James Foster McCoubrey (13 September 1901 - 5 July 2013) However, the subsequent verification of American man Salustiano Sanchez to have been born on 8 June 1901 meant that McCoubrey was in fact the second oldest man at the time of his death. McCoubrey had also been believed to be the oldest living man in North America since the death of 111-year-old Shelby Harris on 25 July 2012. Biography James McCoubrey was born in , Newfoundland, which was then a separate British colony but is now a part of Canada. As a toddler, McCoubrey and his family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. McCoubrey died of pneumonia on 5 July 2013, at the age of 111 years 295 days.
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