Delaney Homestead. had two sons, Wilbert and Edmund and one daughter Mae. From his second marriage, one daughter, Claire. Simon never married and spent a number of his early years in the States, employed in various occupations. One of these was at the Ford Theatre in Boston, where he often saw the Shakespearian actor, John Wilkes Booth performing, who later gained notority as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln . John Delaney , who married, published the Summerside Progress, later to become the Pioneer. Patrick Delaney 's family were reared at Baltic by Simon and Bridget, due to the early death of the children's mother. Wilbert assumed the homestead at the death of his uncle. Edmund spent most of his lifetime in the Midwest States. Mae married Robert Smith of Charlottetown , and took up residence in Michigan , North Dakota . Her husband taught history at Michigan State College. Wilbert, who operated the farm until his death in 1948, married Mary Elizabeth Noonan of Summerside . They had four sons, Joseph and Edmund, both deceased; Father Ronald of Sudbury, Ontario , and Marshall, who like so many farmers of recent years relinquished the ancestral homestead in 1973, thereby ending an era and taking up residence in Charlottetown . The family home in Baltic was probably the focal point of the Delaneys, remaining in the family for one hundred and twenty-five years. The original home being replaced by the present one in the year 1907. It might be in¬ teresting to note the variance in the cost of building in those days to that of today. The contractor, Russell Champion received the large amount of eighty dollars for his work. The difference in lifestyle was also very pronounced, Wilbert Delaney 's household consisted of his own family, two uncles, one aunt and two cousins. An amusing anecdote was that in all the years of the house's exidtence, there never was a girl born, perhaps the beginning of the male chauvinist movement. As we look back with nostalgia 60