Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Brown, William October 1839 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Brown, William, Russia, was born in Whitesboro, Oneida county, in October, 
1839.  He was reared by Elias Stanton, for many years a resident of 
Gravesville, N.Y.  In 1859 he married Martha Wilkins, a native of England, 
born in 1842, and a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Howell) Wilkins, 
natives of England.  They had four daughters and two sons.  In 1847 Mr. 
Wilkins and family came to America, settling in Utica, N.Y.  Mr. Wilkins was a 
blacksmith by trade and died in 1888.  His wife died in 1877.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Brown have had four children, Cora, Ida, Frederick and Fannie, all of whom are 
living.  Cora married Stephen Agne, of Utica, and Ida married Wiliam Robinson, 
of Russian.  When young, Mr. Brown worked on a farm and attended the public 
schools.  For eleven years he worked on the New York Central Railroad, and 
afterwards for six years he worked in the oil wells of Franklin, Pa.  He now 
works on a farm in Russia.  He and is wife are members of the Russia Grange 
and of the Baptist church of Russia. Mr. Brown is a Democrat.


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.


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