Benjamin Hallowell Brown
ID # 5401, (1854-1936)
| Father | Sherman Brown (1824-1911) |
| Mother | Sarah Dennis (1824-1865) |
| Birth | Benjamin Hallowell Brown was born on 16 December 1854. |
| Marriage | He married Barbara Caroline Dennis on 25 October 1879 at Whitchurch Twp., York County. Mrge reg. 013494-79 Whitchurch, York Co. Benjamin Hallowell Brown, 25, bachelor, teacher, born Canada, residing Woolwich. Friends. Parents Thomas and Sarah Brown. Barbara Caroline Dennis, 28, spinster, born Canada, residing Whitchurch. Friends. Parents Brook and Esther Dennis. Witnesses Alfaretta Dennis, Whitchurch, and James R. Brown, Toronto. On 14 October, 1879, at Whitchurch, residence of bride's father. By John Brown. Benjamin's father is shown as Thomas rather than Sherman. Looking over the 1861 and 1871 census (the latter being badly faded), it seems reasonable to believe that the township clerk mistranscribed the clergyman's handwriting and that Sherman Brown should be shown as the groom's father. |
| Marriage | He married Kate Copeland MacDonald on 19 June 1889 at Stanstead, Sherbrooke, Quebec. Via Ancestry, ex Drouin Collection 1889 / Methodist Church / Stanstead / Sherbrooke, Que Marriage / Brown & MacDonald / 19th of June 1889 On the nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine Benjamin Hallowell Brown of the city of Montreal P.Q., insurance manager, a widower, and Kate Copeland MacDonald of Stanstead, illeg., Province of Quebec, a spinster, were united in the Bonds of Holy Matrimony by me by the authority of license in the presence of the following witnesses subscribing their names. Alf'd McCann, clergyman B. Hal. Brown illeg. MacDonald and three more names in varying degrees illegible. |
| Death | He died on 26 October 1936 at 1892 Dorchester St. West, Montreal, Quebec, at age 81. |
| Burial | He was buried on 28 October 1936 at Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. |
| Note | Ancestry provides us with an image from the Drouin Collection. It is a burial page from the records of St. Andrew & St. Paul Presbyterian in Montreal. It reads: Funeral Benjamin Hallowell Brown, 28th October, 1936 Benjamin Hallowell Brown, husband of Kate Copland, died at 1892 Dorchester St. West, Montreal, on the 26th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty six, aged eighty one years, and was cremated at Mount Royal Cemetery on the twenty eighth day of the same month and year. Witnesses: Hal. McD. Brown Emory S. Brown Find-a-Grave provides an index indicating that he is indeed interred in Mount Royal Cemetery. As well, Alfred Stevens Brown, in his letter of 1938 to his son Egerton, enumerates his siblings and dates the death of Benjamin Hallowell Brown to 26 October, 1936. A descendant has graciously moved this letter into the public domain. |
| Last Edited | 17 May 2021 |