A.W. Brown Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:
A. W. Brown:
    of the Independent, was born in Wellsburg, West Virginia, in 1854.  
Commenced to learn the "Art Preservative", in 1863.  Came to New Cumberland 
in 1876, and he, in company with S. M. Morrow, founded the Independent 
newspaper.  On the 25th of October, 1876, he married Miss Mary V. Morrow, of 
Fairview, Hancock County, West Virginia.  He is a member of the Episcopal 
Church.  They have one child.