Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Brown, James K. 1846 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   James K. Brown, one of the well-known citizens of Wichita, Kan., where he has
resided for many years, is a native of Illinois, where he was born in Montgomery
county, April 4, 1846. His parents were James and Mahala (Harper) Brown. Both
his parents were natives of Tennessee, while his remote ancestors on the
paternal side were Scotch, while his great-great-grandfather on the maternal
line was English. James K. Brown is the youngest of a family of eleven children
born to his parents. He acquired a limited education in the public schools of
Illinois up to his twentieth year, and remained under the paternal roof until he
was twenty-two years old. In 1874 he decided to go to Kansas and located first
in Payne township, Sedgwick county, where he bought half a section in Section 19
of that township. Here he resided for twenty-seven years. He took a conspicuous
part in the affairs of the township, having been a member of the school board
for several years, and having served three terms as a member of the board of
township trustees. In Masonic matters Mr. Brown has attained high rank, being a
thirty-second degree Mason, and also a member of the Consistory, No. 2, of
Wichita. In politics Mr. Brown is a Democrat. He resides now in his beautiful
home at 427 North Lawrence avenue, Wichita.

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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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