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the former of London, England, the latter of Prince Edward Island. His grandfather, John Home, was a native of London, emi- grating to this Island in 1816, locating for a short time in Charlottetown. then remov- ing to a suburban farm on a part of which the People’s cemetery is now situated. After residing there for a few years he moved to Winsloe. In the year 1856 he left the Island to become one of the pioneer settlers of the state of W'isconsin.

Mr. Home's father now resides on the Winsloe homestead and is, at the age of eighty-two years, hale and hearty. He has been a progressive farmer and representative citizen, always taking an active interest in political matters, though never accepting of- fice. His family numbered seven. Alex- ander, the second eldest of the seven, was educated in the common schools, remaining on the homestead until 1873. On January 8th, of that year. he married Miss Mary Hooper, a daughter of Henry Hooper, of Milton, Prince Edward Island. In March, 1890, the Great Reaper severed the ties which bound them in happy union and the wife and mother passed on to the world be- yond. Of the union were born four daugh- ters and two sons. the latter being Henry Hooper, who is in business with his father and who married, in 1902, Miss Gertrude McKie, of this city. A. B. Lee, the second son, was connected with the Merchant's Bank of Prince Edward Island for three years, before leaving for his present home in the new province of Alberta. The daugh- ters are Alena and Louise. who reside at home; Maude. a professional nurse at New- port, Rhode Island: and Irene. who is a sten— ographer in her father's’oflice. Three gen- erations of this family have contributed to the development of the Island.

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A. K. HENRY, a successful farmer and miller at Granville, Lot 21, was born at Mal- peque. Prince Edward Island, on January 8, 1844. and is a son of Edward and Grace (Hacker) Henry, the father born at Mal- peque on March 10, 1814, and the mother in Devonshire, England, on May 19, 1820. The paternal grandfather. Alex Henry. was a native of the Lowlands of Scotland. The great-grandfather, Donald Henry. came to this Island from Kentyre, Scotland, and was one of the firSt settlers at Malpeque. He married Miss Mary McMullin. The sub- ject's maternal great—grandmother was a daughter of a Mr. McQuillan, of Elgin. Scotland. and came to Prince Edward Island on the ship “Polly." She had a brother. ‘ Charles Russell. who taught school on Prince Edward Island in the seventeenth century. She was the mother of eight chil- dren. Charles. Edward. Dugald. Isabella. Mary, Barbara. Catherine and Flora.

Mr. Henry's maternal grandfather was Thomas Hacker, and his maternal grand- mother Mary Isabella Leach. They were na- tives of England, born and reared in Devon- shire. and had a family of three sons and seven daughters. They came to Prince Ed- ward Island in 1839. The father of our subject. Edward Henry, married with Grace Hacker in 1843, and they became the par- ents of four sons and four daughters. Au- gustus Knight. John Hacker, Charles VVash- ington and Edward McArthur were the sons and Isabella Grace, Mary Isabella Leach, Flora Ann and Emma Elizabeth the daughters.

The subject of this sketch received a good district school education and was reared to the life of a farmer and miller, which vocations he has followed throughout his active years. He is the owner of one