Husband William Wallace Brown, LL.D. 1 2
Born: 22 Apr 1836 - Summer Hill, Cayuga Co, NY 1 2
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Father: Rasselas Wilcox Brown (1809-1887) 3 4 5
Mother: Mary Porter Brownell (1815-Aft 1890) 4 6
Marriage: 16 Mar 1862 2 7
• Additional Image: William Wallace Brown.
• Biographical Sketch: from History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890).
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Wife Ellen Crandall 2 7
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Father: Nelson Crandall ( - ) 7
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1 F Jessie Lincoln Brown 2 7
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General Notes: Husband - William Wallace Brown, LL.D.
He taught school and in 1857 entered Alfred (N. Y.) College, and was within two months of graduation when he enlisted in what became Company K, 23d New York Volunteers. Later he was transferred to the famous Bucktail Regiment of Pennsylvania, and took part in a number of noted engagements. He studied law at Smethport, meantime serving as register and recorder and deputy prothonotary of McKean County, Pennsylvania. He became district attorney, and was appointed by the governor county superintendent of schools. He lived at Corry for nine years, from 1869, serving three years as city attorney and two in the council. From 1872 to 1876 he was a member of the State Legislature; was appointed aide de camp to Governor Hartranft in 1876; in 1878 moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania. He was elected to Congress in 1882, and served in all twenty years; was auditor of the United States navy for years; procured the charter for the city of Bradford, and was active in its Board of Trade, and in railroad and oil interests. He was prominent in the G. A. R., serving as commander of his post and as junior vice commander of the department of Pennsylvania.
General Notes: Wife - Ellen Crandall
from Independence, Allegany Co, NY