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attention to dairy farming. He is a Liberal in politics and in religion a member of the Roman Catholic church. He is in every essential respect a self-made man and is clearly deserving of the respect and esteem which he enjoys in the community. In 187 5 he married Miss Ellenor McDougald, daughter of Hector and Elizabeth (Hardy) McDougald, who were natives of near Port Hill, Prince Edward Island, and were farm- ing people. To the subject and his wife have been born the following children: Clara, the wife of Edward Harper, a farmer at Tignish; Mabel at home; John, who is now at home, followed the sea for three years-and also served a period in the army; George resides in the United States; Ed— mund is a lumberman in the United States; Fanny became the wife of Thomas Sprague, an engineer in Portland, Maine; Janie lives at Cambridge, Massachusetts; Charles and Lena are at home. Mr. Gillis is a man of many fine personal qualities of character and stands deservedly high among his fellow citizens-

BERTRAN H. RAMEY, a successful farm- er and well known horseman of Lot 3, Prince county, was born in Lot II on August 3, 1859, and is a son of Donald and Elizabeth Ramsey. The father also was born in Lot I I, in 1819, and followed farming. He was the father of four children, the subject of this sketch being the first in order of birth; Irene A. became the wife of Crowning Shield, a commercial traveller in Brocton, Canada; Anna L. became the wife of Daniel Squarebriggs, a miller at Montrose. Prince Edward Island, and both are deceased; Ida M. is the wife of Mr. Murphy, a merchant of Worcester, Massachusetts. Mrs. Eliz-

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beth Ramsey died and subsequently Donald Ramsey married Miss Flora Hardy, and to them were born three children: Arthur C., John M. and Eliza. The father died in 1878 and'his wife in 1868. He was a Lib— eral in politics and served as justice of the peace for many years, while in religion he was a Presbyterian and served effectively a number of years as elder.

The subject was educated in the district schools and was reared to the life of a farm- er, to which he is now devoting much of his attention, being the owner of ninety- seven acres of land which was cleared by himself and which is all under the plow and devoted to general farming. He was also engaged in merchandising at Alberton for two years and contracted for the erection of a number of breakwaters, having a con- tract of twenty thousand dollars and one of fourteen thousand dollars at Souris. He also engaged for a number of years at ship- ping produce from Alberton, but subsequent- ly returned to the farm, to which he has since given his main attention. He has all his life maintained a deep interest in horses and has handled them extensively, raising many fine trotters and at one time held the record for the maritime provinces for fast trot- ting. At present he holds the Prince Ed- ward Island record, 2 :20%, made by “Mon- trose.” In politics Mr. Ramsey is a Liberal, though not a seeker after public office, and in religion is a member of the Presbyterian church. He has a finely improved property in which he takes a pardonable pride and also gives proper attention to the commu-‘ nity’s interest as every public spirited citizen should do, being now regarded as one of the leading men of his community. In 1879 Mr. Ramsey married Miss Mattie D. \V right, daughter of Montague and Eliza-