648 PAST AND PRESENT OF 1879, at the age of eighty-four years. The paternal grandparents were Roderick and Mary (McLennan) McGregor. Both the McGregors and McLennans were active and prominent members of the Church of Scot¬ land. The maternal grandparents, Roder ¬ ick and Isabella (Cameron) McLean, also came from Torridon, Scotland . The sub¬ ject had one brother, Roderick, of Wood Islands . Mr. McGregor received a good public school education and has consistently de¬ voted his active years to the operation of his farm, in which he has been successful. He is a clean and progressive citizen and has been an active justice of the peace for many years, and an elder in the Presbyterian church of St. Peter 's Bay, and enjoys the confidence of all who know him. He mar¬ ried Miss Mary Morrison , a daughter of Allen and Effie (McLean) Morrison, of Caledonia , Prince Edward Island , who came originally from the Isle of Skye , Scotland . Mr. and Mrs. McGregor have one son, Mur- dpck, and seven daughters, namely: Cath - rine Isabella, Christy, Mary, Effie, Eliza. Margaret, Ethel Blanche . Hon . Benjamin Gallant , a leading citizen and enterprising business man at Bloomfield , is a son of Ebenezer Gallant, of Rustico , and Martha Arsenault , of Cascum- pec, and was born at Bloomfield on the 1 ith day of June. 1873. Mr. Gallant received his early education at the public schools of his native place, after which he took a course in business training at the Charlottetown Busi¬ ness College and has since been successfully engaged in the merchandise business, coupled with farming and the manufacture of brick. He entered politics at the early age of twenty- seven, being elected to the local Legislature, at the general election of 1900 as a repre¬ sentative of the first district of Prince' county, and he'was re-elected in 1904 by the largest majority ever attained in the first dis¬ trict of Prince . He became a member of the Peters government, in which capacity he un¬ remittingly labors to serve the best interests of the people whose confidence retained, im¬ proves with opportunities, he taking a deep interest in all matters relative to or affecting the welfare of his fellow citizens. In reli¬ gion he is a Roman Catholic and a member of Branch No. 342, Catholic Mutual Ben¬ efit Association of St. Anthony . Mr. Gallant became acquainted with Miss Annie Gallant , daughter of Dr. Isadore Gallant and Margaret (Campbell), of Rus¬ tico, whom he married on the 2d day of July , F 901. They have two daughters, Gertrude D. and Margaretta Isadora . Peter Martin , deceased, who during his lifetime was one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Lot 57, Queens county, was born on the homestead here in 1808, and his death occurred in 1876, at the age of sixty-eight years. His father, Donald Martin , was born in Portree, Isle of Skye , Scotland , and came to Prince Edward Island on the ship "Polly" in 1803, locating first at Belfast . He had married, in Scotland . Miss Marion McLeod , of Applecross, and to them were born the fol¬ lowing children: Kenneth, deceased, for¬ merly of , and Peter and John. Peter was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the schools of