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JOHN K. BROWNJOHN K. BROWN, farmer, P. O. Lewis, was born in 1819, in Washington County, Ind., son of Samuel and Maucy (Duff) Brown, he a native of Scotland, and she of Irish descent. He was the son of William Brown, who came to America at an early day, and afterward went to Ohio, where Samuel assisted him in opening a farm. Samuel settled in Washington County, where he remained sixteen or eighteen years, when he removed to Sullivan County, where he died in 1859, his wife having preceded him in 1852. He represented Sullivan in the Legislature, and was a Democrat until the repel of the Missouri Comprominse, when he identified himself with the Republican party represented by Fremont in 1856. His children were Stephen, John, Mary, James and William. Our subject was eleven years old when his father came to Sullivan County, and here he was reared, educated and married Miss Mary McClary, who was born in Tennessee, and came with her parents to Terre Haute. Her father was John McClary, a native of Virginia, and her mother Elzina Butler, of North Carolina. Mr. Brown's children are Margaret E., Samuel U., John C., Mary J. Nanty E., James W. and William H. Mr. Brown entered the land where he now resides in 1854. He owns 300 acres.JACKSON TWP. PAGE 821 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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