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.'\‘ The McPhersons were wealthy farmers in the old land, and Duncan the father, took a leading olace in church as elder and orecentor. He nresented a beautiful high nulnit of max ouarter-cut oak, in 185h, and it created much indignation when a young minister talked of removing it. He died in 1368. John died in London recently. Hugh was elected an elder in 1989. Duzald only survives, a fine tyne of a Highlander farmer. John Munro, and at a later date his cousin Neil, also held the oosition of elders. John S. McColl is seventyâ€"five years old and looks less than sixty, and is a boy yeat at heart. Dan McGregor, son of John, is teacher in 5.3. ho. l3 and is a Dower for good in the community. Malcolm McColl died thirty years ago. One of his sons, Samuel, after teaching for some years, attended college, graduated as a dentist, and for many years has had a very successful dental nractice at Bellevue, Mich., U.S. Another son, Malcolm, a man of great oerserverance and excellent ability, graduated from the Detroit Medical School in 1894, and since then has had a large medical Dractice in that city. It has alreadv been stated that Miss MCColl's fatner died in 1876,. Her brother Duncan, after a brilliant record in the university, studied for the ministry, and comoleted his course in 1981. But his health failed, and tho e sought in a oeriod of rest and service in Colorado for recu ration and recovery, increasing weakness comoelled his return to his home, where the oromise of a career of great success and usefulness was cut short by his lamented death, March 19th 1882, at age 29 years. Vise McColl, sneaking of her onlv surviving brother and mother, says "Mv only brother livine is Dr. hush NcColl, of Laoeer, Mich. He has had some more than ordinary success in the medical orofession. He graduated in New York inl872, nracticed in Lancer five years, took a cost graduate course first in New York and in l883 in Berlin Germany, and event six months working with Mr. Tait, the famous surgeon of Birmingham, England. In 1898 he sailed from Victoria to Honq Kong, visiting China, Jaoan India, Egyot and the Holy Land. My mother, Isabella McGowan, was the daughter of John McGowan, of Barhead «n1 Paisley, Scotland. She came out as a bride inl841, and still lives at the age of 37 on the same farm on Wiicn she settled in that year. She bravelv and uncomolainingly endured loneliness when my father would be keot absent for days at a time conductin meetings. At first she was in terror of the Indians, who would boldly come in and ask for something to eat, sidolaying her best chickens haneinq from their belts. bhe first thought the ground hoes were bears and the squirrels wild cats, and had many a race for safety from the innocent creatures. She loves to recall the early days,