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Born 1816
From 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)
STEPHEN BROWN, attorney-at-law, Cardington; was born in Licking Co., Ohio, Nov. 19, 1816; son of Ebenezer and Mary (Cook) Brown, both natives of Washington Co., Pa. His grandparents on his mother’s side, Stephen and Sarah (McFarlin) Cook, were born in Scotland, and came to America, and settled in New Jersey, where they were married, at the respective ages of twenty-five and fifteen. From their union there were fifteen children, seven sons and eight daughters, all of whom lived for many years after the youngest was married. The mother lived to the age of ninety-three years, leaving a posterity of four hundred and seventy-two souls. Stephen Brown moved to what is now Morrow Co. with his parents in the spring of 1835. They settled on a farm of eighty acres of land near Gilead Station. He resided here with his parents until 1836, when he went to Martinsburg, Knox Co. Ohio, where he was married to Nancy Boyd. He returned to Morrow Co. after his marriage, and settled inCaanan Tp. From this union there were five children, Orlando C., Alexander B., Samuel S. and Gilbert M. One died in infancy. After spending fifteen years in Caanan Tp., Mr. Brown moved with his family to Cardington,..where he has since resided, coming to Cardington in 1858, since which time he has held several important town and township offices; he was elected first to the office of Tp. Clerk and afterwards Justice of the Peace, an office he has by re-election held to the present time. He also held the office of Mayor four years, and County Coroner two terms. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar, and still remains in the practice of law. Having helped to bring the Republican party into existence, he stands to-day, firm, tried and true to the cause. During the war of the Rebellion he was the soldiers’ friend, giving two out of four sons to help crush the Rebellion.
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.
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