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GEORGE EDWARD SAVILLE, a well-to-do farmer and enterprising citizen at Dundas, Lot 55, Kings county, was born at St. George’s, Prince Edward Island, on Novem- ber 18, 1880, and is a son of Edward and Elizabeth (Howlett) Saville, of Mt. Selman, Texas, the subject being the only member of the family now in Prince Edward Island. the paternal great—grandfather Saville was captain of a British cruiser during the Amer- ican Revolutionary war and after peace was declared he retired from sea service and set- tled in Massachusetts. His family was an old one, claiming descent from the Earl of Halifax (George Saville), and Saville street in Boston, Massachusetts,‘ is said to have de- rived its name from this family. The pater- nal grandfather, Capt. Edward Saville, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1824, and came to Prince EdWard Island in 1850 as captain of the schooner“‘Blue Rock,” the first vessel to come up the Grand'river as far as Bridgetown. He located ,on a tract of land near the latter place, which was then densely covered with standing timber, and in 1851, in partnership with Thomas Clay, a son of Dr. Thomas C. Clay, built a store and founded the town of Bridgetown, which he named. He continued 'in the mercantile business and also ' engaged 'in ship building and the coastwise trade un- til February 14, 1873, when he and two brothers—in-law, Henry and Darius Clay, were lost in the schooner “Emeline” off East Point. Captain Saville married ' Miss Emeline Clay, a daughter of Dr.

Thomas C. Clay, of Dundee, Lot 5 5 Prince Edward Island. Doctor Clay was born in London, Eng-

land, in 1792, and died on his farm in Lot 55, Prince Edward Island, in 1876, at the age of eighty-four years. When in young

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manhood he entered the British army as an ofl‘icer and subsequently studied medicine under Doctor McNeist, the regimental sur- geon, and qualified himself as a physician while in the West Indies. He practiced medicine in Prince Edward Island from 1830 to 1876, though during the last few years he was in feeble health and unable to practice as actively as during his early years. He had a large practice which embraced all of Kings cOunty and a large part of Queens county. He married Elizabeth Prouse, a nat- ive of Somersetshire, England, born in 1800, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Davey) Prouse. Her death occurred here in 1880, at the age of eighty years. To Capt. Edward and Emeline (Clay) Saville were born the following children: Edward S., the father of the subject of this sketch; Ada, ‘ the wife of Dr. A. K. Shockley, of St. Clair, Michigan; Frank, who engaged in the In- dian wars in the United States and received a grant of land for his services and now resides on a ranch in Arizona; George, who is a commercial traveler residing in North Dakota; William, who is a successful farmer in St. Clair county, Michigan; Harry, who is engaged with the water works department in San Francisco, California. The subject’s great-grandfather. Capt. Edward Saville, was a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and was also a sea captain and likewise engaged in the ship-building industry at Portland, Maine. in partnership with Arthur Sewell who, in 1896, ran for vice-president of the United States on the ticket with William Jennings Bryan. Incidentally it may be stated that Arthur Sewell when a young man, spent one winter in business at Bridge- town. Edward S. Saville married Miss Eliza- beth Howlett, a daughter of George and Flora Jane (McNeil) Howlett, the former