Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Drown, Oliver 1823 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Oliver Drown, farmer, P. O. Coal City, was born October 23, 1823, in Canada; 
is a son of Hiram and Susannah (Stinson) Drown, natives, the father of 
Connecticut and the mother of Ireland, and parents of ten children - Oliver, 
Mary A., Susannah, Margaret, James, Jane, Rebecca, John, Thomas and one died 
young; his parents were Methodists. Our subject attended the district schools; 
has always worked on the farm; was married in 1849, to Harriet A. Thayer, a 
daughter of Ebenezer and Julia Thayer, natives of New York, and the parents of 
five children, viz., Harriet, Alonzo, Eliza, Emma and one deceased young. His 
union gave him seven children, six of whom are living - Julia, Hiram, Melvin, 
Emma, Frank, Ella and Jane (deceased). He came to Illinois in 1858, settling 
for awhile near Morris, where he engaged in a brick yard and other vocations 
for some time. In 1869, he bought eighty acres where he now lives, of L. 
Crossley, where he has since resided. He is now School Trustee. He votes the 
Republican ticket. His brother Thomas died in the late war, member of the 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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