Moses W. Brown Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

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

Page 902

  MOSES W. BROWN, a piano manufacturer doing business in the
town of Hampton, was born in this town June 6, 1856, son of Jeremiah
and Martha (Lane) Brown; both his parents being natives of Hampton,
where the father was occupied as farmer and fisherman. They had four
children: Ann Martha, wife of John Durbin; Thomas A., Ella J., and
Moses W. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Moses Brown.
Mrs. Martha Lane Brown was a daughter of Thomas Lane.
  Moses W. Brown was educated in the common schools. After finish-
ing his studies he learned the trades of brick and stone mason and plast-
erer, which he followed for several years. He then spent three years
on the farm of Samuel Meserve. Subsequent to this he spent two years
working for Norman Marston, a piano tuner, after which he went to
Boston, where he learned the business of piano manufacturing and fol-
lowed it there as his regular occupation for twenty-five years, then re-
turned to Hampton and started his factory , which he has conducted suc-
cessfully up to the present time, although, on account of poor health,
not now so active as formerly. A thorough master of his trade he can
handle every process of the manufacture from the tree to the finished ,
product. Politically he affiliates with the Democrat party.
Mr. Brown married Miss Carrie Palmer, a native of Boston and
daughter of Samuel and Martha (Nurse) Palmer, her father being a bell
hanger by occupation. There were but two children in her parents' fam-
ily, a son who died young and Carrie, now Mrs. Brown. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown have three children: Mildred W ., who is a muslc teacher and
bookkeeper for her father; Albert A.,' residing at home, and Pauline,
who is telephone operator at Hampton.

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