Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Brown, Henry G. 1855 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

HENRY G. BROWN.

   The desirability and attractiveness of any location lies largely in the
character and industry of its inhabitants. The gentleman whose name is
especially mentioned in the following brief history belongs to that class of men
whose sturdy persistence and wise judgment have helped to make the agricultural
industry of Carroll county famous.

   Henry G. Brown, farmer, of Burrows, Indiana, was born, January 25, 1855, on
the farm on which he now lives, and is a son of Gabriel and Barbara (Hiser)
Brown. His youth was spent on his father's farm and his education was obtained
at the public schools of the district. After his father's death, he bought out
the interest of the other heirs in the home place, consisting of two hundred
acres, located at the edge of Burrows, in Rock Creek township. Politically, Mr.
Brown has always been interested in the policies of the Republican party, while
his religious membership is with the Christian church of Bunows, in the work of
which he has long taken an active interest, being at present a trustee and one
of the deacons in the church. He is a director in both the Burrows State Bank
and the telephone company.

   Gabriel Brown, father of the subject, was born in Rockingham county,
Virginia, and was bound out to a family by the name of Kauffman, when he was a
small boy, being taken by them to where Dayton, Ohio, now stands. He grew up to
manhood's estate and was married, at that place, to Barbara Hiser, whose parents
also came overland to Ohio, locating at the present site of Dayton. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown came to Carroll county, Indiana, about 1833, and settled on the old Parks
farm, purchasing, afterward, the farm which the subject now owns, where they
spent the remainder of their lives. Mr. Brown was a member of the Christian
church, in the work of which he always took an active interest. Politically, he
was a Republican. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown were born ten children, only two of whom
are now living, Henry G., and D. N. Brown, who lives at Sunnyside, Washington.

   Henry G. Brown was united in marriage, November 23, 1877, with Elizabeth
Sager, daughter of William and Criscilla (Berkshire) Sager. The children born to
this union are: Bertie O., who lives on his father's farm, and William, who was
married to May Wasson, by whom he has had four children, Vera, Paul, Chester and
Thelma.

   Having lived an industrious life, and one founded upon high principles,
combined with a kind-hearted disposition, Mr. Brown has few regrets in his
efforts to live up to a high standard of citizenship.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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