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Monday 10 October 2011

The award wining McKelvey Vineyard

The proprietors are Peter and Denise McKelvey, along with their son James McKelvey who manages the vineyard in Pokolbin, Australia.

Business, sport and university development in Belfast NI

Alan McKelvey has combined business with sport and has been to the fore in enabling the development of his alma mater The Queen's University of Belfast. Alan (L) with his daughter and Senator George Mitchell, Chancellor of QUB.

A marching McKelvey

Russell McKelvey is a captain in The Georgia Army National Guard 108th Cavalry and in November 2009 he and his colleagues made news when they embarked on a march of 118 miles from Toccoa to Atlanta to commemorate a record-breaking march made by Georgia soldiers during World War II who inspired "Band of Brothers".

Tuesday 4 October 2011

Andrew - the man behind The McKelvey Foundation

The McKelvey Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York established in 2000 by American businessman and founder of Monster Worldwide Inc., Andrew McKelvey.

Monday 3 October 2011

McKelvey’s 1911 Railroad for River Plata in Uruguay

In the New York Times of December 8, 1911 a report states that “The United Fruit ship Almirante, in yesterday from Colon, brought John J. McKelvey, President of the first American company to begin construction of an all-American railroad in the River Plata region of South America.”

McKelvey’s 1827 Railroad in Pennsylvania

 William McKelvey was involved in financing the  building Pennsylvania’s first railroad.

The McKelvey Brothers East Broad Top railway 1922 - 1928

Frank and Eugene McKelvey developed a narrow-gauge railway system to enable the effective transportation of mine props from the forrest to the market.