Joseph C. Brown

As printed in 1902

JOSEPH C. BROWN.

As a young man this gentleman came to America, and without capital started out in a strange land to overcome the difficulties and obstacles in the path to prosperity. His youthful dreams have been realized, and in their happy fulfillment he sees the fitting reward of his earnest toil. He is now recognized as one of the leading and successful agriculturists of Knox county.

Mr. Brown was born in county Cork, Ireland, on the 15th of November, 183 1, and was reared on a farm in his native land. In 1856, in company with his parents, he left the land of his birth, and on a sailing vessel crossed the broad Atlantic to the new world, spending thirty-nine days on the voyage. After their arrival here the family located in Clermont county, Ohio, where our subject was engaged at farm labor by the month for the following six years. On the expiration of that period he located in College township, Knox county, where he purchased twenty acres of land and immediately set about the task of making a home. He cleared and improved his land, and thereon erected a small log cabin, but in 1865 he sold that place and purchased fifty-eight acres of partially improved land in Pleasant township, remaining there until 1894. In that year he came to his present homestead, which consists of one hundred and sixty acres of land, all of which is under a fine state of cultivation, improved with good and substantial buildings and everything about the place indicates the care and supervision of a practical and progressive owner. The marriage of Mr. Brown was celebrated on the 31st of March, 1861, when Mary

Clark became his wife. Seven children have brightened and blessed their home, namely: Mary E., who is still with her parents; Martha J., the wife of John R. Seymour, of Monroe township, Knox county; John T., a member of the firm of Brown Brothers, prominent liverymen of Gambier; Clark G., who is engaged in business with his brother John; Margaret C, deceased; Alice, who is conducting a millinery store in Mount Vernon; and Joseph H., at home. The Democracy receives Mr. Brown's hearty support sud co-operation, and religiously he is a member of tJe Episcopal church. His course in life has ever been such as to command the confidence and respect of all with whom he has come in contact, and he justly merits the high regard in which he is held by his fellow men.

As printed in The Biographical record of Knox County, Ohio : to which is added an elaborate compendium of national biography (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.