Luther P. Brown Biography, Genesee County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 960-961


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LUTHER P. BROWN resides upon a farm on section 4, Genesee Township, 
Genesee County, He was born in Canada near Brockville, September 17, 
1832, and is a son of Luther Brown Sr., who was a native of New York, 
having been five years of age on going Canada with his parents. He was 
there reared until twenty-two years old and then went back to New York 
where he was united in marriage to our subject's mother, Rachel 
Jackson, whose nativity her son does not know. The young couple located 
in New York on a farm which they improved and cultivated and then 
traded it for another. They then removed to Canada and made that their 
home for about a year, returning, however, to New York where they spent 
the remainder of their lives, our subject's father being eighty-eight 
years old at the time of his decease, which occurred September 1, 1884. 
He was a Republican in politics and a progressive and public-spirited 
man.

   Our subject's mother died at the age of seventy-eight years. They 
were the parents of seven children, there being six sons and one 
daughter, six of whom are now living. They are Nathan, Nancy, Naham, 
Luther P., Francis and Benjamin. Our subject is the fourth child and 
third son of his father's family. He was reared in the United States, 
coming hither when but a year old and remaining until twenty-two years 
of age. He was subject to his father until twenty-one and then worked 
for himself as a farm laborer. He came to Michigan in 1854, first 
settling in the southern portion of the State where he was employed in 
the lumber woods. In 1865 our subject came to Genesee Township and in 
July of that year he purchased forty acres of raw land on section 9. 
This he has greatly improved, clearing out the stumps, fencing and 
erecting a good class of buildings upon it. He worked upon his farm in 
the summer and in the woods in the winter.

   Our subject was married in 1862 to Miss Jane Devining, a native of 
this State. After marriage they located on section 9, on the small 
tract of forty acres which he was then engaged in improving. They 
remained there until 1876 when they sold the place to our subject's 
brother Nathan who still owns it. Mr. Brown then purchased the place 
where he now resides. It comprises one hundred and twenty acres upon 
which there were at first but few improvements. He has now all cleared 
with the exception of thirty-eight acres and has a pleasant residence 
which he built at a cost of *1500. He has good barns and all other 
improvements that go to make a first-class farm. Mrs. Jane Brown died 
October 18, 1876. She was the mother of one child-Samuel, who resides 
on section 4, adjoining his father's farm.

   Our subject contracted a second marriage the lady of his choice 
being Elizabeth Allen, the widow of Charles Foote. Mr. Brown is an 
adherent of the Republican party. He has been School Director and also 
Moderator and is a member of the Helping Hand Society.




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