Harper County KS Archives Obituaries.....BRAND, Lorenzo D.  February 15, 1900
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The Anthony Weekly Bulletin
Harper County
Friday
February 15, 1900

Lorenzo D. BRAND, one of the best known men and merchants in Laporte county,
died at his home in Kingsbury Tuesday forenoon, the result of a complication of
diseases.
Mr. Brand was born in Chautauqua county, New York, September 22, 1837,
consequently was 62 years old last fall. His parents were Morrill and Sarah
Brand. Lorenzo was raised in Silver Creek in the county of his birth, leaving
there in 1855, at the age of 18, and first locating in Kingsbury, this county.
He began life with scanty means and limited opportunities for an education. The
public schools in his early home were the only source from which he obtained his
education and they were of an inferior grade. After remaining a year in
Kingsbury, he went to Valparaiso, thence to Denver, Colo., shortly afterwards.
After visiting other points he returned to Kingsbury in 1862 and purchased a
steam threshing machine which he operated until 1870, when he opened a dry goods
store in Kingsbury.
December 23, 1863, Mr. Brand was united in marriage to Miss Mary CATLIN whose
father, John Catlin, was brother of the well known Catlin brothers of Stillwell
of nearly sixty years ago, Joseph, Sprague and Meade. John Catlin never came
west. There were born to this union six children, Carl D., Grace, Percy, Claude,
Maude, and Olie.
In 1886 Mr. Brand moved to Anthony, Kansas where he remained for some ten years,
during which time he was engaged in the dry goods business. He returned to
Kingsbury about two years ago and re-entered the dry goods business there, which
he continued until death. By strict integrity, business sagacity and hard work,
Mr. Brand accumulated considerable property and leaves his family in comfortable
circumstances. Although he had met disaster and other impediments in his
business life, his store room and goods being destroyed by fire over a year ago,
with a brave heart and an honest purpose he proceeded to repair his injured
fortune, which he had largely accomplished.--Laporte, (Ind.,) Republican. 


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