Rachel Reed

Rachel married Captain Aaron Brown on 3 Oct 1746 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Aaron (son of Ephraim Brown and Mary Fairbanks) was born on 10 Aug 1725 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1816 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1790, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1810, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Died:
After Ephraim's death, his wife moved with family to Trumbull County OH.

Ephraim married Hannah Howe on 30 Jan 1775 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Hannah (daughter of Abner Howe and Mehitable Holton) was born on 19 Nov 1754 in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Apr 1818 in Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aaron married Submit Howe on 19 Feb 1777 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Submit (daughter of Abner Howe and Mehitable Holton) was born on 23 May 1756 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1851 in , , New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Zadock Nims in 1775. Zadock (son of David Nims and Abigail Hawks) was born on 27 Mar 1754 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 31 Jan 1842 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1754
• Residence: 1780, Temple, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1786, Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1790, Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1794, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 26 Sep 1796, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1800, Wardsboro, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1810, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA

Notes:

I have come to the conclusion that the Revolutionary War service of Silas Brown, as claimed by his descendants, is non-existent.

The service in question is that detailed in "The Brown-Schutt Genealogy, 1948", and further represented in "Brown-Schutt Ancestral Lines, 1979". The data on Silas Brown's service was compiled by Maude Levering Lawrence and Geraldine Lawrence Hurd. The work of these 2 women shows up in several family genealogies.

Our Silas died in 1813. The Silas who is cited in the above mentioned books was alive in 1834, and living in Essex county New York, when he was awarded a pension on the cited revolutionary service.

Another Silas Brown was found on the Revolutionary Pension Rolls. This Silas was living in Townsend, Wyndham County, Vermont, which is close to Putney. This is also not our Silas since this pension was awarded to a living Silas Brown in 1818. He died in 1826 and is buried in Townsend. Following data from findagrave.com.
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Birth: 1755, USA
Death: Nov. 12, 1826, Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Created by: Judith6355
Record added: Nov 12, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 100614501
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100614501
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It is still possible our Silas served in the Revolutionary War, but evidence has not been found. Silas Brown was a very common name at the time, making the identification of relevant records more difficult. Since there are no pension documents for Silas, which usually contain enlistment and service data at a minimum, it makes it nearly impossible to say which Silas Brown in the muster rolls is actually him.

The evidence does affirm, however, that our Silas is the one who married Mary Nims Larabee, and settled in Putney Vermont. Though his children were born prior to the family moving to Putney, a number of their marriage records are contained in the Putney Vital Records.

Silas married Mary Nims about 1776. Mary (daughter of Ebenezer Nims and Mercy Smead) was born on 23 May 1756 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 13 Nov 1819 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Howe, Ohio
A TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY Of TRUMBULL OHIO: A NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF ITS HISTORICAL PROGRESS, ITS PEOPLE, AND ITS PRINCIPAL INTERESTS; BY HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON OF WARREN; VOL I; THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, 1909

Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston, was the owner of the land now known as Bloomfield. He sold it to Ephraim Brown of West Moreland, New Hampshire, and Thomas Howe of Williamstown, Vermont, in 1814. Brown and Howe were nephew and uncle. They had been in business together. Eventually, Howe sold out to Brown, reserving one thousand acres in the southern part of the township for himself.
...
An old story worth repeating is that of the dog, Argus, who accompanied the early settlers in 1815. The dog either became tired, dissatisfied or was stolen in New York state. When Mr. Howe was going through that place some months later, he saw the dog and claimed it. The landlord said he had raised him from a pup. Whereupon Mr. Howe ordered Argus into his cutter, told him to watch it, and then dared the landlord to take anything from the cutter. The dog stood guard and did not allow the landlord to come near him, and proceeded with his master.
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Thomas Howe did not move his family to Bloomfield until 1817, his wife and five children coming with him. She was a woman of very benevolent nature. He was a member of the (p.416) Ohio legislature and he lived to be more than eighty. His children were identified more or less with Bloomfield, Dr. G.W. being one of the early teachers and later a doctor for forty-four years. He was surgeon for three years in the war of the Rebellion and his services were especially commended. He was twice elected to the Ohio legislature. William Howe did not spend much of his early life in Bloomfield. He was engaged in business in Pittsburg and the ore districts of Lake Superior. He was a clerk in the provost office in Warren during the rebellion. He married Melvina Flowers and had nine children.
...
When Ephraim Brown and Thomas Howe decided to come into New Connecticut, they expected to take up land near Cleveland, but the Cuyahoga River and the lakeshore seemed so dreary that they decided on Bloomfield. The family came in a chaise to Buffalo, then to Grand River in boats and by horseback to North Bloomfield.

Ephraim and Fayette Brown of North Bloomfield, Ohio
Elroy McKendree Avery, A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut, Volume II, Biography (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918).

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Ephraim Brown. The life of Ephraim Brown is of interest to Cleveland people for several reasons. He was never a resident of the city, though he was one of the pioneer founders and owners of the great Ohio Western Reserve, and during the first half century of its development he was not only a big factor in its material life and business affairs, but exemplified in a remarkable degree that idealism, love of liberty, and harmony between the conscience and will which have been among the finest products and contributions of Northern Ohio to the American nation. His sketch should also be read as a means of better interpreting the forces and character possessed and exemplified by his son, the late Fayette Brown, one of Cleveland's most distinguished citizens.

