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eral other relatives Iii/ed to be ninety or more years old. The maternal grandfather Embree .is still living, at the age of ninety- three years. Cornelius Leard moved from Tryon to Bedeque about 1876, and there en— gaged in farming, being counted among the successful and representative farmers of that locality. Of his ten children, seven are now living.

Alpheus W. Leard secured his early edu- cation in the district schools, supplementing this by attendance in Prince of Wales Col< lege. After three years service as school teacher, the subject entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, where he grad- uated with high honours with the class of 1899. He then came to Summerside and, in company with Doctor Lowther bought out the practice of Doctor McIntire, the new firm being known as Lowther & Leard. This arrangement was maintained five years, at the end of which time Doctor Lowther with- drew and for a year Doctor Leard was alone in the practice. He then became associated with his present partner, J. A. McMurdo, under the firm style of Leard & McMurdo, and they have continued to do a large and lucrative business, enjoying the full confi- dence and unreserved respect of all who know them. Their office is equipped with a complete and up-to-date line of apparatus and they have from the start been uniformly successful in the practice.

Doctor Leard was married in November, 1901, to Miss Laura Baxter, a daughter of the late George Baxter, of Summerside, and they are the parents of two children, Doris and Marion. The Doctor maintains a pro- fessional membership in the Prince Edward Island Dental Association, while his frater- nal relations are with the Independent Order

of Odd Fellows, the Independent Order of

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Foresters, the Royal Arcanum, the Sons of England, and the Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and in the latter order he oc- cupies the position of junior warden.

JOHN A. MCRAE, a public spirited citi- zen and successful farmer at Point Prim, Lot 57, is a native of this place and is a son of Angus and Mary (Gillies)McRae, daugh- ter of John Gillies, of Flat River, who were the parents of the following children : Don- ald, deceased; Murdoch, deceased; John, de- ceased; John A., subject of this sketch; Ann, deceased; Jessie, of Boston, Massachusetts; Christie, deceased, who was the wife of Wil- liam Cooper, of Boston, Massachusetts. The father of those children was born at Point Prim on the farm on which the sub- ject now resides. and his death occurred here at the age of sixty-six years. He was a member of St. John's Presbyterian church. The paternal grandfather of the subject bore the name of Donald McRae and was a native of Applecross, Ross-shire, Scotland, from hence he came to Prince Edward Island in 1803 on the historic ship “Polly,” locating on a farm at Point Prim, where he died in 1862. The great-grand- father was also a native of Applecross, Scot- land. Donald McRae had half-sisters and brothers, of whom three of the former came to Prince Edward Island. Donald became the father of the following children: Angus, father of the subject; Donald, John and Roderick, of Point Prim; Frederick, who located near New London, this Island; Kate became the wife of Alex McLean, of Bel-- fast, and of their children one is A. A. Mc- Lean, present member of Parliament from Charlottetown; Mary married Roderick