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ILLIAM WALLACE WHITE, Lieut.-Colonel of the 30th Battalion Wellington Rifles, Arthur, Ont., was born in Suffolk, Eng., October 4th, 1843. His father was Wm. White, an English gentleman farmer, who came to Canada about 1862, and settled in Arthur. His mother Emily (Orford) White, was a member of one of the oldest families in Ipswich, Eng. Lieut.Col. White was educated at the Norwich Grammer School, Eng., founded by Edward VI., and at which Lord Nelson was educated. In his early manhood, he held a position in a large wholesale silk house, at St. Paul's Churchyard, London, Eng. In 1867, while engaged in the wholesale house of McInnis, Calder & Co., of Hamilton, he joined the 13th battalion. Soon after he returned to Arthur, and opened a real estate office and financial agency, which he still conducts. In 1868, he joined the Fergus Company of the battalion he now commands, and has always kept abreast of the times in drill and whatever pertains to the work. He is entitled to receive the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, about to be awarded by the Imperial War Department, having been for over twenty years continuously, a commissioned officer in the service. Colonel is an Episcopalian, a church warden, and has been a lay delegate for many years. He is also county master for West Wellington of the L.O.A., a member of the A.F. and A.M. and A.O.U.W., and

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has been representative to the Grand Lodge of the latter order. He has been clerk of Arthur since its incorporation in 1872, and its treasurer for fifteen years. He is also a member of the Public School Board, secretary of the High School Board, secretary of the Arthur Union Agricultural Society, and has been for twenty years secretary-treasurer of the North Wellington Conservative Association. He is also one of the auditors of Wellington county. He was married, Oct. 15th, 1873, to Miss Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John McCrea, of Guelph, Ont. His family consists of three sons and two daughters.

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H. BULLIS, M.D., C.M.L.R. C. P. (Edinburgh), Dresden, Ont., was born on Wolfe Island, Ont., December 26th, 1857. His father was Joseph Bullis, a native of Leicestershire, England, who died in 1892, at Chatham, Ont. His mother, whose maiden name was Abbott, still resides there. Dr. Bullis was educated at the Chatham High School, after which he attended the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston, graduating in April, 1884. He then took a six months' course in Edinburgh, and graduated as above indicated. After eight months spent in the London and Paris

hospitals, he returned to Canada, and in 1885, began to practice in Dresden. His practice here grew so rapidly, that in 1889, he was compelled to call in a partner, which he did in the person of Dr. J. I. Wiley, the Dr. J. I. Wiley, the gold medalist of Trinity Medical College for that year. Their practice is now one of the largest in Western Ontario. Dr. Bullis is an adherent of the Episcopal Church, and belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the C. O. H. C., in which orders he is physician. He is president of the Dresden Blue Rock Gun Club, and although often pressed to stand for municipal honors, had to decline.

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UNCAN MCGIBBON, barrister, etc., Milton, Ont., was born October 18th, 1841, in Halton county, Ont. His parents were the late John and Isabella (McCallum) McGibbon, both natives of Perthshire, Scotland. His father died October 4th, 1892, aged 92 years, and his mother died December 1st, 1892, aged 84 years, after a married life of 63 years. Mr. McGibbon's father was one of the most successful farmers in Halton county. Mr. McGibbon was educated in the public schools and the Grammar school, Milton. He subsequently taught school six years, and then commenced the

study of law under the present Judge Ferguson, at Toronto, where he remained for three years. He commenced the practice of his profession in Milton, in 1871, where he has continued to do a large and constantly increasing practice ever since. In religion, he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Conservative. He was for many years, secretary of the Liberal-Conservative Association of the county of Halton. He is also a past master workman. He was married, May 30th, 1871, to Miss Ann, daughter of Jonathan Pettit, of Trafalgar township, Halton county, Ont., by whom he has one daughter and one son.

DOLPH DAVIS, Mechanical and Scientific Engineer, and superintendent of the Montreal Water Works, Montreal. Que., was born in that city, January 24th, 1839. He was educated in McGill College, Montreal, and at the age of fourteen years, was placed in apprenticeship, as mechanical engineer in the United States Navy Yard, in Brooklyn, and at its expiration, went as first engineer with the Man of War "Tallaponssua." After a seven months' cruise, he became connected with railways as mechanical engineer. He was appointed by the Government of Canada, as Commissioner and Mechanical Expert to the Vienna World's Exposition of Austria, to make a report to the Government, of the various improvements on machinery and railway appliances generally. In 1877, he was appointed superintendent of machinery for the Quebec Government railways, and in 1880, manager of the North Shore Railway. In 1886, he went to Mexico, after completing a short contract for two iron bridges on the Mexican National Railway, at Perros. He then left for a tour round the world, commencing from San Francisco to Japan. In 1887, he was appointed by the Russian Government as mechanical expert and engineer, and settled some very large claims arising out of important engineering enterprises. He was also sent by the Russian Government nearly all over the world, to make reports on various classes of water

works and machinery. In 1886, he was appointed honorary vice-president of the New York Cooper's Institute, the Philadelphia Polytechnic, also Smithsonian Institute, Washington, for life. He is also a life member of the American Scientific Engineer's Society, of New York, which is now connected with the "Ecole Centrale," of Paris. These honors were bestowed upon him, for the lecture he gave in the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, Aug. 15th, 1876, on "Natural Heat," thence declaring that the sun was a cold body. He was appointed superintendent of the Montreal Water Works, Aug. 1st, 1892.

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ON. SENATOR SAMUEL MERNER, Hamburg, Ont., was born January 19th, 1823, at Berne, Switzerland. His parents were Jacob and Susanna (Schluter) Merner. Senator Merner received his education in Switzerland and emigrated to this country with his parents in 1837, and settled in Wilmot township, Waterloo county, Ont., where the family settled on a farm in what was then a wilderness. After the first winter, Mr. Merner went to Preston, Ont., and applied himself to the blacksmith trade, and at the end of four years, he started a shop for himself in Hamburg, where

his business grew into a large general blacksmith, carriage and wagon trade; subsequently he sold out this business to his brother Frederick, and started a foundry in Hamburg and another in Waterloo. In 1873, he sold the Hamburg foundry to his eldest son Simson, and the Waterloo foundry to his second son Absalom. His third son Amon, is in the Waterloo foundry with his brother, and his youngest son Sulum resides in Clifford. The Senator also has six daughters. He is now retired from business life, but holds a large share in the Simpson & Co. Furniture Factory, in Berlin, Ont. He ran for the Local

House in 1877, and was defeated, but in the contest of 1878 for the Dominion Parliament, he was elected for South Waterloo, against the Hon. James Young, of Galt, and was defeated in 1882, by James Livingston, of Baden. In 1887, he was appointed a Senator. The night of September 17th, 1878, when Mr. Merner was elected, will long be remembered in the village of Hamburg. The place was a blaze of excitement and also a blaze of light from one end to the other, from oil barrels and everything that could be burned. Senator Merner was reeve of Hamburg for ten years and warden of Waterloo county, one year. He has also been on the School Board for ten years. He has travelled very extensively in Europe, Great Britain and America, and is well informed on public questions. He is an able exponent of the principles. of the Conservative party.