Isaac Brown

    Isaac Brown is of New Hampshire birth, and was born December 15, 1821. He was reared in his native State and received a common school education. He worked at painting for a number of years in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, but when nineteen years old began teaching, and continued for fourteen years, also painting and farming. From 1850 to 1860, he was farming and lumbering in New Hampshire and a part of the time was manager of two saw mills. Ill health compelled him to give this up in 1860, and the same year he came to Illinois. Leasing a place in Champaign County, he engaged in stock business. The cold weather of 1862-63 killed four hundred sheep and large quantities of other stock, value about $2,500. In 1863 he sold this property and returned to New Hampshire.

    In 1866, he again came West and located on Section 21, Center Township, Benton County, Indiana, and in partnership with Mr. Seabury purchased the whole of Section 21, and again engaged in stock dealing and farming. Mr. Brown owned land in Benton County until June, 1882, when he sold out, and is now residing in Fowler. In 1876, he went to Texas and Mexico and dealt in stock several months. he has succeeded in making a good home.

    Mr. Brown is a Democrat, and for two years was a member of the new Hampshire Legislature, and has held other local positions. He was married, May 23, 1850, to Frances L. Bunday, and they have had four children -George B., Charlie H., deceased, Mary L. and Fred A. Mr. Brown is a son of Aaron and Eda (Watts) Brown, both of whom were of English ancestry, and on the paternal side, of Puritan progenitors.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.