Brown, Judge
Florence Whitmarsh
Thomas Wilfred Brown 1904–1973
Clifford McGregor Brown 1907–1928
Arthur Bruce Brown 1911–1975
John Robert Brown was born in 1862 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was the eldest child born to Thomas Brown, born in Ireland and Mary McGregor born in Ontario.
In 1871, according to the Canada Census, John was 9 years old and living with his parents and younger siblings in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
In 1881 he was 19 years old and working as a farmer. He lived with his parents and siblings in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario.
John became a lawyer and started his practice in Sarnia before moving to Greenwood, British Columbia in 1899, a small mining city just north of the USA border.
He married Florence Whitmarsh on 18 Nov 1903 in Spokane, Washington, United States. He was 41 and she was 29 years old. They had 3 children
Thomas Wilfred Brown 1904–1973
Clifford McGregor Brown 1907–1928
Arthur Bruce Brown 1911–1975
He became a County Court Judge in 1907 after serving in the Legislature for 3 years.
He retired in about 1937 and lived at 2112 Cornwall Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his wife Florence.
He passed away after a short illness at the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 5 Dec 1947. He was laid to rest in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada.
Similkameen Star, February 21, 1912, page 1; March 7, 1913, page 1
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