James F. Brown III ’42

Jim Brown died Dec. 15, 2012, in Charleston, W.Va., the city in which he had spent most of his life, with the exception of service during World War II.  

Jim prepared at Phillips Academy Andover. At Princeton he majored in economics and was vice president of Elm Club and circulation manager of the Tiger.

After training at Northwestern and anti-submarine school in Miami, Jim was assigned to duty as an ensign on a subchaser in the Atlantic. This led to his participation in the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach.

The end of the war found Jim in law school at the University of Virginia and then in practice in Charleston, where he established himself as a successful lawyer and corporate director. He became a community leader outstanding in his desire to help people at all levels of society.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Catharine (“Canky”), to whom he was married for 61 years. To his sons, Charles, James IV, and Edward; three grandchildren; and the other members of the Brown family, the class sends condolences.