BROWN BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BROWN, Charles D. - b: 1876 Deepwater Twp, Henry Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 514
residence: Walker Twp

Charles D. Brown - The Brown farm, consisting of 500 acres of rich land on 
Deepwater Creek in the southeastern part of Walker township, is a very 
attractive place in which the proprietor takes a just and abiding pride in keeping 
in first class condition. The handsome residence is built against a background of 
forest and presents a pleasing view to the travelers moving along the highway 
which passes through the land. Charles D. Brown, progressive and successful 
farmer and stockman, was born on the old Brown homestead in Deepwater 
township, February 15, 1876, and is the son of Martin V. Brown, pioneer settler 
of Henry County, concerning whose career an extended account is given in this 
volume. Mr. Brown, after receiving such education as was afforded by the district 
school in his neighborhood, attended the Appleton City, Missouri, Academy. He has 
always been engaged in farming and learned his vocation from his successful 
parent. He came to his present location in 1902 and has been constantly engaged 
in farming and stock raising pursuits, keeping upon an average of forty-nine head 
of cattle upon the place. December 15, 1902, Charles D. Brown and Miss Edna J. 
Oliver were united in marriage. To this union have been born three children: Cecil, 
born August 31, 1904; Maude Rea, born December 6, 1906; Millard V., born January 
13, 1912. Mrs. Edna J. Brown was born in Deepwater township December 22, 
1874, the daughter of Henry and Mary (Martin) Oliver. The late Henry Oliver, one 
of the best known of the old time citizens of Henry County, was born in Morgan 
County, Ohio, March 9, 1838, the son of John and Martha Oliver. He came to Henry 
County and settled in Deepwater township in 1866, and died here June 3, 1917. He 
accumulated a fine farm and improved it with one of the most imposing farm 
residences in Henry County and became widely and favorably known. Mrs. Mary 
(Martin) Oliver was born September 2, 1840, and died September 5, 1900. Henry 
and Mary Oliver were parents of the following children: Millie, born July 8, 1863, 
and died March 28, 1912; Clara Belle, wife of J. R. Carter, born August 26, 1866, 
lives at Vinita, Oklahoma; Emma, died March 2, 1881; Martha Lea, wife of George 
Newberry, was born March 25, 1868, and lives in Chicago; Henry, born March 10, 
1872, died February 25, 1877; Elmer, died at the age of five years; Mrs. Edna Jane 
Brown, of this review; Mary Maude, wife of C. W. Lampkin, was born July 8, 1877, 
and resides in Deepwater township in Bates County; Charles Omer, born April 13, 
1879, lives at Webaugh, Montana; Lotta Dale, died October 1, 1886, aged two 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver were members of the Christian Church. Mr. Brown is a 
Democrat and usually takes a good citizen's part in all civic and political matters 
affecting the general welfare of the people of his native county. Mr. Brown is 
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Montrose, Missouri.

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BROWN, Ernie Cecil - b: 1874 Deepwater Twp, Henry Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 388
residence: Walker Twp

