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ILLIAM EDWARD TILLEY, M.A., Ph. D., Bowmanville, Ontario, inspector of schools for Durham county and the town of Bowmanville, Port Hope and Peterborough, was born in Bowmanville, September 20th, 1840. His parents came from England in 1836 and settled in Bowmanville. His primary education was obtained in the common schools of Darlington which he attended during the winters, spending his summers on the farm and at mechanical work. Being determined to have an education he entered the Bowmanville High School at the age of eighteen and in December, 1860, obtain

ed a certificate and for some years taught school in Darlington. In 1865 he spent a term in Day's Commercial College and a session in the Toronto Normal School, obtaining a full course diploma at the former institution, and a first class certificate at the latter. He was appointed, in 1869, first assistant in the Bowmanville High School, in 1872 to a similar position in the Port Hope High School, and in 1876 to his old position in Bowmanville at a greatly increased salary. In 1875 he took the B.A. degree in the Victoria University, Cobourg, in 1878 the M.A. degree in the same institution, and in 1888 the Ph.D. degree in the Wesleyan University, Bloomington, U. S. In 1880 he was appointed head master of the Lindsay High School and retained the position until he became inspector of Durham county in 1884. In 1888 he received the appointment, from the Peterborough Board, of Inspector of public schools of that town. In religion he is a Methodist and has for years been a member of the various church boards and an active worker in the Sunday school. He married Miss Selina Ann Vanstone, of Tyrone, Darlington. He is a member of the I.O. O.F. and of the A.O.U.W. As an educationist Dr. Tilley has been progressive and successful and has shown a peculiar aptitude for the work. The schools under his charge, whether his connection with them has been that of head master or inspector, have invariably taken a high rank.

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DOLPHE G. TOURANGEAU, ex-mayor and ex-M.P., Quebec, Que., was born in that city, January 15th, 1831. He is a son of the late Jean G. Tourangeau, a J. P., notary public and an alderman in Quebec city. Mr. Tourangeau was educated at the Quebec Seminary and at the Quebec High School. He studied law under He studied law under the Hon. Louis Panet and followed the law course of Laval University from its opening, in 1853, until he was admitted to practice in 1855. He was frequently elected to the Board of Notaries, and was appointed by the council notary for the corporation of Quebec. He

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held that position until he resigned, in 1883, to accept the postmastership of Quebec, offered to him. Tourangeau is Lieut.-Col. of militia. He has been mayor of the city several times. He was elected in 1870 and again in 1872 to represent Quebec East in the House of Commons, but was defeated by Hon. Wilfrid Laurier, in 1877, after a very hot and close contest. He was a member of the Quebec Harbor Commission; a director of the North Shore Railway; a director of the Gosford (afterwards the Lake St. John) Railway and a provisional director of the Stadacona Bank, the charter of which he procured through parliament. It was during his mayoralty and by his assistance that a regular steam ferry between Quebec and Lévis was established and the street railway and fire alarm telegraph were first operated in Quebec. During his regime the acts concerning the Quebec incorporation were amended and consolidated, the city debt consolidated, the fiscal year made to agree with house rents, and the city's finances placed on a sound basis. In politics he gave his support to the Liberal party until his fourth election as mayor in 1869, when he gave his confidence to the Conservative party. He is now (1892) apparently in the prime of life and bids fair to give many more years of valuable service to his native city. Mr. Tourangeau was married, in 1861, to Miss Victoria A., daughter of the late Augustus Jourdain, Esq.

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TEPHEN GIBSON, barrister and county registrar, of the firm of Gibson and Clute, Napanee, Ont., was born in Cornwall, England, March 23rd, 1837, He is descended from a Scottish family of sterling character and marked ability, and looks back upon his ancestry for several generations, with pardonable pride. Mr. Gibson acquired a thorough knowledge of the common branches of education in the public schools in his native land, but not having access to advanced schools, he determined to educate himself. From his general reading, he acquired a desire to see and know something of the outside world, and in the Spring of 1858 came to Canada. He almost immediately located in Cobourg and made that place his home for a few years while looking around to determine his future course. During the summer he was engaged in the forwarding business, which gave him a large commercial acquaintance from Kingston to Chicago. He spent the winter months in preparing to enter Victoria University which he subsequently attended, and by forced work kept up the year's course during the winter session. In 1863 Mr. Gibson determined to study law, and passed the matriculation examination that year. After this, he served for one year in the office of Wm. Kerr, Q.C., in Cobourg, and spent the next four years in the law office of W. H. R. Allison, at Picton. He was admitted to practice in 1868, and called to the

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bar in 1869. He shortly after this located in Napanee and began practice for himself. He soon acquired an important connection, and has since continued to conduct a very large business and has become one of the best known legal men in this part of the province. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. Masonic and Odd Fellows societies. In religion Mr. Gibson is a Methodist; in politics an active Liberal and president of the Reform Association. He was married in September 1870, to Miss Mary E. A., daughter of R. R. Clute, Esq., of Sterling, and sister of R. C. Clute, Q.C., Belleville, Ont.

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HOMAS HULLS HUDSON, resident Canadian manager of the United Fire Insurance Company, Ltd., of Manchester, England, Montreal, Que., was born in London, England, November 3rd, 1854. He is a son of George R. Hudson, and was educated in London. He came to Canada in 1875, and entered the fire insurance business, and from the start exhibited an intense interest, and more than ordinary aptness in that line of work. He has had a large experience, and an efficient training in fire underwriting, and is one of the rising insurance men in the Dominion of Canada. The com

pany of which he is manager has recently acquired, by purchase, the Canadian business of the City of London Insurance Company, thereby greatly adding to its already large established connection. The subscribed capital of the United Fire Insurance Company is $1,250,000, of which $500,000 is paid up. It has in addition to capital, cash on hand amounting to $782,500. The "United Fire" expects to not only take the place of the City of London, but to do an extended general business. Judging from Manager Hudson's past record, he will doubtless keep his company well in the foreground.

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EV. CHAS. HENRY MARSH, rector of St. Paul's Church, Lindsay, Ont., was born at Holland Landing, Ontario, September 23rd, 1854. He is the son of William J. Marsh, the founder of Clarksburg, Ont., and for many years a justice of the peace. Mr. Marsh obtained his primary education at the public school at Clarksburg, from which he passed under the tuition of Rev. Wm. Logan at Millbank, Ont., for two years. He subsequently took a four years' course at Wycliffe College, graduating in 1881. His first charge was at Otonabee where he was curate for one year. He was next

appointed to Rosemont where he was incumbent for nearly four years, after which he was curate at Orillia for one year. He was appointed to his present charge in October, 1887. His labors in Lindsay have been most successful and his ministry greatly appreciated by his people, whose interests he never fails to bear in mind. Mr. Marsh is a man of marked ability, great energy and of a very genial disposition, which causes him to be honored and beloved wherever known. He was married December 13th, 1887, to Miss E. C. Wilgress, daughter of George Wilgress, of Cobourg.

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