(died 12 May 1914, aged 77), businessman, contractor. Born at Tyotown, GC. Parents: Mr & Mrs Edward Loney. John E. Loney’s obituary in the Cornwall Standard stated, “He [John E. Loney] was a master blacksmith and learned his trade in the Illinois Central Shops in Chicago, in the days when locomotives were made by hand-forging…He crossed the plains to California in the early days, before the advent of the railroad and returned via Panama.” He went to Cornwall, 1869. There with John Tobin he established the Cornwall machine shops and foundry which by 1914 were being conducted by the DeRochie Brothers (see Walter DeRochie). After selling out to W.J. DeRochie, John E. Loney went into the hotel business for a few years. Later, John E. Loney was a contractor on the National Transcontinental Railway with his son-in-law J.R. O’Neil, under the firm name of O’Neil & Loney. (This was a Winnipeg to Moncton railway, built 1905-1913.) John E. Loney was a Cornwall town councillor, and he served as reeve or deputy reeve (or both) of Cornwall. John E. Loney died in Cornwall. Roman Catholic. Buried at Flanagan’s Point cemetery. He was married in 1867 to Mary Ellen Loney, also of Tyotown. (five children surviving him)

Cornwall Freeholder 14 May 1914, Cornwall Standard 14 & 21 May 1914, & death noticed, 20 Years Ago column, Standard Freeholder 18 May 1934 * cf. Pringle 149 * Senior, 258 * Duncan (darby) MacDonald, My Glengarry (Indian Lands) and Stormont Loney Ancestors of Ireland, Part 2 (1988) * Fobert 7-8