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Biographies of Scott County, 1888 Eliphalet L. Brown, one of the prominent citizens of Scott county, Mo. was born in Mississippi County, April 10, 1845. He is a son of Francis M. and Julia A. (Seaton) Brown [see sketch]. The subject of this sketch was reared on his father's farm in Mississippi County, as was mostly educated in the common schools. He attended one session at Chirstian Brothers' College, St. Louis. In 1872 he was married to Cleo P. Lane, by whom he has one child, E. Lindsay. Mrs. Brown died in 1877, and he was again married on June 17, 1878, choosing for his second wife S. Alice, a daughter of Amalphus and Mary (Hacker) Simonds. The former was a native of New York. Mrs. Simonds was born in Union County, Ill., and is a daughter of Capt. John S. Hacker, who settled in Union County, Ill., about 1810, and figured prominently in Southern Illinois during the remainder of his life. He spent thirty years in Jonesboro where he erected the Pioneer Hotel. At the head of a company of ninety-six men he served through the Mexican War, after which he made an overland trip to California. His wife, Eliza Miliken, whose father gave the name of Miliken Bend to a curve in the Mississippi River, died in 1853. Capt. Hacker then removed to Cairo, and died at Anna, Ill., in 1878, in his eighty-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one child, Amalphus S. On December 9, 1884, Mr. Brown removed to his present farm in Scott County. He owns 1,800 acres of land 1,000 acres of which are under cultivation, with good improvements. He also owns what is known as Price's Landing, one of the oldest steamboat landings in Southeast Missouri. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Episcopal Church This site is a AHGP Project which is a volunteer genealogical organization dedicated to the free access of genealogical information. NOTE: If you run across a site thats charges a fee to view these pages, please let me know This is a free site. There is not a charge to view these pages. Return To -B- Biographies 
 
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