Ernie C. Brown. The pretty farm residence of Ernest C. Brown, located in Walker 
township on a beautiful stretch of well kept State highway, is in the midst of 
one of the most fertile sections of Missouri. Mr. Brown is owner of 300 acres of 
land, but is farming a total of 400 acres in the vicinity of his home farm of 240 
acres. Mr. Brown was born August 17, 1874, in Deepwater township, and is a son 
of M. V. (born March 4, 1837) and Helen M. Cecil (born August 7 1847) Brown. His 
mother was born in Leesville township, a daughter of Judge Wilson M. Cecil, a 
pioneer of Henry County who came to this county from Kentucky and was one of 
the first county judges of the county. M. V. Brown is a native of Sangamon County, 
Illinois, and is the son of R. D. Brown, a native of Pennsylvania. M. V. Brown came 
to Henry County in 1872. His father came to Missouri at a later date and died at 
Appleton City. Mr. Brown, Sr., is still residing at his home place in Deepwater 
township. The old Brown homestead is a splendid Colonial style house, built of 
hardwood lumber as early as 1857 and was used as a hospital and a fort during 
the Civil War when the residents of Bates County were ordered from the county 
as a result of General Ewing's Order No. 11. For further particulars regarding M. V. 
Brown the reader is referred to his biography given elsewhere in this volume. 
Ernie C. Brown was educated in the district schools and the Appleton City 
Academy. He has always followed the vocation of farmer. In the spring of 1896 he 
settled on the farm nearby where his brother Charles now lives and cultivated 
this large tract until 1904, when he went to Benton County, Missouri, and 
remained in that county for two years, returning to Henry County in 1906. He then 
settled on the Hackler place, which he has improved considerably. Mr. Brown was 
married on November 28, 1900, to Miss Mable C. Hackler, who was born in Benton 
County, Missouri, a daughter of J. R. and Nannie E. Hackler, the latter of whom 
died when Mrs. Brown was a child. J. R. Hackler was a native of Virginia who ran 
away from home at the age of fourteen years and enlisted in the Confederate 
Army. During one of the battles in which his regiment took an active part he was 
shot through the leg and ever afterward was a cripple. For a year after leaving 
the service he was forced to live on corn bread and milk. In 1866 he went to the 
mining region and remained for four years, during which time he accumulated a 
competence which he invested in land in Benton County. He also bought land in 
Henry County upon which he resided until 1898 and then returned to Benton 
County, where his death occurred on October 23, 1896. He was father of two 
children: Mrs. Mabel C. Brown and James E. Hackler, who is owner of the home 
place in Benton County. Mr. Brown is an independent Democrat who votes the 
National Democratic ticket as a rule but is inclined to independence of thought 
and action in local, county and township affairs. He has filled the office of 
treasurer of Walker township and is one of the best known of the younger 
generation of farmers in Henry County. - Additional Information from Karen P. 
Myers, granddaughter of James Edgar Hackler - John Randolph Hackler, the father 
of Mabel (Hackler) Brown was born 16 May 1846 Grayson Co, VA and died 23 
October 1903 in Windsor, MO, not in 1896 as stated above. Nancy
E. "Nannie" (Bailey) Hackler, b. 24 Sept. 1856 Benton Co, MO and d. 5 Apr 1891 
Polk Co, MO, daughter of E. K. & Permelia Ann (Barlow) Bailey, the wife of J. R. 
Hackler and the mother of Mabel C. (Hackler) Brown who married Ernie C. Brown. 
Mabel and Ernie had no children and are both buried at Stones Chapel Cemetery in 
Henry County, MO.

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BROWN, John D. - b: 1842 Sangamon Co, IL
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 607
residence: Deepwater

John D. Brown, a native of Illinois, was born in Sangamon County, near 
Springfield, March 1, 1842. His parents, R. D. Brown, and Rachel, nee Ernest, were 
Kentuckians. The former was one of the pioneer settlers of Sangamon County, 
where he entered land and improved a farm. John D. passed his youth on the home 
farm, and in attending the public schools, and in the spring of 1867, he came to 
Missouri and located in Henry County, purchased land and improved a farm in 
Deepwater Township. He now has a fine place of 360 acres in section 27, 
enclosed with a hedge fence and nearly all in cultivation. Upon it is a large two- 
story residence, finished in a neat and tasty manner, besides a good barn and 
convenient out buildings. An orchard of two hundred bearing apple and about 
seventy-five peach trees, is another feature of the place. Mr. Brown is quite 
extensively engaged in raising and feeding stock and handling and shipping mules. 
He is an enterprising farmer and one of the substantial men of this township. He 
was married in this county, November 7, 1867, to Miss Louisa Cecil, of Henry 
County, and a daughter of Wilson Cecil. They have one child, Gertrude, who was 
born July 12, 1870.

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BROWN, John D. - b: 1842 near Springfield, IL
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 360
residence: Montrose, Deepwater Twp

