Biographical Sketch of Dr. Spencer W. Brown, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eight children, his
parents, James and Mary (Palmore) Brown, who came to Missouri in 1831,
from Buchanan county, Va.  Spencer was educated at Fayette Central
College, and received his diploma from the Jefferson Medical College,
at Philadelphia, Pa.  In the year 1850, he came to Waverly from college
and practiced the medical profession till the war broke out, he then 
joined the confederate army, under Shelby till he (Shelby), was made a
general, then he (Dr. Brown), was promoted to surgeon of his regiment,
afterwards brigade surgeon.  At the close of the war he returned to
Waverly and took up the practice of medicine at that place.  This he
abandoned in the year 1870 for a more retired life.  In June, 1856, he
was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Houston, daughter of Col. David 
Houston, formerly of Virginia.  By this marriage he has four children:
Mary E., Spencer Lee, Benjamin H. and William Palmore.

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