114.  CAPTAIN JOHN CLIBBON BRAIN (1840-1906) AGE 66

Assassination Attempt

(Transcription from the Savannah Morning News, Savannah, Georgia, Saturday, January  17, 1874, Page 2.)
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The Special Attention of
Savannah Brick Makers
Is called to the rare opportunity now offered them for securing, by lease or purchase, the best located BRICK-YARD South, eligibly and beautifully located, directly on the St. Mary's river, seventeen feet water from wharf to sea; clay of best quality and abundant; health unexceptionable; convenient kilns, machinery, sheds, houses, tools, etc., on hand.  Fuel abundant, at $2 to $2.50 per cord, delivered.
     GOVERNMENT CONTRACT offered if work is commenced at once.  Demand good at Fernandina, along river and railway, and especially for Government works on coast.
     Terms unusually moderate.
     Practical and responsible parties only need apply, for one week, to
                                SAMUEL A. SWANN,
                                     Fernandina, Fla., or to
                                JOS. FINEGAN & CO.
jan17-5                       Savannah, Ga.
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NOTE:  The above transcription was made from an online image of the original newspaper article at savnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu.  Errors were corrected minimally, and only to facilitate readability.
 
Transcribed by Jo Roth, February 15, 2017.
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1875 - An Attempt on His Life
Just when you think that JCB has seen and done it all, you find out someone tried to kill him.  He was on his porch at his home in the brick yard in Florida he had recently purchased.  Details follow in the newspaper accounts of the episode.
(Transcription from the Savannah Morning News, Savannah, Georgia, Tuesday, August 17, 1875, Page 1.)
 
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Florida Affairs.
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The Fernandina Observer says that an attempt was recently made to assassinate Captain John C. Brain at a brick-yard on the St. Mary's.  He was shot by one George Pollard, while sitting on his porch on Wednesday morning, the ball entering his left side about an inch above the heart.  The ball has since been extracted and the wounded man is reported to be doing well.  Pollard has not yet been arrested.
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NOTE:  The above transcription was made from an online image of the original newspaper article at savnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu.  Errors were corrected minimally, and only to facilitate readability.
 
Transcribed by Jo Roth, January 14, 2017.
(Transcription from the Nashville Union and American, Nashville, Tennessee, Saturday, August 21, 1875, First Edition, Page 3.)
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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A NOTED EX-CONFEDERATE.
Columbus Enquirer, Aug. 19.
 
Most of our readers must remember Capt. John C. Brain of the Confederate Navy who endured such privations and severe punishment while incarcerated without a hearing in New York.  He has recently purchased a brick yard near St. Mary's, below Fernandina, Florida, and some ill feeling has been evidenced.  An attempt was made to assassinate him on the 10th, and he was shot, but was still alive on the night of the 12th.  He was shot by one George Pollard, while sitting on his porch on Wednesday morning, the ball entering his left side about an inch above the heart.  The ball has since been extracted, and the wounded man is reported to be doing well.  Pollard has not yet been arrested.
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NOTE:  The above transcription was made from an online image of the original newspaper article at Newspapers.com.  Errors were corrected minimally, and only to facilitate readability.
 
Transcribed by Jo Roth, January 24, 2017.
(Transcription from The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, Saturday, August 21, 1875, Page 1.)
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THE SHOT GUN AGAIN.
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Lieutenant John C. Brain, of Confederate Notoriety, Shot.
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Special to the Atlanta Herald.
 
St. Marys, Ga., Aug. 15, 1875.
 
Lieutenant Brain is running the "St. Marys River Bricks Works," located on the Florida side of the St. Marys River.  A few days since he had a difficulty with an employe [sic] by the name of Pollard, and discharged him.  Pollard took advantage of him, shot him and fled.  It was supposed to be a fatal wound, at first, but the physician says that it is not dangerous.  Brain is a splendid looking man.
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Transcribed by Jo Roth, February 15, 2017.
(Transcription from the Savannah Morning News, Savannah, Georgia, Wednesday, August 25, 1875, Page 1.)
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The Jacksonville Press wants to know if the Commissioners of Nassau county offered any reward for the apprehension of the man who attempted to assassinate Capt. J. C. Brain?  If not, wherefore?
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Transcribed by Jo Roth, January 14, 2017.
(Transcription from The Southern Home, Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, August 30, 1875, Page 3.)
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. . . . Capt. Jno. C. Brain, well known, (very well indeed!) in this region, was shot by an assassin at a brick yard he had purchased on the St. Marys, Florida.  He still lives, which proves that a ball in brain is not always fatal.
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NOTE:  The above transcription was made from an online image of the original newspaper article at Newspapers.com.  Errors were corrected minimally, and only to facilitate readability.
 
Transcribed by Jo Roth, January 24, 2017.
(Transcription from the Savannah Morning News, Savannah, Georgia, Saturday, October 16, 1875, Page 1.)
 
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Florida Affairs.
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Captain John C. Brain is now Postmaster at Brickyard, Nassau.
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NOTE:  The above transcription was made from an online image of the original newspaper article at savnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu.  Errors were corrected minimally, and only to facilitate readability.
 
Transcribed by Jo Roth, January 14, 2017.
(Transcription from The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Friday, February 11, 1876, Page 4.)
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Coastwise Commerce.—The steamship Calvert, Captain Foley, arrived yesterday from Charleston, with a good cargo and Mrs. Giry, Mrs. Eliza Kennally, Mr. Whitcomb, John McKeegan and Capt. J. C. Braine, passengers.  She signalled [sic] the ship Gray Eagle on the 9th, in a short passage from Rio.
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NOTE:  The above transcription was made from an online image of the original newspaper article at Newspapers.com.  Errors were corrected minimally, and only to facilitate readability.
 
Transcribed by Jo Roth, February 20, 2017.