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Board of the town in appointing him as their
Inspector.
During the period of Mr. Biggs engagement at
Galt, five of his pupils graduated with first class
honors in mathematics in Toronto University, and
one of the number (Wright) succeeded in obtaining
a scholarship every year of his course. and finishing
with the gold medal for mathematics in his B. A.
year.
may be mentioned the names of the late Daniel
Wade, Barrister ; Mr. Edmund Reynolds, Barrister ;
graph Companies, Messrs. John Lanskail and Thos.
Elwood ; Dr. Jackson, Mr. George Lafayette, Messrs.
and
Messrs. Bogue and Smart, Briggs, McCullough, ez az.
R. M. and H. T. Fitzsimmons, merchants ;
MEDICAL MEN.
LANSDOWNE.
R. B. Aylsworth, M. D., was born in Addington in
1842. He attended Queen’s College, Kingston, and
also Victoria College, graduating from the latter in
1867, with the degree of M. D.
commenced the practice of his profession at Lans¬
In the same year he
downe, where he has since resided.
P. P. Percy, M. D., was born at Napanee, Ontario.
He studied medicine with Dr. Moore, of Picton, and
graduated at McGill College, Montreal, in 1848.
He commenced the practice of his profession at
Brighton, where he remained until 1853, when ill
health compelled kis retirement from active service.
In 1863, he resumed practice at Delta, from which
place he removed to Lansdowne in 1865, where he
has since resided.
MALLORYTOWN.
J. W. Lane, M. D., was born in North Williams¬
burg in 1847. He obtained his medical training at
Queen’s College, Kingston, graduating at Toronto
as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons in 1875. During the year of his gradua¬
his skill soon won for him a lucrative practice.
THE WOOD FAMILY.
time before the breaking out of the American Kevo¬
lution, and settled in the vicinity of New Albany,
U.S. His family consisted of four sons and four
daughters. Joseph, one of the sons, received an
veyor. During the Revolution Joseph was an
officer in the army; when the struggle closed, he
removed to Augusta and settled there. During
f
the War of 1812, all the male members of the
family fought under the British flag. When the
war was over they all went west, with the exception
of Alfred, Solomon, and Anthony. a,
Alfred settled on Lot 26, in the 5th Concession
of Augusta; Solomon settled on Lot 25 ; Anthony
settled on Lot 24. ,
Solomon married Anna Lakins, and raised a large
family. The sons were: Amasa, Joseph, Solomon,
Jr., William, John L., and Charles; the daughters
were : Sarah, Mary, Marinda, and Vashtia. Amasa
married Luretta Nettleton; Joseph married Per¬
melia, daughter of the late Rev. Ezra Healey ; Solo¬
mon married Roxy Ann Kilborn; William married
Catherine Rose; John L. married Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of the late James Howard ; Charles mar¬
ried Sarah Burlingham. Sarah married William
Van Camp; Mary married John Godred ; Marinda
married Samuel Francis.
Alfred married Miss Neachey, and had a family
of four sons and three daughters, of whom Anthony
married Polly Earl ; Charles married Anna Andrees;
William married Catherine Wright; Polly married
Aaron Derrick ; Charlotte married Joseph Gibson.
Anthony Wood, son of Joseph, married Laura
Bennett, by whom he had the following sons:
Arnold, Eben, Pliilo, and Philander; and also four
daughters.
Amasa, son of Joseph, removed from Augusta
after the War of 1812, and settled at Fingal. Two
of his sons, Amasa and Philo, are leading citizens
of that section.
John L., son of Solomon Wood, settled on Lot 23,
in the 2nd Concession of Augusta, where he now
resides. He has six sons and two daughters.
The following extract is taken from a Prescott
paper, and is well entitled
“THE LONG AGO.”
“Tt is not often that an ‘Old Mortality’ finds
scope for investigation and reflection among the
graveyards along the banks of the St. Lawrence,
as few of them are of such antiquity as to invite
the labors of the searcher after old world lore.
Occasionally, however, accident reveals that which
starts a train of thought, and reminds us that even
in this young country time rolls ceaselessly on, and
names and dates from such sources as the headstone
in cemeteries which loving hands are now erecting.
“Tt seems that Prescott in its earlier days, whether
subject to more than unusual mortality or not, had
more than one burying ground. Indeed, every
denomination seems to have had its own cemetery.
With the establishment of the Sandy Hill Cemetery