JAMES M. BROWN

BROWN

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 16:17:12

JAMES M. BROWN, who resides on section 18, Jasper township, has a farm of of 380 acres on this and section 13, Nodaway township. He purchased this place at different times and of different parties, and it is now one of the finest stock farms in Adams county. It is well watered by the East Nodaway creek, and also by a fine spring near his residences. He makes a specialty of stock, and now has forty head of horses, about the same number of cattle, and from seventy-five to one hundred head of hogs. He intends to continue in the stock business and also to increase it.

Mr. Brown was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1830, the son of John H. Brown, one of the pioneers of that county. In 1836 he removed with his family to Mercer county, Illinois, where he lived until his death. His wife, the mother of our subject, Mary McPhersen, survived her husband a number of years, but is now deceased. She died at the age of eighty years, and her husband at the age of seventy-four. They had a family of thirteen children, and all but one son, who died at the age of twelve years, lived to years of maturity. There are nine of the family living at this writing, seven sons and two daughters. Alexander, the eldest child, lives in Mercer county, Illinois; George died many years ago, leaving a wife and two children; John is a resident of Nodaway township; Sarah Jane is deceased, having died in her twentieth year; James M., our subject; William, a resident of Prescott, Adams county; Daniel died at the age of twelve years; Hugh lives in Mercer county, Illinois; Benjamin L., of Jasper township, Adams county; Josiah F. lives in Mercer county; Francis M. was killed in the war of the Rebellion, a member of the Eighty-fourth Illinois; Mary lives in Illinois, the wife of Josiah McClan; Joanna, wife of Squire Williams, resides in Missouri.

James M. Brown was married in Illinois, in 1855, to Miss Jerusha Reed, a native of Indiana, but who removed with her parents when but a year old to Mercer county Illinois. Mr. Brown continued to live in Mercer county until he came to Adams county in the fall of 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters.