PRINCE EDWARD I SI A XI >. 649 that day, which were somewhat primitive in their equipment. He was reared to the life of a farmer and gave that vocation his main attention during his active years. He also engaged extensively in shipbuilding, in which he was fairly successful. He took an intelligent interest in the affairs of the com¬ munity and did much to advance the public welfare. He was an ardent supporter of the Liberal party and a faithful member and trustee of St. John's Presbyterian church. He married Miss Sarah (or Sallie) Mc- Kinnon, daughter of Simon and Jessie (Mc- Eachern) McKihnon . Simon McKinnon , who was a son of Charles and Janette (Fraser) McKinnon, was born in Inverness - shire, Scotland , and, with his parents, came to Prince Edward Island in 1803 on the ship "Polly," their first location here being in Lot 6 . Mrs. Peter Martin 's oldest brother died in Denver, Colorado , in 1905. He was in the early days a shipbuilder at Summerside and other places and was con¬ sidered the best boat designer in Canada , having built a number of the fastest Atlan¬ tic boats sailing from Prince Edward Island . To Peter and Sarah Martin the following children were born: Hon . D. C , who died in 1888, at the age of thirty-eight years, was a successful barrister at Charlottetown , and was for two terms a member of the Pro¬ vincial Parliament for Queens county; Sarah Elizabeth , the wife of William Mc- Kenzie, of Wood Islands North ; Jennette, of Boston, Massachusetts ; Mary Alice ; Simon, a contractor at Portland, Oregon ; Catherine; John, who is engaged in the operation of the old homestead; Kenneth J., formerly of Summerside and a success¬ ful barrister, now resides at Portland, Ore¬ gon ; Margaret E .; H. Louise . To Simon and Jessie McKinnon the following children were bom: Sarah, wife of the subject; Jennette, wife of Malcolm Nicholson , of Orwell Cove ; Mary, Mrs. Macdonald , mother of Judge Hector Macdonald , of Charlottetown ; John, referred to above; Elizabeth, Mrs. John Morrison , of , Flat River , this Island; Charles, of Newton, a well educated man who for a time engaged in shipbuilding with his brother John, who, while first officer of the steamship "Gam¬ bia," was drowned in the ; Margaret was the wife of Archibald McDougall , of Lot 57. John McNally , who owns and operates a fine farm in Lot 15, Prince county, and it also extensively engaged in the fishing anil canning of lobsters, was horn at , Lot 15, Prince county, and is a son of John and Julian ( Dillan ) McNally, the for¬ mer a successful farmer of this lot. The paternal grandfather, John McNally , was a native of county Carlow , Ireland, and came to Prince Edward Island , locating at Eg* mont Bay, where he owned a large farm and also built and operated a grist and sawf mill. He was practical in his ideas and was the first person to utilize the timber in this section. The maternal grandfather, William Dillan , was also a native of Ireland and spent his life in Prince Edward Island , lo¬ cating on a farm at Tignish . The subject of this sketch received his education in the district schools of the locality and was reared to the life of a farmer, to which he has devoted a large share of his attention during the subsequent years. As stated in the opening sentence of this sketch, he is also largely interested in the canning of lobsters, his factory having a capacity of