Biography of 	Garvey, M. J. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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M. J. Garvey, of the firm of M. E. Garvey & Co., is now the active business
man of the firm and is very extensively engaged in the refining of sugar.
This particular branch of New Orleans' trade forms an important item in the
enormous sum total of the city's business, and Mr. Garvey is practically
the bead of the firm of which he is a member.  He was born in the city of
New Orleans April 14, l865, to M. E. and Margaret Ann (Lynch) Garvey, who
were born in New Orleans, the date of the former's birth being January 1,
1843.  The father was reared in the city of his birth, there, also obtained
his education, after which he became a clerk with the sugar and molasses
firm of Beebe & Denegre, remaining with them until they retired from
business.  He and Robert Carey then formed the commission firm of Robert
Carey & Co., soon after the war.  This firm became one of the best known
throughout the South, and the sugar manufactured in their name was
sufficient guarantee that it was a first-class article.  They did an
enormous business and made a large amount of money, but close application
to business caused Mr. Carey's health to fail a few years since, and he
retired from active business.  To Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Garvey a family of
twelve children were born, ten of whom are alive:  Cecelia, wife of William
Rice, of Rice, Boon Hardware company, of New Orleans;  Mary;  M. J., the
subject of this sketch;  Margaret;  Olivia;  Andrew, who died when young;
Robert;  Viola; ;  Willie;  Johanna and  Joseph.  The mother of this large
family was reared and educated in New Orleans, and died in 1888, at the age
of forty-four years.  M. J. Garvey is the eldest son in this family, and
his early education was obtained in Jesuit college, of New Orleans, after
which he entered Tulane university of the same place.  It may be said that
he was reared to the "sugar and molasses business," and in 1890 he
established the firm of M. E. Garvey & Co., of which he is the efficient
business head.  His father is his adviser in all matters of importance, and
although practically retired and living at ease on the means which he
formerly accumulated, he keeps well posted in the sugar business, and finds
his former business experience very useful in aiding his son.  The house of
which M. J. Garvey is a member, is one of the best sugar and molasses
refining houses of the city, and they annually ship large consignments to
all parts of the United States.  The Garveys hold a high position among the
Catholic families of the city.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 438.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.