Brown, C. E. Rev. 1813 - 1901

BROWN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:22

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer July 26, 1901, FP, C5

Rev. C. E. Brown Dead.
Rev. C. E. Brown, one of the early settlers of Howard county is dead and was laid to rest in Pleasant Hill cemetery at Lime Springs yesterday. He was a long time resident at Vernon Springs, the founder of the Baptist church of this section, now located at Cresco, and of the Baptist church at Lime Springs, over both of which he had been the Pastor at different times. He had held the office of county superintendent of schools, been a member of the board of supervisors, a member of the legislature of the state. For a number of years his home has been with one or other of his sous, with whom he was living at the time of his death. His visits to his friends in this county were frequent until within the past year, and always welcomed. The surviving members of his family are Charles P. Brown of Ottumwa, where he died; Jas. D. Brown, a station agent on some line of road, and W. C. Brown of Chicago, prominent in the management of the C. B..& Q. railroad. The deceased was along in years, being at the time of his death from 88 to 90 years, He leaves to the world and his posterity a good name.

Transcriber’s Note: Pleasant Hill Cemetery indicates he was born Feb. 1813.

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