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; oI in ze tást da = at. wal oe 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 LansIn 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 Williamsburg 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 graduahis skill soon won for him a lucrative practice. THE WOOD FAMILY. time before the breaking out of the American Kevolution, 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 Permelia, daughter of the late Rev. Ezra Healey ; Solomon married Roxy Ann Kilborn; William married Catherine Rose; John L. married Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the late James Howard ; Charles married 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
