Bio of BRASIE, Rowe (b.1806), Wright Co., MN
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487   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 		

  Rowe Brasie, pioneer, Monticello, was born in New York state in 1806, 
and served eight years in the regular army under General William Worth. In 
1844 he went to Peoria county, Illinois, and farmed there for a few years, 
after which he went to Ripon, Wis., where he farmed and kept a hotel. In 
the fall of 1853 he came to Monticello, looked over the land, went back to 
Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1854 brought his family and located on a 
farm a mile west of Monticello. Later he went to Big Lake, in Sherburne 
county. Then he returned to Monticello, and remained until 1872, when he 
moved to Delano, in this county. Then he went to Litchfield, in Meeker 
county. He was a prominent man, and served as county commissioner and county 
treasurer in Sherburne county, and county commissioner of Wright county. Mr. 
Brasie died in 1896, his wife having passed away ten years earlier. They had 
four children: Henry S. (deceased); Worth W., of Denver, Colo.; John A., of 
Monticello; and Charles A., of Litchfield.