The Brown Families of Morrow County, Ohio

D. W. BROWN, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; is a good representative of the substantial farmer element of Morrow Co. His lather, Pardon, was born Sept. 15, 1788, in Rhode Island, and is a descendant of the Puritans or Plymouth Colony. The great-great grandfather of our subject came over in the Mayflower; his father lived in Rhode Island until 1814, when he went to Cayuga Co., N. Y., where he farmer; served in the war of 1812. He was married to Sophia Wilbor, in 1809, in Rhode Island. She was born Feb. 11, 1790, and died Jan. 28, 1849, and had ten children.' William (deceased), Lydia, born Oct. 27, 1811, married John Nobles; Sophia, Jan. 2, 1814, married Thos. Weatherby.; Philena, Dec. 30, 1816, married Joseph Meeks; she died March, 1879; Pardon, born Oct. 4, 1819; Mary, Jan. I 14, 1822, married George Peclcham; Daniel

W., born Feb. 11, 1826; Deborah W., May 22, 182S, married Jacob Winters (deceased); Elizabeth, June 16, 1831, married Albert Parkhill; Sarah A., June 8, 1833, married Mr. Freeman. The father emigrated to Chester Township in about 1853, and died June 8, 1863. His parents were Presbyterians. They started life with nothing but one horse and wagon. He learned the matters’ trade before he married. Mr. Brown remained with his parents until married. At the age of 18 he began teaching school in the State of New York, and continued the same for four terms. His matrimonial alliance took place Dec. 28, 1847, with Adaline M., a daughter of William H. and Anna (Duel) Squires. Her father was born in Connecticut, and her mother at Quaker Hill; she was one of eleven children. Harriet married John Peckham; Phedora married Judson Johnson; William married Phresonia Chatham; Eliza R. C. married William Beardsley; Adaline M.; Henry J. married Mary A. Youngs; Helen married Lemuel D. Hussey; Sidney married Martha Barber; Anna M. married George Hillman, Marian B. married Edward Hussey; one infant died. Her father was a clothier, miller and farmer, and died in Feb. 1854, and her mother was a “birthright Quaker,” and died Jan. 7,1879. After marriage our representative ran a canal boat, “ Sarah Sands,” on the Erie canal, from Cayuga Lake to New York City; in four years he became tired of the business, and sold it to his brother Pardon, and within a short time came to Ohio and has since farmer. Bought the Shurr farm of his father’s heirs, and sold the same in 1870 to Elery P. Brown, a cousin. He then took a trip with his family to Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, and returned in two months, and purchased what is known as the Corwin farm, in Franklin Township, where he dealt largely in stock; in 1872 he sold that, and bought 150 acres adjoining the town of Chesterville, on which he dealt in stock; in the winter of 1878-9 he shipped thirty-two carloads from this place. He has now abandoned the stock business, and is giving his rural life to raising wheat, in which he is having his usual success. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had four children; one died when young; Frances A., born March 14, 1850, married William W. Van Eman, a salesman in San Francisco; Marian A., born Oct. 14, 1855, married Marshal F. Smith; Cassius, born April 1, 1858. Mr. Brown hired a substitute volunteer for $250 to serve in the rebellion. He is a member of Chester Lodge No.

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E. P. BROWN, farmer; P. O. Chesterville, was born in September, 1827, and is the son of George, born 1796 in Rhode Island, and Beulah M. (Sutliff) Brown, born in 1802 in Connecticut; they came to Ohio in 1836 and settled in what is now Morrow Co.; they bought 260 acres of land. The father died in 1870 and the mother in 1868. Their children were: William, graduated at Cleveland Medical College, and died June 27, 1864, at Alexandria, Va., while in the service of his country; Edmond, living in Knox Co.; E. P., Sophia; George, principal of Cardington Schools; Amanda Thurston, deceased. His parents were Methodists. Our subject attended school some in the winter. He was married in 1853 to Phoebe E., daughter of John and Rhoda Talmage; her parents were from New

J- Jersey and had seven children: Henry,

Charles, Jonathan, Jacob, Phoebe E., Newton and Susan; all the family were Methodists. Mrs. Brown was born in 1827; they settled after marriage, for sixteen years, on the old Corwin farm, and then sold the same and bought stock in Mt. Gilead for one year, and in 1870 he bought the present farm of 246 acres, known as the old Shurr farm, purchasing the same from D. W. Brown. It is known as the finest farm in Morrow Co., finely watered by spring. He has four children: Alice married E. Mclntire; Clarence, George and Blanche. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Church; he has held office in the same, and has been township trustee, member of school board, and votes the Republican ticket. He deals in Spanish merino sheep and Durham cattle and Berkshire hogs.

