John F. Hume

John Frederick Hume (August 8, 1860 to February 6, 1935) was a miner with Scottish roots, a public notary and political figure in Brit. Columbia, and represented West Kootenay South in the Legislative Assembly of BC from 1894 to 1898. He was born and educated in Jacksonville, and in 1891 married Lydia J. Irvine. A justice of the peace, Hume lived in Nelson, where he served as Provincial Secretary and Minister of Mines. Hume and his wife Lydia opened the Hume Hotel in Nelson in 1898 and they sold it to Wilmer C. Wells in 1907. Hume died in Nelson, aged 74.