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Born 1832, Sandusky township
From A centennial biographical history of Crawford County, Ohio .. (1902)
SEBASTIAN BROWN.
The prominent and influential citizen of Jefferson township, Crawford county, Ohio, whose name is the title of this article, was born in Sandusky township, Crawford county, Ohio, December 16, 1832, a son of Joseph Brown, who was an early settler in Ohio.
Joseph Brown was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and early in life learned the carpenter's trade. In company with his brother-in-law, Nicholas Tustison, he came to Ohio with an ox team and located within the present borders of Jefferson township, Crawford county, where he took up eighty acres of government land on the usual contract of one dollar and a quarter an acre. He married Elizabeth Swarty, daughter of Sebastian Swarty a Revolutionary soldier who was with Washington when he made his perilous crossing of the Delaware. After his marriage he built a log cabin on his land and pushed forward the work of clearing and improving the farm as rapidly as possible.
After a brief absence from his native township, Sebastian Brown returned to Jefferson, where from the age of nine years he attended the common schk w ils, and afterward worked on his father's farm until he married and began life for himself. Margaret Fox became his wife March 15, 1859, and bore him six children, the following facts concerning whom will be found interesting in this connection. Their daughter Emma died at the age of eighteen months. Their son Joseph M. lives at Crestline, Ohio. Their son James A. lives on the family homestead with his father. Their son Willard is a farmer in Clinton county, Michigan. Their son Homer K. lives at Crestline, Ohio. Their daughter Laura B. is a member, of their household. For a year after his marriage Mr. Brown lived in Richland county, Ohio. From there he removed to Defiance county, Ohio, on eighty acres of wild land which he bought of his father and on which he lived two years.
In 1864 Mr. Brown enlisted as a private in Company I, Forty-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in battle at Stone River, Cumberland, Kenesaw Mountain, Mission Ridge and Marietta, Georgia, and started with Sherman on his march to the sea. At Burford, Georgia, he was taken sick and was sent to Chattanooga and afterward to a hospital at Nashville. He soon recovered and rejoined his regiment, but was again taken ill and was eventually sent back to his home in Jefferson township. In 1865 he returned to Defiance county, Ohio, where he lived until 1870. In the year last mentioned he moved on his eighty-acre farm in Jefferson township, which he has improved into a valuable property. While he is not a politician in the ordinary sense of the term, he is active in township affairs, and for six years he has held the office of township trustee and has come to be known for a liberal public spirit which impels him to give his support to every measure which promises to promote the general good. He has kept alive memories of the Civil war through his membership of.Snyder Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Crestline, Ohio.
As printed in A centennial biographical history of Crawford County, Ohio .. (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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