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G. O. BROWN, A. M., Cardington; is a native of Tompkins Co., N. Y. He is the son of George and Beulah (Sutliff) Brown, and was born Nov. 28, 1833. The father was a native of Rhode Island, and is descended from a Scotch family of nobility. The Browns trace their lineage to Tobias Brown, who settled in America before the Revolutionary War, and who was the founder of this family of Browns in the United States. To George and Beulah Brown was born a family of seven children, four of whom are yet living. The parents came to AlorrowCo., O., in 1836, settling near Chesterville, and engaged in farming. G. O. passed his early years on the farm, remaining there until sixteen, receiving a district school education. At the above age he began attending select school at Chesterville, which afforded better facilities for acquiring an education than the rude country schools in the township. He finally entered the O. W. University at Delaware, and in 1857 graduated with high honors. Since his graduation, with the exception of three years, he has been engaged in teaching, and has a high reputation as an educator, and as one interested in educational problems. Among his acquirements he studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1866. He secured his collegiate education at Delaware by rigid economy, teaching during the vacations to get means to continue his college course. Soon after graduating he took charge of the Union School at Chesterville, remaining there four years. A few years after this he went to Sedalia, Missouri, and while there organized the Union School at that place, which under his management became one of the finest in the West. He then came to Cardington and for the period of eleven years has had charge of the splendid schools of that city. This school is one of the best in the country, having eight teachers, Prof. Brown being the principal. He is a prominent Republican, a member of the M. E. Church, and is one of the Board of Examiners of Morrow County. He has no superior in the county for schollarly attainments, and is a fine Christian gentleman; he was married to Miss Maria McMahan.

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STEPHEN BROWN, attorney-at-law, Cardington; was born in Licking Co., Ohio, Nov. 19, 1816; son of Ebenezer and Mary (Cook) Brown, both natives of Washington Co., Pa. His grandparents on his mother’s side, Stephen and Sarah (McFarlin) Cook, were born in Scotland, and came to America, and settled in New Jersey, where they were married, at the respective ages of twenty-five and fifteen. From their union there were fifteen children, seven sons and eight daughters, all of whom lived for many years after the youngest was married. The mother lived to the age of ninety-three years, leaving a posterity of four hundred and seventy-two souls. Stephen Brown moved to what is now Morrow Co. with his parents in the spring of 1835. They settled on a farm of eighty acres of land near Gilead Station. He resided here with his parents until 1836, when he went to Martinsburg, Knox Co. Ohio, where he was married to Nancy Boyd. He returned to Morrow Co. after his marriage, and settled inCaanan Tp. From this union there were five children, Orlando C., Alexander B., Samuel S. and Gilbert M. One died in infancy. After spending fifteen years in Caanan Tp., Mr. Brown moved with his family to Cardington,..where he has since resided, coming to Cardington in 1858, since which time he has held several important town and township offices; he was elected first to the office of Tp. Clerk and afterwards Justice of the Peace, an office he has by re-election held to the present time. He also held the office of Mayor four years, and County Coroner two terms. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar, and still remains in the practice of law. Having helped to bring the Republican party into existence, he stands to-day, firm, tried and true to the cause. During the war of the Rebellion he was the soldiers’ friend, giving two out of four sons to help crush the Rebellion.

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COL. ALBERT H. BROWN, farmer, P. O. Bloomfield; a native of New Hampshire, and was born in 1825. His parents, John and May (Wood) Brown, had a family of seven children — John H., Mary, Harriet, Abigail, Albert, James and Charles W. The father was born in 1796, and was a soldier in the war of 1812; he served as a substitute for a Tory during a portion of the war; he came to Worthington, Ohio, in 1840, and died at Fox Lake, Ind., 1853. When Albert was 9 years old, he secured a situation as bobbin boy in Plunkett’s cotton factory in Mass.; for six years he worked in different factories in that State and New York; raising to the position of head spinner. In 1840 he came with his father to Ohio, and immediately went to Columbus, where he remained three years, learning the carpenter and joiner’s trade. In 1852 he was appointed postmaster at Marion by Franklin Pierce; in 1848 he married Ann, daughter of John Elder, and by her had four children: Harriet, born in 1849, Jennett, 1851, Edwin, 1855, and Jennie in 1858. His first wife having died during the war, he was married in 1866 to Sally Jane Lyon, and by her has three children; Elva, born in Nov. 1868, Annie, June, 1870, and Alice H., Aug., 1872. Col. Brown served in the Mexican War in the 3rd Ohio Reg., and commanded by Col. S. R. Curtis. In May, 1847, he was mustered out, when he came home and worked at his trade until he was married; when the Civil War broke out he raised a company of 74 men and on the 22d of April, 1861, was ordered to report at Camp Chase and was then assigned to the 4th Ohio Reg., it* commanded by Col. Andrews. During the early part of the war he served as Provost Marshal for Generals Kelley, Lander, and Shields. He resigned and came home on account of the sickness of his wife, but soon after her death he re-enlisted and was mustered in as Lieut-Colonel of the 96th Ohio Regiment. At the death of Col. Vance, he took command of the Regiment and led it in every engagement. At the close of the war lie was mustered out, and has since armed in South Bloomfield Tp.; he has served two terms in the Lower House of the Ohio State Legislature. Col. Brown is a Republican, and himself and family are members of Methodist Church in Bloomfield.

