Porter S. Brown and Gertrude H. Hewitt

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Husband Porter S. Brown ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Jan 1869 - Spruce Creek, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
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         Father: Benjamin Franklin Brown (1824/1825-1900) 1 2 3
         Mother: Martha Jane Stewart (      -Aft 1913) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1896 4

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   Other Spouse: Clara Boyer (      -      ) 4 - 1934 4

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Wife Gertrude H. Hewitt ⁴

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Children

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1 M Firman H. Brown ⁴

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           Born: 4 Jul 1897 4
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         Spouse: Eunice DeVane (      -      ) 4

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2 F Ellen Newall Brown ⁴

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           Born: 2 Jun 1900 4
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         Spouse: Elliott D. Adams (      -      ) 4

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3 M Stevens Porter Brown ⁴

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           Born: 9 Sep 1908 4
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         Spouse: Lorraine B. Farrell (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Porter S. Brown

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He was educated in the rural schools of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen he was granted a certificate to teach in Pennsylvania by former Governor M. G. Broomwell and for three terms was a teacher in the rural schools of Huntingdon County. During the summer months he worked on his father's farm. For a short time after this he was employed in a drug store. When he attained his majority, however, he sought a field of greater business opportunity. Moving to Clarion, he joined his elder brothers, John F. and G. E. Brown, in the insurance business. At the time they operated two offices, one in Clarion, in charge of John F. Brown, and the other in Brookville, in charge of G. E. Brown. Porter S. Brown served a thorough apprenticeship in the insurance business at Clarion, where he remained with his brother for nine years. At the end of that time, having reached the age of thirty, he came to Brookville and with his younger brother, Walter S. Brown, purchased the local business of their elder brothers, John F. and G. E. Brown. As partners, the two younger brothers carried on the Brookville business under the name of Brown Brothers. Soon afterward, they opened a second office in Punxsutawney under the active management of Walter S. Brown. This arrangement continued until 1921, when the partnership was dissolved, each of the brothers taking ownership of one of the offices. Porter S. Brown remained at Brookville and conducted the business there on his own account, although retaining the old firm name of Brown Brothers. Mr. Brown handled insurance of all types, including life and casualty insurance.
Mr. Brown was a Democrat in politics and was affiliated fraternally with the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he was a member of all higher bodies of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, including Coudersport Consistory, thirty-second degree. A Presbyterian in religious faith, he was a member of the sessions of the Brookville Presbyterian Church for thirty years.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 704.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 546.

3 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 281.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 547.