Anthony McLaughlin

MCLAUGHLIN, ANTHONY, farmer and officeholder; b. 10 March 1844 in Mill Cove, son of Janies McLaughlin and Mary Phillips, both of Ireland; m. 2 July 1878 Clementina Carmichael, and they had eight children, John, Mary, Henry Dan, James T., Agnes, Ellen C., Rosanna, and Margaret; Roman Catholic; d. 27 November 1925. McLaughlin, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 1893 general election for 2nd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1897 and 1900. From 1891 to 1897, he served on Executive Council as a Minister without Portfolio in the Frederick Peters1' Administration. From 1897 to 1898, McLaughlin served on Executive Council in the Alexander B. Warburton* Administration, and in 1898 on Executive Council in the Donald Farquharson* Administration. McLaughlin was educated in the public school in Peakes Station, where he later worked as a farmer. He served as Bursar for the Prince Edward Island Hospital for the Insane and was a Magistrate for Kings County. Anthony McLaughlin died 27 November 1925. Clementina McLaughlin, the daughter of Duncan Carmichael of Lot 49, was born ca. 1857. McLaughlin's parents came to the province in 1830.