BIO: Peter BROWN, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 451 & 452.
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  PETER BROWN, who, for twenty-six years has been a resident of Girard 
Township, Clearfield County, Pa., is one of its leading citizens and 
successfully carries on farming and stockraising on his 118 acres of valuable 
land.  Mr. Brown was born in Ireland and is a son of James and Grace Brown.
  When Mr. Brown was a child of four years, his parents emigrated to Canada and 
he was reared and attended school there and helped his father, who was a farmer 
and stock buyer.  Both parents died there, some twenty years since.  They were 
good people, respected as neighbors and earnest members of the Catholic church.
  At the age of seventeen years, Peter Brown started out from home to make his 
own way in the world.  He crossed the line into New York and then came to 
Williamsport, Pa., finding plenty of work in the lumber regions and continuing 
to labor in the woods until 1895, when he bought his present farm and since 
then has devoted himself mainly to farming and stockraising, producing wheat, 
corn and oats, and cattle and hogs.  His land lies fifteen miles southwest of 
Clearfield, which is his market.  It is all underlaid with coal and fireclay 
and other minerals, and there are 80 acres covered with a fine growth of young 
timber, such as white oak, red oak, and chestnut, with some pine.  In the 
summer time hundreds of people come here from Clearfield to spent the day, 
driving back in the evening.
  Mr. Brown was married to Miss Hannah Krise, a daughter of Daniel Krise, of 
Girard township, and they started housekeeping at Laurel Run.  They had one 
daughter, Mary, who grew into a beautiful woman.  She became the wife of Robert 
Green and the mother of three children:  Iva, Jennings and C. C.  Her death 
occurred at the early age of thirty-four years, leaving many to mourn her loss.  
Mr. Brown and wife are members of St. Francis' Catholic Church at Frenchville.  
As a man of sterling character, energy and good judgment, Mr. Brown has 
frequently been elected to township offices by his fellow citizens and has 
served two years as supervisor, seventeen years as tax collector and for 
fifteen years as school director.