Properties and People
ll.
Ibid.
Liber 36, Folio 960. Registered 14 May 1894. (Land Records Office)
Liber 37, Folio 387. Registered 28 August 1894. (Land Records Office)
Chappell Family File, PARO.
Edward Chappell’s Will, Liber 20, Folio 247. (Land Records Office)
Ibid.
Liber 80, Folio 602. Registered 17 May 1923. (Land Records Office)
Liber 94, Folio 190. Registered 14 May 1932. (Land Records Office)
Telephone Interview with Sheila Fobes, 27 June 2001.
12.
13.
14. I5.
16. I7.
[8.
I9.
20.
Liber 94, Folio 940. Registered 6 June 1934. (Land Records Office) Telephone interview with Olga Newman, 25 June
2001. Montague Funeral Home Records, p.188.
Liber 117, Folio 595. Registered 4 June 1947.
(Land Records Office)
Telephone interview with Marion Smethurst, 25 June 2001.
file Guardian, 8 May 1980, p. 19.
Liber 165, Folio 418. Registered 11 December
1969. (Land Records Office)
21.
22. 23.
24.
25. 26.
MILLER TO LEWIS & JEWELL (N2)
Located on the northwest corner of the St. Peters Road and Route 25, this 100-acre property may have first been leased and settled by a man named John MacCallum. However, title to the property was acquired by the Haythomes in the late 1840’s who in turn sold it in 1850 to James Miller Sr. and his son William.
James Miller, who was appointed a Justice of the Peace, had first settled in Frenchfort where some of his descendants still reside (see chapter James and Margaret (McRae) Miller and Descendants). The Miller family excelled at breeding livestock notably horses and was very influential in establishing the Ayrshire dairy cow in this province.
One of the adjacent land owners, Henry Longworth, was involved in the first importation of Ayrshires for the Government Stock Farm in Charlottetown. The animals arrived in Charlottetown aboard the bark Princess on September 9, 1865. This importation may have been an influence on William. As he became a breeder of Ayrshires and for a time in the late 1800’s was the Inspector/Manager of the Government Stock Farm.
A noted early importation by William Miller was the bull Pure Gold. This bull was the sire of many of the winners at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. This importation was quite influential in developing Ayrshires on PEI. A description of this farm is included in an article from the Farmer’s Advocate at the end of this chapter.
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William Arthur Miller, grandson of James Miller, sold the property in 1911 to his sister Roberta Miller and her husband John MacFarlane. During the first half of the twentieth century, the farm was a landmark property with a big windmill located in the barn yard which powered an electrical generator and pumped water.
John and Roberta had one daughter Dorothy and they farmed very successfully on this property, maintaining a herd of Ayrshire cattle. John was also a part-time farrier and Justice of the Peace. At the end of the 1939—45 war John retired from farming and sold the farm to Raymond Boswall MacCallum.
Ray was an entrepreneur with his main farming occupation raising beef cattle and being a livestock drover reportedly knowing every livestock producer from Marshfield to East Point and doing business with most of them.
He also acquired a mobile thresher-blower and with it threshed grain on many surrounding farms. The mobile thresher was starting to replace the individual stationary threshers present on most farms. With the small threshers, farmers would often thresh a weeks supply of grain from stored sheaves. In many cases the small threshers would have been built by William J. Scott also of Marshfield. The mobile thresher was soon replaced by the combine harvester which “combined” the operations of harvesting and threshing into one operation.
Ray, a war veteran, and his wife Aldry Coles operated a farm on this property until the late