John D. Brown. Fifty-one years ago John D. Brown, well-to-do retired farmer of 
the Montrose neighborhood in Deepwater township, came to Henry County from his 
old home in Illinois and purchased a large tract of unimproved prairie land at a 
cost of $13 an acre. He and his brother, M. V. Brown, bought together seven 
hundred acres of land. Mr. Brown erected his handsome and substantial farm 
residence in the fall of 1868 and has had the extreme satisfaction of developing 
his fine farm of four hundred acres from unbroken prairie. He has placed every 
shrub and tree upon the place and year after year has witnessed the growing of 
crops in succession upon the acreage which he reclaimed. As he has grown old he 
has likewise prospered and now in his old age is well content with what has 
come to him through his own endeavors and the assistance of his noble wife, who 
has gone to her reward. John D. Brown was born near Springfield, Illinois, on 
March 1, 1842. He is the son of Reason B. and Rachel (Ernest) Brown, both of 
whom were born and reared in Kentucky and were early settlers in Illinois. After 
their two sons had settled in Henry County the parents came to Missouri and 
settled upon a farm one mile south of John D. Brown's place. In old age they 
retired to a home in Appleton City, where both died and lie buried. In 1861 John D. 
Brown went to Idaho and worked in the gold and silver mines of that State and 
also served as a packer and freighter of merchandise between Walloolo and 
Bannock City and Placerville, all mining camps in the West. He returned to his 
home in Illinois in 1866 with his savings from five years of hard work. In 1867 
he came to Missouri and purchased his farm. November 7, 1867, John D. Brown and 
Miss Louise Cecil were united in marriage and Mr. Brown says of this marriage: 
"It was the best thing I ever did." One child is the offspring of this happy 
marriage: Gertrude, wife of John Henry Holland, a farmer living near Hartwell, 
Henry County. Mrs. Louise (Cecil) Brown was descended from one of the oldest 
pioneer families of Henry County. She was born February 25, 1847, on a pioneer 
farm near old Leesville, in eastern Henry County, and was the daughter of Wilson 
and Henry Cecil, pioneer settlers of Henry County. Mrs. Brown died April 10, 1909. 
She was a good and faithful wife to her husband and the married life of this 
devoted couple was a most happy and congenial one. She was a true helpmeet and 
was a deeply religious woman, being active in the affairs of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church, of which she was long a valued member. Mr. Brown has 
generally voted the Democratic ticket and is a member of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church. Now living a comfortable retired life upon his place he 
varies the days with trips to the nearby town of Montrose, where he enjoys hob-
nobbing with his old friends of many years standing. He recalls the days of old, 
when people were happy and hospitable and kind, when the neighbors would take 
turns in going to mill, their nearest grinding place being the Xenia mills, thirty-
five miles away on a tributary emptying into the Osage River. They would take a 
very heavy load of grain and the trip to Xenia and return would require two days. 
Mr. Brown enjoyed hunting and fishing in the early days and his boon companion on 
many hunting trips was the late Bill Salmon of Germantown. He has killed many 
deer and prairie chickens. No man is more highly regarded in his section of Henry 
County nor more universally respected than John D. Brown, who is intelligent, 
well read and companionable.

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BROWN, John H. - b: 1821 NH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 505
residence: Clinton

John H. Brown. The subject of this sketch is a native of New Hampshire, and was 
born August 18, 1821. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to 
Franklin County, Massachusetts, and after two years to Berkshire County, where 
they remained till 1833. Then they removed to Hoosac Falls, New York, and two 
years later went to Cohoes Falls, here residing till 1839. After living in 
Columbus, Ohio, till 1845, they settled in Logan County, Ohio. John had followed 
from boyhood the carpenter' 5 trade, and at the age of twenty he began 
contracting and building. In 1857 he left Logan County, Ohio, and removed to 
Kansas, and in 1858 (May) he came to Henry County, Missouri, where he at once 
engaged in contracting and building. In the spring of 1862 he went to Edgar 
County, Illinois, but in 1866 returned to Clinton, Missouri, and was a prominent 
contractor here till 1872. Since that year he has followed the same business 
through different parts of Texas. In 1881 he built and managed the Lindsay House, 
at Gainsville, Texas, and also managed at that time the Laclede Hotel, of that 
city, closing it out after one year. From that time on he has been proprietor of 
the Buckley House, at Sherman, Texas. Mr. Brown was united in marriage October 
7, 1845, to Miss Lucinda Weaver, of Ohio. They reared one child, Estella. Mrs. B. 
died in June, 1854. He was again married in November, 1857, to Miss Jane Boyd, a 
native of Licking County, Ohio. They have three children: Hattie, Jennie and Jesse, 
and an adopted daughter Ida M. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity and also 
belongs to the Christian Church.

