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mentioned in 1833, and continued his connec tion until the linn was dissolved in F'Ux. Another son o f Charles Macdonald was John L ., who was born at Gaiianoque. lie was educated in the common schools of that place and became one o f its active business men and most esteemed citizens. He w as en gaged as a general merchant and miller, man ufactured nails, and plowshares and other farming implements, and owned a large tract o f land at Gananoque. With his brother, W il liam Stone Macdonald, he owned large tracts o f oil land, and he prospected for oil in (he Gas|K; peninsula. He is buried at Gananoque. T o John I.„ Macdonald and his w ife Agnes Maud Auchinvolc were bom four children: David Stone married M ay D 'O lcar; Charles WiUiam married O live D ray: M ary married Robert Montgomery'; John died without issue. Charles William Macdonald, bom in 1840, in Gananoque, Canada, w as educated in the public schools o f his riative place and Brockville, Ontario. H e learned mechanical en gineering. and in time became a resident of the United Stales, becoming interested in nail fac tories at Pittsburgh, P a., and Wheeling, W.
’a. H e w as also engaged in railroad con
struction work. H e married Olive D ray, o f Niles, Ohio, and their three children a r c : Jo h n 1.., married to Isabelle Sophia Jo n e s; Rlsic, w ife o f Frederick L . B ack u s; and Agnes Maud, M rs. M arcus M . Drake. M r. M ac donald is deceased. A fte r being graduated from the common schools of his native city, in 18 8 1, John L. Macdonald began working for (he Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, but that same year continued his studies at Wheeling, W . V a. T he foUowing spring he accompanied his father, who was a railroad contractor, to Can.ada, and they worked on a railroad be tween I’ort .Arthur and other points both east and west, along Lake Superior, the father holding contracts for some of the work. In 1886 John L . Macdonald returned to the United States and w as engaged in construc tion work on the Eastern railroad of Minne sota. with headquarters at Duluth. T he fol lowing year he located at Buffalo, N . Y ., be ing in the employ of the New Y o rk Central Railroad Company as clerk in the superin tendent's office, but relum ed in 1888 to Minne sota to become first brakeman and later con ductor iKtween Superior, St. Cloud and M in neapolis. In 1890 M r. Macdonald w as em ployed in the car accountant's office at St. Louis. Mo., and in 1891 was (ran.sferrce until Feb. 12 . 19 0 1, when he w as sent to Berwick as agent for the road, and repre sentative of the United States Exp ress Com pany, which he continues to represent; he now gives all his time to the duties of express agent. Mr. Macdonald married Isabelle Sophia Jones, a daughter o f John and M ary E . ( W alkenshaw) Jones, from Bryngw yn, W ales, England. M r. and M rs. Macdonald have two children: John L ., born Oct. t, 1905, and M ary EUza, bom Ju n e 12. 1907. l i e is a Progressive Republican and v c iy actively in terested in Ihe proper growth o f his party. .An Episcopalian, he Is a vestryman o f his church, and belongs to Parish Lodge, N o. 292, F . & A . M ., o f B u ffalo; Caldwell Consistory, o f Bloom sburg; and Irem Temple, .A. A . 0 . N . .Mystic Shnnc, at W ilkes-Barre. H e is also a member of the Royal Arcanum. The Stone fam ily. Mr. M acdonald's an cestors through his great-grandmother, trace back to William Stone, the founder o f an old and prominent fam ily o f Connecticut and other parts of New England. H e w as one o f a number o f emigrants who sailed from London, England. M ay 20, 1639, landing in N ew Haven, Conn., about Ju ly 1st o f that year. H is brother John Stone also came, and they were probably sons o f Rev. Samuel Stone, o f H ertford, England. T hey were from the town o f G uilford. England, and fo u n d ^ the town o f G uilford, Conn.. settling there the year of their arrival in .America. Stephen Stone, a descendant o f William, removed with his family to Litchfield. Conn., A pril 23. 17 5 1, at which time Jo el w as in his eleventh year, having been bom Aug. 7. 1740. at Guilford. H ere he remainctl with his father until he became o f age. and then with his father's consent engaged in mercantile pur suits in company with Jabez Bacon, a descend ant o f one of the original emigrants. Tlicy were quite successful, accumulating a con-
