Brown, Charles A. (1854-1927)

BROWN

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/26/2019 at 21:35:50

Charles A. Brown
May 23, 1854 - July 8, 1927

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.141, Layton Twp.)
Confectioner and news dealer, Walnut; born in Lakeville. Conn., May 23, 1854, son of Albert H. and Caroline (Saunders) Brown, he a carpenter, born in Lakeville, Conn., June 10, 1832, she born in Lakeville, Conn., June 18, 1832; has three children, viz., Charles A., Jennie E., born May, 1861, and Sadie, October, 1865. Subject attended the graded school at Sheffield, Ill. from 1859 to 1872, at which time he, with his parents, moved to this county, where he commenced life on a farm, and married, at Walnut, December 25, 1877, Laura N. Work, born in Sheffield, Bureau Co., Ill., August 18, 1858, daughter of J. M. and Martha Work, both born at Williamstown, Vt., in 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one child - Grace E., born November 19, 1880. Subject canvassed this State in 1870 for McCabe's "History of the World," which took him a little over a year, when he engaged in the loan and insurance business in Walnut. He is a Republican, and cast his first vote for R. B. Hayes; is an Odd Fellow, and a direct descendant of Lord Eli Brown, heir of Brown Castle, Wales.