Jesse Brown

As printed in 1887

JESSE BROWN, section 24, Dutch Creek Township, is a farmer and stock-raiser. He was born in Richmond (Jounty, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1 834, and is the son of Jesse and Susan (Tetter) Brown, who were natives of Pennsylvania. When but about eleven j'ears old, his father and mother died, and he then lived with Jacob Barringer for four years, after which he worked for different persons and attended the district schools as the opportunity was afforded him. In 185.') he came to Iowa and entered 120 acres of land in Benton County, which he traded in 1861, for a farm on Davis Creek, in W.washington County. On the ist of January, 1861, he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret A. Cahill, a native of Iowa, born in Iowa City in 1844, and daughter of Thomas Cahill. Six children were born unto then): James, born Dec. 10, 1861, is a traveling salesman and h.as in the discharge of his duty, traveled in almost every State in the Union, and also in Can.ada; while in the latter country he lost an arm in a railroad accident. Ada, born July 21. 1866; Fraukie, born July 10, 1869, was killed May 15, 1880, by a mule, and is buried in the New Haven church cemetery; Jessie I., born July 1, 1870; William, bom July 10, 1875; Thomas Homer, born Sept. 25, 1880.

'JL'hear for the ITnion being in progress Mr.. Bravu left his young bride, and Aug. 15, 1861, enlisted in the loth Iowa Infantry, and actively participated in all the engagements and campaigns of the regiment, including the battle of Corinth, Lookout iMountain, and the famous march to the sea. At Lookout Mountain he received a slight flesh wound, (going into the service with the intention of remaining until the Rebellion was suppressed or until his life should have been offered up, in the fall of 1863 he re-enlisted as a veteran for three years more, and served in all four years and two months. The regiment was in the grand review at Washington City, from which place it was onlered to Little Rock, Ark., was there mustered out, and sent to Davenport, Iowa, where they were discharged. Although in the ranks Mr. Brown performed his duty as a soldier in a faithful manner. On receiving his discharge at Davenport he returned to his home in Iowa Township, Washinton Co\inty. and resumed the old occupation of farming. In l.s76 he traded his farm in Davis Creek, Iowa Township, for eighty acres of fine land under good improvement in Dutch Creek Township. On the 7lh of March, 1886, Mr. Brown was bereft of his wife. She was a member of the Ba)list Church, a most excellent Christian woman, one who exemplified in lier daily life the teachings of the Savior of men. In the education of his children Mr. Brown has taken a si)ecial pride.

Although the war has long since been over, Mr. Brown has lost none of the patriotic ardor of his T

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ASTOft, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATFONS youth; he 'still believes in,the ohrflag, believes that the North was right, and the South wrong in that great. struggle. As one who served more than four years to preserve the Union from dismemberment, he believes in rigidly maintaining all the rights, won by that struggle. He is one of that large number of old soldiers forming the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of Washington Post, No. lOiS.

As printed in Portrait and biographical album of Washington County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and (1887). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.