John Paxton was born in England. He emigrated to America with his parents at age 11. They settled in Detroit Michigan, where his father Peter was a sailor on the Great Lakes. For a time around 1850 John was a brewer. It is unknown whether he worked in someone else's brewery or had his own stand. he died in 1890.
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