Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Mock, P. B. Brown 1809 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   P. B. Brown, proprietor of Brown Hotel, Covington, was born in Schoharie
county, New York, July 6, 1809. His parents, John B. M. and Sallie. Brown, were
natives of New York, and there the elder Brown followed his trade,
blacksmithing. He was one of the heroes of the war of 1812, and died in Wood
county, Ohio, aged sixty-five years. His wife survived him till 1848, when she
died at about the same age. The subject of this sketch spent his youth mostly in
the school-room, and when eighteen years old began clerking in a store. In 1835
he engaged in business for himself in Wood county, Ohio, which he continued for
about five years. In 1840 he made his advent to Indiana, and kept hotel at La
Fayette. In 1847 he came to Covington and opened the hotel erected by J. L.
Sloan, which he controlled for five years. In 1851 he located in the same
business at Terre Haute, and remained five years. Mr. Brown was then engaged as
salesman with a New York house for eleven years. In 1862 he obtained a position
as clerk in the interior department at Washington, and continued in the
government employ till 1873. He next returned to Covington, and again became
proprietor of the Sloan Hotel. This burning in 1876, he took possession of the
Globe House, now known as the Brown House, the largest hotel in the city. Mr.
Brown is a prominent Odd-Fellow, having been grand master of the state, and was
also the first worshipful master of Covington Lodge of Freemasons. Mr. Brown was
married in 1838, in Ohio, to Sarah C. Coburn, a native of New Hampshire. She was
born in 1819, and died August 15, 1878. She was an industrious woman, beloved by
her acquaintances, and sadly missed by her husband.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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