LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

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JAMES L. BROWN

Transcribed by Beverly Gerdts, submitted June 13, 2017

        Thomas Brown, the grandfather of our subject, was born in South Carolina, and engaged in surveying. Being opposed to slavery, he left his native state, and became a pioneer of Indiana, settling there in 1802. He was a man of influence and great promin-...

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... ence in Indiana, and served as a member of the state legislature.

        Mathew and Julia (Brumage) brown the parents of our subject, were natives of Indiana and Virginia, and were the parents of seven children, James L., Emily C., wife of William Marshall, Thomas M., Hugh P., Newton J., Elizabeth and Bonfield. James L. was united in marriage with Cynthia Coulter, in September, 1855, and spent five years in Buteau county, Ill., then came to Louisa county and purchased 80 acres of land on section 17, Concord township.

        Three children graced their union: Alice, who became the wife of Henry Bedwell, a resident of Concord township, Charley L., a clerk in a railroad station in Lincoln, Nebraska, and L. Grant, who was one of the leading farmers in Concord township, and one of the prominent citizens of this community. Hugh P. was the one mentioned elsewhere in this history, that took care of the Fredonia water tank.