Vallorous Brown

    Vallorous Brown is a native of Ohio, having been born in Knox County, May 23, 1846. His parents William R. and Sarah (Pond) Brown were natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively, and had a family of three children, but two, Hannah E., now Mrs. Yontz, and Vallorous yet living. The father was a farmer, and moved to Nobel County, Indiana in 1848, locating in York Township, where they remained about four years, and then removed to Columbia Township, Whitley County, Indiana, and afterward to Thorn Creek Township, where Mr. Brown died in 1870. Mrs. Brown afterward became the wife of William Ream, and at present resides in Columbia Township.

    Vallorous Brown was reared on a farm, receiving the ordinary advantages of the common schools. At the age of twenty, he began teaching and continued at that for four years. He was married March 6, 1871, to Miss Mary Baker, and followed farming for four years. He then purchased a saw-mill, three miles north of Columbia City, which he operated for three years., in 1878, he removed to Columbia City, engaging in the manufacture of lumber near the Eel River Railroad, afterward purchasing another mill near the Wabash depot, and successfully operating the two until April, 1881, when he transferred his field of labor to Albion until January, 1882, when he disposed of all his lumber interests, and opened a hardware store in Columbia City, at which he is yet engaged. He carries a first-class stock of goods, valued at over $7,000, and does a good business. Mr. Brown is a Democrat, a Royal Arch Mason, and himself and wife are parents of four children -William, Laura, Charles and Daisy.

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Charles Blanchard, 1882. Page 242.