Ephraim Brown was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, October 27, 1775. He was the oldest of the ten children of Ephraim and Hannah (Howe) Brown. In many ways the family was typical of New England middle class people of the eighteenth century. His father had a small farm and by occasional outside labor at some mechanical pursuits was able to afford comfortable support to his family. He was a man of great sturdiness of character, but one virtue he pushed to excess and by going security for a friend lost all his property. After that he never regained his economic position. Ephraim Brown's mother was a woman of deep religious feeling, and she imparted it to her son.

When the financial calamity came Ephraim Brown, as the oldest son, became the chief support of the family. While necessity forced upon him responsibilities beyond his years, it served to develop in him an indomitable perseverance and a self reliance which were ever afterwards among his chief characteristics. But hard labor did not prevent him from seeking and obtaining access to much of the best culture of his day. He read good books, though books and libraries were not widely distributed when he was a young man, and he constantly sought the society of people whose worth rested upon character rather than artificial standards. His developing character is illustrated by many of his early letters which have been preserved. As was the custom of the time such correspondence was largely concerned with moral, religious and political discussions. The letters are important because they show that Ephraim Brown had a certain fearlessness and sincerity of thought and a tendency to reject the conventional prejudices unless they were ratified by his own thinking. He also showed a readiness to be convinced of error in the face of superior argument.

Very early in life he conceived a bitter hatred of the system of slavery, and that was one of the actuating principles of his subsequent career. In a letter he wrote in 1807 to a Southern relative who had tried to persuade young Brown to come South and improve the superior facilities there for making money, Mr. Brown questioned the method by which wealth might be acquired so rapidly by "commerce in human flesh" and added, "I have been taught from my cradle to despise slavery, and will never forget to teach my children if any I should have the same lesson.'' Other sentiments in that letter thirty years later were expounded and used in the public utterances of William Lloyd Garrison and other distinguished abolitionists. Ephraim Brown possessed his mother's earnestness of inward thought and feeling, and whatever religious disposition he had was made a deep part of him rather than a conventional robe of thought and emotion. He was quick and ready at all times to denounce evil vigorously, and some of his more conservative friends felt that he was too radical on this score. Due largely to his love of freedom and his habits of independent thought, he never became closely associated with societies of any kind.

For a number of years he applied himself industriously to the task of earning a living for himself and those dependent upon him, and in 1803 he engaged in merchandising in Connecticut with Thomas K. Green of Putney, Vermont. Mr. Green had charge of the business at Putney, while young Brown managed the branch store at Westmoreland. He remained a merchant there until he moved out to Ohio in 1815. While in Connecticut he represented his town in the Legislature several times. Soon after entering upon his individual business career, on November 9,1806, he married Miss Mary Huntington. She was the oldest daughter of Gurdon and Temperance (Williams) Huntington, and was born at Windham, Connecticut, August 29, 1787. While still a child her father and mother moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Mrs. Ephraim Brown came from a talented family, and she herself possessed many qualities of both heart and intellect. Before her marriage she taught school. Her ancestors had come from England in 1639 and settled in Connecticut, and one of the family was Governor Samuel Huntington of Ohio.

In 1814 Ephraim Brown formed a partnership with his uncle, Thomas Howe. From Peter C. Brooks of Boston they bought township 7, range 4, in the Western Reserve of Ohio. This township has since taken the name of Bloomfield. In 1815 Mr. Brown brought his family out to the new possession. The journey required six weeks, and they arrived at the new home on July 16th. Some preparations had already been made for their comfort and support, but then and for years afterward they were face to face with the hardships and privations of pioneering on the edge of the western wilderness. Mr. Brown later assumed the burden of the debt consequent upon the partnership, and in a few years had fully discharged it. In 1819 the Ashtabula & Trumbull Turnpike Company was formed and chartered under the laws of Ohio. Ephraim Brown took an active part in pushing this enterprise, in spite of the tremendous obstacles in its way, and as much as any other man credit was due him for its successful completion. For many years he exercised a ceaseless care for the interests of the company and the preservation of the road. Through his influence a postoffice was established at Bloomfield. Within seven years after the first settlement in Bloomfield daily four-horse mail coaches passed through the place on the way to the lake or south to the Ohio River. In consequence land advanced in value, and the better class of settlers acquired many of the comforts and improvements to which they had been accustomed in the older states. After coming to Ohio Ephraim Brown served several terms in the General Assembly. In his younger days he was a Jeffersonian republican, and from first to last was an avowed abolitionist. He believed implicitly in the complete separation of the church and state, and he therefore strenuously opposed the efforts of a prominent religious sect in 1822 to dominate politics. He was long known as Colonel Brown. He had served as captain of a company of militia in New Hampshire, and afterwards was made governor's aide with the rank of colonel. Ephraim Brown in his social relations was distinguished for his kindness, benevolence and hospitality, and in his business transactions by prudence, promptness and integrity. He was the type of character such as any state or community might prize and might hold up as an example to coming generations.

