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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

F. E. BROWNELL.

    The business interests of Lowell find a worthy representative in F. E.
Brownell, who is engaged in dealing in agricultural implements there and who in
the careful management of his business affairs is winning creditable success. He
was born in Schoharie county, New York, on the 24th of April, 1852, and comes of
Scotch lineage. His paternal grandfather, a native of Scotland and the founder
of the family in America, crossed the Atlantic when a young man and established
his home in Pennsylvania. Dr. Alva Brownell, the father, was born in Schoharie
county, New York. He removed to Lake county, Indiana, settling at Crown Point,
where he engaged in the practice of medicine for two years. He then removed to
what is now Plum Grove in Eagle Creek township, where he carried on agriculural
[sic] pursuits in connection with his professional duties up to the time of his
death, which occurred in May, 1871, when he was in his sixty-eighth year. He was
a life-long Republican and took an active interest in public affairs, being
particularly loyal to the Union cause at the time of the Civil war. He held a
number of local positions, including those of trustee and justice of the peace.
He was also active in church work and conducted a Sunday-school at Plum Grove
for many years. His acquaintance in the county was wide and favorable, his
fellow townsmen recognizing his sterling worth and giving him their warm
personal regard and friendship. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret
Sturnburg, was a native of Pennsylvania, where she made her home until about
twelve years of age, when she accompanied her parents on their removal to
Schoharie county. New York. She was of German descent and parentage and could
not speak a word of English until about the time of the removal to the Empire
state. Her death occurred in Plum grove, Lake county, Indiana, in February,
1855. Dr. and Mrs. Brownell were the parents of eight children; five reached
adult age, but only two are now living, the eldest and the youngest, the brother
of F. E. being Ezra Brownell, who is a retired farmer living in Madison county,
Iowa.

    F. E. Brownell, the youngest of the family and the only representative left
in Lake county, was but four years of age when he came with his parents to Crown
Point. His education was obtained in Plum Grove, Eagle Creek township, and he
remained at home through the period of his boyhood and youth, and in early
manhood took charge of the home farm, continuing its cultivation up to the time
of his marriage. It was on the second of February, 1871, when he was joined in
wedlock to Miss Frances Dinwiddie, a daughter of John and Mary (Perkins)
Dinwiddie, who were early settlers of Lake county. Mrs. Brownell was born in
this county May 9, 1853. She was taken as a bride to the old Brownell homestead,
and her husband continued to engage in general farming there until 1900, when he
put aside the active work of the fields and took up his abode in Lowell, where
he established an agricultural implement business. He still owns the old
homestead property, however, and it is operated under his direct supervision. It
comprises two hundred and sixty acres of land in Eagle Creek township and is a
valuable and productive property, which annually brings to him a good income. He
now carries in Lowell a large and well-selected line of agricultural implements,
and has built up a good patronage in his commercial venture.

    To Mr. and Mrs. Brownell have been born ten children: Carl, who is living on
the old homestead; Alice, the wife of Howard Slocum, of Lowell; John, who is
living in Brazil, Indiana; Claude, of Sandwich, Illinois; Kate, the wife of
Harry Hill, of Joliet, Illinois; Guy and Edward, both of Lowell; Ruth, at home;
Walter and Ralph, who are also under the parental roof. All of the children were
born in Eagle Creek township. Mr. Brownell has ever been a stanch adherent of
Republican principles and has taken an active part in promoting the welfare and
growth of the Republican organization, yet has never sought or desired political
preferment for himself. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity at
Lowell and is well known throughout Lake county, where he has spent almost his
entire life. He has been true to every trust reposed in him, has been found
honorable and straightforward in his business dealings, and because of his
straightforward purpose and unflagging energy he has attained a very desirable
measure of prosperity.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904

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