JOHN DEWAR, son of John Dewar and Edith Knight, was born in Aberfeldy, Scotland, in 1829, and came with his parents to Esquesing in 1830, and lived on Lot 7, in the First Concession. He attended for six years the school taught by Alexander Robertson, the Grammar School at Palermo for one year, and the Quatre Bras School. He taught school for three years and afterwards studied for some time in the Ohio State College. In 1853 he began the study of law in Toronto, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and in the same year began the practice of law in Milton. In 1868 he was appointed Clerk of the Peace and Crown Attorney for Halton. Before becoming identified with the Presbyterian Church in Milton he attended the U. P. Church in the Block. He died in Milton.

WILLIAM LAIDLAW, K.C., of Toronto, is the son of the late Walter and Margaret Robertson Laidlaw. He was born in 1839 on Lot 5, in the Third Concession East, of Esquesing, and attended the Quatre Bras School and afterwards the Ligny School when Robert Little was teacher. He commenced his legal studies in Brampton in the office of J. P. Cummins, and continued them in the office of Henry Eccles, Q.C., of Toronto. He was admitted as Barrister and Solicitor in 1864, and began the practice of his profession at Milton, where he remained for about ten years, when he moved to the City of Hamilton and practiced for about the same length of time. He then went to Toronto and entered into partnership with the late John Bain, Q.C., and they practiced their profession under the name of Bain, Laidlaw & Co. until the death of Mr. Bain. He then formed the partnership of Laidlaw, Kappele and Bicknell, and is the sole survivor of all his legal partners. He is in the eighty-first year of his age, and continues the active work of his profession.

JUDGE DUNCAN McGIBBON was a son of John McGibbon of Nassagaweya, who with his family attended Boston Church. He studied under Robert Little for eight years in the Ligny School, and at the age of eighteen began to teach the Waterloo School. He taught there for four years, and then went to Stewarttown, where he taught for two years, when he entered the law office of William Laidlaw in Milton, where he remained eighteen months. While in Milton he attended the Grammar School taught by Robert Matheson, and 0. T; Miller, a graduate of Dublin University and Oxford. After leaving Milton he went to Brampton, and thence to Toronto where he studied in the office of the late Justice Ferguson. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1871, and practiced law in Milton for twenty-five years. In March, 1894, he was appointed Judge of the County Court of Peel, and acted for the period of twenty years, when he was retired. He died in Brampton on January 17, 1920, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, and is survived by a son and a daughter.

PETER FERGUSON, the third son of the Rev. Peter Ferguson, attended the Waterloo School and also studied in Kingston. He went to Toronto and entered upon the study of law in the sixties of the century, and was admitted to the bar about 1871. The writer has been able to ascertain a few facts only, and these somewhat indefinite regarding his after life, but was informed that he practiced law for some years in Winnipeg, went to Riverside, or Los Angeles, California, and pursued the practice of law and died there in or about 1914.

ALEXANDER FERGUSON was the youngest son of the Rev. Peter Ferguson. He attended Waterloo School when taught by Duncan McGibbon, studied law in Toronto, and when he had completed his law studies there, and was admitted to the bar, he settled in Ottawa about 1873. A lawyer in Ottawa, who had been a fellow-student with him at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, states that he was a close student, that he worked up a very good practice in Ottawa, that he was regarded as a man above the average in legal attainments, that he was somewhat reserved in his manner, and that he had few intimate friends and no enemies. He was killed by the fall of a horse he was riding on a road that was not much travelled just outside of Ottawa, in 1898. He was unmarried.

DONALD S. MOORE is the son of the late William and Catherine Stewart Moore, and was born on Lot 18, Concession 4 East, on January 21, 1869. He attended Waterloo School, Woodstock Collegiate Institute, and received a second class certificate in 1887. He taught school in Stewarttown and at Palermo in Trafalgar 1888-1890. He entered Cornell University College of Law in 1891, receiving therefrom the degree of LL.B., was admitted to the bar of the State of New York in 1895, and commenced the practice of law in the City of Lockport, N.Y., in the same year, and he has continued to live and practice there since that time. He attended with the rest of his family the U. P. Church.

ROBERT J. MOORE is also the son of the late William and Catherine Stewart Moore, and was born on May 25, 1871, on Lot 18, Concession 4, East, Esquesing. He attended Waterloo School, Georgetown High School and Woodstock Collegiate Institute, and received a second class Certificate in 1891. He taught School No. 13 in the Township of Nelson in 1892-93, the Stewarttown School 1894-96. He entered Cornell University College of Law in 1897, and received therefrom the degree of LL.B. in 1901, and was admitted to the bar in the State of New York in 1902. He commenced the practice of law in the City of Niagara Falls, N.Y., in 1903, and has continued to practice there since that time. He is at this writing Corporation Counsel of the City.