Sedgwick-Butler County KS Archives Biographies.....Brown, Charles W. 1836 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Charles W. Brown, vice-president of the Fourth National Bank of Wichita,
Kan., is a native of Jefferson county, New York, where he was born on May 29,
1836. His parents were Cyrus and Tamer (Bent) Brown, natives of Pennsylvania and
Lewis county, New York, respectively, and who moved to Illinois in 1856. Young
Brown was educated in the public schools of Jefferson county, New York, and
spent the early years of his life on a farm. He remained on the farm until 1868,
when he engaged in the banking business with his brother, George W. Brown, at
Clarence, Ia., under the firm name of Brown Bros. He remained at Clarence until
1871, when he removed to Kansas, locating in Butler county and starting a bank
at Augusta, which was continued under the management of Brown Bros, until 1874,
when Charles W. Brown withdrew from the firm. He again became a partner in the
bank in 1883 and continued in it until 1890, when he removed to Wichita. Here he
became interested in a number of large enterprises. For one thing, he engaged in
sheep raising on a large scale, at one time having as high as 15,000 head on his
ranch. He also engaged in the banking business, and for a time was
vice-president of the old Kansas National Bank, later becoming president of the
National Bank of Wichita, and since 1909 has been vice-president of the Fourth
National Bank of Wichita. Mr. Brown was married in 1872 to Miss Anna McKibbin,
daughter of Alexander McKibbin, of Clarence, Ia. Mrs. Brown is a native of New
York state. From this union there have been three children: Margaret, who
married Walter Innes, of Wichita; Anna, wife of D. P. Woods, of Wichita, and
George M. Brown, manager of the Crystal Ice & Fuel Company, of Wichita, a
position he has filled since 1908.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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