BROWN, Charles Dudley 1830-1920

BROWN, GALLUP, BARNETT, PETTIT

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 4/22/2012 at 10:23:10

A NOTED OSAGER, IS SUMMONED

Well Known Engineer, Charles D. Brown
Passed Away Last Saturday Afternoon

Charles Dudley Brown, who passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. O. E. Gallup, last Saturday afternoon, was born May 4, 1830. Mr. Brown was in the mercantile business at Zenia, Illinois, where he was married to Eleanor Ann Barnett, May 15, 1858.

After a time Mr. Brown sold out in Zenia, and moved to Dubuque, Iowa,and worked as civil engineer and contractor for the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Co.

After completing his work for that company, he, together with his brother, George M. Brown, now of St. Ansgar, and Timothy Dillen of Dubuque, took the contract of grading and building the Illinois Central from Cedar Falls to Mona.

He moved to Osage in 1967, where the family have since resided. After completing Illinois Central contract, Mr. Brown spent several years in the Black Hills. Later he did work for the St. Paul and Duluth Rail Road surveying and buying ties for the company.

He served several years as county surveyor in Mitchell county, after which he retired from active business.

Mrs. Brown preceded her husband in death June 11, 1913. Five children were born to them.
Charles Dudley, who died in infancy, Alda M., who died in 1881, Dora, who died in 1908, while Mrs. O. E. Gallup of Osage, Iowa, and Mrs. Blanche Pettit of Verndale, Minnesota, survive.

Mr. Brown was a man of staunch integrity, a warm friend, and considerate husband and father. One peculiarity of this good man's life was that he never employed a physican in all his life never having had the need of one, except in his last illness.

Funeral services were conducted at the Gallup residence where he made his home many years, on Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Willoughby and the remains now rest in the Osage cemetery.

Mitchell County Press
November 24, 1920