634 PAST AND PRESENT OF 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 Journal , at Summerside ; Beatrice is the wife of George McSweeney , of , 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, how 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 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 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 ¬ merside public schools and 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, 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 '50s, 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 McQuarrie came in an early day to the prov¬ inces and settled in Pictou county,