Ephraim Brown died April 17, 1845, in the seventieth year of his life. His wife survived until January 26,1862. Their nine children, all now deceased, were: Alexander; George W.; Mary, who became the wife of Col. Joseph K. Wing; Charles; Elizabeth; James Monroe; Marvin Huntington ; Fayette; Anne Frances.

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Fayette Brown. One of the vital elements entering into the making of Cleveland as a city was the establishment many years ago of the iron industry at this point where land and water meet and combine to make Cleveland a great transportation and industrial center. It is important to remember that the iron industry would not have been created without the energies, the foresight and the patient wisdom of men. Of the men chiefly responsible for this factor of Cleveland's growth perhaps the greatest was Fayette Brown. Not that his life did not mean more than its results in the upbuilding of Cleveland's iron interests. He was a great business man from whatever point of view considered, and he was not less great as a citizen, whose judgment was always true, whose public spirit was unlimited, and who, when all things are considered, left as his best monument the City of Cleveland itself, which in the final analysis is only an expression of the energies and spirit of a notable group of citizens, among whom Fayette Brown was by no means the least.

He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, December 17, 1823, and at the end of a long and useful life died at his home in Cleveland January 20, 1910. He was the eighth in a family of nine children. His parents were Ephraim and Mary (Huntington) Brown. Ephraim Brown was also a conspicuous character in his generation, and his name is the subject of a biography found on other pages of this publication.

Fayette Brown during his early youth had every incentive to develop his natural talents and abilities, and his father, realizing the value of an education, gave his children all the opportunities he could afford. Fayette Brown therefore attended the schools of Jefferson and Gambier, Ohio, but at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeship at business life as clerk in the wholesale dry goods establishment of his eldest brother at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was with that establishment as an employe until 1845, when the senior partner having retired he was admitted to the firm and for six years was one of its active managers.

Fayette Brown became a resident of Cleveland in 1851. Some months previously he had formed a partnership with the Hon. George Mygatt in the banking business. The firm of Mygatt & Brown, Bankers, is one best remembered in the history of banking in Cleveland. Mr. Mygatt retired in 1857 and Mr. Brown continued as a banker under his individual name until the outbreak of the Civil war. He closed his banking house and accepted an appointment from the president as a paymaster in the United States Army. His personal integrity and his experience as a banker gave him splendid qualifications for the heavy responsibilities of that work, but a year's illness and the demands of his private affairs compelled him to resign.

It was on his return to Cleveland that Mr. Brown became actively identified with the iron industry. As general agent and manager for the Jackson Iron Company he soon became known as one of the most capable iron masters of his day. He remained with the Jackson Iron Company until December, 1887. "While he possessed an exceptional general knowledge of business, Mr. Brown was not technically familiar with the iron industry when he took up his duties with the Jackson Iron Company. It was in keeping with his nature that he should embark enthusiastically upon this enterprise and should familiarize himself with every detail, practical and technical, connected with his work. His associates always envied his perseverance and his indomitable energy and resolution, and it was the impregnable resources of his personal character as much as anything else that accounted for the wonderful success of the Jackson Iron Company and which eventually fortified the iron industry in Cleveland beyond all danger of outside competition. While the operation of the business was exceedingly profitable to all concerned Mr. Brown from the first realized his responsibility to the city as well as to his stockholders, and the prosperity of the company was also the prosperity of the community. During the last half century the Middle West has developed no greater iron master than Fayette Brown.

Naturally he became identified with various kindred enterprises and was associated as a director or otherwise with some of Cleveland's best known business organizations. He was president of the Union Steel Screw Company, was chairman of the Stewart Iron Company, Limited, was president of the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, of the National Chemical Company, the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, and was a member of the firm H. H. Brown & Company, one of the large iron ore firms of the country. This company represented the Lake Superior Iron Company and the Champion Iron Company, handling the products of two of the largest iron mines in the Lake Superior region.

Mr. Brown was a member of the Union Club, the Golf and Country Clubs of Cleveland, the Castalia Club, the Winous Point Shooting Club, the Point Moullie Shooting Club, the West Huron Shooting Club, the Huron Mountain Shooting and Fishing Club, and the Munising Trout Club. To describe all the influences and activities of this notable Cleveland citizen would exceed the limits of this sketch, but something more should be said in a general way to give sharper definition to a sketch which will enable a later generation to picture this veteran iron master and citizen. His was a life from which nothing but good can follow, and a character that may well serve as an example for all that is highest and best in manhood and citizenship. While he attained a high degree of prosperity it was never gained at the cost of other men's success. He was also interested in everything for the good of Cleveland and the welfare of its people; was an advocate and practicer of healthy outdoor life, a keen sportsman, taking his vacations and recreation in shooting and fishing. He was an expert in all things pertaining to sportsmanship. Up to the age of eighty-five he spent many days in the duck marches belonging to the clubs of which he was a member and with as keen an interest and unerring an aim as he had always been noted for. He exemplified to a high degree that classic ideal of mens sana in corpore sano. When he worked it was with indefatigable energy. When he engaged in recreation he did so with as keen an appetite and vigor as when following his business affairs. He kept himself healthy in mind and body and spirit, and though he lived to be upwards of 87 years of age he never really retired and he came to the end of his life with scarcely a faculty diminished until the day of his final illness. At his funeral gathered notable men who had played important parts in making Cleveland the metropolis of Ohio, men who had been fellow workers with Fayette Brown, fellow builders of Cleveland, and they did honor to his memory as one of the greatest of them all and who had signally enriched and expanded his beloved city by his many enterprises.

