Mesa County CO Archives Biographies..... Brown, John P. July 20, 1846 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     John P. Brown, one of the pioneers of Mesa county, was one of the very

first settlers in the Plateau valley.  He located land here in 1882 adjoining

the well-improved ranch on which he now lives near the postoffice of Mesa, and

is now one of the most prosperous and substantial stock and ranch men of the

county.  He was born in Rush county, Indiana, on July 20, 1846, and is the son

of John E. and Sarah A. (Fry) Brown, who were natives of Pennsylvania and

married in Indiana, where they were engaged in farming to the end of their

lives.  Their son John was reared in his native county and obtained a limited

education in its common schools, attending whenever he could be spared from the

labors of the farm, which was during the winter months of a few years.  At the

age of eighteen he enlisted in defense of the Union in Company L, Twelfth

Indiana Cavalry, entering the service in July, 1864.  His regiment fought its

way through Tennessee and went down the Mississippi to New Orleans.  From there

the command to which it was attached made a campaign into Alabama and back to

Vicksburg, where he was discharged December, 1865.  He took part in the siege of

Mobile and in the skirmishes around Nashville during the battle at that city. 

In 1866, moved with his love of adventure and the hope of better opportunities

to be found in the Northwest, he journeyed to Montana, and in that young but

great and promising state, he was for some time engaged in freighting between

Fort Benton and Helena, “whacking bull teams” for the Bullard freight outfit.

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

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