal Arch degree, the Knights of Pythias , the Inde¬ pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Inde¬ pendent Order of Foresters and the Royal Arcanum . On September 30, 1885. Doctor MacNeill was married to Miss Emma Bow- ness, a native of Norborough , Prince Ed ¬ ward Island and a daughter of James Bow- ness. They are the parents of two children, Jean B. and Frank A. The Doctor has at all times taken a deep interest in the welfare of the community and stands high in the esteem of all who know him. Waldo Bain , who successfully operates a farm of one hundred and forty-two acres in Lot 32, Queens county, was born on this lot on January 11, 1879, and is a son of Francis and Caroline Bain, both also natives