Memorable Manitobans: John Scott Maxwell (1862-1933)

Business executive.

Born at Wingham, Ontario on 7 May 1862, son of Robert and Jane Maxwell, he graduated from its Collegiate Institute in 1873. He joined the flour-milling industry, working his way up to founding manager of the Brandon branch of the Western Canada Flour Mills Company when it was organized in 1882, in partnership with Andrew Kelly. He was a vice-president of the Central Canada Insurance Company and a director of the Brandon General Hospital.

He was married twice, first to Elizabeth Hanna (?-1897) of Wingham, Ontario and second to Elsie Isobel Russell of Brandon, on 4 June 1900. He had six children: Eva Adele Maxwell (b 1888), Clarence Scott Maxwell (b 1892), Edna Ethel Maxwell (b 1895), William Russell Maxwell (b 1902), John Morice Maxwell (b 1904), and Robert Allen Maxwell (b 1907). He chaired the Brandon School Board and served both as grand master of the IOOF and a district high chief ranger of the Canadian Order of Foresters.

He died at Brandon on 18 February 1933.

Sources:

Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

“John S. Maxwell, pioneer Brandon citizen, is dead”, Winnipeg Free Press, 20 February 1933, page 1.

This profile was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 25 November 2011

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