H. M. BROWN
H.M. Brown resides on section 14, Washington township, where he purchased two hundred and seventy acres of nice land in 1880, and has since remained there. He was born in Ohio, in 1842, and was there reared. He learned the trade of a harness maker, and in 1862, came to Clinton county, Iowa, where he was engaged in the harness business until 1864, when he returned to Ohio, and enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served in that regiment until the close of the war. After the war he returned to Ohio, and was there engaged in the boot and shoe business until the spring of 1868, when he sold out and came to Marion county, Iowa, where he commenced farming and was so engaged until coming to Cass county, where he has since followed that occupation. Mr. Brown was married to Sarah A. Blackwood, a native of Ohio, and by whom he has had eight children...Edward E., Henry E., Emory O., Herbert w., Joseph W., Abbie A., Asa, and Carrie M.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 631.
