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had an extended military experience, having enlisted in the Charlottetown Engineers in 1881, remaining with them until 1889. He was then transferred to the Fourth Prince Edward Island Regiment of Artillery and made lieutenant of Company No. I, and af- terwards captain. In 1904 he was promoted to the rank of major, which position he still holds, and as such is acting as adjutant of the regiment.

PETER CONROY, M. D., one of the suc- cessful and well known physicians of Char- lottetown, was born at Tignish, Prince Ed- ward Island, on March 20, 1854. His fa- ther was Nicholas Conroy, born at Rath- downey House, in Barony Forth, County Wexford, Ireland, while his mother, whose maiden name was Catherine McDonald, was a native of Kings county, Prince Edward Island, and was a niece of the late Bishop McIntyre. A paternal uncle of the subject was James Heron Conroy, M. D., a graduate of Trinity University. Dublin, who was one of Prince Edward Island's most noted physicians and surgeons in his day, having practiced for a long time in Charlottetown, where he died in 1857. For many years he represented the Bedeque district in the Pro- vincial Legislative Council. The grandfa- ther Conroy was a merchant in Wexford, Ireland, for a considerable period, and after retiring from business came to Prince Ed~ ward Island, locating at Tignish, where he died a few years afterward. Nicholas Con-

.roy, the subject’s father, was engaged in business and farming at Tignish, and repre- sented that district in the local house of representatives upwards of thirty years. He died in 1879, at which time he was holding

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the office of registrar of deeds for the prov- ince. He was the father of ten children, five sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living.

Peter Conroy attended the public schools of Tignish, and then went to the Sulpician College, at Montreal, where he spent three years. At the end of that period he took a four years’ course at St. Dunstan’s College, at Charlottetown, after which he entered the medical department of Laval University, at Quebec, where he remained four years, and where he gained his degree in 1878, winning the two first prizes given to his class that year. He then came to Charlottetown, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, and has won a high place in the general estimation of the public. Doctor Conroy is president of the Medical Council of Prince Edward Island, and is an ex-president of the Maritime Med- ical Association. He is also quarantine ofl‘i- cer for the port of Charlottetown. The Doc- tor was one of the organizers of the first hospital in Charlottetown, now known as the Charlottetown Hospital, and is now serving on the staff of that institution. He is the president of the Alumni Association of St. Dunstan’s College, and is also one of the governors of the college.

On July 2, 1883, Doctor Conroy was united in marriage with Miss Emma M. Newbery, a native of Sienna, Italy, a daugh— ter of John Fenton Newbery. B. A.. Oxford, a great-grandson of John Dewbery. the noted publisher of St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, the patron of Goldsmith, and the publisher of his works. John Newbery’s only son, Francis, married a Miss Raikes, whose father instituted the Protestant Sunday school of England. A work entitled “A Bookseller of the Last Century,” edited by