Husband John F. Brown 1
Born: 22 Mar 1850 - Williamsburg, Blair Co, PA 2
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Died: 5 Mar 1912 - Philadelphia, PA 2
Buried: - Clarion Cemetery, Clarion, Clarion Co, PA
Father: Benjamin Franklin Brown (1824/1825-1900) 2 3 4
Mother: Martha Jane Stewart ( -Aft 1913) 2 4
Marriage: 20 Sep 1877 5
Wife Effie K. Burns 1
Born: 4 May 1859 - Clarion Co, PA 5
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Died: Aft 1913
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Father: James Turner Burns (1814-1890) 1 6
Mother: Juliet Catherine Smith (1827-1912) 1
Children
1 F Alice Brown 5
Born: 30 Jun 1878 5
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2 M Frederick V. Brown 5
Born: 26 Sep 1879 5
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Spouse: Clara Arnold ( - ) 5
3 F Catherine Brown 7
Born: 26 Mar 1882 5
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Died: 31 Dec 1909 5
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Spouse: Harry Lawson Moore (1881- ) 7
4 F Marie C. Brown 5
Born: 26 May 1890 5
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General Notes: Husband - John F. Brown
He received the rudiments of an education in the district schools of his native place, and when but nine years of age he went to Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to live with his uncle, R. B. Brown, who was in the newspaper business. There he became a newspaper boy for two years on the steamboat plying between Brownsville and Pittsburgh, when his uncle bought the Clarion Democrat in December, 1863. He came with his uncle to Clarion and under his uncle began his apprenticeship in the printer's trade. His home has been in Clarion ever since with the exception of two years, when he was the editorial and local writer on the Gazette and Democrat of New Castle, Pennsylvania. He then returned to Clarion, having further qualified for his successful business enterprises by taking a commercial course at the Iron City College in Pittsburgh, and bought an interest in the Democrat with his uncle, which he held up until 1876, when he sold his interest and engaged in the fire and life insurance business, ultimately developing a general agency embracing several counties.
After some years Mr. Brown retired from the fire insurance business, except to retain his interest in the Clarion County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he was a director for many years and in later years was president of the company, a position he filled with great advantage to it and its stockholders. He still retained the general agency of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia and did a large business for that company, being their local representative. He was also associated with many of the county institutes in an official capacity and always gave able, helpful and proficient service. For many years he was a trustee of the State Normal School; for twenty-five years was a trustee of the Clarion Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member from young manhood; he was a trustee by appointment of the governor of the Warren Hospital at Warren, Pennsylvania. He was a director of the Citizens Trust Company of Clarion and president of the Clarion County Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Brown was deeply interested in politics, being a Democrat of pronounced belief. He was in the foremost ranks of his party in Clarion county, and although be never sought political preferment for himself he was much sought after in an advisory capacity. He was a thirty-second degree member of Clarion Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and was also a member of Syria Temple, Mystic Shrine, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [GPHAV, 704]
General Notes: Wife - Effie K. Burns
Clarion, Clarion Co, PA