Brown, Claude S. 1872-1938

BROWN

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Date: 5/12/2010 at 13:50:59

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
January 11, 1938

CLAUDE S. BROWN FORMER LE MARS RESIDENT DIES
Long Identified With State Politics And Civic Affairs In St. Paul

Claude S. Brown, 66, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday. His death
was unexpected. Mr. Brown lived the early years of his life in LeMars,
leaving here when 26 years old and lived in St. Paul since. He was a so of
A. P. Brown, a pioneer of LeMars, who on coming here in the seventies
engaged in the livery business.

A. P. Brown served as postmaster under President Harrison’s administration
and was a justice of the peace and mayor of LeMars in 1895-96.

Claude Brown was educated in the LeMars schools and Wilder College. His
first position after leaving school was with the law firm of Sammis & Scott
of LeMars. A St. Paul paper has the following obituary notice.

Claude Sturtevant Brown, 892 Dayton Avenue, long identified with state
politics and civic affairs in St. Paul died Tuesday afternoon in his home.

A resident of St. Paul since 1896, Mr. Brown served the state for 30 years,
first as deputy sate auditor under the late Samuel G. Iverson and later as
inheritance tax commissioner under five attorney generals.

Mr. Brown was born in Rockford, Ill., February 19, 1872. He is survived by
his widow, Irene A. Brown; one daughter, Mrs. George C. Schaller; and one
son, Samuel Gilbert Brown; two grandsons, George Mahlon Schaller and Samuel
Brown Schaller; one brother, Clifford A. Brown; and two sisters, Mrs. Edith
H. Simpson and Mrs. William T. Hall, all of St. Paul. His son had left here
Sunday night to resume his studies at Yale University after spending the
holidays at home. He returned today by plane.

Funeral services were held Thursday in St. Clement’s Memorial Episcopal
church with Rev. William F. Creighton officiating, and interment made in
Rose Lawn Cemetery.