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cessful business. In 1897 Mr. McLean re- tired from this business and came to his pres- ent farmstead to which he has since devoted his attention. The place comprises eighty acres of well improved land and in addition Mr. McLean also owns ninety-three acres in Queens county, making his total holdings one hundred seventy-three acres. On Sep- tember 19, 1892, Mr. McLean married Miss Annie Yonker, a daughter of Lemuel and Mary Ann (Offer) Younker, the former a native of North River and the latter of Char- lottetown, the father dying on May 6, I888, and the mother yet living. To Mr. and Mrs. McLean have been born six children: Mary E., deceased; Harold A.; Helen; Lemuel M.; Victoria and James E.

W. H. CROSKILL, the efficient and capa- ble court stenographer at Charlottetown, and the libraraian of the Legislature and Dodd Libraries, was born at Halifax, Nova Sco- tia, on June 14, 1861. The American pro- genitor of the family, Capt. John Crosskill, came to Nova Scotia with the Loyalists and settled in Halifax. The subject’s father, Joseph C. Crosskill, who was born in Hali- fax, was one of the first men of his time to take up stenography and became an expert in his line. He was for many years proprie— tor and publisher of the Halifax Reporter and was a staunch supporter of the Tory government.

W. H. Crosskill received his elementary education in private schools, after which he attended the Technology Fort Massey Academy and the high school. He also at- tended the Technology Institute at Dalhousie and took in addition a business course. Mr. Crosskill’s training in stenography really

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began in early youth, under his father’s in- structions, and at the time he graduated from the business college at Halifax he was a thoroughly competent stenographer. His first employment was with the Intercolonial Railway at Moncton, being employed in the Stores department, in which he continued three months. When Mr. Archibald was put in charge of the Prince Edward Island Rail— way the subject went with him, continuing in that employ until 1891, when he accepted a position with the Provincial Government, be- coming the first official stenographer in the government department of Prince Edward Island, his official title being court stenog— rapher. He has to a marked degree demon- strated his thorough capability and fitness for the position and stands high in the re- gard of those with whom he is thrown in contact. Mr. Crosskill was formerly a mem- ber of the Canadian Shorthand Writers’ Association, now defunct, and was one of the youngest members to pass the difficult examination required at that time.

On April 28, 1886, Mr. Crosskill was united in mariage to Miss Jennie A. Mal- colm, who was born in Halifax, though for a number of years a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. To them have been born four children: Arthur (who is now attend- ing college); Susie; Jack and Evelyn. In religion Mr. Crosskill is a member of the Episcopal church.

LOUIS B. MCMILLAN, one of the strong, virile men of the Island, and at present the capable secretary of public works, was born at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, on October I7, 1873, and is of the third gen- eration of his family in Amerim, his pa-