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South Boston, and during thirty years of that time he had lived in the same house. He was an extensive traveler, having crossed the Atlantic about thirty times, making his first trip in a sailing vessel in 1851, at which time he toured the continent, visiting the London Exposition. He returned home on the “Unicorn,” the first steamer that ever crossed the ocean from Liverpool to Boston. He was fond of sightseeing and visited ev- ery world’s fair from 1852 to 1901, spend-

ing five weeks at the Columbian Exposition "

at Chicago. He never took a very active part in politics nor was he known as a club man. Although his life was a busy one, it was also a helpful one and his tender, lov- ing nature led him to sympathize with those in distress. The cause of his death was a culmination of a trouble which had afflicted him many years, and although he underwent a surgical operation three weeks before he died, the grim rmper’s hand could not be stayed, and he met death fearlessly, almost welcoming it as a friend come to release him from a diseased and pain-racked body. A short time before his death he said to a friend: “I do not know the moment nor the hour in which I shall go, but whenever the moment or the hour the journey will be cheerfully and fearlessly undertaken, for though the door which opens into the great beyond is closed to us now and the passage is left dark, it was made so by the divine will, and that is sufficient for us to know.”

In young manhood Mr. Paige married Miss Eliza Austin, a native of Portland, Maine, and a near relative of the poet Whit- tier. She bore him one child, a son, Austin E. Paige, who survives him and now re- sides at the Adams House, Boston. This son has a daughter, May Paige, who married John Malcolm and by that union Mr. Paige

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became great-grandfather to two children. Eliza Paige died in 1879, and in 1885 Mr. Paige married a Miss Docherty, a daughter of the late Capt. Donald Docherty, of Prince Edward Island. She survives him and now - resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

MAJOR C. MCKINNON, one of the most successful and extensive farmers in Prince Edward Island, and who occupies a deserv- edly high position in the estimation of his fellow citizens, was born in Lot 16. Prince county, this Island. on March 1, 1874. His parents were John and Anna (McKinnon) McKinnon, the former having been born at Canoe COVe. Lot 65. this Island in 1840. He was in early life a blacksmith, though he subsequently took up farming. He is the owner of two hundred and fifty- two acres of land in Lot 9, Prince county, and has been very successful in his opera- tions. To his union with Anna McKinnon have been born ten children, namely: Rankin, a machinist at Cape Traverse; John A., a farmer at Colman; Flora, the wife of Wil- liam Gambell, a farmer and fisherman in Lot 16, Prince county; Mary E., the wife of Alex McKinnon, a farmer; Major C.; Lizzie, the wife of A. King, who is engaged in railroading in the United States: Anna. the wife of John Cousins, a carpenter and contractor in Massachusetts; P. D., who lives at Bangor, Maine, where he owns a hotel and is engaged in the manufacture of cigars and operates a sawmill; Maggie, who lives at Molen. Massachusetts: Arthur, at home.

The subject of this sketch received a good district school education and has fol- lowed agricultural pursuits throughout his