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Born 1844
From The History of Muscatine county, Iowa (1879)
A. A. BROWN, far., Sec. 28; P. 0. Stockton; was born in Clarion Co., Ohio, April 26, 1844; came to Scott Co., Iowa, with his parents in 1853, thence to Wisconsin; removed to Muscatine Co. in 1856. He married in 1867 Miss M. M. Rider, a native of Ohio, born in 1845; they have three children — Carrie E., Belle M., and one unnamed. Mr. Brown has been three times elected Township Clerk; he owns eighty acres of a fine farm. Members of the Presbyterian Church; Republican.
As printed in The History of Muscatine county, Iowa (1879). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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