Memorable Manitobans: Henry Fitzgibbon “Harry” Maley (1869-1951)

Brewer.

Born in Ontario on 7 January 1869, son of John Edward Maley (1827-1905) and Wilhelmina Maley (1834-1921), he worked as an expressman before coming to Brandon where he helped to organize the Brandon Brewing and Bottling Company in 1902, in partnership with his brother Edward McKenzie Maley (1851-1940) and Alexander Ferguson. Later shareholders in the company included T. H. Taylor, Robert Addison Clement, and brewmaster William Schwartz. It operated until after Prohibition was repealed in 1923, when it was sold to a Winnipeg syndicate and became the Premier Brewing Company.

On 7 November 1894, he married Emily Jane Clement (1866-1957) at Brandon and they had four children: John Ashley “Jack” Maley (1896-1989), Eleanor Abigail Maley (1900-1979, wife of Harry M. Gibson), Wilhelmina McKenzie Maley (1902-1971), and Stephen Clement Maley (1909-1994). He served on the Brandon city council (1901-1906). In 1912, the family moved into Maley House, at the corner of Victoria Avenue and 16th Street, losing it four years later with the onset of Prohibition. Maley was living in Brandon as of 1923.

He moved to Tampa, Florida and lived there for 17 years, dying in October 1951 and being buried in the Royal Palm South Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maley House / “Casa Maley” (1605 Victoria Avenue, Brandon)

Sources:

Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.

“New companies,” Manitoba Free Press, 6 March 1911, page 9.

“Valued Brandon church worker dies suddenly,” Manitoba Free Press, 16 July 1921, page 11.

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

“Henry F. Maley, 83, dies; lived here 17 Years,” Tampa Bay Times, 27 October 1951, page 10.

Obituary [Emily Jane Clement Maley], Tampa Bay Times, 3 July 1957, page 17.

Obituary [Wilhelmina McKenzie Maley], Tampa Bay Times, 24 May 1971, page 26.

Obituary [Eleanor A. Gibson], Winnipeg Free Press, 9 March 1979, page 50.

Obituary [John Ashley Maley], Calgary Herald, 30 January 1989, page 29.

Obituary [Stephen Clement Maley], Ottawa Citizen, 5 January 1994, page 39.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Dave Craig and Darryl Toews for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 May 2024

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