William W. Brown

As printed in 1889

ILLIAM W. BROWN, son of John Buckuer and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown, in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, March 23, 1815. Thomas Brown, his grandfather, a native of Aai'ginia, was a soldier during the War of the Revolution. His children were Elizabeth, John B., George, Lydia, Samuel B., William, Mary Ann and Thomas F., all now deceased. John B. was reared and educated in Loudoun County, Va., where he married Mary Morgan; they then located in West Virginia, where two children were born to them: Ann, born November 28, 1811, died August 12, 1812, and George H., born April 4, 1813, died in 1844.

In 1813 J. B. Brown removed to Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and purchased the southeast quarter of Section 20, Township IS, Range 14, where the rest of his children were born, named: William W., Hugh M. (born October 14, 1810, and married to Margaret Neely, in 1839, both deceased), Thomas A., born June 22, 1818, and married to Mary Bird, residing in Clinton Township, Wayne County; Rebecca Ann, born February 25, 1820, died in infancy; Jolin, born October 25, 1822, married to Rhoda Newkirk, died in Shreve, April 19, 1889; Mercy, born December 19, 1823, died in infancy; Stephen, born August 8, 1826, iyio-<4 married to Martha M. EitHe, who has since diet, he is still a resident of Clinton Township; Mary Ann, born August 25, 1828, now Mrs. James K. Campbell, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio; Isaac, now a resident of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, married to Elizabeth McConkey, deceased, and Samuel E., a resident of Firth, Neb.

William W. was raised and educated in Clinton Township, and April G, 1837, he married Phebe, daughter of James Lee, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. They located on the farm he now owns in Clinton Township (his present residence) and engaged in farming. To them ten children were born: Elias, born December 2, 1838, married to Sarah J. Numbers, October 2, 1862, is now a farmer of Kidder, Mo.; James, born April 13, 1840, married to Mary J. McCleve, and died June 23, 1869; Hugli M., born September 18, 184:1, married first to Elmira Merkle, and next to Agnes J. Barcus, he died November 1, 1887: Caroline, bom March 23, 1813, married to John H. Batdortf, who is engaged in the saw-mill business at Liberty Center, Henry Co., Ohio; William Wesley, born March 2, 1845, died July 25, 1877; Mary M., born October 20, 1846, now Mrs. James Kerr, of Clinton Township; Millard Fillmore, bom November 12, 1848, married to Hadessa McMillen, and died November

9, 187!t. she died December 31, 1886; David, born September 21, 1851, married to Effie McFadden, is now a farmer of Clinton Township; Stephen, born February 2, 1854, married to Mary Keiflfer, is

I now a farmer of Clinton Township;

: Phebe E., born July 25, 1857, now Mrs. Mehan Richey, of Clinton Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived together on the old homestead until her decease, July 17, 1886; she was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Brown is a member of the Disciples Church; political honors have been thrust upon him; he was justice of the peace fifteen years; trustee of the township nearly one-fourth of the time, and, what is most of all remarkable, school director fifty successive years. Mr. Brown is now seventy-three years of age, and has witnessed the growth and development of the county from a wilderness, there being but six log cabins in Clinton Township on his arrival here. He is a stanch Republican, having voted for Harrison in 1840, and the grandson in 1888.

As printed in Commemorative biographical record of Wayne County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families .. (1889). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.