404 PAST AND PRESENT OE to the occupation of a farmer and has fol¬ lowed that throughout his life, also working as* a stonemason to some extent. He has lived a life of strict uprightness during all these years and enjoys an enviable standing among his fellow citizens. He possess a fine knowledge of music and for over twen¬ ty-five years was engaged in teaching the art. He could play the Highland bagpipes and had the honor of playing before His Excellency , the Marquis of Lome, when the latter was governor general of Canada and during his visit to the Caledonia Club, at Charlottetown . Mr. Macmillan was a mem¬ ber of the latter club when the late Col. Wil- ' liam McGill was president. In 1878 he was appointed justice of the peace for Queens county, and receiver of wrecks and after resigning the latter office was reappointed. On February 24, 1848, Mr. Macmillan married Miss Sarah Maclean , the eldest daughter of the late Hugh Maclean , Esq., of Clyde River , Lot 31, Queen's county, the marriage ceremony being performed by Rev. S. T. Rhaud at Charlottetown . To this union were born twelve children, eight girls and four boys, all married excepting two sons, who died at the respective ages of twenty-four years and eight months, and twenty-four years and ten months, and one daughter that died in infancy. The surviv¬ ing children are prosperous and all living in the United States excepting the eldest daughter, who has her residence at New Haven , Lot 31, and Allan J., who married Mary Campbell , a daughter of the late Fin- lay Campbell, Esq., of Cape Traverse , Prince Edward Island , and who makes his home with his aged father and mother on the old homestead at Wood Islands . In politics Mr. Macmillan has always sup¬ ported the Liberal party, and in religion he is an adherent of the Presbyterian church. Allan Macmillan , the father of the sub¬ ject of this sketch, was born in Lochaber, Argyleshire, Scotland , in 1778, and was the only son of Donald and Catherine Macmil¬ lan of that place. The circumstances leading to the tragic death of Donald Macmillan were as follows: While in his home he saw a neighbor chasing a wild goat and was asked to help catch the animal. Being a swift runner, he took vigorously after the animal, which headed for a high precipice. Fearful lest it escape, Mr. Macmillan made an extra exertion to seize it and in so doing was carried over the precipice and instantly killed. His widow was obliged to enter service as a dairymaid and nurse, and be¬ ing an intelligent and respectable woman, secured employment in genteel families, which gave her the opportunity of sending her son Allan to school. The latter made rapid advancement in his studies and before attaining manhood became a successful teacher. Allan Macmillan was married to Miss Ann Mclnnes , a daughter of Donald Mc- Innes, on the Isle of Ulva, near the Isle of Mull, Argyleshire, Scotland , the ceremony being performed by the late Rev. Norman Macleod , of Finnery Morven, Argyleshire Scotland , grandfather of the late Dr. Nor ¬ man Macleod. chaplain to our late beloved and lamented Queen Victoria. Ater their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Macmillan resided in Morven and became the parents of four sons, one of whom was accidently drowned. In 1810 Allan Macmillan , with his wife and three children and his mother, came to Prince Edward Island on the ship "Phoe¬ nix," Capt. William Ayer , from Tobermory, paying sixty guineas for the passage, ten guineas for each person. The passage oc¬ cupied about seven weeks, and upon their arrival here took up a farm at Wood Is-