490 PAST AND PRESENT OF dense woods and she had arranged to meet her husband on the way. He started accord¬ ing to agreement and not meeting his wife, went to the neighbour's home where she was to visit. She had not been there and a search was instituted, which with the assistance of torches, lasted until midnight, when she was found five miles away, having lost the trail and wandered all day and far into the night helpless through the forest, carrying a basket of food to the parties she was to.visit. To these parents were horn the following chil¬ dren: Ronald J., the subject; Alexander, of Konorado, Kansas , owner of a ranch of fif¬ teen hundred acres; Malcolm, who died on the old homestead in young manhood; Liz¬ zie, Mrs. F. L. Winslow , of Boston, Massa¬ chusetts; Margaret, the wife of Benjamin Woods , of Lot 49; Jessie, deceased, the wife of John Koiley , of Dundas ; Christie, de¬ ceased, the wife of Malcolm Macdonald , of , Prince Edward Island . The subject of this sketch was educated in the district schools and was reared to the life of a farmer, which vocation he has fol¬ lowed throughout the subsequent years. The place which was improved by his father has been maintained by him at the same high standard of excellence and is considered one of the most valuable farms in the community. He is enterprising in his efforts and is recog¬ nized as one of the leading and representa¬ tive citizens of the locality. He is a Con¬ servative in politics, and in religion is a Pres¬ byterian, of which church he has been a trus¬ tee for ten years. He married Miss Ellen M. Ross , a native of Tanger, Nova Scotia , a daughter of Roderick and Doritha (Mc- Leod ) Ross, who were natives of Suther ¬ land, Scotland . Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie were the parents of the following children: Roderick Wallace , deceased; John Charles , deceased; Jeanette May, deceased; David Addison is the only living child. He remains on the old homestead, and is acting agent for the Frost & Wood Company , Limited, of Smith's Falls, Ontario , in supplying farming implements. Samuel Swann Peterson, who conducts a large and well established insurance busi¬ ness at Murray River , was born at Wilming¬ ton, North Carolina , on October 19, 1838. He is of English and Scotch descent, his an¬ cestors being among the first settlers in Vir¬ ginia and Carolina some three hundred years ago, and is a son of Isham and Emma (Swann) Peterson, both natives of North Carolina , where his father was engaged in merchandising and turpentine distilling and where their ancestors have lived for several generations. The father died in October, 1894, having survived his wife by forty-four years. The paternal grandfather was John Peterson , while the maternal grandfather was Samuel Swann . Samuel S. Peterson received his educa¬ tion in North Carolina , after which he took up the study of law, reading under the Hon . George Davis , once attorney general in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis . He, however, relinquished the study of this profession and left home in i 860 for Florida , where he re¬ mained for awhile. In 1861 he came to Prince Edward Island , where he taught school for more than ten years. During this time he frequently visited his father, who then lived in New Jersey , and he there taught one term of school and also spent one year in New York , where, through the recommenda¬ tion of Thomas A. Edison , he became as¬ sistant superintendent of a branch of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company. Upon