Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Hon. James C. Brown and Mary A. Bittenbanner




Husband Hon. James C. Brown 1

           Born: 7 Oct 1829 - Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Wilson Brown (1794-1885) 1 2
         Mother: Jane King (      -      ) 1


       Marriage: 29 Apr 1856 3



• Residence: : Greenville, Mercer Co, PA.




Wife Mary A. Bittenbanner 3

           Born: Aft 1826 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA
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         Father: Conrad Bittenbanner (      -Bef 1888) 4
         Mother: Sarah Blank (      -Bef 1888) 4




Children
1 F Sarah J. Brown 3

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         Spouse: Rev. Alfred Ramsey (      -      )


2 F M. Annetta Brown 5

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         Spouse: Phineas E. McCray (1857-      ) 5
           Marr: 1886 6


3 M Robert Wilson Brown, M.D. 3 7

           Born: 4 Dec 1866 - West Salem Twp, Mercer Co, PA 7
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         Spouse: Maude E. Benninghoff (1869-      ) 4
           Marr: 17 Jun 1900 8


4 M George A. Brown 3

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. James C. Brown


He received his primary education in the common schools, and at the age of seventeen, in September, 1846, entered the office of the Mercer Whig, where he remained till January, 1848. He then entered the Mercer Academy, but after a few months returned to Greenville and became a student in the academy, then under the charge of Revs. D. H. A. McLean and J. G. Wilson, where he completed his education. In the winter of 1848-49 he com­menced teaching a school in the Law district, five miles west of Mercer, and the following winter taught at Leech's Corners. At the close of the latter term he went to Brookville, PA, and taught a select school six months. He then bought a half interest in the Jefferson Star, a Whig paper, published at Brookville, and began editing that journal ere reaching his twenty-first year. While connected with the Star he taught in the common schools of Greenville two winters. In the spring of 1853 he sold his interest in that paper, came to Greenville and purchased the Independent Press, and during the past thirty-five years he has been connected with the press of Greenville the larger portion of his time. Politically he was first a Whig, and since the birth of the Republican party has been one of its stanchest supporters. In June, 1854, he was elected the first county superintendent of public schools in Mercer County, and filled that position two years. In October, 1861, he was elected to the Legislature, and re-elected to the same office in October, 1862. The following year he was the choice of his party in Mercer County for the Senate, but the nomination went to Venango County. In June, 1863, Mr. Brown enlisted as a private in Company C, Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Militia, and served his full term of enlistment. In 1866 he was elected to the State Senate, and served in that body three years. In March, 1871, he was appointed United States assessor, by President Grant, for this district, and in May, 1873, when the offices of assessor and collector were merged, he became deputy collector for the counties of Mercer and Crawford. In September, 1874, he was appointed collector for the district, and continued to fill that position nearly nine years, or until a reorganization of districts legislated the old collectors out of office. On settling up accounts, subse­quently, the government was found to be in his debt several hundred dollars. The family belonged to the United Presbyterian Church, in which body Mr. Brown was an elder for more than fifteen years. [HMC 1888, 779]

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Sources


1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 779.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 95.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 780.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 777.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 780, 816.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 816.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 430.

8 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 431.


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