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deeds and wills and for taking aﬂidavits in the supreme court and court of chancery. He is an expert accountant and has performed much valuable service in this capacity. He is now the efﬁcient and capable secretary of the Kensington Dairying Association, and a di- rector and secretary-treasurer of the Prince Edward Island Dairy Association and has done much to build up this industry to its present proportions. Politically he supports the Conservative party and fratemally is a member of the Independent Order of Forest— ers. For over twenty-seven years he has been a member of the Sons of Tmperance, being grand worthy president of the order for one year. and grand worthy scribe for two years. and also was president in 1900 of the Pro- vincial Branch of the Dominion Temperance Alliance. and took a leading part in the in- troduction of the “Prohibition Act” of that year. On September 6. 1882, Mr. Anderson married Miss Sarah Ann Clark, a daughter of the late Andrew and Charlotte (Bagnell) Clark, of Cavendish. and to them have been born ﬁve sons: Nelson C., John A., Andrew (dead). Weston E. and Dan.

JOHN MCLEAN, a well known merchant at Souris,‘Kings county, was born at Mount Herbert, in' Queens county, Prince Edward Island, in 1845, and is a son of Daniel Mc- Lean, who came to Queens county in his youth with his parents, Daniel and Jessie (McNeill) McLean. His parents were na- tives of Colonsay, Argyleshire, Scotland, and came to Prince Edward Island in 1802. Daniel had been well educated and taught school in his native land before his emigra- tion. He lived but a short time after his arrival in Prince Edward Island. His wife,

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who bore the maiden name of Sarah Currie, was born in Queens county, Prince Edward Island, a daughter of Archibald and Annie (Graham) Currie. They also were natives of Colonsay, Scotland, and about 182 5 came to Prince Edward Island, locating 'at West River, Queens county.

John McLean was educated in the public schools at Mount Herbert and later attended Prince of Wales College at Charlottetown. After his graduation there he was engaged in teaching school for two years and then as a clerk with Hearts & Son, dry goods mer- chants at Charlottetown, with whom he re- mained six years. In 1870 he entered into a partnership with Uriah Mathew at Souris in a general mercantile business, which is still in active life and vigorous operation. Mr. Mathew died in February, 1902, and his son Brenton then entered the ﬁrm as sub- ject’s partner, the partnership being known as Mathew & McLean. Besides his general merchandising business, Mr. McLean owns and operates successfully three lobster mn- ning factories on the north shore near East

Point, the product being about twenty-four '

hundred cases of lobsters per year. Mr. McLean is also president of the Souris Bait Freezing and Cold Storage Company and takes a leading part in the commercial af- fairs of his locality.

Souris has been Mr. McLean’s home since 1879, and in 1878, when the question of protection of Canadian industries became a live issue, following the hard times of 1873 to 1878, Mr. McLean came out as a strong advocate of protection and made many addresses throughout Kings county in favor of Messrs. McDonald and Muttard, who were returned to the Dominion Parlia- ment by the largest majority ever given any candidates up to that time. In the local

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