William H. Brown

    William H. Brown was born in Pine Township, Warren County, Indiana, April 20, 1846, and is a son of John W. and Margaret (Pepper) brown. After a period of school-going, our subject worked on the farm until he was twenty years of age.

    December 29,1872, he was married to Melissa Grames, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Palmer) Grames, who died with her infant child December 12, 1873. Mr. Brown afterward married, February 1, 1876, Elizabeth F. Pepper, born August 25, 1830, daughter of Jacob and Naomi (Frances) Pepper, both very early settlers of Warren County. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had two children -Nellie C., born June 30, 1877, and Wilmer T., born January 22, 1883 (deceased). Mr. Brown is an active Democrat, and he and wife are greatly respected in the community.

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