On July 15, 1847, Fayette Brown married Miss Cornelia C. Curtiss of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Fayette Brown was born December 4, 1825, and died April 5, 1899. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters: Harvey Huntington Brown, whose part in Cleveland affairs is described elsewhere; Florence C. Brown, of Cleveland; Alexander E. Brown, a great inventor and manufacturer, who died at Cleveland April 26, 1911; William Fayette Brown, who died in 1891; and Mary L. Brown, of Cleveland.

http://www.hubbard.lib.oh.us/HPL_Pages/docs/PDF/CityHistory/BLOOMFIELD.pdf

In 1814 Ephraim Brown of West Moreland, New Hampshire, and his uncle, Thomas Howe of Williamstown, Vermont purchased from Peter Chardon Brooks of Boston a tract of land five miles square in the northern part of what is now Trumbull
County. Howe and Brown were boyhood playmates since they were about the same age. “It is said that the first business transaction between the two took place when the uncle
and the nephew were both less than ten years of age. Howe rented a setting hen of Brown for the season; and at the expiration of the time agreed upon, returned the hen with half of the chickens.” In 1815 Howe sold his share of the township to Brown reserving 1,000 acres in the southern part for himself. Thus Ephraim Brown had to assume the responsibility of developing the area. He hired S.E. Ensign of Mesopotamia to survey the land -- no easy task on account of the swamps. The township was divided into 170 lots, containing 50 acres to 100 acres each, and named West Moreland, probably because Brown had
originally lived in West Moreland, New Hampshire. Later the name was changed to Bloomfield.

Ephraim married Mary Buckingham Huntington on 9 Nov 1806 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of Gurdon Huntington and Temperance Williams) was born on 29 Aug 1787 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Jan 1862 in North Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: , , , USA

Mehitable married Charles Carlton Thayer on 14 Aug 1803 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Charles was born on 14 Aug 1782 in Orange, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Jan 1866 in Sheffield, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA

Dorcas married Jonathan Winchester on 1 Dec 1812 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Winchester and Eunice Smith) was born on 16 Feb 1787 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 11 Jul 1861 in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1840, , Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Shelby, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Barre, Orleans, New York, USA

Luther married Anna Burke on 25 Mar 1813 in , , New Hampshire, USA. Anna was born on 28 Sep 1785 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 1 Feb 1836 in , Orleans, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, China, Wyoming, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, China, Wyoming, New York, USA

Hannah married Isaac Dennis on 17 Mar 1804 in Arcade, Wyoming, New York, USA. Isaac was born on 2 Jan 1782 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Mar 1864 in Arcade, Wyoming, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1840, , Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA

Family/Spouse: Anna Brown. Anna was born about 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1830, Cambria, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1840, , Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1870, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA

George married Julia Stebbins on 29 Aug 1824 in , Monroe, New York, USA. Julia (daughter of Ashel Stebbins and Betsy Stebbins) was born on 16 Dec 1808 in , , Connecticut, USA; died on 6 Feb 1885 in Midland, Ingersoll, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1810, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1820, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1830, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1 Jun 1840, Roxbury, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

Philander married Sarah White on 26 Nov 1807. Sarah was born on 24 Nov 1782 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 20 Jun 1866 in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in 1866 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Betsey married Captain John Wilson on 23 Nov 1809 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. John (son of Daniel Wilson and Abigail Morse) was born on 17 Jun 1778 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 3 Dec 1830 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Dec 1830 in Four Corners Cemetery, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Nathaniel Heaton on 20 Mar 1822 in Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Nathaniel (son of Jonathan Heaton) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1810, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA
• Residence: 1816, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA

Notes:

Silas worked as a clerk in Boston. He met and was recruited by Comfort Tyler to participate in the "Aaron Burr Expedition". He made it to Mississippi where all the group, including Burr, were arrested. Burr was acquitted of treason in 1807. Silas lived in Natchez, Mississippi for some years working as a clerk before he died in 1817. He corresponded with his cousin Ephraim Brown over the years leading up to his death. The letters were published in 1915 in "The Aaron Burr Expedition - Letters to Ephraim Brown from Silas Brown 1805-1815". A copy of this book is attached below.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Noble, Indiana, USA

Mary married James Minott on 19 Apr 1812 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. James (son of Samuel Minott and Martha White) was born on 18 Feb 1788 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 18 Sep 1842 in Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, USA; was buried in Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1820, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1840, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1850, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1870, Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, USA

Ephraim married Sally Sarah Reed in Aug 1814. Sally was born in 1796 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 25 Jan 1825 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Sophia Eddey on 10 Sep 1826 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. Sophia was born about 1805 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died about 1840 in , , Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Mary Keyes on 1 Nov 1843 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. Mary was born in 1808 in , , Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1820, Clark, Clinton, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1830, Clark, Clinton, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 2 Sep 1835, , Allen, Indiana, USA; Land Patent, sections 8 & 21
• Residence: 1840, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 10 May 1848, , Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1849, , Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1 Jun 1865, Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1870, Beaver, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Laws of the state of Indiana, passed at the ... session of the General Assembly, by Indiana General Assembly.
Type: Journal, magazine: State or province government publication; English Publisher: Indianapolis : J.P. Chapman, 1853-1982.

