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Island, the former born at Charlottetown and the latter at Bedeque. The paternal great-grandfather, Samuel Bagnall, a native of Derbyshire, England, came to America and located at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to the war for independence he was an active royalist and was confined for a time in prison at Albany. In about 1787 he came to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and here followed cabinet-making up to the time of his death, in 1810. He had eleven children: Richard B., the subject’s grandfather, was the only one born on this Island, and he in 1813 took up a grant of three hundred acres of land between Char- lottetown and Summerside, where, during the remainder of his life, he conducted a popular caravansary. The son, Richard Bag- nall, the subject’s father, who was born in Charlottetown, continued to run this house until the opening of the railroad, when he moved to Hunter River and there engaged in famiing. His death occurred in Decem- ber, 1849.

Philip Bagnall received a good district school education at Hazel Grove and early in life became a farmer, in connection with which he also was employed as a stage driver, his father having driven a stage for twenty-eight years from Summerside to Charlottetown. He has been successfully engaged in the operation of his fine farm of one hundred and fifty acres and has reduced one hundred and ten acres to cultivation, on which he raises all the products common to this latitude. He is systematic and up-to- date in his methods and has achieved a dis- tinctive success in his line. He also gives some attention to dairying, sending the product to the New Glasgow Dairying Com- pany, of which he is the owner of five shares of the stock. His farm is finelyrimproved with excellent buildings and well kept fences

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and Mr. Bagnall’s efiorts have been rewarded with a gratifying degree of suc- cess.

In 1871 Mr. Bagnall married Miss Mary S. Haslan, a daughter of William and Eliza— beth (Schurman) Haslan, the father having been a native of Ireland and son of Thomas Haslan, also of Ireland, who was given a tract of land in Springfield, and there opened the settlement. He became an extensive and successful farmer and also had a large saw- mill business. Mrs. Bagnall’s parents had eleven children, ten of whom lived to matu- rity. Mrs. Bagnall died in 1891, having been the mother of eight children, namely: L. Gertrude, at home; Matilda E., a trained nurse at Dorchester, Massachusetts; Rich- ard A., who was formerly employed in the bridge department of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the Northwest, but is now farming; Harriet C., the wife of William Jerow, who is in a freight office on the Canadian Pacific Railroad at Medicine Hat, Alberta; William A., who is at home, and married Miss Mae M. Siliphant; Mary E. is the wife of James Essery, a farmer; Frank M. and Sarah J. are at home. Each of these children received a good district school edu- cation and all are occupying respected posi- tions in life. Mr. Bagnall is a Conservative, and is now the postmaster at Hazel Grove. Fratemally he has been a Mason.for thirty- seven years, belonging to St. John Lodge, at Charlottetown. His religious afiiliation is with the church of England and he gives a hearty support to all benevolent and chari- table movements.

J. HERBERT SIMPSON, who carries on successfully the dual lines of milling and farming in Lot 22, Queens county, was born