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Detroit Free Press
April 3, 1928

              Veteran Lake Captain
                Will Be Buried Today
                
               Special to The Free Press
               
              St. Clair, Mich., April 2. - Funeral
            services for Captain WESLEY C. BROWN,
            77 years old, veteran shipmaster and
            great lakes captain, who died here yes-
            terday after a long illness, will be
            held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, from the
            family residence at Fifth and Adams
            street, Rev. C. M. BURKHOLDER will
            officiate.
              Captain BROWN is survived by his
            widow and a daughter, Mrs. HUGH H.
            HART, wife of a prominent local attorney.
              Captain BROWN had sailed the great
            lakes 53 years, retiring in 1917. Born
            in Bowmansville, Ont., November 8, 1850,
            he came to St. Clair county with his
            parents when he was a year old, the
            family settling on the St. Clair river
            bank near here. He had lived on or near
            the great lakes and St. Clair river all
            his life.
            
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