BIOGRAPHY: Samuel Brown ; Dutchess co., New York

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1683
History of Duchess County (sic - Dutchess County), New York
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of someof its Prominent Men and
Pioneers.
By James H. Smith, assisted by Hume H. Cale and William E. Roscoe
published by D. Mason & Co., 1882, Syracuse, New York
page 549

Samuel Brown

     Samuel Brown was born in Centre county, Pa., May 29, 1822, and was son
of Geo. W. Brown,a practical mechanic and superintendent of the best furnaces
in the County. Samuel spent seven years working under the superintendence of
his father, and receiving such instructions in the skill and proper management
of a furnace that he was capable, at the expiration of that time of taking
charge of any hard or soft coal furnace. When twenty-three years of age he was
given charge of a furnace at Mill Hall, Penn., using hard coal; was afterward
for six years superintendent of a furnace in Washington,and from there went to
the Howard furnace, Centre county, Penn., where he remained five eyars as
manager and superintendent. Soon after this Gen. John S. Schultz, now
president of the clove Spring Iron Works, being informed of Mr. Brown's
qualifications as master mechanic in the manufacture of pig-iron sent for him
to take charge of the works then owned by Brown & Beckley, in the town of
Beekman. This position he accepted and in 1871 came with his family,t aking
charge as superintendent and manager of the mines and furnace and conducting
them with great credit to himself and general satisfaction to the company,
till his death March 7, 1881.

     Mr. Brown was united in marriage with Sarah Britton of Centre county,
Jan. 18,1 845, by whom he had ten children, eight o fwhom are now living as
follows: Geo. W., who married Miss Aman Lewis; Caroline,w ife of Henry
McMullen; Margaret, wife of Solomon Grubbs; John who married Elizabeth
Sprague; Jennie c., wife of Walter E. Purvis; Mary C., wife of Henry Rudisill;
Wharton M., who married Clara A. Purvis, and Sarah, the youngest of the
family, wife of William Holman.

     Wharton M. Brown is now superintendent of the Clove Sprign Furnace. The
other children all reside in Beekman.

     Mr. Brown early embraced the religious views of the M.E. Church, of
which he was a consistent and conscientious member, as is proved by the
industrious and frugal life he lived.