John De Baun
John De Baun (19 January 1852 – 24 December 1912) was an American-born Australian real estate developer, hotelier and mining investor.
Quotes about De Baun
[edit]- And there was John de Baun, a Canadian builder of twenty-eight stone weight, as active as a cat, and with a little voice tuned to E Flat. He was known as ‘the elephant man with the mosquito voice.’
- Randolph Bedford, Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
