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ligion he is affiliated with the Presbyterian church, while his fraternal membership is confined to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

ANGUS M. BEATON, a practical miller and substantial citizen of Lot 60, was born in this lot, Prince Edward Island, on July 23, 1861, and is a son of Donald and Sarah (Curry) Beaton. The paternal great-grand- father, Angus Beaton, was a native of Scot- land, and came to Prince Edward Island in an early day. The subject’s father was born in Lot 60, Prince Edward Island, and now lives at West Wareham, Massachu- setts, where he has houses to rent and op- erates a cranberry bog. He was a farmer and miller by vocation and established the mills which are now operated by the sub- ject, having built them in 1863.

The subject of this sketch received a dis— trict school education and learned milling under his father’s instructions and having acquired the mills established by the latter, he has since successfully conducted them. He possesses a thorough knowledge of ev- ery detail of his business and the product of his mills bears an enviable reputation for its fine quality. Mr. Beaton is also the owner of two hundred acres of fine ,land, seventy of which are in a high state of cultivation, the place being well improved and num- bered among the attractive and productive farms in the locality. He also runs a shingle and board mill, which he has found to be a profitable enterprise.

In 1890 Mr. Beaton married Miss Jane Ann McLeod, daughter of James and Eu- phemia McLeod, of Mermaid, Lot 48, and to this ‘union were born six children, James, Louis, Donald Lorne, John A. C., Peter

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Vernon, Mary Euphemia and Albert Ed- ward. In politics Mr. Beaton supports the Liberal party and serves as tax collector and school trustee. In 1895 he was appointed railroad station agent at Melville.

JAMES W. SHEA, well known as a suc- cessful business man at Waterford. Prince county, was born in Lot I, this county, in September, 1866, and is a son of Angus and Mary (McKenna) Shea, the former of whom was born at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in 1837, and came to Prince Edward Island with his parents when seven years of age.

. The subject’s paternal grandfather, William

Shea, was born in County Waterford, Ire- land, and the present residence of the subject is named Waterford after the ancestral home. William Shea was a successful farmer and spent his years and died on the farm adjoining the sub- ject’s present home. The subject’s par— ents had ten children: Peter, a railroad con- ductor at Boston, Massachusetts; James W.; Angus, a farmer at Nail Ponds, Lot 1, this province; Francis, who resides on the pater- nal homestead; Thomas, also at home; Jen- nie became the wife of Richard Murphy, a farmer on Center Land Road; Mary A. and Bertha are deceased; Laura and Clara reside at St. Paul, Minnesota. In politics the sub- ject’s father supports the Conservative party and in religion is an adherent of the Catholic church.

The subject of this sketch received a good district school education and was reared to the life of a farmer, to which voca- tion he has devoted much of his energy dur- ing the subsequent years. He is the owner of two hundred acres of splendid land, one