A telegram received at Yokohama from K.ruizawa a week ago announced the death at the sum-mor resort of Mr. James Favre-Brandt, Sen., for 60 years a resident of Japan. Mr. Favre-Brandt (the "Japan Gazette' states) was born at {Locle, in Switzerland, in 1844, and was therefore 82 years of age. He arrived in Japan in April, 1866, taking up his residence in Yokohama and establishing himself with his brother in business as a firm of exporters and importers. On his arrival Mu Favre-Brandt found Yokohama just developing from a micro fishing village of 3,000 inhabitants, and during his Jong residence he had seen the city grow to its present condition.
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