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enty-eight years. Of his seven children, the subject of this sketch is the sixth in the order of birth. Fred Lefurgey attended the dis- trict schools and then went to a business college at Bellville, Ontario, after which he spent a year in Chicago. He next went to the West Indies for a year and then spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts, where he engaged in the study of dentistry. After this he went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he took the full course in the Balti- more College of Dental Surgery, where he graduated in 1898. Immediately upon the completion of his professional train- ing, Doctor Lefurgey came to Sum- merside and engaged in the active prac- tice of his profession, in which he has met with a very gratifying degree of success. He possesses a thorough technical knowl- edge of his work and has equipped his ofl‘ices with the most up—to-date appliances known to the profession. having but recently added an outfit for the use of somnoforme, a re- cently discovered anesthetic. The Doctor is a member of the Prince Edward Island Dental Association, and is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Sons of England. He possesses those qualities of character which commend him to the good graces of those with whom he is thrown in contact and he stands high in the regard of his professional colleagues.

ALFRED ALEXANDER LEFURGEY, B. A., LL. B., of Summerside. was born in this city on April 22. 1871. His patem‘al ances-

tral record, briefly recited, is as follows:’

( I) Great-great—grandfather Lefurgey came from Holland about the year 1760. with sons and daughters, and settled in the

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vicinity of New York. His son (2) John, upon the outbreak of the war of the Revolu- tion, enlisted in the ranks of the Loyalists and fought in several battles. At the close of the war he received a grant of land in Nova Scotia, and there married a Miss Joyce, of whom were born two children, William and Polly. He afterwards moved to Prince Edward Island and settled in Lot 19, where were born to him nine chil- dren, their names being Jenny, Elizabeth, Sarah. James, George, John, Charity, Nancy and Cornelius. (3) William Lefurgey was born at Summerside and subsequently settled in Wilmot, Lot 19, Prince county, where he engaged in farming and there died. 1 He married a Miss Munro and they became the parents of these children, Anna Maria,, Mary, Alexander, John, William and Jennie; one died in infancy. (4) John Lefurgey, who was born on March I7, 1824, spent his early boyhood at Wilmot. At an early age he came to Summerside and engaged in busi- ness as a trader and also in shipbuilding, being one of the most extensive and suc- cessful shipbuilders and owners on the Is- land, his ships being found in all parts of the world. He started in this line at Sum- merside in 1856 and continued the business until 1884, during which time he produced some fifty ships, the last one built being the “Charles E. Lefurgey,” a barque of a‘thou- sand tons. During his later years he engaged in private banking, in which he was also quite successful. He was appointed a mem- ber of the Executive Council in 1873. In July, 1870, he was elected to the Legislature from the fifth district and was returned con- tinuously without a break up to the time of his death, which occurred on May 5, 1891. In 1876 he was a member of the cabinet of Hon. (now Sir Louis) Davies. and held a