Summary
J. Lawrence Malloy was born in Escanaba on September 7, 1893 and came to Beaver Island with his parents at age two. The June–July 1970 Beaver Beacon remembers him as the island’s butcher and a former township supervisor. He operated the Meat Market on the harbor and maintained a workshop and collection of island stories and relics.
The article says that many of these materials were displayed in a Beaver Island Museum room called the “Malloy Room,” making Malloy an important source-bearing figure in the island’s local preservation history. It also reports his 1918 marriage to Ethel McDonough Brown and his June 18, 1970 death.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-qualified biographical record based on an obituary and local memory. It does not provide a civil birth or death record, the former township supervisor term, a complete business chronology, or an item-level inventory of the Malloy Room collection. The source’s “museum” wording is not treated as a claim about a separately named museum building or legal institution.
Open questions
- Which township, church, business, or museum records document Malloy’s offices and collection?
- What happened to the Meat Market, workshop, and Malloy Room materials?
See also
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, June–July 1970, “Islanders Pass On: J. Lawrence Malloy.”Gives Malloy’s September 7, 1893 birth in Escanaba, arrival on Beaver Island at age two, marriage to Ethel McDonough Brown in 1918, meat-market work, former township-supervisor role, family, June 18 death, and Holy Cross burial.