Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Brown, Noah 1834 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   NOAH BROWN, merchant, was born July 28, 1834, and is a son of John and Rachel
(Hatfield) Brown, both natives of Virginia, born respectively in 1811 and 1810.
They settled in Greene County in 1831. Noah Brown remained at home until his
mothers death in 1853, when he went to live with his grandparents. He received
the educational advantages of the common schools of that day, and at the age of
sixteen began clerking, at which he was engaged until the breaking-out of the
war. Enlisted in the service when twenty-seven years old, joining Company H,
Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers, of which he was elected Second Lieutenant,
afterward Captain. He was in the engagements of Fort Donelson, Shiloh,
Murfreesboro, Mission Ridge, Stone River and Chickamauga. Capt. Brown was
wounded in the arm at Kenesaw Mountain, and was sent to the hospital at Lookout
Mountain. December 12, 1864, he received a furlough for twenty days, returning
at the expiration of that time and serving with his company until the fall of
Atlanta. He then returned home and engaged in the dry goods and grocery
business, in which he is yet employed. Mr. Brown owns 263 acres of well-improved
land, the greater part of which is in pasture, and devoted to stock-raising. He
has officiated as Justice of the Peace and Trustee of his township several
years, having held the latter position seven years. In politics, Mr. Brown is a
Republican, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church. He has been
twice married, first to Sarah Brannon, May 8, 1856, by whom he is the father of
seven children—John W., Charlotte M., Nora, Rachel (deceased), Mary C, Schuyler
and one unnamed. March 29, 1877, he married Charlotte Shanklin, and to this
union four children have been born—Taunt, Abe, Charles A. (deceased), and an
infant (deceased).

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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