Wright Cyprian

Notes:

Cyprian Wright died by drowning in Muscopog Pond according to the vital records of Rutland, Worcester Co., MA p.255.
His father, Samuel, died just six months before on January 15, 1739/40.

He and his family were early inhabitants of Rutland, Worcester county, MA. His father, Capt. Samuel Wright owned Lot # 1 and Cyprian owned Lot # 2.

Early Worcester County, MA Probate Records
Cyprian Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co. [Record # 57,737]
Cyprian Wright died at Rutland, intestate, and on 11 July, 1739 an inventory of his property was taken by Joseph Stearns, John Hubbard, and Moses How. The estate came to £ 726 which included stock, house lot # 2, five acres of Pine Plain and a right in undivided lands at Rutland, [2:409] on 24 July 1739, an administrators' bond was issued to Hannah Wright, widow, with Frank Fink, clerk, and William Wright, (brother) yeoman, as sureties, all of Rutland. Hannah signed in her own name. [179:341]

The administrators' account was dated 16 May 1745 and was submitted by Timothy Brown and Hannah Brown, formerly Hannah Wright. It indicated that the widow has received her thirds and that the other two thirds had beeb divided among the children who were not named, that the eldest son, William receiving double share and the two other children, Samuel and John, receiving single shares. [5:352]

Early Worcester County, MA Probate Records.
Esq. Samuel Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co. [ Case No. 67,824]
Samuel Wright, Esq. of Rutland left his entire estate, with the exception of specific cash bequests, to his son, William who was also to be the sole executor. The three sons of Samuel's deceased son, Cyprian, viz: William, Samuel and John, were to receive £10 each when they reached age twenty-one to make up for the part of Cyprian's share he had not received. To his daughters, Samuel left: £25 in one year to Hannah Rice; £25 in two years to Mary Willard; £25 in three years to Dorothy Felps; £15 in four years to Abigail Willard, and 20 shillings to Isabel Frink, all bequests bringing the daughters up to their full shares. Samuel signed his will before John Fletcher, William Fenton and Hezekiah Fletcher on 30 June 1739, and it was allowed on 5 Feb. 1739/40
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Family/Spouse: BURKE Hannah. Hannah (daughter of Burke Jonas and Johnson Hannah) was born about 1712; died on 18 Aug 1776 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His baptismal records are from church records. (Vital Records, p. 104 Rutland, Worcester County, MA

John died young.

His baptismal records are from church records. (Vital Records, p. 104 Rutland, Worcester County, MA

John died young.

Notes:

Town of Richmond, Cheshire county, NH, p. 359 (Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N. H. 1736-1885 by Hamilton Child)

William Wright, an early settler of Swanzey, was killed on his farm in Winchester by the fall of a great beam in a barn in 1810. His son, Luther was born there (Swanzey) and moved to Middlebury, Vt, where he lived for a time, but afterwards returned to Swanzey and died in Winchester, in 1838. He married Rhoda, sister of the Hon. Elijjah Belding, and reared a family of twelve children, two of whom are now living. One son, William, resides on road 17, in this town, is one of the selectmen, and has held the office of justice of the peace since 1850. He was town representative in 1849 and 1850 and has been largely engaged in settling estates, & c.

William married Graves Mehitable on 27 Aug 1758 in Northfield, Franklin County, MA. Mehitable was born in 1735 in Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA; died on 06 Apr 1812 in Winchester, Cheshire County, NH; was buried in SwanzeyCenter Cemetery, Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1788, Samuel Wright moved to Middlebury from Weybrige, VT and purchased several pieces of land where he built his home. He lived there until he died in 1818 at the age of 82 years.. In his will, he provided for his wife and her daughter by a former marriage. The remainder, about seven hundred dollars, went to the Congregational Society. His widow died in 1840 at the age of 88 years.

Birth:
19 Feb 1735/1736

Family/Spouse: Esther. Esther was born about 1752; died in 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
8 JAN 1745/1746

Notes:

1 Jul 1748 - 25 Apr 1837

Wright Samuel Brown.(Samuel Wright Brown?) was the first son of Deacon Timothy Brown and third wife, Hannah (Burke) Wright of Swanzey, Cheshire County, NH. Hannah was the daughter of Jonas Burke and his wife, Hannah Johnson of Stowe, Middlesex county, MA and widow of Cyprian Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co., MA, son of Capt. Samuel Wright and Mary Stevens. Wright S. Brown is a descendant of William and Susannah White and their son, Resolved, of the Mayflower and is written up in, "The Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 13, p. 72, William White."

Wright was born in Ware River Parish, Hampshire county, MA on 1 Jul 1748 when the family had to quickly leave Swanzey to return to his grandfather, Thomas Brown's family farm in MA to avoid the savagery of the French-Indian wars. Swanzey was burned to the ground in the spring of 1747. Timothy and Hannah did not return to Swanzey until sometime in early 1752 after the wars ceased to be a problem. Wright and his siblings,Thankful and Joel grew to adulthood in Swanzey.

Wright had 2 half-brothers; Ephraim, b. 1 Feb 1733/34; and Timothy, b. 16 Apr 1742 and 4 half-sisters; Anna T. b. 23 Apr 1730; Mable, b. 28 Jan 1732/33; Silence, b. 19 Oct 1737 and Ruth, b. 26 Dec 1742 by his father's first marriage to Thankful Olmstead, daughter of Jabez Olmstead and Thankful Barnes of Deerfield and Ware, MA. Wife, Thankful d. 6 Oct 1743.

