Emmett J. Brown Biography

	This biography appears on page 469 in "History of Minnehaha 
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BROWN, EMMETT J., was born in Saline, July 25, 1848.  He was reared on 
a farm, and received a common school education during his early youth, 
and at the age of sixteen years graduated from the high school at 
Ypsilanti, Mich.  In 1865 he removed to Shakopee, Minn., and for a 
short time was employed in a bank, and then went into the grocery 
business. On the 28th day of March, 1878, he came to Sioux Falls and 
opened a grocery store, and also a photograph gallery on Phillips 
avenue.  In 1881 he went to Brookings county and took up a homestead 
and lived there four years.  He then returned to Sioux Falls, where he 
has since been engaged principally in the real estate business.  Mr. 
Brown is a respected citizen.