Editor, author.
Born at Winnipeg on 2 June 1889, son of lumber merchant John Henry Housser (1849-1914) and Mary Jane Broughton (1853-1920), brother of Harry Broughton Housser, he was financial editor of the Toronto Daily Star at the time of his death. In 1926, he wrote A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven, the first book about this noted group of artists. He was married twice, first on 12 February 1914 to Bessie Marguerite Larkin (1890-1969, later married to artist Lauren Harris) of Brandon and second to painter Muriel Yvonne McKague (1897-1996). He died at his Toronto, Ontario home on 28 December 1936.
Birth registration [Frederick Broughton Housser], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Toronto financial writer, F. B. Housser, dies at his home,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 December 1936, page 1.
Yvonne McKague Housser, Wikipedia.
Frederick Broughton Housser, The Warners.
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