Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Brown, Charles H. December 21, 1831 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net March 1, 2008, 9:47 am Author: Hardin & Willard Brown, Charles H., Winfield, was born in Columbia, Herkimer county, December 21, 1831, and is a son of James Brown, who came to this county when a child, about 1810, with his father, Philip Brown, of Half Moon, N.Y., who was one of the first settlers of Columbia. James Brown had five children, Charles H., Milo H., Eusebia, Euphemia L. and Philip H. Their farm is in the northeast corner of Winfield, a part of the farm being in Columbia, also a part in Richfield. Charles H. Brown married November 11, 1857, Barbara A., daughter of Marks Folts, of Herkimer, who was a son of Peter Folts and Barbara Rasbach. She was a daughter of Marks Rasbach. They were some of the first settlers of the town of Herkimer. Charles H. and Barbara A. Brown have had eleven children, three of whom are deceased: James II, Charles J. and Leon L. There are eight living, Carrie E., Laura E., Flora E., Mary E., Fanny E., Nettie L., Philip H., and Benjamin G. Marks and Elizabeth Folts have had ten children, of whom three have died, Mary A., Isaac and Saloma A. Seven are living, Catharine, Fanny, Marcus, Joseph M., Barbara A., Elizabeth and Andrew. Mr. Brown is one of the assessors of the town of Winfield, which position he has held most of the time for about twenty years. He is a member of the Pomona Grange of Herkimer county. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/herkimer/bios/brown330gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb