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Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)

Click to enlargeArmy officer, MLA (1896-1899).

Born in Sligo, Ireland, in May 1834, the son of Henry Mulvey and Barbara McGee, he was educated in Dublin. On the invitation of Dr. Egerton Ryerson he came to Ontario in 1856, and spent fourteen years teaching in that Province.

At the time of the Red River disturbances in 1870 he joined Colonel Wolseley’s expedition and settled in Fort Garry. He founded The Liberal in 1871. In 1873 he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue. He served as a school trustee for many years, also as a Winnipeg City Alderman and member of the Provincial Board of Education. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the constituency of Selkirk in the House of Commons in 1882. In 1896 he was elected to the Manitoba Legislature for the constituency of Morris, as Liberal-Conservative. He was member of AF & AM and Grand Master of the Orange Order in Manitoba and North-West Territories for ten years. He was also a director of the Winnipeg General Hospital.

In 1856 he married Rebecca A. Gilmore of Sligo. They had six children: William Robert Mulvey, John H. Mulvey, Stuart Mulvey, Winnifred Mulvey (wife of J. L. Wells), Frank Mulvey, and Walter Mulvey. In 1900, he remarried to Jenny H. Rich of Los Angeles, California, widow of J. W. Rich of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway.

Mulvey died in British Columbia on 26 May 1908.

He is commemorated by Mulvey Street and Mulvey School in Winnipeg.

More information:

Stewart Mulvey, Dictionary of Canadian Biography XIII, 746-47.

Sources:

A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People

by Prof. George Bryce
The Canadian History Company, 1906.

This collection of biographies of Manitobans was compiled by the Canadian History Company, and published at Toronto and Montreal in 1906. Most of those featured in the book were living at that time, so no information on death dates was provided. Where possible, these have been added to this online version.

Online version 2008-2010, Manitoba Historical Society


Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba

This collection of biographies of early Manitobans was compiled by the Manitoba Library Association, and published in 1971. Those included in the collection lived prior to 1920, and came from all walks of life: politics, professions, business and finance, armed services, arts, pioneers, and others.

© 1971, Manitoba Library Association,
ISBN 0-919566-01-4
Online version 2007, Manitoba Historical Society.


Profile revised: 8 August 2009

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