John Henry McConnell (1862-1944)

Implement agent, auctioneer, undertaker, real estate agent, MLA (1914-1915), MLA (1916-1920), MLA (1921-1922).

Born on 18 August 1862, son of John McConnell and Catherine Delaney, he was educated at a common school near St. Mary's, Ontario. On 25 December 1887, he married Minnie M. Brown, of Hamiota, Manitoba. He was first elected to the Manitoba Legislature at the 1914 general election. Presbyterian. Liberal. Address: Hamiota, Manitoba.

He died at Hamiota in 1944.

Source:

We thank Blaine Little, a McConnell descendant, for providing the death year of J. H. McConnell.

The Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1915.

Profile revised: 23 November 2008

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