Alward Helen E.

Notes:

After the death of Thurlow, Helen lived on the farm with her remaining children, Neal, age 14; Carey, age 10; Cole, age 12; and Mabel, age 6.

Helen married Brown Thurlow Weed on 06 Jun 1849 in Venice, Cayuga County, NY. Thurlow (son of Brown William and Weed Rebecca) was born on 24 Nov 1819 in Preston, Chenango Co., NY; died on 04 May 1866 in "The Oaks", Near the Village of Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., WI; was buried on 06 May 1866 in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In an article published in the Milton newspaper that the Hon. Neal Brown, of Wausau, WI had attended his brother's funeral and became a mainstay of the family since Carey's illness and had done everything possible for his brother before his death. This is the first mention of another child in the family.


Here is the article about Hon. Neal Brown from Wausau in 1900:WAUSAU IN 1900Hon. Neal Brown.Hon. Neal Brown is a lawyer by profession and a philosopher by inheritance; he is a lover of nature, a sportsman in the truest sense of the term and a writer of much ability. He might with propriety be called a genial grumbler. Were he not a Brown he would be a Carlyle, and the quaint and cynical and incisive criticisms of men and things with which he is wont to regale and always to edify his friends, are of a quality to do the great, grim, rugged Thomas Carlyle no discredit. Mr. Brown is himself great, grim and rugged, and his knowledge is confined to no narrow scope. It is practically world-wide. He is widely and accurately read, is perennially cocked and primed for the deep discussion of all things natural, or super-natural, or subnatural, and he rarely talks in private or in public without teaching his listeners something worth knowing, which they had never before known.
Mr. Brown's attainments and reputation in the legal profession are enviable and steadily growing. He is the senior member of the firm of Brown, Pradt & Genrich, attorneys at law, which has attractive offices in the First National Bank building, and enjoys deservedly the high rank which has been honestly earned.A Badger by birth, having been born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, in 1856, Mr. Brown has spent all the years of his life in this state. He continued to reside in Jefferson county until 1877, attending the county schools. In 1880 he graduated from the law school of the University of Wisconsin and came to Wausau in July of the same year, and has resided here continuously ever since, steadily adding to his reputation as a lawyer and as a hale fellow, well met. He represented Marathon County as assemblyman two years and for four years served in the State Senate from his district.
Mr. Brown was married July 2, 1892, to Louise Norton of Lockport, Ill. They have an elegant home, surrounded by attractive groves of native trees and shrubs, all set by Mr. Brown who is an enthusiast on the subject of tree culture and landscape gar-dening.Mr. Brown is a member of Wausau Lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Forest Lodge No. '3° F. & A. M.


Term: Brown, Neal 1856 - 1917
Definition:
lawyer, businessman, politician, b. Jefferson County. He was the son of Thurlow Weed Brown (q.v.). He graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (LL.B., 1880), moved to Wausau, and set up a law practice. In 1885, he and two partners formed the Wausau Law and Land Association, a firm dealing in real estate throughout northern Wisconsin, as well as in Michigan, Minnesota, the Pacific coast, and the South. One of the most powerful businessmen in northern Wisconsin, Brown was among the organizers of the Wausau Street Railway, the Marathon Paper Mills Co., the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Co., and the Chisholm Electric Co. (Minnesota), and was an active promoter of the Wisconsin Valley Electric Co. A consistent opponent of governmental restrictions on business, he campaigned to eliminate tariff restrictions and fought state control of Wisconsin water-power rights. Originally a Republican, he became a Democrat in 1888 and served as state assemblyman (1891-1892) and state senator (1893-1896). In 1908 he was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was president of the state bar association in 1909. L. Marchetti, Hist. of Marathon Co. . . . (Chicago, 1913); Wausau Daily Record-Herald, Sept. 19, 1917; N. Brown, Critical Confessions (Wausau, 1899).
The Wisconsin Historical Society has manuscripts related to this topic. See the catalog description of the Neal Brown Papers for details.
[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]

Cornelius married Norton Louisa H. on 02 Jul 1892 in Lockport, Will County, IL. Louisa was born on 06 Apr 1865 in Lockport, Will County, IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jefferson County Union Newspaper 9 May 1890

Obituary for Cary Alward Brown
1860-1890

Death of Cary Brown

Cary Brown, who the past two years has made a heroic battle against that dread disease, consomption, died at Mobile, Alabama, Tuesday. He was married about two and a half years ago to Miss Cella (Marcella) Thiry, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thiry, and apparently had a fine start in life. The news that he was in the first stages of consumption was a painful surprise to his friends at the time, as he was known to possess a vigorous constitution, was always strong and broad of chest. The disease had progressed very far before anything was done. Shortly after a medical examination he went to Colorado, alone, to recuperate. Not improving, his wife joined him and a few months after, they started home with a prairie schooner, arriving early last fall.

Afdter a months's stay they set out with their covered wagon for the gulf states. They reached Alabama some weeks since and were journeying to Thomasville, GA when Carey becaem much worse and they went into Mobile. In their travels they had journeyed over 2,000 miles. Deceased was born in this township, April 27, 1860 and was thus 30 years old. The body was brought here for burial Thursday. The funeral services are to be held at the Congregational Church at 3:30 p. m. today, conducted by Rev. W. W. Rose. The remains wil be interred in Evergreen cemetery. Much sympathy is expressed for his young and faithful wife, thus early bereaved.

Also in the Jefferson County Union paper, 9 May, 1890 was the following:

Honorable Neal Brown, of Wausau, is in attendance at the funeral of his brother Carey, today. He has been the mainstay of the family since Carey's illness, and has done all for his brother that it was posssible to do.

Jefferson County Union paper; EAst Koshkonong (from a Union Correspondant) 16 May 1890.

Mrs. Cary Brown, who for one and one-half years has been traveling with her husband through the West and South in the vain attempt to restore him to health , returned last week with his remains and they were interred in Evergreen cemetery. She is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thiry, where she will, for the present remain. Their many friends here deeply sympathize with her in her sorrow.

Carey married Thiry Marcella on 30 Dec 1887 in WI. Marcella was born on 30 Dec 1867 in Koshkonong, Jefferson County, WI; died on 11 Jan 1928 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI; was buried on 15 Jan 1928 in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Both Carey and wife, Gertrude are buried in the Thiry family plot at Milton Junction Cemetery in Milton Junction, Rock County, WI. He was living in Milwaukee, WI as was his mother at the time of her death.

Obituary that appeared in the Jefferson County Union paper on July 9, 1953.

CARY BROWN
1891-1953

Cary Brown, 61, former Milton Junction resident, died on Thursday in the Portage hospital where he had been critically ill for a week. He was born Dec. 5 1891, on a farm near Fort Atkinson, the son of Cary Alward and Marcella Thiry Brown.

His early life was spent in and near Milton Junction. On May 28, 1924, he was married to Gertrude Koerner of Milwaukee and for the past 20 years they have resided at Buffalo Lake, near Montello. Surviving are his wife, and an aunt, Mrs. A. M. Paul, Milton Junciton.

Funeral services were held in Montello at 1 p.m. Monday, and burial was in the Milton Junction cemetery at 3:30 p. m.

Carey married Koerner Gertrude on 28 May 1924 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI. Gertrude was born in 1881 in Of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI; died in 1972 in Buffalo Lake near Montello, Marquette County, WI; was buried in Milton Junction Cemetery, Milton Junction, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]