The Brown Families of Jasper County, Missouri

, section 17, post-office Knights. This lady has the distinction of being the oldest settler of Jasper county now living. Youngest daughter of William Brown, one of the pioneer settlers; is a native Missourian, born in St. Genevieve county, Jan. 15, 1821; came with her parents to what is now Jasper county in 1834, and settled on Spring River, being then but thirteen years old, since which time she has spent her entire life here, as maid and matron. Was married June 13, 1837, to Jacob Rickner, a native of Switzerland, born near Berne, in March, 1808. Immigrated with his parents to North America in 1818; were in charge of the Hudson Bay Company, and landed on the shores of Hudson's Bay. Moved into the interior and lived several years in Manitoba, on the Red River of the North; came to Washington county. Mo., at an early day, where his parents died and are buried. He came to Jasper county in 1836; was of a discontented moving disposition and ever had a desire, amounting almost to a mania, of visiting the unexplored regions of this great country, and during his life traveled over a great portion of the West, always by his own conveyance or on foot. His first trip after becoming a resident of this county was to Texas; returning, made a trip to the British Possessions and the Northwest Territory. After a short stay there he returned to Jasper county; next crossed the plains to Oregon Territory and returned in 1841; went overland to California in 1849, returning via New Orleans in 1850. During his many trips he rode or walked over every county in the great state of Missouri, long before the days of railroads; and a great portion of Arkansas and Texas. He was a tanner by trade, and established a tannery in Jasper county at an early day. He died at his home in this county Sept. 5, 1880, leaving a family of nine children: James, Martha, wife of D. E. Mottley; Francis, deceased; Ethan C, Moses P., Elizabeth J., deceased; John W., deceased; Mary E., wife of T. E. Melugin; and Lola Y. Ethan C, and Miss Lola reside with their mother on the farm.

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JAMES RICKNER, Esq., farmer and stock-raiser, section 8, post-office Carthage, grandson of William Brown, the pioneer settler of Jasper county. His father, Jacob Rickner, came to the county in 1835, and married Miss Anna, daughter of William Brown, two years later. Our subject was born March 28, 1838. His youth was spent in assisting his father in a tannery, which business he established in 1840. His education was acquired at the pioneer schools. During the war of the Rebellion he was a staunch Union man, enlisting in 1862 in Company B, Ninth Regiment Missouri State Militia. His service was of a nature familiar to all old settlers of the Southwest. He was married in Jasper county Jan. 17, 1861, to Miss Jane Mc- Kelvey, a native of Pennsylvania. Of this union there are seven children: Francis S., born Feb. 2, 1862; Allie A., born May 30, 1863; Emma E., born April 25, 1866; Joseph M., born March 27, 1872; William B., born Dec. 12, 1874; Jacob A., born Feb. 15, 1878; and Rosa C, born May 22, 1880. Since the war Mr. Rickner has been a farmer. He has been honored by the people with the office of justice of the peace and other offices of minor importance.

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S. M. BROWN, saddler and harness maker, Sarcoxie, was born June 26, 1843, in Fountain county, Ind.; his parents, Stephen and Jane Brown, were natives respectively of Virginia and Ohio. Our subject came with his parents to Miss(>uri in 1850, locating on a farm near Sarcoxie. Here he grew to maturity; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in attending school. In 1863 he enlisted in Company C, Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry and served until the close of the war; participated also in engagements at Kansas City, Newtonia, California, Boonville, Jefferson City, Mine Creek, and others. Mustered out at Springfield, Mo., July 1, 1865, and immediately returned to this county. In the fall of 1868 he commenced to learn his present trade, and has since continued. Mr. Brown was married in this county Dec. 6, 1866, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of Moses and Nancy Gregg, natives of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are consistent members of the Presbyterian church. Business in Sarcoxie, west side square; carries a full line of saddlery, harness, etc.; is a practical workman, and is receiving a very liberal support. Mr. Brown is a man of good business qualifications, takes great interest in public matters, educational, etc.; is at present mayor of Sarcoxie and is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W.

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WILLIAM H. H. BROWN, wholesale and retail grocer, of Carthage, Missouri, was born ten miles north of Warrensburg, Johnson county, Missouri, November 17, 1840. His father, John Simpson Brown, is a gentleman now seventy-one years old, hale and hearty, and resides on the farm in Johnson county, Missouri. He is one of the pioneers of Johnson county, settling there in 1828, before the county was organized. He was born in North Carolina, but raised chiefly in Kentucky. The son and subject of this sketch was married August 20, 1861, to Emma R. Cleavland, who was born in Kentucky in 1836, but lived the greater portion of her younger days in Johnson county, Missouri. The children are Electra J., Melissa F., Ida M., Mary E., James W., Rufus L., Thomas S., Katie (died in 1878), Francis C, Jesse, Edna, who died in 1879, and Emma. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is also a member of the Masonic order — Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Commandery. Mr. Brown came to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, in October, 1882, and immediately engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery and jobbing business in company with B. Foster & Co. He was interested at the same time with his brother Baxter Brown in operating the City Hotel, which was conducted in a manner satisfactory to the traveling public and no doubt with profit to themselves. Although but about forty years of age he is both grandfather and parent of ten children, ten of whom are living. Mr. Brown is both a successful business man and enterprising and large hearted citizen, and, though of rather a retiring nature, those respect him most who know him best.

