George W. Brown and Mrs. Sarah C. Whiting

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Husband George W. Brown ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 4 Apr 1827 or 1828 - Centerville, Crawford Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1887
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         Father: John Brown (1784/1793-1871/1880) 2 3 4
         Mother: Matilda Jane McCray (1807-1870/1871) 2 3 5

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: M. Florine Shipman (      -      ) 6 - 5 Oct 1898 6

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Wife Mrs. Sarah C. Whiting ^{1 6}

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           Born: 1827 - Tompkins Co, NY 1
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           Died: 20 Aug 1897 6
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Brown

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In early life he was engaged in farming and lumbering, but his later life was devoted to the interests of the public. He was coroner of Warren County, Pennsylvania, for three years, and also held other minor offices. It was said by the people of his county that Mr. Brown was one of the most successful organizers of temperance movements, and mutual aid, protective and equitable societies; and his record shows that he has organized 337 organizations of working divisions. He was also a weekly contributor to all the prominent newspapers.
He settled on his homestead in 1867.

He was a babe of two weeks when his parents moved from his native town to Titusville, Pennsylvania, and at the age of five years they moved to Garland, Warren County; after seven years' residence in that village the family removed to Youngsville, where he thereafter resided. He was mentally trained in the public schools of Garland and in Brokenstraw township, attending school during the winter months and assisting his father in the cultivation of the farm in the summer; when a young man he worked in and about a saw mill during the winter and farmed in the summer.
Mr. Brown possessed considerable musical talent and organized what was known for a long time as Brown's Band, which furnished the music for social gatherings in that section of the country for a number of years.
At the age of thirty-two Mr. Brown engaged in the buying and selling of lumber on his own account and soon became the owner of two lumberyards, one located at Parker City and the other at Karns City. His business proved to be a very successful undertaking, as he soon amassed a handsome fortune, but the greater part of it was more quickly lost when oil made a drop from $2.50 per barrel to 50 cents per barrel, and his lumber-yard at Parker City was destroyed by fire. Mr. Brown was also engaged in the oil business. He then began organizing Good Templar Lodges and continued in this work until he had organized one hundred and fifty-eight. He then commenced the organization of lodges of fraternal benefit orders. He was connected with the following societies, in many of which he has held high official positions, namely: A. O. U. W. and degrees of honor; I. O. O. F. and Kossuth Encampment of Warren; Sons of Temperance; honorary member of the W. C. T. U.; member of the Rebecca Lodge, I. O. O. F.; Knights of The Maccabees; Keystone Benefit Society, and Royal Templars of Temperance; he served as district deputy grand of the I. O. O. F. of Warren County.
Mr. Brown possessed considerable literary talent and was a regular correspondent for the Oil City Derrick, Titusville Morning Herald, and Erie Morning Dispatch; for twenty-two years or more he never missed a single week in writing for one or the other of these papers.
He was deeply interested in floriculture and attended in person to the raising and care of a large and rare variety of plants.
Religiously, he was an active member of the M. E. Church; of which he was a trustee for eleven years or more; he was president of the board of committeemen of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Youngsville, of which he was also a trustee for eleven years. In politics he was a Republican and served a term as coroner of Warren County and as a member of the school board of Brokenstraw township. [BOB37JD, 221]

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP xiv.

2 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 220.

3 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 213.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 14, 64.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 13, 64.

6 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 222.