He was the brother of F.G. Vernon.
He served in the Lancashire Fusiliers.
He arrived in the Okanagan in the 1860s.
He and his brother were partners with Charles Frederick Houghton dissolving the relationship in 1869 when they took over the Coldstream Ranch.
He was bought out by his brother in 1872.
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