630 PAST AND PRESENT OF Annie and Horace. Mr. Clark has spent all his life here excepting five years spent in Colorado , during which time he was a mem¬ ber of the school board. He has also served many years as a member of the Summerside school board and two terms as a member of the town council. In 1904 he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly and still belongs to that body. Fraternally he is a Mason, in which he has advanced to the Royal Arch degree, and he also belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters, in which he has received special recognition, having been selected as a delegate in 1895 to the meeting in England , in 1898 to Toronto , and in 1902 to San Francisco. In religion ; i Methodist, in poli¬ tics a Liberal, and an earnest advocate of Temperance, having taken a very active part in the passing and the bringing into opera¬ tion of the Local Prohibitory Law in Prince county. A man of good habits and pro¬ nounced business ability, Mr. Clark has won and retains the respect and good will of all who know him. Ed Bayfield Williams, a well known barrister of Summerside , was born at Bide- ford, Prince Edward Island , on January 12, 1873. His parents, Albert and Mary ( Hop- good) Williams, werev natives of Bideford , and of Pugwash, Nova Scotia , respectively. The paternal and maternal grandfathers, Edward Williams and William Hopgood , were born in Bideford , England , and were of old Devonshire families, the ancestral homes having been there established for many generations. Edward Williams came to Prince Edward Island in about 1825, and subsequently married a Miss Ellis , whose father came to the Island at about the same time and started in the shipbuilding indus¬ try at Bideford . The latter place received its name in hounor of the native place of most of the members of the colony. Edward Williams also engaged in shipbuilding, which became and continued an important industry there until a few years ago. Albert Williams , his son, engaged in farming, in which he was successful, and became a lead¬ er in thought and action in his community. He died in 1902, at the age of fifty-eight years; his widow still resides in Bideford . They were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the third in order of birth. Ed B. Williams received his early edu¬ cation in the district schools, supplementing this by attendance at Prince of Col¬ lege. He engaged in teaching school, but a year later he entered as a student the law office of L. H. Davies , now Sir Louis Davies of the of Canada , and when, in 1896, the latter was made minister of marine and fisheries, Mr. Williams became his private secretary and so continued three years, during which time he accompanied Mr. Davies on many diplomatic tours. In 1890 Mr. Williams came to Summerside and resumed his studies with K. J. Martin , now of Portland, Oregon , and in 1901 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney and in 1902 as a barrister. In 1901 he became a partner of the Hon . Donald A. MacKinnon , LL. B., K. C. the present lieutenant gov¬ ernor of Prince Edward Island , the partner¬ ship being dissolved in 1904 upon the lat- ter's appointment to his present position. In January, 1905, Mr. Williams removed to Summerside , where he has since conducted a large and representative law practice. He is well informed in the minutes of the law