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Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

Benjamin Butler Marr was born on August 10, 1882. He graduated from Tuft's Medical School in Boston in 1907 and came to Vancouver. He set up his medical practice in 1910 and became Langley's first doctor. In 1913, he married Isabel Drew McIntosh (1895-1936). In 1914, Marr enlisted in the cavalry; he was transferred to the medical corps in Britain in 1916. Benjamin died on October 14, 1939.

Dr. Marr was also the Chairman of the Fort Preservation Committee during the late 1920s when the Fort was undergoing revitalization.

Isabel Drew Marr (nee McIntosh) was born in 1895, the daughter of William John and Catherine Hart McIntosh (nee Dalgleish). She married Dr. Benjamin Butler Marr. She holds the distinction of being the first caesarean child born in British Columbia. Isabel died in 1936.
Term Source: HPC Records (MARR-4/402), Fort Langley Cemetery pg. 33 (Hannay), Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C. pg 46 (Pepin), The Langley Story, pg258 (Waite).