CHAPTER CLXXV1II.
Aa met to incorporate the Albion and Lisbon Turnpike Company. [APPROVED FEBRUARY 12, 1851.]
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That Asa Brown, Leonard Myers, Jerome Sweet, William M. Clapp, and Alpheus Baker, of the county of Noble, and their successors in office duly elected as hereinafter directed, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of the Albion and Lisbon Turnpike Company, shall be able and capable in law and equity to sue and be sued, plead and be impleadunto in any and all courts of justice whatever, to make and use a common seal, and the same to alter, change, or renew at pleasure, and shall be able and capable in law to make contracts and enforce the same, and to make and enforce the necessary by-laws, rales and regulations to enable them to carry into effect the provisions of this act and the objects contemplated by the same, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this State.

Asa Brown

d: 1876

Asa Brown, an early hotelkeeper, was born in Vermont, and married Lucy Baker, of Ohio. After their marriage they located in Indiana, where Asa was one of the contractors on the Wabash canal. After the completion of the canal he located in Noble county, purchased a tract of land, and founded the village of Lisbon. Here he also erected a hotel which he conducted for several years. In 1861 he removed to Alexandria, Minn., built and conducted a feed and flouring mill, and remained three years.

In 1864 he came to Austin, Minn., and purchased what afterward became the Lacy House. Three years later he sold out and purchased a farm in Fillmore county. After farming three years he came to LeRoy and engaged in the hotel business a year. Then he and his wife spent two years in Kentucky, afterward taking up their residence in Lansing township.

Here Asa Brown died in 1876 at the age of eighty-three years. His wife died in June, 1909, at the age of eighty-seven.

HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, MN. 1911.

Asa married Caroline Baker on 8 Jul 1817 in Granville, Licking, Ohio, USA. Caroline (daughter of Timothy Baker and Prudence Brooks) was born in 1805 in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont, USA; died in 1840 in Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Lucy Baker on 14 Feb 1838 in , Saint Joseph, Indiana, USA. Lucy (daughter of Alpheus Baker and Adelia Burgess) was born on 21 Jun 1821 in , Licking, Ohio, USA; died in Jun 1909 in Lansing, Mower, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Minott on 22 Jun 1815 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. Mary (daughter of Samuel Minott and Martha White) was born on 3 Dec 1794 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 12 Jan 1837 in Franklin Mills, Portage, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA
• Residence: 1870, Akron, Summit, Ohio, USA

Charles married Julia Ann King on 19 Feb 1842 in , Warren, Ohio, USA. Julia (daughter of Leicester King and Julia Ann Huntington) was born on 7 Nov 1817 in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, USA; died on 8 Jan 1885 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ephraim and Fayette Brown of North Bloomfield, Ohio
Elroy McKendree Avery, A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut, Volume II, Biography (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918).

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Ephraim Brown. The life of Ephraim Brown is of interest to Cleveland people for several reasons. He was never a resident of the city, though he was one of the pioneer founders and owners of the great Ohio Western Reserve, and during the first half century of its development he was not only a big factor in its material life and business affairs, but exemplified in a remarkable degree that idealism, love of liberty, and harmony between the conscience and will which have been among the finest products and contributions of Northern Ohio to the American nation. His sketch should also be read as a means of better interpreting the forces and character possessed and exemplified by his son, the late Fayette Brown, one of Cleveland's most distinguished citizens.

Ephraim Brown was born at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, October 27, 1775. He was the oldest of the ten children of Ephraim and Hannah (Howe) Brown. In many ways the family was typical of New England middle class people of the eighteenth century. His father had a small farm and by occasional outside labor at some mechanical pursuits was able to afford comfortable support to his family. He was a man of great sturdiness of character, but one virtue he pushed to excess and by going security for a friend lost all his property. After that he never regained his economic position. Ephraim Brown's mother was a woman of deep religious feeling, and she imparted it to her son.

When the financial calamity came Ephraim Brown, as the oldest son, became the chief support of the family. While necessity forced upon him responsibilities beyond his years, it served to develop in him an indomitable perseverance and a self reliance which were ever afterwards among his chief characteristics. But hard labor did not prevent him from seeking and obtaining access to much of the best culture of his day. He read good books, though books and libraries were not widely distributed when he was a young man, and he constantly sought the society of people whose worth rested upon character rather than artificial standards. His developing character is illustrated by many of his early letters which have been preserved. As was the custom of the time such correspondence was largely concerned with moral, religious and political discussions. The letters are important because they show that Ephraim Brown had a certain fearlessness and sincerity of thought and a tendency to reject the conventional prejudices unless they were ratified by his own thinking. He also showed a readiness to be convinced of error in the face of superior argument.

