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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Clark, W. B. (William Brown), 1805-1893
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Description area
Dates of existence
1805-1893
History
Rev. William Brown Clark was born on January 25, 1805, in Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
In the 1840s, he was a Free Church minister at the Parish of Half-Morton in the County of Dumfries in Scotland. In 1851, he moved to Canada and participated in the Presbyterian missionary work in British Columbia. He also served as a Presbyterian minister in Quebec City and Montreal.
In 1836, he married Jane (Jean) Brown (1803–1854). In 1870, he remarried Amelia Torrance (1813–1890). He died on March 15, 1893, in Dundas, Ontario.