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FRANK FAIRCHILD WESBROOK (July 12, 1868 - Oct 20,
1918) pathologist and educator, was born in Brant County, the
eldest son of Henry Shaver Wesbrook and his wife Helen Marr
(Fairchild). He was reared in Winnipeg where his father was
for a time mayor. He was educated at the University of Mani-
toba where he received the three degrees of B. A., M. A., and
M. D. C. M. He subsequently studied at Mc Gill University for
a year, and then in London, Dublin and Marburg. In 1913 he
was chosen president of the newly established University of
British Columbia. He died in Vancouver.
He is included in the DAB because of his association for
many years with the field of public health in the United States
particularly as Dean of the Medical School of the Universit;
of Minnesota, as a member of the State Board of Health of
Minnesota. and as president of the American Public Health
Association (1905).
He md. Apr 8, 1896, Annie Taylor, daughter of Sir Thomas
W. ~aylor, chief justice of Manitoba. She and their daughter
surv1ved him.
She indicated that she had heard long ago that Ab~·am Green
d1'ed . S .
THE IDENTIFICATION OF ABRAM GREEN
Lindsay S. Reeks,
Pleasant Grove, Calif.
George A. Green and Alice Jane Beatty were married on
29 Oct 1879 at East Oxford, Ontario, by w. H. Shaw, M. E.
minis ter of Princeton, Ontario. This is recorded in the family
Bible pres ented to Alice Beatty by her mother, Mary (Kerrison)
Beatty, on the day she married. It is the only known reference
where the groom is referred to as George, as family members
have always called him Abram, and undoubtedly this is what
the "A" stands for as the middle initial in his name in the
marriage record. Abram and Alice had three children: Eva
Mabel, reportedly born 12 July 1880 in Woodstock, Ontario;
Edith Maud, reportedly born 17th Aug 1881 at Eaton Rapids.
Michigan; and Alice Millicent, reportedly born 11 June 1883
at Eaton Rapids. These dates were reported by various family
members although searches in the official vital records failed
to yield birth records. It has been said that Abram Green was
not a good family man and that he left his wife. According to
records in the county clerk's office at Charlotte, 1\Iich .. a
divorce was started in 1885 with no further progress until 25th
May 1916 when it was dismissed. There are no divorce rec-
ords of Michigan available prior to 1895, and it is known that
Alice Green had remarried to George H. De Land in 1892.
It was difficult to find anything on Abram Green as no one
of the family seemed to know what happened to him. Xo doubt
this was in part due to the lack of interest of family members
to keep in touch with a persan not held in high esteem by
them; there was also the fact that he bad gone off and left his
wife so that his whereabouts was unknown. Finally, after con-
tacting many family members, a possible clue was offered by
Mrs. Roy De Land of Kalamazoo, whose husband. Roy. was
the son of Alice Jane's second husband, George H. De Land.
M'ch and that he was a blacksnuth.
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