Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Brown, Lansing V. 1858 - 
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LANSING V. BROWN, the efficient station and express agent at Eden Valley came to
that village November 15, 1886, to take charge of the Minneapolis & Pacific Railroad
Company's business, and has remained there in that position ever since. He became
the agent for the American Express Company in the fall of 1886, also.

  Mr. Brown was born in the beautiful city of Watertown, Jefferson county, Wis.,
January 8, 1858, and is the son of Peter V. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Brown, both of
whom were natives of New York. The father of our subject was one of the early
settlers and pioneer merchants of Watertown, and is one of the stockholders of the
Wisconsin National Bank of that place, where he still resides.

  The subject of our sketch received his education in the excellent schools of his
native city, and at the age of fifteen entered the office of the Northwestern
Telegraph Company at that place, as manager, where he remained four years. He was
then transferred to Eau Claire, Wis., but a short time after came to St. Paul and
entered the office of the train despatcher of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad
Company, where he remained about one year. In May, 1878, he became station agent at
Darwin, Meeker county, in the employ of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railroad Company, and remained at that post four years.

   The next two years he had charge of the station at Willmar, but in 1884 went to
Western Montana, as traveling auditor of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which
position he held for two years, and then accepted his present place. His upright
dealing and straightforward, gentlemanly demeanor has Avon him hosts of friends, and
his future looks bright.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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