Edward D. "Irish" MELLON

1867 - 1946  (79 years)

• Name	Edward D. "Irish" MELLON  [1]
  Nickname	Irish
  Birth	11 Jul 1867	County Antrim, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Dec 1946	Field of Honour, Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, AB, Canada
  Person ID	I578	kirkpatrick
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2010

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth M. Flitten MCGRAFF,   b. 7 Nov 1868, Hong Kong d. 14 Aug 1908 (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	7 Jan 1892  [1]
  Children	1. Sarah Elizabeth MELLON,   b. 26 May 1892, Calgary, NWT, Canada d. 3 Mar 1966, Calgary, AB, Canada (Age 73 years)   2. Edward MELLON,   b. 15 Nov 1893   d. 15 May 1975 (Age 81 years)   3. Henry MELLON,   b. 4 May 1895   d. 13 Apr 1952 (Age 56 years)   4. Agnes Marie MELLON,   b. 12 Sep 1896   d. 29 Nov 1951 (Age 55 years)   5. Margaret MELLON,   b. 5 Mar 1898   d. 9 Sep 1899 (Age 1 year)   6. Thomas MELLON,   b. 3 Jan 1900   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Patrick Joseph MELLON,   b. 19 Jul 1902   d. 14 Jun 1969 (Age 66 years)   8. Robert William MELLON,   b. 17 Jul 1904   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Mary Louise (went by Louise) MELLON,   b. 20 Oct 1906   d. 11 May 1985 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F189	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2010

  
  

• Notes

  The first Calgary phone book from 1903 gives Irish Mellon's phone number as 53. He lived at the Blue Rock Hotel, which he managed. The address given is simply Stephen Avenue (now 8 Street SW). An unidentified newspaper clipping (probably the Calgary Herald) says this: "In the early 1900's the Blue Rock became the Albion... This was the era of proprietor Edward 'Irish' Mellon, a robust, jovial Irishman, as his nick-name implies, who operated the hotel from 1900 to 1915 when he and his sons enlisted in the First World War. Mrs. Mellon ran the hotel until his return in 1919 when they took a service-man's homestead near Youngtown."

  
  

• Sources

  [S222] Family Records, Fern Deane's "Family Dates" record, 1993 edition. (Reliability: 3).