Daniel Brown
BROWN, MURPHY
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 21:35:26
Daniel Brown, South twp.; farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Patterson; born in Schoharie county, New York, March 5, 1825; when seven years of age he, with his parents moved to LaPorte county, Indiana; was raised there; he married Mary J. Murphy, of Indiana in 1856, and then removed to Bureau county, Illinois, where he lived eighteen years; in 1850 he went to California, and was gone four years; went by wagon, and was about 80 days on the road; was engaged in mining; came here about six years ago; owns a farm of 177 acres; has a family of three sons and four daughters: Martha J., Annie E., John H., Haney E., Mary E., Thomas D. and Samuel G.
Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 573
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