Emily McIver

1876 - 1966  (90 years)

• Name	Emily McIver
  Nickname	Sister Mary Charles
  Birth	11 Apr 1876	Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Christening	12 Apr 1876	St. Malachy's Church, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Death	26 Jul 1966	Bethany Convent, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
  Burial	Resurrection Cemetery, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
  Person ID	P188	The McIver Family Tree
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2024

  
  

  Father	John McKeever (McIver),   b. 20 Dec 1825, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA d. 8 Jun 1899, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Emily Harrington,   b. 20 Jul 1837, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 28 Mar 1929, Newton, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	1859
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Photo - John McIver and Emily Harrington's children John and Emily McIver's children from left to right: John, Peter D, Minnie, Georgie, Sister Damian (Faustina), Fanny, Sister Mary Charles (Emily), Hugh, Theodore
  		Photo - St. Joseph's Academy Photos of St. Joesph's Academy, where Sister Mary Charles taught for a short time.
  		Photo - Sister Mary Charles
  		Photo - Sister Mary Charles and Sister Damian
  		Photo - McIver family (L-R) Sister St. Hugh (Emily Florine), Charles, Sister Mary Charles (Emily), Peter, Adilla, Hugh John, Sister Damian (Faustina), Sister Georgetta (Mary Driscoll)
  		Photo - Sister Mary Charles McIver

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Baptismal Record - Emily McIver Baptized on April 12, 1876 by Father Patrick Doyle at St Malachy's Cemetery, Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
  		Census - 1881 Census of Canada - Lot 26, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  		Census - 1891 Census of Canada - Lot 26, Prince, Prince Edward Island (Newton)
  		Census - 1900 US Census - St. Joseph's Academy, St. Paul, Minnesota
  		Census - 1920 US Census - St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota
  		Death Record - Sister Mary Charles Obituary provided by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
  		Document - Sister Mary Charles Published Comments from Sister Mary Charles

  
  

  Histories		Document - Sister Mary Charles Historical document from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
  		Document - Sister Mary Charles Historical document from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

  
  

• Notes

  Sister Mary Charles McIver (Emily McIver) was the daughter of John McIver and Emily Harrington, born April 11, 1876, at Newton, Prince Edward Island, the eighth of ten children. In 1899, while still very young, she took the long journey to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Like many another valiant soul from the same Island, once she had put her hand to the distant plow, she had never a thought of looking back to the distant joys she left behind. While still a novice, Sister resided at St. Agatha’s Conservatory and taught for two years at St. Joseph’s School. Her entire life, except for these two years of teaching was spent in the Health Care field. From 1902 to 1920 she lived at St. Joseph Hospital, St. Paul, as a nurse in training, then as a floor supervisor, and after 1915 as superintendent of nurses. For the next nineteen years she served as superintendent of the following hospitals: St. Michael’s, Grand Forks; Our Lady of Lourdes, Pasco, WA; St. Mary’s in Tucson, Arizona and in Fargo, North Dakota from 1936 until 1939. For the next seventeen years, Sister Mary Charles resided at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul; enjoying the first year of this period as a sabbatical leave mixed with a fair degree of generous professional help as a prelude to sixteen years of generous labor as head of the Health Service at that institution. As a nurse, Sister was kind, solicitous, and very understanding. As a religious, she was completely dedicated to the divine service to which at an early age she had resolutely offered herself. In 1956, Sister retired to Bethany Convent, St. Paul, where she died on July 26, 1966, at the age of 90 years, in the sixty-seventh year of her religious life. She was laid to rest beside her sister, Sister Damian, in Resurrection Cemetery, St. Paul. History submitted by Sister Margaret Pierre Sister Mary Charles is the author of the first edition of the McIver History which was published in 1964.