Union-Pulaski County IL Archives Biographies.....BROWN, WILSON December 5, 1845 - 
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Author: History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties Illinois


WILSON BROWN, physician and surgeon, Cobden, is a native of Union County,
Ill., born December 5, 1845; is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Grear)
Brown. Our subject is one of ten children, eight of whom survive - Alson,
Wilson, Martha J., Andrew, Amanda E., Laura I., Augusta and John W.

The doctor attended the pioneer log cabin schools and also the Jonesboro
Seminary. He was brought up on a farm. About the age of 20, he began
teaching school, and continued it successfully for fifteen terms, when he
withdrew. He entered the study of medicine actively with Dr. G. W.
Schuchardt of Jonesboro. He attended lectures at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1871-72, and graduated at the Missouri
Medical College in 1876.

(He) began the practice in the spring of 1872 at Unity, now Hodge Park,
Alexander County, and afterward practiced at Jonesboro and Willard's
Landing. In the fall of 1878 he had one case of the yellow fever at Anna.
In 1878 he located at Olmsted, Pulaski County, and in March, 1883, he came
to Cobden, where he is doing a fine business. In connection with his
professional duties, he attends to a drug store owned by C. L. Otrich at
Cobden. During his period of preparing for his chosen profession, he
clerked in drug stores at Marion, Sparta and Jonesboro, by which he obtained
means to forward his studies.

He was married May 18, 1881, to M. Anna Dodge
of New Grand Chain, Pulaski County, and has as a result of his union one
child, Alice. His estimable lady is a member of the Baptist Church. He is
an active Democrat. Dr. Brown is a specimen of a self-made man, possessing
that indomitable characteristic necessary to succeed in everything he
undertakes. He is pleasant, sociable, and merits the trust many people have
already given him.


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