CARVELL, JEDEDIAH SLASON (1832-1894)

CARVELL, JEDEDIAH SLASON, native son; senator, and lieutenant governor of P.E.I.; b. Newcastle, 16 Mar 1832, s/o Jacob Carvell and Isabella Henderson; m. 1861, Alice Caroline Hanford, of Saint John; d. Charlottetown, 14 Feb 1894.

Jedediah S. Carvell's Miramichi connections were that he was born in Newcastle to parents who resided there for a short time and that he was a brother of Isabella (Carvell) Gough, the wife of Peter Mitchell, Newcastle's Father of Confederation.

After attending school in Saint John and Fredericton, Carvell emigrated to Australia. He lived there for a time, as well as in California and Oregon, before returning to the Maritimes and establishing himself, in 1860, as a general merchant in Charlottetown. In the years that followed he made a considerable fortune as an importer and exporter and as a railway builder on the Island. He was elected mayor of Charlottetown in 1877 and was called to the Senate in 1879. He resigned his senate seat ten years later to accept the lieutenant governorship of Prince Edward Island, an office which he was still occupying at the time of his death in 1894.