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in the common schools and supplemented them by two years? attendance at Prince of Wales College, where he took a general course. He then engaged three years in teaching school and next took up farming, which he has continued throughout the sub- sequent years. It may be also stated that for a period of two years after leaving col- lege he received private instruction from Fa- ther Belcour, a French priest of South Rus- tico. He has been a diligent reader and deep thinker and is considered a man of wide general information. He has made a thoughtful study of the science of agricul- ture and has devoted a great deal of time to experiments in which he has been very successful. In the year 1886, he received a commemmorative medal and diploma for grain sent to the Colonial and Indian exhi- bition in London. He has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres one ‘hundred and twenty of which are under the plow. On this farm he makes a specialty of raising vegetables for market, giving also some at- tention to stock-raising. In 1869 Mr. Shaw was married to Miss Isabelle Maynard, the daughter of William and Barbara (Yeo) Maynard, natives of Cornwall, England, and to this union have been born the follow- ing children: Mary E., living in Florida; William Y., deceased; Louise, who runs a laundry in New York City; Barbara, de- ceased; Mary J., in New Hampshire; Wil- liam D., at home; Herbert, deceased; Wal- ter, deceased; Bertha, in Massachusetts; W alter (second) at home; and Donald, de- ceased. In politics Mr. Shaw is independ- ent, fearlessly defending and upholding the rights of the people in preference to party, advocating improvements, among which was the West River Bridge and steam communi- cations, both of which are of great benefit

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to the people of the surrounding country. He has occupied a prominent position in the ' community and for the long period of four- teen years served capably as clerk of the County Court at Bonshaw. He enjoys a wide acquaintance and possesses the good- will of all who know him. His counsel is often sought in matters of business or con- troversy, and he year after year writes out conveyances, wills and such other legal pa- pers as are required in a farming commu- nity. This work Mr. Shaw, with his kindly heart, performs gratuitously.

ROBERT BRUCE STEwAR'r, 511., was born in London, England, in 1813, and came to Prince Edward Island in 1846 to look after his property here, which consisted of some eighty thousand acres of land. Mr. Stew- art was educated at Harrow. He was very proud of his Scotch descent and was a high- 1y accomplished gentleman of the old school. His wife, Helen Stewart Bimie, was a granddaughter of Capt. John Stewart, at one time paymaster to the British forces in the province of Prince Edward Island. In 1863 Mr. Stewart, with his family of four sons and five daughters, moved from Char- lottetown to Strath Gartney, one of the most beautiful places on the Island. The house, which is built near the top of one of the highest hills on the Island, commands a beautiful view of a finely wooded country and of the Straits of Northumberland, the mainland being plainly visible. In 1876, Mr. Stewart, disgusted at being compelled, under the Land Purchase act, to sell his property, returned to Charlottetown, having made over the homestead of five hundred acres at Strath Gartney to his eldest son,