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BRANKLEY, JOHN WILKYN (1865-1952)

BRANKLEY, JOHN WILKYN, lumber company executive; b. Lincolnshire, England, 23 Sep 1865, s/o John Brankley and Margaret Robinson; m. 1st, 1896, Edith Alexandria Cameron, of Beaverton, Ont.; 2nd, 1917, Minnie Pearl Ingram, d/o Henry Ingram and Annie Robinson, of Newcastle, and 3rd, Jean S. Matthews, of Chatham, d/o Charles H. Matthews and Mary E. Stewart; d. Chatham, 13 Mar 1952.

John W. Brankley came to Canada about 1882 and went to work with the Keene Lumber Co. at Megantic, Que., sometime after that date. By 1898 he was a lumber company manager, and he was employed in that capacity for a number of years in the state of Maine. Around 1910 he joined the staff of the International Paper Co. In 1912 he was transferred to Chatham as manager of the Miramichi Lumber Co., which was an International Paper subsidiary. He and his family arrived in July of that year, and except for a short period which he spent in Portland, Me, in 1917-18, he remained a resident of the Miramichi. For many years his office manager at the company's plant at Douglastown was Willis Prescott Eaton, who hailed from Lowell, Mass., while the manager of the Douglastown sawmill was Harry A. Gray, who had worked in the same mill when it was owned by Ernest Hutchison.

Until Brankley retired around 1940 he was the general manager, not only of the Miramichi Lumber Co., but of its sister firms in the region: the Canadian International Paper Co. at Gaspé, Que., the New Brunswick International Paper Co. at Dalhousie, N.B., and the Sheet Harbour Lumber Co. at Sheet Harbour, N.S.

Brankley was elected president of the New Brunswick Lumbermen's Association in 1922, at which time he sat on the provincial Forest Advisory Board. He was also a director of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. He was president of the South West Boom Co. for a number of years, and in 1925 he was an incorporator, with G. Percival Burchill and others, of the Miramichi Golf and Country Club. His named survivors in 1952 were three daughters of his first marriage.

Sources

[b/d] official death records [m] Advocate 8 Mar 1917 / Advocate 21 Apr 1925, 8 Feb 1927, 17 Jul 1929; Commercial World 20 Mar 1952; Leader 5 Jul 1912, 13 Jul 1917, 31 Aug 1917, 16 Sep 1921, 28 May 1937, 21 Dec 1977; tombstone; World 4 Mar 1922, 5 Apr 1922


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