David H. Brown Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 652

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DAVID H. BROWN, general farmer, living on section 19, in Nance 
township, is one of the early settlers of Beadle county, and has become 
so thoroughly identified with the growth and development of the county 
that a work devoted to the lives of the prominent citizens of that 
locality would not be complete without a review of the life of this 
gentleman. 

Mr. Brown was born in New York, June 13, 1833, and it is a notable fact 
that the Empire state has given to Dakota many of her prominent 
settlers. The family of our subject has become identified with the New 
World in every just cause, fighting for their independence. His 
grandfather served in the Revolutionary war, his father in the war of 1 
8 1 2, and he himself fought in the Civil war until sickness caused his 
discharge. Our subject was the third of a family of twelve children 
born to James and Sarah (Bradley) Brown. He lived in Delaware county, 
New York, until he reached his majority, and then went to Iowa, and 
from there to Missouri, where he engaged in farming. Just before the 
breaking out of the war times became troublesome there and he returned 
to Iowa, and in August, 1862, enlisted in Company D, First Iowa 
Cavalry. Most of his campaigning was in Missouri and Kansas, and the 
main engagement was the battle of Prairie Grove. After eighteen months 
of service our subject was sent to the hospital at St. Louis and was 
soon afterward discharged, returning to Buchanan county, Iowa, where he 
worked at the trade of carpenter, which he had learned when a youth. He 
went to Taylor county, Iowa, about 1865, where he remained until he 
went to Wessington, South Dakota, in May, 1882. He located his farm and 
has since engaged in wheat raising, and has met with success. 

In 1856 our subject was married to Miss Clarinda Walker, of Iowa. The 
following named children have blessed the home: Elizabeth, deceased; La 
Fayette, whose farm adjoins his father's and who is assisting his 
father on his farm; Ida, now Mrs. Hollingsworth, of Hand county, South 
Dakota; Ichabod, agriculturist, of Hand county; Mary, the wife of 
William Lunsford; Wellington, residing at home; and Maude, who was the 
first white child born in Nance township. Mr. Brown is a member of the 
G. A. R. and Masonic fraternity. In political views he is a Populist, 
and favors state control of liquors. He is widely known and has the 
respect of all.