WEN MURPHY,ExMayor of Quebec city, was born in Stoneham, Province of Quebec, December 9th, 1829. His father was a member of the highly esteemed family of Murphys, of Ballainoulart House, Wexford county, Ireland, and was a man of peculiarly high attainments and cultivated mind. Mr. Murphy was educated under the tuition of the famous Robt. H. Scot, of Edinburgh, Scotland. In his early commercial life, he was associated with two of the then largest and most important lumber, ship owning, produce and milling firms of this country. His unflagging perseverance and invincible integrity have obtained for him the honorable, responsible and distinguished positions which he has so frequently held. He was for years a member of the Quebec City Council, and in 1874 was elected to the mayoralty, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected for a further term of two years. Independent of the many municipal offices which Mr. Murphy has filled, he is director of the Quebec Central Railroad, past president of the St. Patrick's Society, the St. Patrick's Literary Institute, the Quebec Turf Club, and the Quebec Board of Trade. He is in religion a Roman Catholic, and has always taken an independent course in politics, but believes that protection is necessary to the welfare of this country. Mr. Murphy was an unsuccessful candidate for Quebec West in 1881, was elected for the same district, in 1886,

by the largest majority ever given in that constituency, and was again reelected in 1890. He was an important factor in the action which led to the dismissal of the Mercier Government, and the carrying of the province by the DeBoucherville administration. However, he declined to be a candidate for his old constituency, and voluntarily withdrew from active political life. Mr. Murphy was Mr. Murphy was married, in 1857, to Miss Loughry, who died in June, 1888, after which he sold his beautiful residence, and has since lived in social retirement. Mr. Murphy has no family.

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AMES KING, M.P.P., Quebec, Que., was born in St. Antoine de Tilly, Lotbinière county, county, P.Q., February 18th, 1848. He is the youngest son of the late Charles King, of Sylvester, Megantic. Mr. King received his early education in Lennoxville, and took the degree of B.A. in 1867, and that of M.A. in 1873, at the University of Bishop's College. In early life, Mr. King turned his attention to commercial pursuits, notably that of lumbering, and is now (1892) the Quebec member of the well and favorably known lumber and timber exporting firm of King Bros. and King

Bros. & Co., who are among the largest operators in the province, having their works scattered all over the Eastern Townships, and in this way have become powerful contributors to Lower Canadian development. The King Bros. are largely interested in the important Asbestos industry of the Province of Quebec, and are proprietors of extensive areas of Asbestos bearing lands in the Eastern Townships, and notably of the

Hampden' " and "Thetford Royal" mines in Megantic county. Mr. King is the vice-president of the Mining Association of the Province of Quebec, director of Union Bank of Canada, and largely interested in rural real estate, being the seigneur of the seigniories of St. Jean Deschaillons and Lake Matapedia. His large and honorable commercial transactions throughout the province have made him so favorably known that, in 1892, he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, as representative of the county of Megantic, by the Conservative party, and will doubtless prove an able and valuable member of parliament. Mr. King is in religion a member of the Church of England, and has been a lay delegate to the synod of the Diocese of Quebec. He is unmarried, and has travelled over the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe. As he is yet (1892) in the full prime of his manhood, there is strong probability that he will become one of the most important and influential factors in his native province.

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ON. JOHN DOBSON, merchant, Lindsay, Ont., was born in the county of Fermanagh, Ireland, September 8th, 1824, and is a son of John and Mary Dobson. He was educated in the parochial schools in Ireland. In 1852, he emigrated to the United States, and settled in Rochester, N.Y. He came to Canada September 10th, 1860, the same day on which the Prince of Wales was a guest at Toronto, and lived in Toronto two years. Mr. Dobson afterwards settled in Lindsay, where he still resides (1892), and conducts a very large trade. He has rendered much valuable

service in public affairs, and has been honored with various important positions. tions. In 1874, he was elected mayor of Lindsay, and filled the office with credit to himself and with profit to the town. He has been mayor several times since 1874, and is now (1892) president of the Lindsay Board of Trade, the Mechanics Institute and the Conservative Association. The latter office he has held for twenty years. He was appointed to the Senate, February 23rd, 1892. In religion Mr. Dobson is an Episcopalian. In politics, a Conservative. He was married in 1846, to Miss Catharine Graham.

DISON BALDWIN FRALECK,

began his studies at the common schools

judge of the County Court of Hastings county, Ont., was born in Sidney, near Belleville, Ont., February 6th, 1841. His parents were Thomas Tillotson and Hannah (Nicholson) Fraleck, both of genuine U.E. Loyalist stock. The former was the son of Martin Fraleck, who came from Wittenburg, Saxony, and took up lands on the Hudson River, which were after wards confiscated by the Revolutionary party. Mr. T. T. Fraleck served as a cavalry man during the entire three years' war of 1812-15. Judge Fraleck

Kingston, from which he graduated B.A. in 1863. He then entered the study of law with the firm of Ponton & Falkiner, Belleville, and subsequently with the Hon. Stephen Richards, Toronto. He took out solicitor's certificates at Easter term, 1868, and was called to the Bar at Hilary term the same year. He was elected to the University Council in 1886, and reelected in 1891. He continues to reside in Belleville (1892), where he is a prominent and influential factor in the city and county to which he belongs.

In religion he is a Presbyterian from his youth. His mother was of the same faith, and his father was a Lutheran. In politics the Judge is a staunch Conservative, and takes strong ground as to the connection of Canada with the Motherland, to whom, he believes, we owe our civil and religious liberty. He rendered valuable aid to his party for fifteen years, until he was appointed Junior County Judge 28th December, 1881. He is a member of the Knight Templar, Oddfellow, Black Knight, Orange and Masonic societies, and for several years master of Mystic Lodge 278, of the latter order. He was also lieutenant No. 4 Company, 49th Hastings Rifles, from 1867 to 1874, when he retired retaining rank. Judge Fraleck was married August 12th, 1874, to Miss Jane E., daughter of Wm.Judd, Esq., of Sterling, Hastings county, Ont.