Husband Hon. Rassellas Brown 1 2 3
Born: 10 Sep 1812 - Brownsville, Jefferson Co, NY 1
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Father: George Brown (Abt 1784-1868) 1
Mother: Temperance Plumb ( - ) 1
Marriage: 20 Jan 1841 4
• Biographical Sketch: from Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889).
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Wife Elizabeth Sill 5
Born: 16 Feb 1822 5
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Father: Nathaniel Sill (1776-1858) 5 6
Mother: Kezia Payne ( - ) 5
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1 F Ada Brown 4
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Spouse: Dr. A. J. Partridge ( - ) 4
2 M H. E. Brown 4
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Spouse: Ida Mead ( - ) 7 8
Marr: Feb 1871 7
3 M George R. Brown 7
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4 M Epp E. Brown 7
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Rassellas Brown
He was favored with good educational advantages. He attended the common schools of Brownsville, Jefferson County, New York, took thorough courses of study in the academies at Watertown and Belleville, New York, entered Union College in 1834, and was graduated in 1836. Immediately thereafter he came to War-ren, Pennsylvania, where he at once gained the distinction in local history of being the first teacher in the Warren Academy, a position which he filled most fruitfully for three years. In the mean time he began to study law in the office of Judge Lansing Wetmore, continued in the office of Struthers & Johnson, and was admitted to practice in all the courts of Warren County in the spring of 1839. In the fall of 1845 he became a practitioner in the Supreme Court of the state. After working for a time, following his admission to the bar, for the firm of Struthers & Johnson, he became a partner of Hon. S. P. Johnson, and until 1860 remained a member of the law firm of Johnson & Brown. This relation was dissolved in that year by his appointment by Governor Packer as president judge of all the courts of the Sixth Judicial District, then composed of the counties of Erie, Crawford, and Warren, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John Galbraith. At the expiration of this term he returned to an increasing practice, in which he has continued to the present time. He has had in this long period several partners. For the first few years he was the senior member of the firm of Brown & Jamieson, his partner being H. A. Jamieson; then, after practicing about two years without a partner, he united his practice with that of Hon. C. W. Stone, and a few years later took into the firm his son, H. E. Brown. His practice extended over the entire northwestern portion of the state of Pennsylvania. He was for a number of years an attorney for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and for the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, in which companies he was also director. He was a director of the First National Bank of Warren. Besides these positions of a quasi-public nature, he numbered among his clients many of the wealthiest and most intelligent men in that part of the state.
Judge Brown's political propensity was, like that of his father, toward decentralization of governmental power. He was a Democrat, though an independent voter. It might be surprising, therefore, to find that, notwithstanding his politics, unfavorable to the attainment of office in a Republican district and state, he was frequently placed in positions of great trust and responsibility by the voters of the district. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, was appointed a member of the board of revenue commissioners for the Sixth Judicial District in 1852, and among other positions was chosen a member of the State Constitutional Convention to revise the constitution in 1873. His religious views were conservative. He was a regular attendant upon divine worship at the Presbyterian Church, though he was not a member of any denomination or religious organization.