- Role
- Secondary
- Profession
- Carpenter and funeral director
- Birthdate
- 03/25/1803
- Relationship Status
- Widower
- Playby
- John Laurie
- Height
- 6'1
- Build
- Small
- Hair Color
- White
- Eye Color
- Grey
- Physical Description
Tall and lean like a cadaverous weeping willow, his height only increased by his highly polished black top hat
- Reputation
Dour
- Employment Details
Proprietor of Kalispell's Funeral Parlour
- Expertise
Embalming, coffin construction, make up, looking suitably funereal.
- Kith & Kin
Some cousins in Scotland whom he is no longer in contact with, lest they bother him for money
- Timeline
Born near Dumfries, 1803
Boy, and then Carpenter in the Royal Navy, 1812-1830
Jumped ship in Halifax, Canada after a fight with another sailor over money that ended in the other man's death.
Heading South to the U.S to elude capture, as a skilled Carpenter he soon found work in an Undertaker's in Portland Maine, building coffins.
1849 Headed West in the Gold Rush, set up as an undertaker until he struck it rich: soon found that there was as much gold in the frequent and violent deaths of miners as in the gulches and placer mines.
1857 Opened his Funeral Parlour in Kalispell.
1858 Married a much younger woman, Elizabeth ap Evans. There are no children.
1860 Elizabeth dies in childbirth.
- Character Notes
Has a rather bleak outlook on life.
- Written By
- Javia