C. E. Brown Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 466-468

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C. E. BROWN. This gentleman is the fortunate owner of one of the 
estates of Plano township, Hanson county, and is well known as an 
agriculturist who is doing an extensive business. His farm consists of 
three hundred and twenty acres of choice land, and the buildings upon 
it are substantial in their construction and convenient in their 
arrangement. A portrait of Mr. Brown appears on another page. 

Mr. Brown is a native of Richland, Michigan, his natal day being 
October 17, 1846. His father, who was a native of Massachusetts and a 
farmer by occupation, moved to Michigan at the age of seventeen. He has 
always been strong and hearty and is still living. The mother was born 
in Connecticut and also moved to Michigan at an early age. Our subject 
was reared on a farm in Michigan, and received his preliminary training 
in the public school of the district in which his boyhood was spent, 
and later he attended a seminary. He also went east and attended school 
for a time, and upon returning to the west he entered the Knox College 
at Galesburg, Illinois. After completing his course in this institution 
he returned to the farrm and engaged in agricultural pursuits for three 
years. He was not contented with this, however, and went to Wyoming for 
one season, and then returned to Michigan and remained on the farm for 
eight years. In 1882, Mr. Brown, with his wife and family of two 
children, moved west and, arriving at Mitchell, South Dakota, with but 
ten dollars, a few household goods, a little lumber and a team, he 
filed a claim to the southwest quarter of section 8, township 104, 
range 59, and has since made that his home. He subsequently purchased 
two quarters of land and again sold one of them, leaving him possessed 
of a half section of good farm land. The place is well improved, and 
Mr. Brown has made two attempts to sink an artesian well, each of which 
is flowing but neither furnishes more than enough water to irrigate a 
small garden. In polities he is a stanch Republican, is not in favor of 
prohibition and the equal suffrage question never interests him. 

In 1874, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Altha E. Nye, an 
American lady whose parents were natives of New York state. To this 
union have been born two children, upon whom they have seen fit to 
bestow the. names of Lizzie and Charlie. Lizzie is now teaching school, 
while Charlie is attending the university at Mitchell, South Dakota.