(1866- 12 Nov. 1939), physician. (Dr P. J. Moloney) Born at Ennismore, Ont. He attended Perth High School and the University of Toronto. In 1897 he settled in Cornwall as a physician. He was mayor of Cornwall in 1910, member of the Provincial Board of Health from 1905 to 1912, and provincial health officer (district officer of health, or D. O. H.) for Eastern Ontario from 1912 to 1935. For many years he was associated with the regiment now known as the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, achieving rank of lt.-col. In 1919 he moved from Cornwall to Ottawa. Dr Moloney died at his home in Ottawa. Roman Catholic. His wife, Mary Loretta Scollard, was, like himself a native of Ennismore. (five children surviving him) Her brother, David Joseph Scollard, was bishop of Sault Ste. Marie. Dr Moloney was described at the time of his death as “widely known throughout Glengarry.”

     His official correspondence as D. O. H. has interesting material on GC on subjects which included the fiery Dr D. D. Macdonald, Alexandria politics, the possibility of building a hospital in Alexandria with money from Archibald Mark Chisholm, Alexandria’s makeshift water and sewage systems, TB in GC, the occurrence of typhoid and smallpox, and an apparent outbreak of gonorrhea. On 23 April 1917, Moloney provided the Ontario chief medical officer of health (M. O. H.) with a confidential report on politics in Alexandria. “There are two municipal parties in the Town, one consisting of the Scotch Roman Catholics, and the other the French Roman Catholics and the Protestants. The latter when working in harmony have the majority, and the former, as you can understand, feel very sore about it. The previous Mayor, Dr. Hope [ J. T. Hope], was supported for the position by the French element, and the present Mayor, Mr. Courville [David Courville], a Frenchman, was supported by the Protestant element.” This is a striking analysis, and may be correct, but it must be noted that no one else seems to have left a written record of this being the political alignment. The town records were destroyed in a fire in 1920, and those since then are often remarkably meagre, and from these sources no elucidation can be found.

Glengarry News 17 Nov. 1939 (QF) * Harkness 462-463 * life of Bishop Scollard in MDict * Boss 251 * Archives of Ontario, Provincial Board of Health. Office of Chief M. O. H. Correspondence with the D. O. H.s. and Reports of D. O. H.s.