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Bio: Brown, William H. (1881)
----Surnames: Brown, Horton, Ward ----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1204 WILLIAM H. BROWN, ice dealer, Grand Rapids. Came to Grand Rapids, Wis., in 1853, and engaged in logging and lumbering; continued at this until he enlisted, in January, 1864, in Co. G, 12th Wis., Vols. Was in the Army of the Tennessee, having joined the command near Vicksburg, the 17th Army Corp.; was attached to the 15th Ohio Battery for a few months; then detailed to the Corps headquarters, where he remained to the close of the war, and was discharged June, 1865. Returned to Grand Rapids and resumed his former employment in which he continued until 1873, when he commenced his present business of dealing in ice and moving buildings. Mr. B. was born June 6, 1832, in Wilford Township, Canada, near the Rideau Canal. Lived at the head of Lake Ontario a few years, then at Niagara Falls. Came to Chicago in 1853 and the same year to Grand Rapids, Wis. Was married to Miss Sarah Horton, July 6, 1855. She died Feb. 3, 1872. Was married Feb. 27, 1879, to Mrs. Mary Ward, of Grand Rapids. Mr. Brown has served as member of the School Board and of the City Council of Grand Rapids.
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