G. O. Brown

As printed in 1880

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.

As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.