Homer A. Brown 1867-1920

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Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 7/15/2008 at 23:31:24

HOMER A. BROWN; 1867-1920

Homer A. Brown was born on February 5, 1867, at Westfield, Vermont, son of Thomas and Ellen R. Brown, and died at Forest City, Iowa, on June 8, 1920.

When he was four years old his parents came to Osage, Iowa, where his boyhood days were spent on a farm. When he was fourteen years old his father died and this necessitated his leaving school and he had no further opportunity of schooling until he became of age, when he decided to enter the Law School at Iowa City. During the intervening years he had been an incessant reader and his education had progressed by self-instruction.

Upon being admitted to the Bar he opened his office at Riceville, Iowa, where he remained for two years, and then came to Forest City, where he formed a partnership with C. H. Kelly. Following the election of Mr. Kelly to the Bench he carried on the practice of law alone until a short time before his death.

He was a kind, unassuming man and respected by all who knew him. His honesty was that of the old fashioned kind which is measured, not by the legal, but by the moral law. The Golden
Rule was his guide and he followed it faithfully.

He is survived by Maida C. Brown, his widow; by his daughters Phyllis, Marjorie and Ellith; by his son Roger; by three sisters and two brothers. He was a member of the Masonic Order.

~Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Session of the Iowa State Bar Association; published by the association, 1921; Report of Committee on Legal Biography, memorials, pg 35