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Born 1881
From History of Henry County, Illinois (1910)
ROY SCOTT BROWN.
Roy Scott Brown, an enterprising and progressive agriculturist and stockman of Osco township, has been actively engaged in the operation of a farm of two hundred and eighty acres on section 13 since 1904. He is numbered among the worthy native sons of Henry county, having been born on the old family homestead on section 15, Osco township, on the 5th of January, 1881, a son of James Monroe and Martha E. (Myers) Brown. He was reared to manhood on the home farm and supplemented his preliminary education by attendance at the Geneseo Collegiate Institute during one fall and two winter seasons. In 1904 he took charge of his uncle's farm of two hundred and eighty acres on section 13, Osco township, and has since devoted his time and energies to its operation with excellent success. In addition to cultivating the various cereals best adapted to soil and climate he also devotes some attention to the feeding and shipping of cattle and is a young man of good business ability and sound judgment. In August, 1908, he bought a Reo automobile, his brother having purchased one of these cars in the previous October. In 1909 the brothers began selling the machine and disposed of seven during the summer of that year.
On the 16th of January, 1907, in Cambridge, Mr. Brown was joined in wedlock to Miss Elnora Hornecker, a native of Edford township, this county, and a daughter of Martin and Martha (Schumaker) Hornecker. Their union has been blessed with one child, Marjorie, whose birth occurred on the 31st of August, 1908. Mr. Brown is a stanch republican in his political views and cast his first presidential vote for Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Both he and his wife are well known and highly esteemed throughout the county in which they have spent their entire lives and have an extensive circle of warm friends who entertain for them the kindHest regard.
As printed in History of Henry County, Illinois (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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