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GALLIVAN, EDWARD J. (1857-1938)

GALLIVAN, EDWARD J., soft drink manufacturer and distributor; b. Saint John, 5 Sep 1857 (bap. 6 Sep 1857), s/o Matthew Gallivan and Margaret Hayes; m. 1884, Mary A. Connors, sister of William J. Connors and Jane Connors; d. Chatham, 28 Jun 1938.

The son of a Saint John laborer from Co. Cork, Ireland, Edward J. Gallivan moved to the Miramichi prior to his marriage in 1884. He was enumerated as a brewer in Chatham in the census of 1891 and as a salesman in the census of 1901. It was stated at the time of his death in 1938 that he had been in the "aerated water business" throughout his years on the Miramichi. He was also a tobacco distributor.

Gallivan sat as a Chatham town councillor and was active in Liberal party politics. In 1903 he was a member of the management committee for the construction of St Michael's Cathedral. His death occurred while he was attending mass there thirty-five years later. He and his wife, Mary A. Connors, who predeceased him in 1913, had two sons and three daughters. Their elder son, Thomas Gallivan, was a lawyer in Toronto when his premature death occurred in 1930. Their younger son, Frank M. Gallivan, founded Gallivan's Ginger Ale Works in Newcastle around 1928 and was the proprietor of that business until his death in 1959. Their daughter Mary R. Gallivan was the wife of T. Merlin Murray. Their daughter Elizabeth Ann (Sister Gallivan of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph) died in 1923, at age thirty-one.

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[b] census [bap] church records (Saint John) [m] official records [d] church records / Advance 1 Jan 1903; Advocate 9 Apr 1930, 29 Jun 1938; Commercial World 19 Feb 1959; Leader 23 May 1913; World 29 Sep 1923


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