Brothers, H. P.

BROTHERS, RICE

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Date: 6/28/2019 at 04:51:16

H. P. [HYPPOLYTE P.] BROTHERS
"Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties Iowa"
Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago. 1887.

H. P. BROTHERS, merchant at Grand River, was born [July 26, 1834] in [Verrenne, Quebec] Canada, in 1834, son of HIPPOLYTE and PAULINE BROTHERS, of French descent. He was brought up in a cotton factory. In 1864 he enlisted in the First Massachusetts as a musician. At the close of the war he came West and settled in Decatur County, when he commenced teaching band music, in 1868, and continued that occupation until 1882. He is a composer of considerable note. He is at present engaged in the mercantile business, under the firm name of Brothers & Fear. They keep a well selected stock of dry goods, notions, hats and caps, boots and shoes, groceries, flour, hardware, and Gliddon's barb wire. He was married [May 1] [at Pepperil] Massachusetts, in 1855, to ELIZABETH RICE, born in that State in 1832. They have five children - EUGENE G., HATTIE P., HENRY E., JAMES C. and ALICE F.

Mr. BROTHERS is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and politically is a Republican. He is well known in business circles as a man of integrity, and socially is a gentleman.