Very early in life he conceived a bitter hatred of the system of slavery, and that was one of the actuating principles of his subsequent career. In a letter he wrote in 1807 to a Southern relative who had tried to persuade young Brown to come South and improve the superior facilities there for making money, Mr. Brown questioned the method by which wealth might be acquired so rapidly by "commerce in human flesh" and added, "I have been taught from my cradle to despise slavery, and will never forget to teach my children if any I should have the same lesson.'' Other sentiments in that letter thirty years later were expounded and used in the public utterances of William Lloyd Garrison and other distinguished abolitionists. Ephraim Brown possessed his mother's earnestness of inward thought and feeling, and whatever religious disposition he had was made a deep part of him rather than a conventional robe of thought and emotion. He was quick and ready at all times to denounce evil vigorously, and some of his more conservative friends felt that he was too radical on this score. Due largely to his love of freedom and his habits of independent thought, he never became closely associated with societies of any kind.

For a number of years he applied himself industriously to the task of earning a living for himself and those dependent upon him, and in 1803 he engaged in merchandising in Connecticut with Thomas K. Green of Putney, Vermont. Mr. Green had charge of the business at Putney, while young Brown managed the branch store at Westmoreland. He remained a merchant there until he moved out to Ohio in 1815. While in Connecticut he represented his town in the Legislature several times. Soon after entering upon his individual business career, on November 9,1806, he married Miss Mary Huntington. She was the oldest daughter of Gurdon and Temperance (Williams) Huntington, and was born at Windham, Connecticut, August 29, 1787. While still a child her father and mother moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Mrs. Ephraim Brown came from a talented family, and she herself possessed many qualities of both heart and intellect. Before her marriage she taught school. Her ancestors had come from England in 1639 and settled in Connecticut, and one of the family was Governor Samuel Huntington of Ohio.

In 1814 Ephraim Brown formed a partnership with his uncle, Thomas Howe. From Peter C. Brooks of Boston they bought township 7, range 4, in the Western Reserve of Ohio. This township has since taken the name of Bloomfield. In 1815 Mr. Brown brought his family out to the new possession. The journey required six weeks, and they arrived at the new home on July 16th. Some preparations had already been made for their comfort and support, but then and for years afterward they were face to face with the hardships and privations of pioneering on the edge of the western wilderness. Mr. Brown later assumed the burden of the debt consequent upon the partnership, and in a few years had fully discharged it. In 1819 the Ashtabula & Trumbull Turnpike Company was formed and chartered under the laws of Ohio. Ephraim Brown took an active part in pushing this enterprise, in spite of the tremendous obstacles in its way, and as much as any other man credit was due him for its successful completion. For many years he exercised a ceaseless care for the interests of the company and the preservation of the road. Through his influence a postoffice was established at Bloomfield. Within seven years after the first settlement in Bloomfield daily four-horse mail coaches passed through the place on the way to the lake or south to the Ohio River. In consequence land advanced in value, and the better class of settlers acquired many of the comforts and improvements to which they had been accustomed in the older states. After coming to Ohio Ephraim Brown served several terms in the General Assembly. In his younger days he was a Jeffersonian republican, and from first to last was an avowed abolitionist. He believed implicitly in the complete separation of the church and state, and he therefore strenuously opposed the efforts of a prominent religious sect in 1822 to dominate politics. He was long known as Colonel Brown. He had served as captain of a company of militia in New Hampshire, and afterwards was made governor's aide with the rank of colonel. Ephraim Brown in his social relations was distinguished for his kindness, benevolence and hospitality, and in his business transactions by prudence, promptness and integrity. He was the type of character such as any state or community might prize and might hold up as an example to coming generations.

Ephraim Brown died April 17, 1845, in the seventieth year of his life. His wife survived until January 26,1862. Their nine children, all now deceased, were: Alexander; George W.; Mary, who became the wife of Col. Joseph K. Wing; Charles; Elizabeth; James Monroe; Marvin Huntington ; Fayette; Anne Frances.

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Fayette Brown. One of the vital elements entering into the making of Cleveland as a city was the establishment many years ago of the iron industry at this point where land and water meet and combine to make Cleveland a great transportation and industrial center. It is important to remember that the iron industry would not have been created without the energies, the foresight and the patient wisdom of men. Of the men chiefly responsible for this factor of Cleveland's growth perhaps the greatest was Fayette Brown. Not that his life did not mean more than its results in the upbuilding of Cleveland's iron interests. He was a great business man from whatever point of view considered, and he was not less great as a citizen, whose judgment was always true, whose public spirit was unlimited, and who, when all things are considered, left as his best monument the City of Cleveland itself, which in the final analysis is only an expression of the energies and spirit of a notable group of citizens, among whom Fayette Brown was by no means the least.

