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Mathew Edward Commins was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, in 1870. He received his early education in that province followed by a B.A. and an M.A. from St. Joseph’s University in Memramcook, New Brunswick. In 1895 he was granted his M.D. from McGill University. Throughout the rest of his life he was a general practitioner in Bath, New Brunswick. He died in 1936.