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G. W. BROWN, farmer and stock-raiser; P. 0., Shaucks; is among the young men of enterprise in the township; was born July 12, 1842; is the seventh of a family of twelve children, born to Payne G. and Elizabeth Brown, who were among the early arrivals in this township. Payne Brown was born in York State, Jan. 4, 1803, and came to this township about the year 1827, and was married April 29, 1830, to Elizabeth Vanator, who was born in Tuscarawas Co., Dec. 25, 1808; he entered 80 acres of land in 1830, built a cabin, which with its contents, burned down a few months afterwards; the second cabin was built and the first winter was spent in it without doors or windows; blankets were hung up instead; he raised no crop the first year; Mr. Brown having to go to Utica for corn to live on during the winter, at a cash of $1 per bushel; Mrs. Brown yet remains on the farm of 160 acres; Mr. Brown died Aug. 31, 1871. At the age of 21 George W.

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THOMAS R. BROWN, farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born May 22, 1826, in Knox Co.; his father, Jonathan, was born May 22, 1800, in New Jersey, and his mother, Mary (Larison) Brown, Jan. 3, 1803, in the same State. They emigrated to Knox Co. in 1816, and were married subsequently, and were blessed with — Thomas R., Joel F., James S., Ann E., Jonathan H., Mary J., Phoebe S., Washington (deceased) Clarissa (deceased); the father died Nov. 16, 1879, and the mother, 1867. They were New School Baptists. Thomas R. obtained a limited education; his father being a miller of the soil, it was quite natural that his son should follow the same pursuit. He was married in the fall of 1847, to Jane, daughter of Thomas and Mary Stiers Clark; her parents had eleven children — Aaron, Jane, Mary, Jacob, John, Berryhill, Thomas, Hannah, Moses, Martha and George. Mrs. Brown was born June, 25, 1826. They farmer on his father’s farm for four years, and then settled on 50 acres of his present farm, and has improved the same, and now possesses 113 acres of well-improved land. They have four children — Clarissa L., married Charles E. Lewis; Charles, Jacob and Jonathan. Mr. Brown enlisted in the 88th 0. V. I., and was mostly on guard duty, serving about three years. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, in which he has taken deep interest, and has served as Deacon for eighteen years. He voted the Democratic ticket until the breaking-out of the war, and then joined the Republican party, and has since been an active worker. The farm that he now possesses was purchased from Judge T. W. Powell and Buck.

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MARTIN Y. BROWN, farmer; P. O. Mt. Gilead; is among the genial, whole-souled men of the county, whose heart is ever open to the cry of the needy, and his hand ready to stretch forth to administer to their necessities; he was born in this township Nov. 1, 1834, is a son of Dr. Ira Brown, who practiced medicine in this county for many years, and was among the prominent and successful physicians; he was born in Knox Co., in July 1810. His wife, Sarah Brown, was born the year previous. Martin’s grandfather’s name was Luther; he was a native of Albany Co., and came out to this State prior to the war of 1812, and settled near Chillicothe. Martin’s father practiced medicine about thirty years; later in life he moved to Rock Island Co., Ill., where he died May 2, 1874, aged 63 years, 10 months and 6 days. His wife died May 11, 1877, aged 68 years 7 months and 8 days. At the age of 25 Martin was married to Eliza Schooley; was born in May, 1834, in Cardington Tp.; she is a daughter of Samuel and Mary E. (Graves) Schooley, who were natives of Virginia, and of English descent, and emigrated West to this county in the year 1830. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, they remained on the homestead; in 1879 they came to Section 30, and purchased 80 acres. They have three children — Ross N., born Sept. 27, 1860; Charles C., May 1863; Emma, April 2, 1866. He and wife are members of the Protestant Methodist Church; he is also a representative of Caledonia Lodge, I. O. O. E., No. 299, and a good Democrat.

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JOEL BROWN, farmer; P. O., Pulaskiville; was born Nov. 30, 1809, in Loudoun Co., Va.; the son of Issacher and Hanna (Craven) Brown. His father came from Pennsylvania to Virginia in an early day; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and drew a pension for his faithful service, in his later years. Joel married Mahala, daughter of Hug!) Barr, Dec. 30, 1830. She was born Feb. 28, 1808. They remained in the “Old Dominion” until 1847, when he came with his family to Ohio, and settled on the farm where he now lives. They raised a family of ten children — Mary E., James E., Amanda C., Sarah E., Fenton J., and Zillah J. are still living, while John W., Thomas M., Hannah S. and Charles F. are dead. Realizing the value of knowledge, which the imperfect schools of Virginia denied him in his youth, he has given each of his children a liberal education. One son was educated for the ministry — Thomas M., who died after preaching one year. Mr. Brown is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Chesterville; has held the office of Elder in the Church twenty-five years; he owns 85 acres of well-improved land with good, substantial buildings, made principally by himself; he is an earnest supporter of the Republican party. His wife died Dec. 4, 1872, and now in the closing years of a well-rounded life, he is cared for by two devoted daughters, Sarah E. and Zillah J., who will watch over and comfort him in the evening of his life.

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