many records and was the fastest vessel of her time, setting records that were never touched. She outshone both the "Marco Polo" and the "Bluenose". Built in 1881 she shortly thereafter sailed from Richibucto to Cork, Ireland in 121/2 days. A few years later she sailed into Port Hawkesbury from Glasgow, Scotland in a trip of only ten days. Other record-breaking sails included one from Campbellton to Belfast in fourteen days and another from Fleetwood, England to Galveston, Texas in nineteen days. Among the other well—known ships he built were the "Unity", the "Richard" and the "Christine".4 All in all, in his heyday he was well known

as a wealthy man.

As aLiberal, Henry O'Leary represented Kent County in the province's House of Assembly at Fredericton, winning a by—elec— tion in 1872 and retaining his seat in the general election of 1874. At the dissolution of the legislature in 1878 he declined re—nomina— tion, but in the federal general election that year he contested Kent constituency, was unsuccessful and retired from public life.5

In the early 1860s Henry O'Leary married Honora Britton (Brittain) who died within ten years after giving birth to four sons and a daughter. Of the sons the most prominent was Richard, the eldest, born in 1865. He was educated at St. Louis College in Kent County and at St. Mary's College, Montreal. At the age of eigh— teen his father sent him to Campbellton to establish the O'Leary name. He opened a store there and built a large sawmill at Cross Point. Some fifteen years later he returned to Richibucto and took over his father's business upon the latter’s death. Richard became one of the pioneer industrialists in New Brunswick. He gave Richibucto and Rexton their first electricity in 1901. He owned the local telephone system and in various amalgamations built up the New Brunswick Telephone Company. He canned fish and fruit. His freezing plant, the largest in New Brunswick at that time, accommodated mackerel, salmon, bass, eels and herring. He had sawmills at Richibucto and Rexton and also owned the Father Morrissey Medicine Company. In 1886 he married Elizabeth Buckley of Newcastle and had a family of six daughters and a son. Richard O'Leary died at his summer home in

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