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Macdonald, Roderick James
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Roderick James Macdonald was born 16 May 1858 at Maple Hill, Prince Edward Island, the son of Ronald and Jean (Macdonald) Macdonald. Through his mother, he was a descendent of the Glenalladale Macdonalds. Graduating from medicine at Trinity College in Toronto in 1888, he immediately set up a practice in St. Peter's where he attended the local population for seventy years. Roderick and his wife Josephine, the daughter of Augustine Colin Macdonald and had Mary Elizabeth MacDonald had six children: Alycia, Colin, Somerled, George, Roderick, and Jean. Roderick died in 1961 at the age of 103.