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Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p. 295-296 HARRY J. BROWN. Harry J. Brown is the owner of a valuable farm of one hundred and thirty-two acres situated on section 35, township 66, in Weld county. The place is pleasantly and conveniently located northwest of Greeley and is devoted largely to the cultivation of beets. He is also engaged in stock raising and has a large number of cattle upon his farm. He was born in the San Luis valley of Colorado on the 25th of August, 1877, and is a son of Frank P. and Henrietta Brown. The father was born in Ohio, January 27. 1848, and the mother's birth occurred in Iowa in January, 1857. The former acquired a public school education and was reared to farm life, spending twenty-four years upon an Ohio farm. He afterward removed to the west and homesteaded near Wichita, Kansas. At an early day he was a guide for United States surveyors through Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Mexico and Utah. acting in that capacity for several years. At length he settled at Telluride and went into the mining camps, devoting his attention to mining pursuits and to stock raising. He developed big interests at San Miguel, Colorado, where he still resides, and is the owner of much valuable property and of business interests of that district. He also has an extensive cattle ranch in Ouray county. Coming to Colorado he settled in San Miguel and has the distinction of being the oldest resident of that county. His wife was the third white woman in the county. At one time Mr. Brown was the owner of a dairy at Telluride. San Miguel county, where he conducted business for twenty-five years. His business interests are of a varied and extensive character and place him among the prominent men of his section of the state, his labors having contributed in marked measure to its substantial growth and upbuilding, so that his name is inseparably interwoven with its history. Harry J. Brown was graduated from the preparatory department of Colorado College, in which he had spent four years in study, at the end of which time his diploma was accorded him. He was thus well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties and after leaving college spent six months as a student in a business college. He was then called to the office of deputy county clerk at Telluride and acted in that capacity for three years. He afterward removed to Windsor, Colorado, where he was engaged In the butchering business for five years, and later he turned his attention to farming, which he followed at Windsor for seven years, having seventy acres of land, which he carefully cultivated and improved. On the expiration of that period he removed to his present home farm on section 35, township 66, in Weld county, and is now the owner of one hundred and thirty-two acres of excellent land, which he has brought under a high state of cultivation and to which he has added many modern improvements, transforming it into one of the attractive and valuable farms of his section of the state. He has rented eighty acres of land. Upon his farm he has fifty head of cattle, twelve horses, and he employs about eight men to carry on the farm work. He is extensively engaged in the raising of beets, which he makes his principal crop, and for which he finds a ready market. His business affairs are most carefully and systematically conducted and substantial success has crowned his labors. In June, 1903, at Telluride. San Miguel county, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Eva L. Daniels, a daughter of Noble A. and Mary A. Daniels. Her father was one of the veterans of the Civil war and about twenty years ago removed from his old home in Ohio to Colorado, where his remaining days were spent, his death occurring in 1916. His widow still resides in San Miguel county. Mrs. Brown was educated in the public schools and in the State Normal School and afterward took up the profession of teaching, which she capably followed, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge which she had acquired. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been born the following named: Mary H., who was born July 21, 1905; Lindsay, born July 19, 1906; Franklin G., who was born April 16, 1908, and died when sixteen months of age; Virginia H., born January 27, 1910; and Louis H., born March 28, 1912. The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church and the political belief of Mr. Brown is that of the republican party. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown are well known in Weld county, where they have so long resided. He has lived to witness many notable changes as the work of progress and improvement has been carried forward and his memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.