He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, December 17, 1823, and at the end of a long and useful life died at his home in Cleveland January 20, 1910. He was the eighth in a family of nine children. His parents were Ephraim and Mary (Huntington) Brown. Ephraim Brown was also a conspicuous character in his generation, and his name is the subject of a biography found on other pages of this publication.

Fayette Brown during his early youth had every incentive to develop his natural talents and abilities, and his father, realizing the value of an education, gave his children all the opportunities he could afford. Fayette Brown therefore attended the schools of Jefferson and Gambier, Ohio, but at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeship at business life as clerk in the wholesale dry goods establishment of his eldest brother at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was with that establishment as an employe until 1845, when the senior partner having retired he was admitted to the firm and for six years was one of its active managers.

Fayette Brown became a resident of Cleveland in 1851. Some months previously he had formed a partnership with the Hon. George Mygatt in the banking business. The firm of Mygatt & Brown, Bankers, is one best remembered in the history of banking in Cleveland. Mr. Mygatt retired in 1857 and Mr. Brown continued as a banker under his individual name until the outbreak of the Civil war. He closed his banking house and accepted an appointment from the president as a paymaster in the United States Army. His personal integrity and his experience as a banker gave him splendid qualifications for the heavy responsibilities of that work, but a year's illness and the demands of his private affairs compelled him to resign.

It was on his return to Cleveland that Mr. Brown became actively identified with the iron industry. As general agent and manager for the Jackson Iron Company he soon became known as one of the most capable iron masters of his day. He remained with the Jackson Iron Company until December, 1887. "While he possessed an exceptional general knowledge of business, Mr. Brown was not technically familiar with the iron industry when he took up his duties with the Jackson Iron Company. It was in keeping with his nature that he should embark enthusiastically upon this enterprise and should familiarize himself with every detail, practical and technical, connected with his work. His associates always envied his perseverance and his indomitable energy and resolution, and it was the impregnable resources of his personal character as much as anything else that accounted for the wonderful success of the Jackson Iron Company and which eventually fortified the iron industry in Cleveland beyond all danger of outside competition. While the operation of the business was exceedingly profitable to all concerned Mr. Brown from the first realized his responsibility to the city as well as to his stockholders, and the prosperity of the company was also the prosperity of the community. During the last half century the Middle West has developed no greater iron master than Fayette Brown.

Naturally he became identified with various kindred enterprises and was associated as a director or otherwise with some of Cleveland's best known business organizations. He was president of the Union Steel Screw Company, was chairman of the Stewart Iron Company, Limited, was president of the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company, of the National Chemical Company, the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, and was a member of the firm H. H. Brown & Company, one of the large iron ore firms of the country. This company represented the Lake Superior Iron Company and the Champion Iron Company, handling the products of two of the largest iron mines in the Lake Superior region.

Mr. Brown was a member of the Union Club, the Golf and Country Clubs of Cleveland, the Castalia Club, the Winous Point Shooting Club, the Point Moullie Shooting Club, the West Huron Shooting Club, the Huron Mountain Shooting and Fishing Club, and the Munising Trout Club. To describe all the influences and activities of this notable Cleveland citizen would exceed the limits of this sketch, but something more should be said in a general way to give sharper definition to a sketch which will enable a later generation to picture this veteran iron master and citizen. His was a life from which nothing but good can follow, and a character that may well serve as an example for all that is highest and best in manhood and citizenship. While he attained a high degree of prosperity it was never gained at the cost of other men's success. He was also interested in everything for the good of Cleveland and the welfare of its people; was an advocate and practicer of healthy outdoor life, a keen sportsman, taking his vacations and recreation in shooting and fishing. He was an expert in all things pertaining to sportsmanship. Up to the age of eighty-five he spent many days in the duck marches belonging to the clubs of which he was a member and with as keen an interest and unerring an aim as he had always been noted for. He exemplified to a high degree that classic ideal of mens sana in corpore sano. When he worked it was with indefatigable energy. When he engaged in recreation he did so with as keen an appetite and vigor as when following his business affairs. He kept himself healthy in mind and body and spirit, and though he lived to be upwards of 87 years of age he never really retired and he came to the end of his life with scarcely a faculty diminished until the day of his final illness. At his funeral gathered notable men who had played important parts in making Cleveland the metropolis of Ohio, men who had been fellow workers with Fayette Brown, fellow builders of Cleveland, and they did honor to his memory as one of the greatest of them all and who had signally enriched and expanded his beloved city by his many enterprises.

On July 15, 1847, Fayette Brown married Miss Cornelia C. Curtiss of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Fayette Brown was born December 4, 1825, and died April 5, 1899. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters: Harvey Huntington Brown, whose part in Cleveland affairs is described elsewhere; Florence C. Brown, of Cleveland; Alexander E. Brown, a great inventor and manufacturer, who died at Cleveland April 26, 1911; William Fayette Brown, who died in 1891; and Mary L. Brown, of Cleveland.

