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place in the successive cabinets up to the time of his death. He materially assisted in suc- cessfully carrying through the Railway Bill, the purification of Parliament Bill and the ’Elections Bill. In 1882 he was a candidate for the Dominion Parliament. He married Miss Dorothea Read, a sister of Capt. Joseph Read, and to them were born the fol- lowing children: Rowena, deceased; Rosara is the wife of W. A. Brennan, publisher of the'Joumal, at Summerside; Beatrice is the wife of George McSweeney, of Moncton, New Brunswick; Charles, deceased; Cecelia is the wife of J. E. Wyatt, an attorney at

Summerside: William, deceased; John Eph-.

raim; Alfred Alexander, the immediate subject of this sketch; Dorothea, now Mrs. H. G. Roberts, of Davenport, Iowa. and Raymond, deceased. ‘

(5) Alfred A. Fefurgey was born at Summerside on April 22, 1871, and secured his early education in the Summerside schools. He then aottended St. Dunstan’s College, at Charlottetown, and Mt. Allison University, at Sackville, New Brunswick, where, in 1891, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered Harvard Law School. graduating in 1894, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, following which he spent a couple of years abroad. Upon his return to Summerside he. in con- nection with his brother J. E., continued the business established by his father, in which they also were successful. In 1897 Mr. Lefurgey was elected for the fifth dis— trict to the Provincial Legislature, but in 1898 he resigned and at the bye-election of that year ran for the Dominion House, in which, however, he was not successful, be- ing defeated by a greatly reduced majority. In the general election of 1900 he was again a candidate from the district of East Prince

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and was elected, being re—elected for Prince county at the general election of 1904. In 1901 he was appointed Conservative whip for the Maritime provinces and was re-ap- pointed in the session of 1905. Fraternally he is a Mason, in which order he has at- tained to the eighteenth degree.

John Ephraim Lefurgey. brother of the subject of this sketch and the seventh child of John Lefurgey. was born in Summerside in January 14, 1869. He attended the Sum- merside public schools and St. Dunstan’s College. and then went to the Mt. Allison Male Academy, at Sackville, New Bruns- wick, following which he took the freshman year in Mt. Allison University. Returning then to Summerside, he entered the office of his father, with whom he remained until the latter’s death, in May, 1901, when he en- gaged in business on his own account in the shipping of produce. During this time he also had other interests of a mercantile na- ture. his brother A. A. being a silent partner in the business, which is still being run un- der the name of J. E. Lefurgey, with head- quarters at Summerside. Mr. Lefurgey also has extensive real estate interests at Sydney, Vancouver and Summerside. He posseses many excellent qualities of char- acter and is well liked by all who know him.

NEIL MCQUARRIE. K. C.,a leading mem- ber of the bar of Prince Edward Island, was born at Lower Montague. Kings county, in the later ’505, and is the son of Neil and Elizabeth (Stewart) McQuarrie. the father born in Pictou county, Nova Scotia. and the mother at Lower Montague. Grandfather )IcQuarrie came in an early day to the prov- inces and settled in Pictou county, Nova