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Born 1873, Brown county
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
FRANK H. BROWN (1896), of Jackson, was born in Brown county, Wisconsin, December 21, 1873, the son of W. X. and Jlepa (Hayden) Brown, natives of Maine and New Hampshire, respectively.
Until he was thirteen years of age Frank lived with his parents on the farm in Brown county, Wisconsin, and then he accompanied them to Dickinson county, near Spirit Lake, Iowa. He lived with his parents on the farm until he was twenty years of age. Then he married and engaged in farming on rented land for himself three years. He came to Jackson county in 1896 and during the next five years engaged in farming in Middletown township. Giving up farming in 1901, he moved to Jackson and for several years was engaged in various occupations. In 1907 he engaged in the livery business in Jackson in partnership with Scott Huestis, having bought out Robert Henderson, and conducted the barn until the spring of 1909.
Mr. Brown was married in Jackson county March 22, 1893, to Edith Gruhlke, a native of Waseca, Minnesota, and a daughter of Edward Gruhlke, deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been born the following children: Harry L., Vera M., Iva G. and Earl. Mr. Brown is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge.
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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