THE REV. ANGUS McCOLL, D.D., the son of John and Catherine McColl, was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1818. The parents with their two children, Hugh and Angus, came to Caledonia, New York, in 1818, and to the Scotch Block, Esquesing, in 1819. One of his public school teachers seems to have been William Glass Stewart, with whom he began the study of Latin. He attended a Grammar, or higher school, in Toronto, and later a similar school in Hamilton taught by Dr. Rae, where he devoted himself to the classics, mathematics, French and Hebrew, and became an assistant teacher in the school for some time. He afterwards went to Queenston, and resided in the family of the Hon. James Hamilton in the capacity of tutor to his two sons, one of whom in later years was County Judge in Halton. When Mr. Hamilton moved to Kingston he went with him, and when Queens College opened in 1842 he became a member of its first class, and remained there for about two years. When the disruption of the Presbyterian Church in 1844 took place he .threw in his lot with the Free Church, and finished his course in Knox College. In 1847 he was licensed, and on February 22, 1848, he became pastor of the Free Kirk in Chatham. In 1876 the Free Kirk and the U.P. Church united and formed the First Presbyterian Church of Chatham, and he and the Rev. W. Walker became its associate pastors. He was an examiner of teachers for Kent for some years, and Inspector of the Public Schools of Chatham for nearly a half century. He received the honorary degree of D. D. from Queen’s University. He retired from active work in 1899, and died in his home in Chatham in March, 1901. His son Angus, now deceased, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

THE REV. JOHN McKINNON was the son of Donald McKinnon, who came from Scotland to Esquesing, and was ordained an elder of the First Presbyterian Congregation in 1836. He attended the public school taught by William Glass Stewart, and read under him the Latin author, Cornelius Nepos. The Session of the Church gave him a letter of recommendation to enter as a student the Academy of Oneida, N.Y. and he probably did so. The tradition is that in company with Angus McColl, Robert Wallace of Chinguacousy, and Thomas Wardrope of Flam-borough, he rode in a lumber wagon to Kingston to enter the first class of Queens College, in 1842, and on their arrival they had some difficulty in finding that infant institution. These four young men became very well known and honored Presbyterian ministers. Mr. McKinnon, after graduating from Knox College, became pastor of the Church in St. Thomas for two or three years, when he accepted a call to Owen Sound. While stationed there he was appointed Superintendent of Schools for the County of Bruce, and covered the County twice a year, visiting the schools during the day, and preaching and baptizing often in the evening.

In 1857 he accepted a call to Carleton Place, where he laboured for eight years. He died of pneumonia on Christmas Day 1865. He left five sons, one of whom, Donald J., was for some years Inspector of Schools for the County of Peel, and at this writing is President of the Pease Foundry Company of Toronto.

THE REV. ROBERT HUME, B.A., son of James Hume on Lot 10, Concession 4, East, was born in 1832. He was a graduate of the University of Toronto, and also of Knox College, and was pastor for twenty-four years at St. George, Ont., and for seven years at Arkona in Lambton County in the Presbytery of Sarnia. He died in Toronto in 1907. He was a good preacher and pastor, and a very pleasant gentleman.

THE REV. JOHN FERGUSON, B.A., was the second son of The Rev. Peter Ferguson. He attended the Waterloo School, as did his brothers, James, Peter a^d Alexander, and his sister Margaret, who died in New Zealand in 1918. He studied also in the Preparatory College School, Kingston, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1863, or 1864. He studied theology at Queens, and was pastor of the Old Kirk at Osprey, County of Grey, in the Presbytery of Toronto, and in other places. He went West and homesteaded near Chater, Manitoba, in 1880, the south half 6f Section 22, Township 10, R. 18, and became a farmer. He continued to live there with the exception of two years when he was in California, until about 1898, when his brother Alexander was accidentally killed at Ottawa. Then he sold his farm and came East. His present residence is not known to the writer.

THE REV. PETER S. LIVINGSTON, B.A., was the son of John Livingston and Elizabeth Chisholm, who lived on Lot 7, 5th Concession West. He attended Quatre Bras School, and went with the family to Chatham, where his father died. In 1868 he was studying in Toronto, and in 1871 he graduated from Queens. He was pastor of the Old Kirk congregation at Pitsburgh in the Presbytery of Kingston in 1871, and for some years afterwards, and in 1881 and 1882 he was pastor at Russeltown in the Presbytery of Montreal. It is said that he went with his family to Manitoba, west of Brandon, and died there of pneumonia about 1900.

THE REV. ROBERT J. LAIDLAW, LL.D., was the son of James Laidlaw, who lived on Lot 5, Third Concession West. He went to Ligny School, studied under Robert Little, and matriculated in the University of Toronto, but did not graduate. He taught the Quatre Bras and Waterloo Schools for about eight years in all, and after a short interval entered the Theological Seminary of Princeton, New Jersey, in 1868, and graduated in 1871. He then accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio, and after a pastorate of between three and four years he went to the Jefferson Avenue Church of Detroit, Mich., for about three years, when he returned to Canada, accepting a call to St. Paul’s Church, Hamilton. His pastorate there for seventeen years was very successful. After a lingering illness he died October 24, 1895, aged 56 years, and his body was buried by the side of that of his wife, Margaret McColl Laidlaw, in the cemetery at Georgetown. He occupied a recognized position in the Canada Presbyterian Church, was a trustee of Queens University, and the author of “Our Religion As It Was and As It Is,” and “A Calm Review of The Trial of Dr. Briggs.” The Laidlaw Memorial Church of Hamilton is named out of regard for him, and his work in St. Paul’s Church.

THE REV. JOHN McCOLL, D.D., the son of Hugh McColl and Christina Robertson McColl, was born in 1845 on Lot 16, 6th Concession West. He attended the Limehouse and Waterloo Schools, the private school kept by the Rev. Charles Dade, M.A., Georgetown, and the Chatham Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1870, and the Theological Seminary of Princeton, New Jersey, in 1873. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1872, and ordained and installed pastor of the Forks of Brandywine Church at Brandywine Manor, Pa., in 1873, by the Presbytery of Chester. He remained there until the last of 1887, and began work as pastor of the Brighton Presbyterian Church of Rochester, N.Y., on the first Sabbath of 1888, where he remained for sixteen years and three months, and then went to Gorham, N'.Y., in May, 1904, where he continued until May 1, 1916, when he retired, and came to Georgetown, Ont., to live, in June of that year.

THE REV. WALTER LAIDLAW, Ph.D., of New York, N.Y., is the son of the late Alexander Laidlaw, M.D., and Mary Patton Laidlaw. He attended the Quatre Bras School, the school of Dr. Tassie of Galt, graduated from the University of Toronto, in 1881, and from the Theological Seminary of Princeton, New Jersey, in 1884. He took post graduate work in Berlin, Germany, in 1885 and in Princeton in 1886, and received M. A. from Toronto in 1886, and later Ph.D. from the University of New York. He was pastor of the Jermain Memorial Church, Watervliet, N.Y., from May, 1886 to November 1892, and assistant minister of St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, Fifth Ave. and 48th street. New York, from 1893 to 1895. In 1895 he became the first Church Federation Secretary in America. He still occupies this position in New York City. When pastor at Watervliet he organized the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society, and the Fairview Home for Friendless Children, and served as President of both.

Besides being Executive Secretary of the New York Federation of Churches he is now Secretary of the Aldine Association of New York; Secretary of the New York 1920 Census Committee; Registrar of the Clergy Club of New York and Neighborhood; Consulting Engineer of the Interchurch World Movement of North America for the Federal Census, and on religious statistics of the nation.