MONROE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: BROWN, Charles Alonzo (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 125-126

        CHARLES ALONZO BROWN, of Woodsfield, is a member of a family long
and prominently known in Southeastern Ohio. His career has identified him
wiht the railroad service and banking, and he is now vice president and
cashier of the First National Bank of Woodsfield.
        He was born on a farm in Malaga, Township of Monroe County, July
12, 1882, son of David L. and Alvina (Kinney) Brown. His father died at the
age of eighty-two, and his mother is still living, aged eighty. David L.
Brown was widely known for his enterprising record as a farmer and stock
man in Monroe County, being the first to import pure bred Shorthorn cattle
into this section of Ohio. He exhibited his stock at fairs and sold and
shipped them all over the state. He also held various local offices, and
was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He had lived
retired in his home at Woodsfield from 1910.
        The youngest of four children, Charles Alonzo Brown, spent his
early years on a farm, attended country schools, and his first experience
in commercial lines was clerking in a drug store at Woodsfield for one
year. Learning telegraphy, he did some work in that line, but from 1902 to
1909 was teller and bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Woodsfield.
For two years of that time he was also purchasing agent for the Buckeye
Pipe Line Company, and in March, 1909, became auditor of the Ohio River &
Western Railroad. When this road was acquired by the Pennsylvania System in
1912 he continued with it, and in January, 1917, was made special agent in
the comptroller's office of the Pennsylvania System at Pittsburgh on lines
west of Pittsburgh. In 1918 he was made credit manager of the lines west of
Pittsburgh.
        Giving up his railroad work, Mr. Brown returned to Woodsfield
January 1, 1920, to become cashier of the First National Bank. Since
January 1, 1923, he has had the additional duties of vice president of that
bank. This is one of the leading banks of Southeastern Ohio, with resources
of over one million dollars. Its four-story building would be a credit to a
city of 50,000. The upper floors of the building are used by the Masonic
Club and as Masonic lodge rooms. Harry E. Stewart is president of the bank,
with Mr. Brown as the active officer in charge of the executive details.
        Mr. Brown organized and became the first president of the
Woodsfield Kiwanis Club in June, 1923. His hobby is community cooperation
and development, and he has helped in the program of uniting the
agricultural, commercial and financial interests of the county into a
harmonious unity. He teaches a boys' class in the Methodist Sunday School,
and is president of the Boy Scouts of Monroe County. Mr. Brown is well read
in a wide range of subjects from history to fiction, and he is much
interested in sociology, politics and science. He is a member of the
Masonic Club, Woodsfield Lodge No. 338, Knights of Pythias; Woodsfield
Lodge No. 377, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Eastern Star Chapter.
        Mr. Brown married at Pittsburgh in 1905, Miss Anna M. Hayes,
daughter of Charles Asa and Sarah (Daniel) Hayes. Her mother is now
deceased. Her father is a retired farmer at Beallsville, Ohio. He is a
veteran of the Civil war and active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and
is a member of the Church of Christ. He is a republican, and a past master
of Beallsville Lodge of Masons and active in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one son, Charles Asa Brown.


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