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about seven hundred cases per year. He owns twelve boats which are engaged in lobster fishing and three thousand traps, while during the busy season he employs thirty men and twelve girls. He engaged in this business in 1900 and has already achieved a definite success in this line. As a side line Mr. McNally is engaged in the buying and shipping of clams to New York City. He is a man of good business judg- ment and indefatigable energy and has deserved the success which has accompanied his efforts. Fratemally he belongs to the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association and was at one time president of this organiza- tion at Egmont Bay. His religious aflilia- tion is with St. James’ Roman Catholic church.

Mr. McNally married Miss Maggie Doyle, of Summerside, daughter of the late Pierce Doyle, a leading contractor and builder of public works in Prince Edward Island, who occupied a prominent place in public life. having served as town councillor for many years. He owned a large farm at Cape Egmont, on which he built a fine residence and other buildings, making of it

one of the best equipped farms on the Island.

VVILLIAM GREEN TAYLOR, who devotes his attention to the tilling of a fine farm at North Bedeque, Prince county, was born August 16, 1844, and is a son of Donald and Eleanor (Green) Taylor. Donald Tay- lor was born at Malpeque on October 28, 1809, and died April 2, 1889, in the eightieth year of his age. He followed lum- bering with Gilmore & Ran-kin in Mirami- chi and was foreman in their employ for a number of years, holding also the office of

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government surveyor of lumber at Bathurst. He retumed to the Island in 1838 and pur- chased a farm of one hundred and seventy- eight acres at North Bedeque, where he fol- lowed farming successfully during his re- mainin gactive years. On January 16, 1841, he married Eleanor Green, who was a daughter of William and Mary (Mathews) Green, and who was born September 26, 1814, and died February 6, 1845, at the age of thirty-one years. The paternal grand- parents, John and Margaret (McKey) Tay. lor, were natives of Malpeque and followed farming, and both are now dead, the grand- father having died on November 7, 1858, and the grandmother on January 23, 1825. Their parents came from Scotland and were among the first settlers at Malpeque. The maternal grandfather, \Villiam Green, who was a son of Daniel and Martha (Ottas) Green. was born at St. John, October 3, 1784, and died at Summerside, October 23, 1854, aged seventy years. He owned a fine farm of two hundred acres fronting on Summerside harbour. The western part of the town is now built on the front of the farm. His wife, Mary (Mathews) Green, daughter of Archibald and Eleanor (Tay- lor) Mathews, was born May 29, 1789, married Mr. Green in 1813 and died on March 15, 1870, at the age of eighty-one years. The maternal great-grandparents, Daniel and Martha (Ottas) Green. moved from Philadelphia, with. their family, in 1782. to St. John, New Brunswick, and came to Summerside, Prince Edward Island in 1785, where they died. His farm fronted on the harbour, and all the central part of the town of Summerside is now built on it. His descendants still own quite a large por- tion of the old farm, principally in town lots of steadily increasing value.