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• Residence: , , , USA

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• Residence: 1850, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1860, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1870, Lima, Livingston, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Lima, Livingston, New York, USA

Jonathan married Fannie Brewster Wetherell on 14 Mar 1838 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA. Fannie was born on 1 Aug 1813 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; died on 9 Feb 1894 in Corning, Steuben, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Soloman C Winchester
• Residence: , , , USA
• Residence: 13 Oct 1850, White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA

Salmon married Verona D Mann on 17 Sep 1850 in Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Verona was born in 1831 in Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1837, , Saint Clair, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Saint Clair, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1880, Lebanon, Saint Clair, Illinois, USA

Family/Spouse: Carrie Brown. Carrie was born about 1830 in , , New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Shelby, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1860, Barre, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1870, Gaines, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Gaines, Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1892, , Orleans, New York, USA
• Residence: 1910, Albion, Orleans, New York, USA

Mary married Clark Leonard on 23 Apr 1844. Clark (son of Daniel Leonard and Sally Mann) was born on 30 May 1821 in Dover, Windham, Vermont, USA; died on 23 Apr 1898 in Barre, Orleans, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1861, Lockport, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1870, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Lewis. Elizabeth was born on 18 Aug 1828 in Royalton, Niagara, New York, USA; died on 29 Mar 1900 in Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: , , Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1870, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Julia married Joseph Lewis in 1849 in Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA. Joseph (son of Oliver Lewis and Lucy Avery) was born on 25 Dec 1825 in Royalton, Niagara, New York, USA; died on 28 Apr 1906 in Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA

Asahel married Janet Evans on 11 May 1854 in , Niagara, New York, USA. Janet (daughter of Lewis Evans and Anna Hoyt) was born on 25 Sep 1835 in Ridgeway, Orleans, New York, USA; died on 5 Dec 1911 in Thomas Township, Saginaw, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Ingersoll, Midland, Michigan, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Wayne, Noble, Indiana, USA

Family/Spouse: Jane Green. Jane was born on 28 Feb 1829 in Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA; died on 31 Aug 1857 in Kendallville, Noble, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Warner. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA
• Residence: 1855, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1860, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA
• Residence: 1865, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1870, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; Residence Post Office: Westfield
• Probate: 18 Jun 1895, , Kings, New York, USA

Mary married John Goddard Hinckley on 29 May 1843 in Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, USA. John (son of Solomon Hinckley and Mercy Otis) was born on 27 Aug 1809 in Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; died on 6 Mar 1869 in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA; was buried in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Abby N Brown

Abigail married David Ransom Cobb on 4 Feb 1840. David was born on 30 May 1810; died on 2 May 1888 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Concord, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, New Lots, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1895, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

1880 Federal Census
Benj. F. BROWN
Male
Other Information:
Birth Year <1827>
Birthplace OH
Age 53
Occupation Hotel Keeper
Marital Status M
RaceW
Head of Household Benj. F. BROWN
RelationSelf
Father's Birthplace VT
Mother's Birthplace ---
Source Information:
Census Place Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana

Benjamin married Helen Melissa Schutt on 9 Apr 1848 in Lisbon, Noble, Indiana, USA. Helen (daughter of Abraham Schutt and Electa Bruce) was born on 20 Sep 1831 in Yates, Orleans, New York, USA; died on 14 Dec 1912 in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; was buried in Grace Lawn Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Barlow. Henry was born in 1828; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Beaver, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1880, Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, USA

William married Martha Ann Carll on 22 Jun 1864. Martha was born in 1843 in Lyons, Ontario, New York, USA; died on 30 Oct 1933 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, New Lots, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, , Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1900, New York, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1910, Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1920, West Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey, USA

Miles married Emma L in 1875. Emma was born in Oct 1852 in New York, Kings, New York, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Allen, Noble, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Beaver, Fillmore, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1 May 1875, Lansing, Clinton, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1 May 1885, Anoka, Anoka, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1900, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 12 Jun 1905, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1910, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1920, Le Roy, Mower, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Charles B. Brown

b: 1849

Charles B. Brown, a prominent farmer of LeRoy township, was born in Noble county, Indiana, August 19, 1849, son of Asa and Lucy (Baker) Brown. He received his early education in Cold Springs, Ind., and at Austin, Minn., and then engaged in farming in Lansing and LeRoy townships until 1885, when he went to Anoka, Minn., and engaged in lumbering for some fourteen years.

In 1899 he returned to LeRoy township and engaged in farming on the Mason place in section 8, where he is now successfully engaged in diversified farming, making a specialty of Durham and Black Poll cattle.

Mr. Brown was married November 5, 1873, to Florence Mason, born in Rutland county, Vermont, May 12, 1856, daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Freeman) Mason. This union has been blessed with three children: Jay R., born March 6, 1875, is manager of the North American telegraph in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce; May, born July 16, 1880, is the wife of Charles Howe, of LeRoy village. Grace is the wife of Arthur J. Arnot, of Bismarck, N. D.


HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, MN. 1911.

Charles married Florence L Mason in 1875. Florence (daughter of Joseph R Mason and Lucinda M Freeman) was born in May 1854 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Warren, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Warren, Kentucky, USA

William married Sarah Ann Ayer on 1 Jan 1849 in , Daviess, Kentucky, USA. Sarah (daughter of Alexander Outlaw Ayer, M.D. and Esther Durham Johnson) was born on 2 Jan 1829 in Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, USA; died on 25 Jan 1892 in Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]