Bio of Brown, Parley (b.1818) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Brown, Parley, (page 1111), attorney-at-law, Lake City, is a native of 
Lorraine, Jefferson county, New York, and is the second child of Walter 
and Abigail (Risley) Brown, who reared a family of fourteen children, 
eight of whom are now (1884) living. His parents were natives of Argyle, 
Washington county, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut, respectively. He 
was born April 11, 1818, and was reared on a farm till the age of 
twenty-one, at which time he entered a mill with a view of learning the 
trade. His tastes, however, inclining toward the legal profession, he soon 
after began reading law. Being deprived of educational advantages during 
early youth, or rather enjoying only such as the primitive schools in the 
backwoods afforded, his way to the bar was necessarily slow and tedious. 
But "as the race is to the swift nor the battle to the strong," so it was 
with Mr. Brown. He completed his law course, and was admitted to the bar 
at Syracuse in 1859 by the supreme court of the State of New York. In 1862 
he removed to Minnesota, located at Lake City, and at once entered on the 
practice of his profession. In 1840 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Maria Myers, who was a native of Schoharie county, New York. She bore a 
family of six children, two sons and four daughters, and died in 1875. Mr. 
Brown's second marriage was in 1875, to Miss Charlotte Totman, who, too, 
was born and reared in Jefferson county, New York. Mr. Brown takes little 
interest in politics, and has been a life-long democrat.