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ILLIAM WARREN DEAN, Lindsay, Ont., judge of the county and surrogate courts of Victoria and Haliburton counties, local judge of the High Court and Master in Chancery, was born in London, Ontario, October 25th, 1830. He is the son of the Rev. Horace and Ruth (Tisdale) Dean, both U. E. Loyalists. Judge Dean began his studies at the Grammar school, Barrie, and subsequently attended the Victoria University, Cobourg, from which he received his B. A. in 1854. He studied law at Belleville with Lewis Wallbridge, Q.C., late chief justice of Manitoba. He was called to

the Bar in 1858, and practised in Belleville until 1874, and during the greater part of this time was Master in Chancery. He was then appointed judge of Victoria county, and in 1886, the Provisional county of Haliburton was added for judicial purposes. Judge Dean, is in religion, a Methodist. He has been a delegate for many years to the General Conferences, and for thirty years has been a member of the board of Regents and Senate of Victoria University. Mrs. Dean is the eldest daughter of the late Gilbert Bogart, of Belleville, also a well known U. E. Loyalist family.

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W. RHODES, Quebec, Que., was born at Bramhope Hall, Yorkshire, England, in 1821, and was educated in the schools and colleges of that land. At an early age he entered the army as an ensign in the 68th Durham Light Infantry, commanded by Lord William Paulet. This regiment was sent to the West Indies and subsequently ordered to Canada in 1842. On obtaining his company, Capt. Rhodes decided to settle at Quebec, and in 1848 acquired the beautiful and picturesque lands of "Benmore," formerly owned by Sir Dominic Daly, late Governor of Prince Edward Island. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Anne C. Dunn, daughter of the late Robert Dunn, son of the former administrator of the Government. Col. Rhodes soon entered the political arena, and in 1850 he went to the Canadian Commons as the representative of the county of Megantic, which, more than twenty-five years later, renewed its confidence in its old member. The colonel was a most energetic promoter of railways and was for years chairman of the North Shore Line (since merged into the C. P. R.). His ever active mind was constantly employed in revolving the questions of improvements in farm stock, tillage of the soil, the erection of butter and cheese factories over the length and breadth of the land, the opening of colonization roads, and the recognition by legislation of agricultural merit. It was evident that the coming expon

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ent of the agricultural class of the province was Col. Rhodes, and in 1887 he became Minister of Agriculture and Colonization. The Colonel lived in his rural home like a respected English gentleman of the olden time. His roses and strawberries were famous; his advice was always, and his purse not unfrequently, at the disposal of the needy. He died suddenly from an attack of paralysis, Feb. 17th, 1892, and was laid to rest by gentle and loving hands, under the shade of the whispering pines of solemn and beautiful Mount Hermon, not far from the fragrant walks and pleasant bowers of "Benmore."

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EORGE HENRY FREWEN DARTNELL, Whitby, Ont., junior judge of the county of Ontario; local judge of the High Court of Justice for the province of Ontario; local master in Chancery, and special examiner in all the courts, was born Feb. 13th, 1834, in the city of Limerick, Ireland. He is the son of the late Edward Taylor Dartnell, a prominent Irish solicitor, who came to this country in the year 1850 and settled in Toronto. His education was begun at King's College, London, England, and continued and completed under the tuition of his father. He first studied law under the

present Chief Justice Hagarty, and the late Lieutenant-Governor Crawford, and subsequently with the late Hon. John Hillyard Cameron, the Hon. J. B. Robinson and C. J. Robinson. He was admitted to the Bar in 1857, and commenced his profession in Whitby where he still reresides. He was for some time a partner of H. J. McDonell, and also of Hector Cameron, Q.C. He was appointed Master in Chancery in 1859, and junior judge in 1873, both of which offices he still holds (1892). Judge Dartnell is known as a brilliant scholar and an honor to the Bench. He was a sub-editor of the Daily Patriot, the first daily paper issued in Toronto, and has given much valuable aid to the cause of education, having been for eighteen years a member of the school board of the town of Whitby, and for nine years chairman of that body. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and A.O.F. Societies. Is past grand senior deacon of the Grand Lodge of Canada; past district deputy grand master and representative in the Grand Lodge of Canada, of the Grand Lodge of Cuba and Ceylon. He is president of St. Patrick's Society and of the Whitby Cricket Club. He is now (1892) a lieutenant-colonel (unattached) of the volunteer force and served on the frontier during the Fenian raids. He has been married twice, first to Louisa Hawke, daughter of Anthony B. Hawke, and second to Caroline Gross, daughter of G. C. Gross, of Whitby.

