John Jacob Brown Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Jody Goodson - kestrell@prodigy.net

Surname: BROWN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     JOHN JACOB BROWN, a well-known and respected citizen of
Hampton Falls, was born in this town, April 24, 1833, a son of Joseph
C. and Hannah D. (Berry) Brown. His paternal grandfather was Jacob
Brown, who had four children, namely: Thomas, of whom owe have no
special record; Nathan W., who was a merchant in Newburyport, mar-
ried Sarah Chase, by whom he had four sons, and died in 1836; Joseph
C., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and John B., who married
Sarah M. Leavitt and died in 1858, being at that time president of the
Weare Bank.
     Joseph C. Brown, father of our subject, also born in Hampton Falls,
was a farmer by occupation. He met an accidental death in 1838 by
having a rock fall on him. He married his cousin, Hannah Berry, of
Chichester, and they had two sons and one daughter, namely: John
Jacob; James D., who married Sarah Robinson, and Sarah A.; who mar-
ried John Shaw, of Pittsfield. 
     John Jacob Brown, in his youth, attended the public schools, and
afterwards Rockingham Academy, and Lewis W. Clark's Academy. In

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1861, in company with his brother, James D., he engaged in buying 
produce and wool for the Boston market, which occupation he carried 
on for fifty years. He was also a shoe freighter and carried on his large
farm, besides operating a saw and shingle mill. For forty years he 
served as clerk of the Christian Church. In 1858 Mr. Brown married 
Mary G. Robinson, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah {Dearborn) Robin- 
son, of Exeter and North Hampton. They were the parents of children
as follows: Arthur; Alice, who married D. H. Elkms; Annie, at home;
Winnifred, at home; Edward, born August 2, 1866, who married Marion 
Cram and has two children, Elizabeth G. and Dorothy B.; Percy G.;
Mabel, who married William Hunter; Grace D., who married Joseph
W. Trombla; and Maude E., who married James W. Clark.

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