Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Brown, G.W. 1835 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

G.W. Brown

     Through a variety of occupations in a number of different places, and

contact with men under many circumstances and conditions, G.W. Brown acquired

the knowledge of the world and the clearness of vision which are a part of his

most valuable stock in trade in the general commerce of human life.  His native

state is New York, and there he was born in 1835, the son of Pliny G. and

Elizabeth (Mitchell) Brown, the former a scion of an old New England family born

in Vermont, and the latter a native of New York.  The family moved to Iowa in

1852, from New York where the father had settled and married some years before,

and in the new home they continued the occupation of farming which they had

followed in the old.  Both parents died in Iowa, the mother in 1863, at the age

of about sixty, and the father in 1872, at that of sixty-nine.  The son grew

nearly to manhood in his native state, and in its public schools received a good

elementary education.  He learned active and useful industry on his father’s

farm, and in its invigorating labor gained strength of body and independence and

self-reliance of mind and spirit.  At the age of twenty he took up life’s

activities for himself emigrating to Minnesota and there farming on a scale of

some magnitude for two years.  The next two years were passed in teaming in

Nebraska, and twelve years was consumed in working on the Mississippi river. 

Tiring of the river work, he went to Waterloo, Iowa, and devoted the next two

years of his trade as a stone mason which he had acquired before leaving home. 

From Waterloo he moved to Madison county, in the same state, where he again

engaged in farming.  In 1882 he came to Colorado and followed mining for a year

at Tin Cup, then returned to Creston, Iowa, and during the next two years had

charge of a hotel there which became a popular hostelry.  But the business was

not to his taste, and he had an increasing longing for the West.  So he came

again to Colorado and settled on the ranch in Gunnison county six miles north of

Gunnison, on which he has since made his home and conducted a general ranching

and gardening.  Here he has been active in public local affairs, and devoted

much time and energy to the advancement of the schools, serving as director and

in other ways pushing forward the cause of education.  In politics he is a

Republican, but is not an active politician.  He was married in 1855 to Miss

Matilda Workman, of Minnesota.  Their family consists of three children, George

W., Arvilla H. and Charles E.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905



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