Biographical Sketch of James Brown, Johnson County, Missouri
Chilhowee Township 

>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

JAMES BROWN,
farmer, was born in Monroe County, Tennessee, and came to Missouri in
1829, and settled in Lafayette County, where he remained one year, and
came to Columbus, Johnson County, and in 1833 he moved into what is now
known as Chilhowee township. He sat on the first grand jury in Johnson
County, and still lives in Chilhowee township.  James spent his boyhood on
his father’s farm, and attended the common and subscription schools of
that day. During the war he was a southern sympathizer, but took no active
part. Mr. B. was married in 1850 to Miss Martha J. Harris, daughter of
James B. Harris, one of the early settlers of Johnson County. By this
union, they have eleven children, seven of whom are now living: Patrick
J., Elizabeth B., William E., Marion F., George E., Thomas M., and Martha
E.    Mr. Brown has been for years engaged in farming and stock raising,
and has a farm of 120 acres. His father and mother are both living, his
father at the ripe old age of eighty-two and his mother at seventy-six.

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