F. S. Brown Biography


	This biography appears on pages 331-332 in "History of Dakota 
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				F. S. BROWN. 

	F. S. Brown is the efficient cashier of the State Bank of Doland, 
which position he has occupied since 1898. However, for a much longer 
period he has been a resident of South Dakota, having arrived in the 
spring of 1883, at which time he left his old home in Sauk county, 
Wisconsin, where he was born on the 12th of June, 1857. He is a son of 
Jabez and Sarah (Van Dorflinger) Brown, the former a pioneer settler of 
Sauk county, in the improvement and material development of which he 
took an active interest. In addition to tilling the soil and 
successfully carrying on farming pursuits he also engaged in teaching 
school and was a prominent factor in the educational progress of the 
community. He died in 1902, at the age of seventy-eight years, having 
for only a few months survived his wife. They were laid to rest side by 
side in a cemetery at Madison, Wisconsin. 

	F. S. Brown pursued a public-school education and afterward 
attended Ripon College of Wisconsin, continuing his studies to the age 
of twenty-one years. He afterward took up the profession of teaching, 
which he followed in various rural and town schools of Wisconsin for 
five years. On the expiration of that period he came to South Dakota, 
thinking that in the new and growing territory good opportunities were 
offered for advancement. He first became agent for a grain elevator 
company at Doland and while in that employ became thoroughly familiar 
with the trade and its opportunities. Accordingly from 1890 until 1898 
he engaged in buying grain on his own account and then turned his 
attention to the banking business, entering the State Bank of Doland, 
of which he is the cashier and one of the directors. Through this 
connection he is recognized as one of the leading business men of the 
town and he was also one of the organizers of the Doland Electric 
Company, of which he is now the treasurer. 

	On the 29th of June, 1881, at North Freedom, Wisconsin, Mr. Brown 
was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Dickey, her parents being John and 
Agnes Dickey, the former of Scotch descent and a pioneer settler of 
Wisconsin. Our subject and his wife have two children: Paul L., who 
acts as assistant cashier of the State Bank of Doland; and Donald C., 
who is employed as bookkeeper in the Merchants Bank at Redfield, South 
Dakota. 

	Mr. Brown exercises his right of franchise in support of the men 
and measures of the republican party and has held the office of 
president of the board of education for ten years and has served on the 
board for a much longer period. He was instrumental in erecting the 
school building at Doland and he is a trustee of the Dakota Wesleyan 
University at Mitchell. The cause of education has ever found in him a 
stalwart champion and his efforts along that line have been beneficial 
and far reaching. Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen. He made no mistake in choosing Spink county as a place 
of residence, for there he found good opportunities and has steadily 
worked his way upward, his efforts proving an element in the county's 
growth and advancement as well as a source of individual success.