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WILLIAM HENRY

WILKISON, Napanee, Ont., Judge of the county of Lennox and Addington, was born in the city of Kingston, Ontario, in 1838. He is the son of William and Mary (O'Reilly) Wilkison. Judge Wilkison received his education in Kingston. He entered upon the study of law at Kingston and was admitted to the Bar in 1861, having made rapid progress in completing He located at Napanee where he was appointed County Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace. He was also Deputy Reeve of the town for one year. În 1869 he was made judge In

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of the courts of the county above named, and was succeeded as County Crown Attorney by W. A. Reeve, now of the Law School, Toronto. The judge, although one of the youngest on the bench, brought to the discharge of the duties of his office not only a well trained judicial mind, but also that ability and dignity so essential to the position. In religion he is an active and influential member of the Church of England, having been church warden, and is now a lay delegate to the Provincial Synod. Judge Wilkison was married, in 1863, to Isabella Allan, daughter of the late Wm. Allen Geddes, Hamilton, Ont.

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EV. FRS.-XAVIER FAGUY, Parish Priest of the Basilica of Notre Dame, Quebec, Que., was born in St. Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, October 15th, 1853. He is the son of François Faguy and Marguerite Voyer. The Rev. Mr. Faguy was educated in Quebec Seminary and graduated in Laval University. He was ordained priest June 7th, 1879, and was professor of literature in Quebec Seminary for eight years. He entered the parochial ministry, acting as curate at curate at Charlesbourg, St. Jean-Baptiste and St. Rochs, Quebec, successively. He was also Chaplain to the Congregation

in the last named parish. On the breaking out of the North-West insurrection, Father Faguy was appointed Chaplain to the 9th Voltigeurs de Quebec, and served with the battalion until the close of the troubles, receiving a medal for services rendered during the campaign. The reverend gentleman is president of the Quebec School commission and one of the judges of the ecclesiastical court for the Archdiocese. The Rev. Mr. Faguy has made an impression on his people and country at a very early age, and as he is yet in the early prime of his manhood, has a splendid future before him.

APTAIN ALEX. FARLINGER, Morrisburg, Ont., was born in Dundee, Huntingdon Co., Que., June 1st, 1824. His father, James Farlinger, was of German U. E. Loyalist descent, and his mother, Barbara Gardiner, was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland. Captain Farlinger had the advantage of a few years in the public schools, but is practically a self-educated man. When he was about nineteen years of age, he entered the employ of Mason & Farlinger, forwarders, Montreal, with whom he remained for about two and a half years, when he took charge of the royal mail steamer the

"Lord Elgin" from Kingston to Moutreal, for the joint firms of Macpherson, Crane & Co. and Hooker & Holton, which position he held for seven years without an accident of any kind. During the next two years he was engaged in the forwarding and general merchant business in Prescott. On June 1st, 1854, he was married to Isabella F., daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Kyle, of Morrisburg, Ont. Mrs. Farlinger was possessed of very extensive farm lands, which being added to his own already large possessions, compelled him to give up all other business and devote his undivided attention to the

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of nearly 20,000 acres of valuable farm lands, besides other village and town property, all in Eastern Ontario. He has taken an active interest in a number of railway enterprises, one of which was the originating of the scheme to run a railway from Ottawa to New York (bridging the St. Lawrence at Morrisburg), and which was chartered in 1882 under the name of the Ottawa, Waddington and New York Railway and Bridge Company. The press of private business always prevented him from accepting many public honors in the way of important offices which were frequently tendered him. He owes much of his success, in a business way, to his qualities of keen observation and quick decision. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Conservative and enjoyed the intimate friendship of the late Sir John A. Macdonald.

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HE LATE REV. JOHN COOK, D.D., LL.D., Presbyterian minister, Quebec, Que., was born in Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, April 13th, 1805. He was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, where he studied under Dr. Chalmers of distinguished memory. Dr. Cook was ordained a clergyman of the Church of Scotland in 1835, and came to Canada in the following year. He always took a prominent part in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland, and after the general union of Presbyterians in 1875, was equally loyal to the United Church. After the departure of the Free Church party, Dr. Cook was twice elected moderator of the Synod. He opposed the division of the Canadian Church, maintaining that it was the duty of Canadian Presbyterians to remain united. While still laboring to promote the extension of the old branch of the Presbyterian Church, he remained consistent with his opinions of 1844. At the Synod of 1861, Dr. Cook moved a resolution to promote the union of all the Presbyterians of the province. This resolution failed, but in 1875, the union so manifestly desirable was brought about, and he was chosen first moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the Dominion. He was also one of the delegates sent to obtain a royal charter for the University of Queen's College, Kingston, of which he was for a long period a trustee, and for some time

principal. The High School, justly regarded as one of the best schools in the country, was established mainly through his exertions in 1843. He was for many years chairman of the Board of Directors, and took a warm interest in its struggles and success. Dr. Cook was named by the late Dr. Morrin, as principal of the college then about to be established in Quebec, and since 1861, until his death in 1892, he filled the office of principal. In 1880, the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Queen's University; that of D.D. he held from the University of Glasgow.

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once to prepare for that calling, and entered as a probationer in 1860. During the twelve years Mr. Demill remained in the active work, his career was marked by most signal success in the conversion of sinners, the strengthening of believers, and the enlarging, beautifying and building of churches. In 1874, his long cherished hope of founding a ladies' college assumed practical shape. He purchased a beautiful site, comprising twenty-eight acres of ground, in the town of Oshawa, and erected the present beautiful and substantial college. This he accomplished without any denominational help, financially or socially, and to-day Demill Ladies' College, Oshawa, stands high in the esteem of the Protestant public throughout the Dominion. In 1890, he opened his Residential Academy in Toronto, and is already (1892) meeting with much. encouragement in his object of providing a series of schools which will obviate the necessity of Protestant girls attending Roman Catholic convents. His efforts to sustain this good work are simply herculean, and too much credit cannot be given him for the success he has achieved. Mr. Demill is publishing a monthly paper called The Protestant, which is full of information on the superiority and necessity of Protestant institutions for our Canadian girls. He was married in 1854 to Miss Hurd, daughter of E. Hurd, Esq., of Whitby. His family consists of one daughter, who is an art graduate of 1891.

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EV. A. B. DEMILL, president of Demill Ladies' College, Oshawa, Ont., and principal of Demill Residential Academy, Toronto, was born in Northport, Prince Edward county, Ontario, July 10th, 1831. His parents were Isaac and Amelia (Mills) Demill. Up to the time of his manhood, Mr. Demill's education was confined to the common schools, but he subsequently attended Victoria College, Cobourg, until failing health, forced him to abandon his studies and enter mercantile life. In 1856, he had strong convictions that God required him for the work of the ministry, and began at

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