Brown, Calvin H. (1822-1898)

BROWN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/20/2008 at 16:08:00

Calvin Hale Brown
June 3, 1822 - Sep 8, 1898

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.209, Pleasant Twp.)
C. H. Brown, farmer, P. O. Avoca, is a native of Hubbardston, Worcester Co., Mass., born June 3, 1822, and is a son of J. M. and Kate (Upham) Brown, who were the parents of two sons and one girl. J. M. Brown, who was a shoemaker by trade, was born in Worcester County, Mass., in 1788, and died in Windham County, Vt., October 12, 1861; his wife, who was born in Hubbardston, Worcester Co., Mass., June 9, 1802, died in Knos County, Ill., in 1872. Subject was educated in Windham County, Vt., and began life as a farmer, which occupation he has since followed. In 1826, he left Massachusetts and went with his parents to Vermont, where he remained till 1864, when he came West and settled in Knox County, Ill., where he farmed for eight years, then came by rail to Pleasant Township in this spring of 1882. Here he bought eighty acres of wild land at $8 per acre; improved it, set out three acres of forest trees and one acre of an orchard containing apple, cherry, peach, pear and plum trees, and all kinds of small fruits. In 1874, he bought forty acres of wild land at $7 per acre, and devotes his attention to general farming. All his shade trees were raised from a seed. He has been Township Trustee, is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is, in politics, a Republican.