Charles W. Brown Biography This biography appears on pages 1635-1636 in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. CHARLES W. BROWN, a leader of the bar in Pennington county, was born on May 8, 1859, at Winchester, Illinois, and there grew to manhood and received his scholastic training, being graduated from Blackburn College in 1881. He then entered the law department at Yale and in 1883 was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Returning to his home at Carlinville, he passed a year in a law office. At the end of that time he came to South Dakota and began the practice of his profession at Columbia, Brown county, where he remained until July, 1885, shortly after which he moved to Rapid City. Here he has since maintained his home and been active in legal work, rising rapidly through merit to prominence and public esteem, and winning high commendation in every contest in which he has engaged professionally. His practice has grown to great magnitude and now takes him to almost all parts of the country. He is a member of the United States supreme court bar and before that elevated tribunal has conducted a number of important causes, managing them in a way that established him in the esteem of the legal profession as one of the brainiest men in the country. In politics he is an active and ardent Republican, and in the fall of 1888 and again in 1890 was elected state's attorney of Pennington county as the candidate of that party. He was also mayor of Rapid City from 1900 to 1902. He has served his party twice as chairman of its county central committee and also as a member of its state central committee. On June 1, 1884, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Adella Gore, a native of Illinois and daughter of David Gore, a prominent man and once state auditor of that state, the marriage being solemnized at Carlinville. They have three children, Helen G., Fanny C. and Wellington G. Mr. Brown belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows, with membership in the lodges of these orders at Rapid City.