440 PAST AND PRESENT OF of agriculture and lived here until their deaths. The subject of this sketch was reared on the parental farmstead and attended the dis¬ trict schools, following this by entering Prince of Wales College, which, however, he left shortly afterward and went to the western part of the United States. His first definite point was Schuyler, Nebraska , where he entered an institute for the prepa¬ ration of school teachers, and there received a diploma and secured a position as school teacher. He gave that up at once, however, and entered the employ of the Come & Johnson Drug Company at Schuyler, remaining with them until their removal to Omaha, where he went also and there com¬ pleted his studies in pharmacy, working for his employers in the daytime and attending his pharmaceutical studies in the evenings, upon the completion of which he took his examination before the state board of phar¬ macy and secured a diploma. He then opened a drug store at Howell, Nebraska , where he remained for seven years, at the end of which time he sold out and, returning to Prince Edward Island , located at Belfast in 1894, where he remained on the parental farm for about two years. He then came to Murray River and purchased his present drug and mercantile business, which he has built up to a large magnitude. He also runs a public house for the accommodation of travellers. He has been successful in every line-of effort to which he has applied his energies and is popular throughout the com¬ munity in which he lives. In politics he is a Liberal Conservative, but does not take an active part in public affairs. His religious affiliation is with the Presbyterian church. On March 17, 1896, Mr. Ross married Miss Elizabeth Martin , a daughter of Angus and Jane (McQuarrie) Martin, the former a native of Belfast and the latter of , this Island, while their daughter, wife of the subject, was born at Belfast on May 24, 1870. Her paternal grandparents, Alexander and Jeanette (Martin) Martin, were both natives of the Isle of Skye , Scot¬ land. To the subject and his wife have been born four children, namely: William and Chrisilda , both deceased; Chester and Mar¬ tin A., living. The family occupy a high position in the esteem of all who know them because of their many fine personal qualities. Egerton S. Norton , who is widely known as a practical and successful farmer at Cardigan , Kings county, was born on the old family homestead, near on March 3, 1866, and is a son of Frederick P. and Rosena (Davis) Norton, both natives of Prince Edward Island . The paternal grandparents were John and Elenor (Jones) Norton, the former being of Scotch and the latter of English descent. John Norton was a gardener by profession and was in the employ of George IV , King of England , but finally came to Prince Edward Island in an early day and purchased the farm on which the subject of this sketch now lives. The latter received a good district school education and was reared on the parental farmstead. His father had been a merchant at Georgetown for many years and died there on June 4, 1868, a little over two years after our subject's birth. Mr. Norton has consistently followed agricultural pur¬ suits during all his active years and has enjoyed an excellent standing among his fellow farmers. The farm is nicely sit-