Dr. John Price "Price" Brown

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• Name: J. P. Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-69823
• Occupation: 1870, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doctor
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1872, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doctor
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1888, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Brown, J. P., M. D., physician, surgeon, &c. Was born in Manchester, England, 1844.

Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsel & Co., Toronto - 1881

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BROWN, JOHN PRICE was born in Manchester, England, in 1844 the son of Joshua and Sarah Brown, and accompanied his parents to Canada when he was eleven years of age.

He obtained his medical education at the University of Toronto, being the first medical student to be a double gold medallist. Following his graduation in 1868, he commenced practice in Hollen, Wellington County, but in February 1870 he opened an office in Galt.

In 1871 he married Agnes Graham, daughter of William Graham, of Galt. While in Galt he served as coroner. In 1883 he received the degree of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, in laryngology and rhinology. he decided to move to Toronto in 1888, at which time the Dumfries Reformer on October 18th of that year said of him: "Dr. Brown during his residence in Galt has identified himself with the interests of the town, and in his departure Galt loses a good citizen. " They also indicated that he had disposed of his practice to Dr. J. M. Cameron.

In Toronto he had an outstanding reputation as a nose and throat specialist. He was one of the founders of the Toronto Western Hospital, and was governor for many years.

He was blind for the last twenty years of his life, but devoted himself to writing, producing several historical novels under the nom de plume of Eric Bohn. He wrote the definitive story of that time of Laura Secord, under the title "Laura the Undaunted. "

He died on April 3, 1938, in Toronto, at the age of ninety four years.

Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925 by Alexander D. Campbell

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Animalcules in Buttermilk.\emdash Dr. J. P. Brown, of Galt, Ontario, in the Canada Lancet for August, gives an account of a family poisoned by drinking buttermilk, which on examination with the microscope, was proved to contain immense numbers of animalcules. He thinks the germs which produced them were taken in by the cow in the water which she drank, and found their way into her blood through the lacteals. The symptoms were those of narcotico-irritant poisoning, viz.: vomiting, purging, cramps, stupor, etc. "We think it much more probable that the organisms were produced in the milk after it was taken from the cow.

Pacific Rural Press, Volume 4, Number 14, 5 October 1872

John married Agnes Cranston Graham 9 May 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Agnes (daughter of William Graham and Isabella Laughton Young) was born CALC 13 Aug 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 Oct 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 15 Oct 1881, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. William Graham Brown was born 28 May 1872, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1919, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec.
2. Newton Harcourt Brown was born 11 Aug 1874, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Francis Erichsen "Frank" Erichsen-Brown was born 29 Aug 1878, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Mar 1967, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.