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and upon taking up life’s duties on his own

account he commenced the cultivation of

land which originally had been cleared by

his father. He is the owner of one hundred

J and twenty acres of land, having sold sev— enty acres. Practical and progressive in his methods, he has been prospered in a degree commensurate with the labour he has be- stowed upon the place and is today consid- ered one of the leading farmers in his com- munity. At one time he owned a grist mill and a carding mill on Clyde river, but has sold them and now devotes his entire atten- tion to his farming interests. In addition to general farming Mr. Bagnell deals in stock and also gives some attention to dairying, sending the greater part of his milk produc- tion to the co-operative cheese and butter factory at New Glasgow, of which he is a director. All the improvements on the place are of a substantial and permanent charac— ter and indicate the owner to be a man of sound judgment and up—to—date ideas.

In 1872 Mr. Bagnall was married to Miss Mary Johnstone, a daughter of Wil- liam and Grace (Burrows) Johnstone, the father a native of Scotland and the mother of England. William Johnstone was for many years a successful farmer and mer- chant at Long River, but is now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Bagnall have been born three children, namely: Ella J., who is the wife of Rev. A. N. Simpson, a minister of the Christian church at Toronto; Nettie G., who is at home; M. Blanche. deceased. In politics Mr. Bagnall is a Tory and has held

-a number of school offices. His religious membership is with the Christian church, while his fraternal affiliation is with St. John’s Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Progressive and enterprising, Mr. Bagnall has at all times supported such

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movements as promise to benefit the com- munity in which he lives and is highly regarded by his fellow citizens.

WILLIAM G. WHITEHEAD, who occupies a fine home in Lot 20, Queens county, was born on his present farm in 1844, and is a son of Andrew and Mary (Graham) White- head, the father a native of Sterling, Ban- nockbum, Scotland. The paternal grand- father, William Whitehead, also a native of the same locality in Scotland, and Mary Hosea, his wife, came out to Miramichi in the ship “Prince George” in the year 1820, and soon afterward came to Prince Edward Island and settled in Lot 20, having pur- chased a farm from David Bernard. Mrs. Whitehead was a sister of the late Sergt. Andrew Hosea, of the seventy-second regi- ment, who served with his regiment in Ire- land in 1798 and later died in Graham’s Town, South Africa. They had a family of nine children: William. of Clinton; James, of Hensington; John of Chatham, New Brunswick; Andrew, of Graham’s Road; Mrs. Davidson. of Burlington; Mrs. Doughart and Mrs. Marks, of Long River; Mrs. Smith, of Graham’s Road; Mrs. Gavin Rainnie, of St. John’s, all deceased.

Andrew Whitehead followed farming throughout his life and stood high as a pri- vate citizen and reared to a respectable man- hood and womanhood a large family of children, their names being as follows: Ga- vin, Jane, Joseph, and John, deceased; Mary, Elizabeth, William, Andrew, James and Robert. The father voted with the Liberal party and was a Presbyterian in religious belief.

The subject of this sketch attended the