George Franklin Brown and Ellen Wilson

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Husband George Franklin Brown ¹

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           Born: 8 Aug 1856 - near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel M. Brown (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Rebecca Rose (Abt 1826-Aft 1906) 1

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Wife Ellen Wilson ³

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         Father: A. J. Wilson (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Martha Brown ³

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2 M Frank W. Brown ³

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3 F Susan Brown ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Lena Bell Brown ³

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5 M John Hall Brown ³

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6 M Lawrence L. Brown ³

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           Born: 8 Mar 1898 3
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General Notes: Husband - George Franklin Brown

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He received his primary education in the common schools of Franklin township, afterward attending the old Irwin school. He spent his boyhood on the farm, and at the age of twenty moved with his parents to Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, where he worked for about one year as a teamster. He then entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as locomotive fireman, beginning on a yard engine, and at the end of eight months being promoted to passenger engine No. 4, running from Pittsburgh to Altoona. In this position he served twenty-two months, and was then transferred to a through freight engine on the southwest branch, running from Pittsburgh to Connellsville. He served, all told, five years and three months as fireman and passed a successful examination, when on account of the loss of hearing he was compelled to resign. In partnership with his brother he opened a grocery store in Wilkinsburg, under the firm name of Brown Brothers, the connection being maintained for two years and a half, when he sold out to his brother and accepted a position as salesman for Dunlevy Brothers, pork packers. After remaining with them three months he returned to the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He worked three months as a carpenter, and then became foreman. While serving in this capacity on engine No. 1053, Engineer Hugh Tate being in charge and making runs from Pittsburgh to Altoona, the engineer lost control of the engine, which was drawing six Pullman cars, and the train ran from Gallitzen to Altoona, a distance of more than eleven miles, in twelve minutes, rounding the famous horseshoe bend at the rate of a mile in less than a minute. In endeavoring to lessen the speed by means of the hand-breaks, the crew had their hands frozen solid above the wrists. After leaving the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company he accepted a position as engineer with the People's Natural Gas Company, at the Morgan pump station, near Murraysville, and later was transferred to the Murrysville pump station, where he has been in charge of one shift, running twelve hours per day. The Murrysville plant has four long engines, two of two hundred and fifty and two of three hundred and fifty horse power, respectively. It also has five boilers of eight hundred horse power in all, pumping gas from wells in Westmoreland county to Greensburg, Jeannette and Latrobe. In the fifteen years of his service Mr. Brown lost but two days and those from illness. In the spring of 1902 he bought the Patton farm of one hundred and eighty acres, two miles from Murrysville, and then made it his home. He was a Prohibitionist, and a member of the Presbyterian church of Murrysville.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 232, 436.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 232.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 233.