Aeneas A. MacDonald

MACDONALD, AENEAS A., lawyer and iudge; b. 30 November 1864 in Georgetown, son of Andrew A. MacDonald and Elizabeth L. Owen; m. 30 August 1904 Margaret J. MacDonald, and they had four children, Reginald A. C., Margaret E., Anna M. O., and Marjorie; Roman Catholic; d. 30 fune 1920 in Charlottetown. Aeneas MacDonald, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1912 for 2nd Kings. He was defeated in the general election of 1915. His father, Andrew A. MacDonald, was a Lieutenant-Governor, a senator, a member of the House of Assembly, and a Father of Confederation. Aeneas MacDonald was educated at St. Dunstan's College and Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He studied law in the office of Peters and Peters, and was admitted to the Bar in 1890. In his early career, he was a law partner of C. B. MacNeill, and subsequently with P. J. Trainor. In 1905 MacDonald entered into partnership with John A. Mathieson* until Mathieson's appointment as Chief Justice of the province in 1917. A partnership he formed with James D. Stewart* ended when MacDonald was appointed as Judge of Probate in April 1916. He also served as Private Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor, his uncle, Augustine Colin Macdonald*, who held that office from 1915 to 1919. At the time of his death, MacDonald was chairman of the Relief Committee of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He was also a charter member of the Charlottetown Club and served as its Secretary. Aeneas MacDonald died suddenly on 30 June 1920. Margaret MacDonald of Glenaladale, the daughter of John Archibald MacDonald, was born in 1873 and died in 1950.