Campobello's Oldest Resident Nears 92

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William Brown of Head Harbour has Spent Long and Active Life in Fishing Trade

Campobello March 4 - Undoubtedly the oldest resident of Campobello is William Brown of Head Harbour, who is now nearing his 92nd birthday. Time has dealt kindly with Mr Brown as few men are spared to lead such useful, busy lives and be fairly well and active beyond ninety. This has been a severe winter and Mr. Brown is not taking so many chances and has stayed pretty well indoors, but is not down and out and in his sagacity is conserving his strength for spring and summer activities.

Mr Brown still generally though respectifully known as "Billy" is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown and is also the eldest and only survivor of a family of eight. His father and mother came to this county from Ireland and first settled where Harvey Station now is. The parents moved from there to Chamcook where Mr. Brown was born in 1852. The family moved from Chamcook to Welchpool later where they lived a few years and others of the family were born. They next moved to Head Harbour Island where they lived until 1884 when they moved to the present home, prettily situated on the brow overlooking the placid waters of Head Harbour, reputedly one of the best small harbours known anywhere. While at Welchpool the family became members of St. Anne's Anglican Church which relationship Mr Brown has always maintained.

Mr Brown has devoted his whole life to fishing and its associations. He and his late brothers James and John had fish weirs, fish stands, fishing boats and vessels and in more recent years a fish buying stand at Head Harbour. Here he worked and planned early and late, winter and summer, where his boundless physical resources and determination have defied the ravages of time. Possessed of shrewd and sound judgement tempered with helpful kindness he has prospered and many look back with pride on a useful life. He never married and is being cared for through his eighties and nineties by his faithful neice, Miss Mamie Greenwood.

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Note: The date and name of the paper is not provided. Based on the age mentioned in the article I assume it was written around March 1944 possibly in the Eastport Sentinal Newspaper.

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