684 past And present of 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 Charlottetowri, 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 . 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 bom 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^ office. Three gen¬ erations of this family have contributed to the development of the Island. A. K. Henry , a successful farmer and miller at Granville, Lot 21, was born at peque, Prince Edward Island , on January 8, 1844, and is a son of Edward and Grace (Hacker) Henry, the father born at 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 I.slaml 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 Wash ¬ 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