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CHAMPION, JOSIAH BROOKS (1873-1954)

CHAMPION, JOSIAH BROOKS, Methodist minister, Newcastle circuit, 1920-23; b. Alberton, P.E.I., 25 Aug 1873, s/o James W. Champion and Margaret Jane Brooks; m. 1898, Augusta Blanche Colpitts, a native of Moncton; d. St Thomas, Ont., 5 Sep 1954.

Josiah B. Champion was the son of a talented family which contained a physician and a Baptist clergyman, as well as himself. He was admitted into 'full connexion' by the Methodist conference in 1898 but later took three years off to study theology at Mount Allison University. He served in a number of circuits and churches in New Brunswick prior to 1920, including Zion Methodist Church in Saint John, and was very highly regarded.

After three years at Newcastle, Champion went to the Methodist church at Maidstone, near London, Ont., and he subsequently had several United Church pastorates in southern Ontario. He retired in 1942. When he died in 1954, following a lengthy hospitalization, he left his wife, A. Blanche Colpitts, of Essex, Ont., four daughters, and two sons. His wife was a music teacher, and a number of their children were musically gifted. Their daughter Edith (Champion) Schaffrin earned a name as a soprano with the Breslau Opera Company in Europe, while their daughter Gertrude (Champion) Little had a trio ("Trudy and the Triolettes"), which sang professionally in the early 1930s over the Windsor, Ont., station of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, the forerunner of the CBC.

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[b] Champion family data [m] official records [d] Windsor Daily Star (Ont.) 7 Sep 1954 / Advocate 6 Feb 1907, 6 Jul 1920, 12 Jun 1923, 3 Apr 1928; Cornish; Walkington


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