THE PASSING OF A LIFE MEMBER. 



Mr. Charles E. Brown, President of the 

 Bank of Yarmouth, dropped dead at his 

 home on the afternoon of Feb. 17th. In 

 him, a true friend of horticulture, a director 

 of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, and for years a life member of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, has 

 passed away. When in Yarmouth last 



Fig. 1789. Thk Late Chas. Brown. 



October, the writer visited Mr. Brown at his 

 home several times and was received with 

 a royal welcome. He took t^^reat pleasure in 

 showing us his very interesting!^ g^arden, full 

 of various fruits under test, most of which 

 had been grafted or planted by his own 

 hand, and formed his personal care in time 

 of leisure from busier hours. He was a 

 graduate of Harvard University, and well 

 posted in all lines of literature, but seemed 

 to have a special love for horti'culture and 

 pomology. We shall miss very much his 

 valuable communications from the pages of 

 our journal. The Yarmouth Herald s^ys : 



The community was startled, for the second 

 time within a few weeks, on Saturday afternoon 

 with the announcement that another of our promi- 

 nent citizens, Chas. E. Brown, Esq., had dropped 

 dead at his home at Milton. 



Mr. Brown had been about town, as usual, dur- 

 ing the forenoon, and returned home and took 

 dinner at noon. He then went to his store, near 

 his residence, where he conversed for some time 

 with Byron P. Ladd, Esq., and about 2.30 o'clock 

 returned home to tell his daughter to go to Mrs. 

 VonMetzke's funeral. 



His daughter had gone, however, before he 

 reached home. He went to the kitchen, and after 

 presenting the servant girl with a birthday gfift, 

 turned the water tap to get a drink, when, without 

 an instant's warning, he fell prostrate at the side 

 of the servant, who thought he had tripped. As 

 he made no movement nor reply to her call, she 

 ran into the street and called Mr. Chipman Doty, 

 who was passing by, to her assistance, and Mr. 

 Brown was removed to a sofa. Dr. Williamson 

 was at once summoned, who said Mr. Brown's 

 death was instantaneous, and was caused from 

 heart failure. 



Mr. Brown was a son of the late Hon. Stayley 

 Brown, M. L. C, and for some years Receiver 

 General for Nova Scotia, and was one of our most 

 prominent and highly esteemed citizens. He be- 

 gan his business career with his father, and short- 

 ly after his farther 's retirement from commercial 

 life, built and opened a store on Vancouver street, 

 which he carried on for a number of years. He 

 retired, however, several years ago, and devoted 

 his time to the study of agriculture, horticulture 

 and improvement of stock. He was an extensive 

 reader of the best authorities on these subjects, 

 and was an authority on all matters connected 

 with them wherever he was known. Throughout 

 Nova Scotia his death will be long regretted by all 

 who took an interest in such matters, and the Yar- 

 mouth County Agricultural Society, with which he 

 has been prominently identified since its inception, 

 has lost the most enthusiastic and devoted mem- 

 ber. He also took a deep interest in the Milton 

 Public Library, succeeding his honored father as 

 one of its managers and active supporters. 



Mr. Brown was the last of the original Board of 

 Directors of the Bank of Yarmouth, which was es- 

 tablished in 1865, and upon the death of its late 

 president, Hon. L. E. Baker, succeeded that gen- 

 man as its president. 



Mr. Brown took a deep interest in the Mountain 

 Cemetery, in school matters, and many other of 

 our local private and public institutions, and his 

 loss will be greatly felt for some time. 



Mr. Brown received his early education at Yar- 

 mouth Academy, and subsequently went to Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., where he gp-aduated at Harvard 

 University with honors. Last year Mr. Brown 

 received and accepted an invitation to attend a 

 reunion of all the members of the class who grad- 

 uated with him. These were few in number, but 

 the meeting was one of great interest to all present. 

 Mr. Brown was of a most unaffected and retir- 

 ing disposition, of noble impulses and generous 

 motives. He will be long missed from a large 

 circle of sympathizing friends and neighbors. 



