James B. Brown

    James B. Brown, a native of the Old Dominion, was born December 11, 1815, being the next youngest of nine children born to the marriage of Conrad Brown and Elizabeth Hare, who were natives of Germany and Pennsylvania respectively. The father came to this country with his parents when a child, and with them settled in Virginia, where he learned and worked at carpentering. He was married in that State,  and in the spring of 1831 settled at Boonville, Indiana, where he worked at his trade a number of years. He later engaged in agricultural pursuits, and still later returned to Boonville, where he died in August, 1844, preceded by his wife in 1842.

    James B. brown lived with his parents until his twenty-third year, when he began farming for himself in the southeastern part of Boon Township. Later he removed to a farm further north of his first place, where he has since lived, the present owner of 340 acres of good land which is nicely improved and well stocked.

    Mr. Brown has been exceedingly unfortunate in his family, having lost three wives by death, as well as several children. His first wife, Mary Dowds, died leaving one daughter, who grew to womanhood, and has since died; Elizabeth Williams, his second wife, bore him five children, the three living ones being married and doing for themselves; his third wife was Jane Rickard, by whom he became the father of six children, five of whom survive her.

    Mr. Brown is a staunch Republican in politics, a practical farmer, a member of twenty-five years' standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an honest, upright citizen.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.