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On the roster of county officials in Jasper county appears the name of Marion Brown. He is capable filling the position of probate judge, and is well qualified for the onerous duties which devolve upon him, being a man of excellent business ability, keen discernment and sound judgment. He is recognized as one of the leading and influential citizens of the community and his worth is widely acknowledged.

A native of Greenup county, Kentucky, Mr. Brown was born on the 8th orf March, 1842, a son of Piersol and Margaret (Thomas) Brown. The family is of Scotch lineage, and from good old Revolutionary stock our subject is descended. His paternal grandfather, Robert Brown, was a soldier in the war for independence and married a daughter of John Throckmorton, who was also a Revolutionary soldier. His great-great-grandfather, John Brown, the founder of the family in America, was a native of Scotland, a weaver by trade, and settled near what is now Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1 700.

Marion Brown was about ten years of age when his mother died and he went to live with his uncle, Benjamin Thomas, near Lucasville, Scioto county, Ohio, where he attended the district schools of that day during the winter months and worked upon the farm the remainder of the time until he was sixteen years of age, when he became a resident of Illinois, where his father died in 1880. There he worked as a farm hand and later engaged in farming on his own account.

As a further preparation for a home of his own he was married, in 1866, to Miss Margaret J. Bandy, a daughter of Richard Bandy, and upon a farm in Edgar county they began their domestic life, there remaining until 1888, when they became residents of Jasper county, locating upon a farm five miles west of Carthage. His place comprises one hundred and twenty acres of land and is well improved. There he successfully carried on general farming until 1898, when he was elected probate judge of Jasper county, and entered upon the duties of the office the ist of January, 1899, for a term of four years, at the election defeating Judge D. D. Kerr, the Republican candidate. While residing in Edgar county, Illinois, he had served for two years as a member of the board of supervisors, and in office has ever manifested marked fidelity to duty.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been born seven children: George W., a resident of Paris, Illinois; Charles F., who is living in Meeker, Colorado; Charity A., a probate clerk in her father's office; Sally M., the wife of James A. Buchanan, of Saratoga, Wyoming; William S. and Walter Piersol, twins; and Jackson S. The family have a wide acquaintance in Jasper county and enjoy the high regard of many friends. A busy, active and honorable career has won for Mr. Brown a fair degree of success and also gained for him the respect of those with whom he has been associated.

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GEORGE BROWN, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Howard county, Ind., July 23, 1849. In 1846 his father, William, went to Wabasha county, Minn., where he resided for a number of years. In 1870 he removed to Jasper county. Mo., and now resides in Carthage. The subject of this sketch was married to Miss Mary 11. Hubbard in June, 1875; she was born in Bond county, In, March 2, 1852. They have one little girl, Ethel. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Carthage. Mr. Brown has a fine farm of 280 acres; raising 525 bushels of wheat, 1,200 bushels of corn, and 120 bushels of oats; he has also a fine young orchard. Mr. Brown has been a justice of the peace for some time in this township. The farm is located in sections 20 and 29, township 28, and range 31 of

Jackson township. Mr. Brown has a fine flock of sheep, and deals also in stock. He is a man of systematic business principles, industrious, and generally respected and esteemed.

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ALBERT O. BROWN, passenger conductor, also carrying on a farm and raising stock; has 760 acres of land, 240 acres under cultivation, has three good springs, two good houses, and two orchards; has 320 acres in Lincoln township, 440 acres in Sheridan township; also 20 acres of timber in Barton county. He was born in the State of N. Y., July 24, 1836, near Niagara Falls; he is the son of David and Hannah Brown, natives of Canada. In 1851 the subject of this sketch went to Wisconsin and worked for three years in a wholesale grocery house; he then went to railroading as conductor in Tennessee. Run there three or four years, then went to Illinois and ran a train on the Illinois Central for nine years. Was married to Miss Nancy M. Teal, in Dixon, Ill., in 1859. In 1871 went to work on the Gulf Railroad running between Kansas City and Ft. Scott. He is now running from Sedalia to Parsons, and is making his home in Parsons, Kansas. Mr. Brown is a member of the Masonic order, and is a strong prohibitionist.

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