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BROWN, Jonathan W. - b: 1843 Kent Co, DE
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 731
residence: Davis

Jonathan W. Brown is a native of Delaware, having been born in Kent County May 
31, 1843. His parents were F. C. and Ruth (Wyatt) Brown. J. W. is the eldest of 
fourteen children, eight of whom are now living in this county. The family came 
to Henry County in 1843 when he was but an infant, and his younger days were 
spent here. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Sixtieth E. M. M. and was 
in the Forty-third Volunteer He was stationed for nearly two years at St. Louis, 
where he did general duty. When Colonel Hollis organized his command at Clinton 
Mr. Brown was chosen as second lieutenant in Captain Whitworth's company, in 
which capacity he served fourteen months. Upon peace being restored he engaged 
in farming operations, and on February 6, 1866, he was married to Miss Margaret 
Morgan, a native of Kentucky. She lived until October 20, 1874, when she died, 
leaving one child. On July 13 following Mr. Brown was married to Mrs. Eda A. 
Armstrong, widow of F. M. Armstrong. Mrs. Brown is the sister of R. P. Blevins. 
One child is living to bless this union, Josephine. In 1875 he moved upon his 
present farm, which contains eighty acres of excellent land. In politics he is 
Republican. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. fraternity and is identified with the 
Methodist Protestant Church. His wife is a Cumberland Presbyterian.

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BROWN, Martin Vanburen - b: 1837 near Springfield, IL
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 468
residence: Deepwater Twp

Martin Vanburen Brown. For over the long period of fifty-one years, Martin 
Vanburen Brown, one of the old pioneers of Deepwater township, has resided on 
his splendid country place southwest of Montrose. The Brown homestead is a 
handsome, old style Colonial residence, built of the finest hardwood lumber, 
prior to the Civil War era. The home itself has a beautiful setting, being at the 
apex of a long gentle slope of green lawn which is dotted with a fine grove of 
shade trees. Mr. Brown is owner of 800 acres of rich farm lands, 320 acres of 
which is comprised in his home place. Martin V. Brown was born on a farm 
located eight miles west of Springfield, Illinois, on Spring Creek, March 4, 1837. 
He is the son of Reason D. Brown (born 1813, died 1885), who was the son of 
Joshua Brown, a native of Kentucky, and who was a pioneer settler in Illinois, 
locating there in the early twenties. Joshua Brown assisted in the raising of the 
first house in the city of Springfield, Illinois, and was prominent in the early 
history of Springfield and vicinity. Reason D. Brown was married to Rachel Ernest 
(born 1815, died 1905), a daughter of Illinois pioneer parents. Reason D. Brown 
spent the last year of his long life on a farm, situated east of Appleton City, 
Missouri, and died there in 1885. He was father of twelve children, only two of 
whom are living: Martin Vanburen, and John D. of Deepwater township. Martin V. 
Brown was reared in Illinois and enlisted in the ranks of hard workers when 
nineteen years of age. In 1861 he went to Idaho and was employed in the Salmon 
River mines for five years. During that time he earned and saved enough money to 
make a start on his own account. After a trip home to Illinois, he came to Henry 
County, Missouri, in the spring of 1867, and purchased 700 acres of land at a cost 
of $13 per acre. This land was already improved but Mr. Brown has succeeded in 
adding to this acreage another 100 acres. He has done exceedingly well but 
attributes a great part of his success to the assistance and counsel of his 
capable wife. On September 26, 1869, M. V. Brown and Miss Helen Cecil were 
united in marriage. Mrs. Helen (Cecil) Brown was born on a farm east of Clinton in 
Henry County in 1848, and is the daughter of Wilson and Henny Cecil, who came 
from Kentucky and settled in Henry County in 1837. This marriage has been 
blessed with five children: Allie, wife of Charles Campbell, a merchant at 
Montrose; Missouri; Ernie C., a well-known farmer of Walker township; Charles 
M., a farmer of Walker township, married Edna, daughter of Henry Oliver, and has 
three children, Cecil, Marie and Wilford; Helen, wife of J. Ed Dugan, Deepwater 
township, mother of two children, Wilfred and Martin Edward; Harry, living on the 
home place, married Clara, daughter of Robert Burns of Appleton City, Missouri, 
has a son, Robert Martin. During his entire life since attaining his majority, Mr. 
Brown has been a consistent and faithful Democrat. He and his family are 
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. As a man and citizen there is 
none better in Henry County, and Mr. Brown is a typical gentleman of the old 
school. He is kindly disposed to all mankind and is spending the last years of his 
long life in comfortable and happy retirement, well content to shift the burden of 
the cultivation of his farms to younger shoulders. He is popular and is universally 
esteemed throughout the countryside.

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