456 PAST AND PRESENT OF a representative patronage covering a wide range of the surrounding country. Mr. Mc- Ewen has also engaged in lobster packing, having a factory at St. Peter 's Harbour, which employs ten boats and turns out an¬ nually about five to seven hundred cases. He also buys, cures and exports fish and cans beef, mutton and salmon. Mr. McEwen is also half owner and manager of the Morrell Starch Company's mill, which has an annual output of three hundred tons of potato starch, he being also selling agent for the other starch mills on the Island, with a total output of from eight hundred to one thou¬ sand tons per year. The-subject is the owner of a fine farm of about one hundred acres, which he has found a profitable source of in¬ come and which is considered one of the choice agricultural properties of the locality He takes an intelligent interest in agricul¬ tural matters and is president of the Morrell Dairy Company, manufacturers of butter and cheese. In politics Mr. McEwen is an active Conservative and in 1904 opposed Premier Arthur Peters for the local Legis¬ lature. Mr. McEwen married Miss Bessie Clark , a daughter of George and Margaret (Crosby) Clark, of Wilmot Valley , Prince county, and to them have been born the fol¬ lowing children: Heber, Bruce and Claude, all at home. Fraternally Mr. McEwen is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and enjoys the highest regard of all who know him. James J. Beaton , a highly respected citizen and successful agriculturist at East Point , Kings county, was born on the farm which he now occupies, and is a son of James J. Beaton , Sr., a native of St. Peter 's, Kings county, who died in 1878, at the age of eighty-two years The latter located on this farm with his father in about 1800 and there lived throughout his life. The paternal grand¬ father, Donald Beaton , was a native of Lochaber, Scotland , and came to Prince Ed ¬ ward Island in about 1774; his death oc¬ curred at the age of ninety-six years. He was in the militia service at Charlottetown in 1776, when the American privateers carried away the governor. Two of his brothers, Finley and Alexander Beaton , settled on . Donald Beaton bought one thousand acres of land from Cap¬ tain Stewart, who was a relative of his wife, at East Point , and removed there from St. Peter 's Harbour, where he was formerly settled. He married Miss Mary McDonald , a daughter of Ronald Mc ¬ Donald, of the Morour family, of Scotland . Ronald McDonald 's wife bore the maiden name of Flora McKinnon , a daughter of I.iml McKinnmi. The subject's paternal great-grandmother bore the maiden name of Flora Cameron . James J. Beaton , Sr., mar¬ ried Miss Mary McLean , a daughter of Charles and Catherine (McDonald) Mc¬ Lean, natives of Scotland , the maternal grandfather being of the Keppoch McDon ¬ alds. The Big Donald McDonald , of the Keppoch , who was credited in history as having two hearts and being a powerful man and great warrior, was a granduncle of Catherine McDonald . The subject's father had brothers as follows: Alexander, de¬ ceased, formerly of East Point ; John, for¬ merly of South Lake , Kings county, removed to , in the west end of the Island, and died there; Donald, of East Point , whose family removed to Nebraska ; Angus, of East Point , some of the members