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UGUSTIN COTÉ, printer and

A journalist, Quebec, was born in

that city in 1818. He is a son of Augustin and Marie-Louise (Letarte) Côté, and first went to a primary school called Bishop's Chapel, where he was prepared to make his first communion in Notre Dame Church in 1829. He learned the art of printing, and in 1834 worked in company with the now great publisher, John Lovell, of Montreal. In 1837, he began a course of private study, and, in 1842, became sub-editor of La Gazette de Québec, and later on started the Journal de Québec, with Joseph Cauchon, as chief editor, who died in Manitoba in 1885, having been Lieutenant-Governor of that Province.

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Mr. Côté's many publications may be mentioned, Les Relations des Jésuites, in three large volumes, which appeared in 1857-58. He has also printed L'Annuaire de l'Université Laval, since its establishment in 1854. In 1855, he offered a premium for the best abridgment of the History of Canada. The task was accepted by the late Mr. F. X. Garneau, and over 38,000 copies sold up to 1870. In 1861, Mr. Côté was invited to run for the Legislative Assembly, and, at the beginning of Confederation, he was tendered the Postmastership of Quebec, both of which he declined in order to promote his journal. He has been magistrate since 1855, and Captain in the Militia, under a commission signed by Sir Edmund Head. After an influential

course of 47 years, his journal was, by an unexpected event, forced to suspend. Suffice it to say, that our subject has been a great worker, persevering, honest, deserving and universally respected for his many good qualities of head and heart. Mr. Côté was married in 1845 to Miss Caroline Emilie Lemieux, daughter of the late Charles Lemieux. Of a family of thirteen children, eight are living, amongst whom are Augustine, wife of Hon. E. J. Flynn, Minister of Crown Lands; and Amélie, wife of Adolphe Poisson, advocate and Registrar of Artha

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AJOR SAM. HUGHES, M.P. of The Warder, Lindsay, Ontario, was born in Darlington, Durham county, Ontario, January 8th, 1852. His father, John Hughes, a native of Tyrone, Ireland, came to Canada about 1845, taught school, settled on a farm, and now lives retired at Blackstock, Ont. His father was one of the famous 67 "Royal Bengal Tiger" Regiment. Major Hughes' mother is Caroline Laughlin, daughter of of a British Royal Artillery officer, and grand-daughter of a Huguenot Cavalry officer, Poirier de St. Pierre, under Bonaparte. Educated in Durham schools,

Toronto Model and Normal schools, the University of Toronto and the Military school under the 29 line Regiment, Mr. Hughes holds "1st A." School Inspector's and "1st class Military" and University Modern Languages, Honor certificates, and is author of a map of Canada and a geography. He is member of A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., L.O.L., O.R.A. and D.R.A. As teacher, he served in Belleville, Lifford, Bowmanville, and for ten years in Toronto Collegiate Institute, where he was first English master. In 1885, he purchased The Warder, which he has since conducted with very great suc

cess. The circulation has increased four fold since he assumed control of the paper. As athlete, Mr. Hughes in 1872, won championship mile race for America, and from 1872 to 1884, was on "Ist 12" of Toronto Lacrosse Club, besides active in football, cricket, baseball, bicycling and rowing. He is also a good rifleman. In 1891, he was defeated for the Commons for North Victoria by J. A. Barren, Q.C., but in 1892, on revised lists, he won over Mr. Barren by the handsome majority of 239 votes. A Methodist and Liberal Conservative, Mr. Hughes is opposed to union of Church and State. He was twice married; first, in 1872, to Caroline J., daughter of Major Preston of Manvers, and second, in 1875, to Mary E., daughter of Harvey W. Burk, ex-M.P., Bowmanville. A son and a daughter of his second wife constitute the family.

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