Arthur died in infancy.

Hazel married Ralph Campbell of Fernwood and has four (4) sons: George, Neil, Lorne and Wesley. The youngest son, Wesley MacMicken married Dorothy Wright of Middleton and live in Hali- fax. Their children are: Ada, Bertha, Helen, Robert and Susan.

Thomas MacMicken Jr., died at fifteen (15) years of age.

BURPEE MCMICKEN

Burpee married Margaret Gillis MacLeod and settled on part of the old home farm. He took a keen interest in politics and school affairs being a faithful efficient secretary of school trus- tees for thirty-five (35) years in this district. His son Thomas married Pyrtle Crossman of Cape Traverse and they and their only son John reside on the old homestead.

Ellen MacMicken, a sister of Thomas Sr., married James Campbell. They had a daughter Ada now Mrs. William Carruth-

ers formerly of Borden.

THE MUNCEY’S OF CARLETON AND THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE

Townshend Coffin Muncey, the youngest in the family of John Francis Muncey and his wife, Ann Madden, was born in the Magdalens Islands, January 2nd., 1847 and died at Carleton, P.E.I. February 9th., 1904. In 1865 he came to Charlottetown where his father kept store. Here “Town,” as he was known and his brother Singleton who was later operator at Tormentine, Sum- merside and other points, were employed by the Telegraph Com— pany. This company was successor of the Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island Electric Telegraph Co., and later still of the New York-Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, com- panies which envisaged the Island as an important link in the transatlantic service but which later shunted its facilities into the quiet bywaters of purely local service. This serice was at first so seldom used that when the packet ships ran regularly in the

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