In 1918 he brought his wife and family to settle on the old Carruthers homestead where his mother, Sarah Carruthers , had been born and brought up. The read children: Georgie, Nellie, Sadie, Adele and Jack attended Carleton School where they re¬ ceived instruction from Adelaide Mulligan and Celia Howatt . The first John Read in America, John Read of Rheobth came out from England in 1630 and settled in Rheoboth, Mass¬ achusetts. It was not until the fourth generation of his family in America that Eliphalet Read left the American Colonies and moved northward. He fought with Wolfe at Quebec in 1759 and finally settled in Sackville, N.B. Benjamin, his son, settled in Baie de Verte, N.B. Ephraim, the eldest son of Benjamin and Jane, was a sea captain . He married Rosara Chappell and came to Prince Edward Island where they settled at Read's Corner Ephraim died of yellow fever in in 1864. Joseph Read , son of Ephraim and Rosara, was born at Read's Corner in 1846. He married Sarah Carruthers of Carleton Point, daughter of Samuel Carruthers and Sophia Muttart , and grand¬ daughter of Thomas Carruthers and Isabella Tait , who immigrat¬ ed from Dumfries Shire Parish, Scotland in 1820 and settled at Carleton Point. Like his father, Joseph Read was a sea captain, and his wife, Sarah, sailed all over the world with him. Captain Jo ., as he was affectionately called, claimed that she was one of the best navigators he had ever known and often depended on her judge¬ ment in these matters. After many years of seafaring Joseph and Sarah settled in Summerside where he founded the Jos. Read export and import business. Sarah died in Charlottetown in 1915, and Joseph died of influenza in 1919 while attending a session of Parliament in Ottawa where he served as a member of the Federal Government. Joseph and Sarah had two sons: John Lefurgey and George Carruthers a medical doctor who moved to British Columbia where he was drowned in 1822 while making his calls by motor boat. John Lefurgey Read, eldest son of Joseph and Sarah, mar¬ ried Nellie Davidson Hillson of Wilmot. They first settled in Summerside where Captain Jack comanded many of his father's vessels. He sailed to many parts of the world, having won his Master Mariners Certificate at Liverpool, England at twenty-one years of age. In September 1909 he entered the Marine Service command¬ ing the ice-breakers " Earl Gray , Minto and Stanley. In 1910 he moved his family to Pictou, N.S. In 1916 he was loaned by the Marine Service to the Domin¬ ion Government. His mission was to deliver the ice-breaker "Minto" to Russia, then an ally in the First World War . In 1917 he made a second trip to Russia when he conveyed the " J. D. Hazen " to Archangel on the . During his first stay in Russia Captain Read was accorded the greatest deference and respect, but in 1917 the mood of the country had greatly changed and even though he was in charge -74-