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Book Title: Encyclopedia Of Genealogy And Biography Of Lake County, Indiana

Family Lines from Scotland.

    While many of our early settlers were descendants of Pilgrims and Puritans
and Quakers or Friends, and of Scotch-Irish, who had lived for several
generations in New England and New York and Pennsylvania, there were others
whose ancestors came from Scotland but a few generations ago. Three of these
closely connected families bear the names of FISHER, BROWN, and WALLACE, and for
the genealogy here given I am much indebted to "Lake County, 1884," a book
containing many valuable records, but now "out of print."

    FISHER.—Alexander Fisher was born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1801, and came to
Montreal in 1818, and soon after went into Schenectady county, New York, and
there, in 1819, was married to Miss Agnes Brown, who was born at Paisley, in
Scotland, and was a daughter of Alexander Brown, who came to the United States
in 1805.

    Alexander Fisher and Agnes Brown were commencing American life almost in
their youth. They had eight children. Three of their sons and one daughter
became residents of Lake county, Indiana. One of these, WILLIAM FISHER, born in
1825, is now living at Hebron in Porter county.

    THOMAS FISHER became a resident here in 1851. He was married to Miss Mary
Brown, daughter of another Alexander Brown, a settler at Southeast Grove. He was
for many years engaged in the manufacture of brooms at Crown Point. He became
quite wealthy. He had no children.

    JOHN FISHER, the third of these three sons of Alexander Fisher from
Scotland, was born in Schnectady county, New York, in 1832, became a resident in
this county in 1855, and was married in 1865 to Miss Joanna Willey, a daughter
of Mr. George Willey, of Hanover township. He was a surveyor and held the office
of county surveyor for many years. He had many excellent traits of character. He
was a generous friend. He took a large interest, as did the Willey family, in
the Association of Old Settlers. He became a member, in his later life, of the
Presbyterian church. He died March 7, 1897, leaving one son, George W. Fisher,
to occupy his place in the Masonic lodge and as county surveyor, in the
activities of life, and, perhaps some day, in the church.

    BROWN.—Alexander Brown, who came to the United States in 1805, has been
already mentioned. Besides his daughter Agnes, who also has been mentioned, he
had a son named John. This John Brown, bearing a name that is noted in the
martyr history of Scotland and England, had six sons and two daughters. One of
his sons, ALEXANDER F. BROWN, was born in 1804, August 25th, before his
grandfather, Alexander, came to America, was married in 1835, and became a
resident of this county, at Southeast Grove, in 1840. He was going on
prosperously, with his Scotch enterprise and industry, when his life was
unexpectedly terminated in 1849. He left three sons and two daughters, two of
the sons and the daughters are now living in Crown Point The sons and one
daughter are among the wealthy citizens.

    There came also to Southeast Grove in 1840 a brother of Alexander F. Brown,
another of the six sons of John Brown of Scotland, who was known as JOHN BROWN,
JR. He was never married. He made his home for many years with the Crawford
family west of the Grove, which home was near his farm. He was quite a prominent
citizen.

    Yet another of those six sons, WILLIAM BROWN, the youngest probably of the
six, also came to Southeast Grove, but as he is still living his record does not
come in here.

    GEORGE BROWN, the youngest son of A. F. Brown, was born May 5, 1849, the
year in which his father died. He was married in 1869 to Miss Turner, of Eagle
Creek township, a sister of Mrs. T. Pearce; he continued farm life at the Grove;
became interested and active in Sunday-school life; and died June 21, 1878,
leaving three sons, Alexander, William, and Herbert.

    The record of the two living sons, John Brown and William Barringer Brown,
of Crown Point, is to be found elsewhere.

    WALLACE.—This name, so fully interwoven in the history of Scotland, calls to
mind the old days of Robert Bruce and Sir William Wallace and the heroes and
patriots of that age.

    LYMAN WALLACE, the first of the Lake county Wallace family in America, was
born in Washington county, New York, in 1800. His first wife was a native of
Vermont, and had one son, William Wallace, and three daughters. His second wife
was also a native of Vermont. She was born May 4, 1798. She became the mother of
five daughters. He came with his wife and these daughters to Southeast Grove in
1843 from Genessee county, New York. He died at Southeast Grove in 1851. Four of
the daughters became mistresses of families, Mrs. John Dinwiddie, Mrs. Starr,
Mrs. William Brown, and Mrs. Parkinson.

    The influence of these closely connected families has been large on the
material interests of Lake county, extending through more than sixty years. Some
of its members have been active also in church and educational lines, and they
have all taken a commendable interest in the Association of early Settlers.


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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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