RANK CARREL, proprietor and managing editor of the Quebec Daily Telegraph and Saturday Budget, was born in Quebec city, Sept. 7th, 1870. He is the son of James Carrel who was a descendant of General Armaugh Carrel, of Paris, and who established the Budget in 1870, and the Daily Telegraph in 1874. Mr. Carrel was educated at Stanstead Wesleyan College, and in early life engaged in the newspaper business. He began at the lowest position on the Telegraph and worked up until he filled the editorial chair, which was made vacant on the death of his father, in 1891. He is now, probably, the youngest journalist in Canada, and under his able management both the Telegraph and Budget have made rapid progress and have secured a place of influence in the minds of the people living within the area covered by their circulation. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., of New York, in their new book for advertisers, name the best, most widely circulated and most influential papers at each important centre of population. For Quebec, the paper given this distinction is the Daily Telegraph. Mr. Carrel is a member of the Irish National League and the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. W M. HODGINS BIGGAR, M.P.P., of the firm of Bell & Biggar, barristers, Belleville, Ont., was born near the head of the Bay of Quinte in 1852. He is a son of the late James L. Biggar, for many years M.P. for East Northumberland. His mother was a sister of Thos. Hodgins, formerly M.P.P. for West Elgin, and of Dr. J. G. Hodgins, late Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario. Mr. W. H. Biggar began his studies at the Trenton Grammar School, and in 1868 entered Upper Canada College, of which school he was head boy in 1872. Immediately after this, he engaged in mercantile life, which he abandoned in 1875 for the legal profession, studying in the offices of Bethune, Osler & Moss. Mr. Biggar's law course was most creditable as he stood first in every examination except that of barrister. Mr. Biggar belongs to the I.O.O.F. and Masonic Societies. He was returned M.P.P. for West Hastings in 1890; was mayor of Belleville in 1887; for some years an officer in Q.O.R.; president of the L. O. Yt. racing Assoc., the Bowling Assoc. of Ont., and the Belleville Curling Club; commodore of Bay of Quinte Yacht Club. He is in politics a Liberal. D OCTOR ORONHYATEKHA, The impression made on the Royal of Toronto, Ontario, Supreme party was so favorable, that the young Chief Ranger of the Independ- Mohawk Indian was invited to continue ent Order of Foresters, was born on the his studies at Oxford University, which Indian Reservation, near Brantford, was done under the guardianship of 10th of August, 1841. His education Sir Henry Acland, Bart., Regius, prowas begun in the New England Com- fessor of medicine in that ancient unipany's Indian School, near his birth- versity. Dr. Oronhyatekha began his place, and continued afterwards at the profession in Frankford, Ontario, afterWesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., wards settling in London, where he enKenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, To- joyed a large practice. His devotion ronto University, and at Oxford, Eng. to the Independent Order of Foresters, When the Prince of Wales visited Ca- and the ever increasing demands made nada, in 1860, Oronhyatekha was select- on his time by its rapid growth, comed by the chiefs to present an address pelled him in 1888, to abandon the to the son of their "Great Mother." active duties of his profession, and to devote his whole time to that great order. During the eleven years in which he has been Supreme Chief, he has seen it grow from infancy to its present magnificent proportions of over 40,000 members, with a cash surplus in its treasury of nearly half a million dollars, after having paid about a million in benefits. He has been for thirty-five years a Good Templar. At the last session of the Supreme Body of that organization, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was made the head of the order, by being elected Right Worthy Grand Templar. Dr. Oronhyatekha married Miss Hill, a great grand daughter of the celebrated Mohawk chief, captain Joseph Brant. They have two children surviving. The son, doctor Acland Oronhyatekha, who has recently graduated, is named after his father's old friend and guardian, Sir Henry Acland. WILLIAM ILLIAM BENJAMIN DUCK, M.D., Preston, Ont., was born in Morpeth, Ont., Sept. 4th, 1857. His parents were Isaac and Grace (Webb) Duck, who came from Wiltshire, England, and settled in Morpeth, Kent Co., Ont. Dr. Duck was educated at the public schools of Morpeth, Dundas Collegiate Institute, and the Normal School, Toronto, and then took his medical education at Trinity College, Toronto, graduating in 1879. He received the M.B. degree with honors, having taken the highest percentage of marks at the final examinations, which placed him on the honor list. At the annual convocation of Trinity Medical College, he received the fellowship degree and was admitted as a "Fellow" of that institution, taking the only certificate of honor granted by Trinity School for 1879, and also the degree of M.D. from Trinity University, and having passed the third and final examination without an oral before the council, was admitted as a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. In 1886, he took a post graduate course in Europe, visiting the hospitals of London, Paris, Edinburgh, Dublin, Marseilles and Lyons, France, spending considerable time at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. He commenced practice in Preston immediately after graduating, and has since remained in that place. The doctor is regarded as one of the most skillful physicians in Ontario, and his career has been marked by greater opportunity and He progress than falls to most men. has been chairman of the Board of Education for two years, was three years captain of No. 4 Company, 79th Battalion, is vice-president of the Liberal Conservative Association of Waterloo South, and has been offered, recently, a professorship in a California College, his reputation having spread so far south. Is physician to the Oddfellows, Workmen, I.O.F. and Royal Arcanum orders. He is also the health officer for the municipality and medical adviser for the celebrated mineral baths of Preston. In religion he is an adherent of the Church of England. RR EV. MICHAEL LYNCH, retired Parish Priest, Port Hope, was born in Cavan county, Ireland, in 1827. His parents were Michael and Mary (Smith) Lynch. He began his education at Ste. Thérèse, where he continued for four years. He then went to Ottawa and remained there until he completed his studies. Shortly after this, Father Lynch was ordained at Ottawa by Bishop Guigues, and received as his first appointment the Island of Allumettes, where he spent two years as curate with the late Rev. James Lynch. His first parish was that of Killey, in Leeds county, joining Smith's Falls, where he remained six years. From there he went to East Peterboro, and afterwards to Cornwall where he labored five years. He then returned to Peterboro and remained until the arrival of Bishop Francis Janiot, D.D., when he retired. During his stay in Peterboro, Father Lynch built Notre Dame Convent and two schools and paid for them. He assumed the entire work of that very large parish, and was not only a faithful and industrious priest, but greatly beloved by his people. He takes no part in politics, preferring to maintain a strictly neutral attitude. |