Charles A. Brown, M. D. Biography

	This biography appears on pages 1001-1002 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES A. BROWN, M. D., who is successfully engaged in the 
practice of his profession at Armour, Douglas county, was born on a farm 
in Tama county, Iowa, on the 22d of January, 1868, and is a son of 
George and Sarah (Phillips) Brown, both of whom were born and reared in 
the state of Pennsylvania, where they were married. Soon afterward they 
removed to Iowa, locating in Iowa City, and later removing to Tama 
county, where Mr. Brown took up a homestead claim, to whose improvement 
and cultivation he continued to devote his attention until the early 
'eighties when he retired from active labor, taking up his residence in 
Waterloo, that state, where he now maintains his home, giving a general 
supervision to his landed and capitalistic interests. He is a Republican 
in politics but is a stanch advocate of the prohibition of the liquor 
traffic, which result he believes must bc accomplished through the 
interposition of one of the dominating political parties. He and his 
wife are zealous members of the Baptist church. 

	Dr. Brown was reared on the homestead farm and after attending the 
district schools he entered the high school in Waterloo, where he was 
graduated. While still a student in the high school he began teaching, 
having been thus engaged three winter terms, and he simultaneously 
prosecuted his medical studies. under the preceptorship of Mr. A. L. 
Martin, of Clinton, Iowa, under whose direction he later continued to 
prosecute his technical study during his college vacations. In the 
autumn of 1888 the subject was matriculated in the medical department of 
the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, where he was graduated in the 
spring of 1891, receiving his coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine. For 
a few months after his graduation the Doctor was associated in practice 
with Dr. William Woodburn, of Spencer, Iowa, and he then established 
himself in practice at Lamont, that state, where he built up an 
excellent practice, remaining for a number of years. In January, 1898, 
he sold his practice in Spencer and came to Armour, South Dakota, and 
here he has gained prestige as one of the thoroughly skilled and 
discriminating members of his profession in the state. He is a staunch 
Republican in his political proclivities, and he is at the present time 
incumbent of the office of superintendent of the Douglas county board of 
health, according no nominal service but making it a point to insure the 
best possible sanitary conditions throughout his jurisdiction. He is a 
member of Arcania Lodge, No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons; Armour Lodge, 
No. 25, Knights of Pythias, in whose affairs he takes a particularly 
active interest; Armour Camp, No. 2475, Modern Woodmen of America, and 
Armour Tent, No. 18, Knights of the Maccabees. He is medical examiner 
for the two lodges last mentioned and also for several of the old-line 
insurance companies having local representation. 

	On the 19th of August, 1893, Dr. Brown was united in marriage to 
Miss Helen M. Stewart, of Lamont, Iowa, and they have four sons, George 
I., Charles E., Otho S. and Leland.