()\2 PAST AND PRESENT OF eral other relatives lived 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 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 Mclntire . 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 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