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been actively engaged in extensive profes- sional work. He is also owner of a well

kept drug store at Vernon River which he has found a profitable business, being a thoroughly practical pharmacist and in addi- tion to drugs keeping a full line of all the kindred commodities usually carried in a

well stocked drug store. On June 17, 1892, the Doctor married Miss Elizabeth Hennes—

sey, daughter of Michael Hennessey, under- taker, of Charlottetown, and to them have been born five children, namely: Mary, Helen, Margaret, Anastatia and Francis Cyril. The Doctor is a member of the Cath- olic church, and in politics supports the Con- servative party, while his professional rela- tions are with the Medical Association of Prince Edward Island. He is a man of fine education and genial personality, and has won a host of warm personal friends since locating in this community.

WILLIAM FREDERICK HARRISON CAR- VELL, a barrister-at-law was born in Char- lottetown on May I, 1862, and is the eldest son of Hon. Jedediah Sloson Carvell. late lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Is— land, who died in ofiice, in 1894, and who was formerly of Newcastle, New Bruns- wick, where he was bom on March 16, 1832, and where, on June 19, 1861, he married Alice Caroline Hanford, a daughter of Thomas Hanford, Inspector of Island Rev- enue at St. John, New Brunswick.

To Mr. and Mrs. Carvell were born three children: \Villiam Frederick; Frank, born on August 30, 1863, and who died on Feb- ruary 18, 1879, and Frederick Parker, who is mentioned in afollowing paragraph. Jede—

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diah Sloson Carvell was educated at St. John and at the Collegiate School at Fred- ericton, New Brunswick. In early life he went to Australia, where he remained until 1855, and on his return went to Portland, Oregon, where he engaged in the lumbering business, having on the way spent some time in California. Subsequently he returned to New Brunswick, and was engaged with the contractors who had undertaken the con- struction of the European and North Amer- ican Railway. In 1860 he came to Prince Edward Island and for some years engaged in mercantile pursuits in Charlottetown in his own name, and afterward taking his brother Lewis into partnership with him, then conducting the business in the name of Carvell Brothers. On retiring he was succeeded in the firm by his son, Frederick Parker.

Being a staunch supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald, J. S. Carvell took an active part in the Confederation of the province with the Dominion of Canada, and also in the construction of the Prince Edward Island Railway. In 1877 he was elected mayor of Charlottetown and in 1879 was called to the Senate of Canada, holding his seat in that body until September, 1889, when he resigned to accept the Lieutenent-Governor- ship of Prince Edward Island, in which ex- alted station he served until his death, on February I4, 1894.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Carvell are of United Empire Loyalist stock, and a record of the genealogy of the Carvell family occupies a place in “Burke's Colonial Gentry," in which Sir John Carvell is mentioned as a lord of the manor 9f Meaforth. or Melfort. temp. of Henry VIII. He was master of ordnance to that King. Jacob Carvell was noted for