Timothy, Wright's father, remarried on 8 Apr 1744 to Keziah Cooley Goss, widow of his second cousin, Capt. Philip Goss. She died within a year. He then remarried for a third and final time on 27 Feb 1745 to widow, Hannah Burke Wright. She brought three sons by Cyprian Wright into this marriage; William, Samuel and John. Samuel and John required guardians appointed them. William had to be the age of 14 or older. John died at the age of 10.

Timothy Brown and Hannah Burke Wright had three children of record; Thankful, b. 1746 in Swanzey, NH then called Lower Ashulot; Wright S. b. 1 Jul 1748 in Ware River Parish, and Joel, b. 1750, also born in Ware. (A Hannah was also born, mentioned in the History of Yates co., NY but no recored has been found.)

Wright and Hannah Newland married about 1770 but no record of their marriage has been found. It is not know if she was living in Swanzey before they were married. Also, no records of their children's births have been found either except Isaac, bapt. on 18 Jan 1784, by Rev. John Dempster in Stillwater. This is the first date found for their arrival in Stillwater, then Albany County, NY.

Wright and Hannah, probably the daughter of Joseph Newland and Abigail Babbitt of Norton, Bristol County, MA, left Swanzey, NH probably in the spring of 1783 and relocated to Stillwater after they sold their adjoining farm to Wright's half-brother, William Wright, the above son of Hannah and Cyprian Wright in June of 1783.

When Wright and Hannah sold their property in Swanzey, one of the witnesses to the contract was Rial (Arial) Newland of Stillwater. By 1789, when the farm was paid off, Hannah's name did not appear on the signing off of the property. It is presumed she died shortly after the birth of their son, Arial Newland Brown, born about 1788/89 in Stillwater. Wright remarried Bethiah (Bertha)Olney about 1790. They had at least four children together. Only two are known of this marriage; Wright S. Brown, Jr. b. 1 Jun 1796, in Stillwater who was the second child of the four born. He was born on the same battle field where his father fought earlier according to his obituary and Sarah Marie, b. abt 1799 probably also in Stillwater.

At age 28 years, Wright fought under the command of Col. Joseph Hammond of Swanzey, Cheshire County, NH; Col. Nahum Baldwin's regiment, and under the company of Captain John Houghton of Keene. Wright was "mustered in" on September 22, 1776 with his group in Keene, Cheshire County, NH. He served two and a half months at York and drawing a salary of nine pounds, eight shillings and four pellowing. He participated in the battles at White Plains and at Stillwater, Albany County, NY. He was discharged and left his company from Swanzey, Cheshire County, NH.

A Revolutionary War plaque was placed in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates County, NY by the D.A. R. commemorating Wright Brown's tour of duty in the war. The Revolutionary War grave marker was placed in the Wright Brown family plot after many inquiries into his war record. The D.A.R. marker mistakenly recorded Wright's birth date as 1747 instead of 1748 and also the commanding officer as corporal instead of Colonel in the Rev. War. (Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol. 1,p. Serial: 12978; Vol 1.)

"Although he had served seven years, Wright sternly refused to accept a pension for his services, to the day of his death, from personal pride and early educational influences" according to his son, Wright, Jr's obituary. Without pension records the DAR had a difficult time tracing his record of service. I don't know where his son got the seven years of service unless his father participated in the French-Indian Wars as well along with his father, Deacon Timothy Brown.

Wright and Hannah Newland married about 1770 but no record of their marriage has been found. It is not known if she was living in Swanzey before they were married. Also no records of their children's births have been found either except Isaac, bapt. on 18 Jan 1784, by Rev. John Dempster in Stillwater. This is the first date found for their arrival in Stillwater.

Wright and wife, Hannah Newland, probably the daughter of Joseph Newland and Abigail Babbitt of Norton, Bristol County, MA, left Swanzey, NH probably in the spring of 1783 and relocated to Saratoga, then Albany County, NY after they sold their adjoining farm to Wright's half-brother, William Wright in June of 1783. William was one of three sons, of Hannah Burke Wright, widow of Cyprian Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co., MA. She after Cyprian's death became the third wife of Deacon Timothy Brown and had three children on record by him; Thankful, Wright and Joel. Other children have not been found but there probably were more.


The son's obituary goes on to say Wright, Sr. fought along side his father, Timothy in the French-Indian Wars but again that would not have been possible because the French-Indian wars were over in that part of the country in 1752, four years after Wright was born. Father, Timothy, died, 3 Jan. 1770 in Swanzey. No record of a will in Cheshire Co., has been found found to date.

Wright,Sr., his wife, Bertha and Wright Jr. and family are buried together in the Brown family plot in City Hill Cemetery in Torrey, Yates County, NY. Adjoining the plot is the grave of Dorcas Annable. She may have been a daughter of Wright's, married to an Annable. Wright was a witness to the will of Ephraim Annable of Providence, Saratoga co. NY. Perhaps Dorcas married a son of his.

Samuel Right Brown, traditional thought to be the son of Wright, Sr.,by his first marriage, married Eunice M. Annable, daughter of Isaac Annable (Annibal) and Lydia Peckham Delano. Isaac and Lydia also lived in Stillwater, having moved there sometime after 1790 but before 1800. Wright was a witness to the will of Ephraim Annable of Providence. This Ephraim, b. 1765 in NS, was the son of Isaac. Perhaps Dorcas married a son of his.

Wright and his 1st wife, Hannah Newland, probably the daughter of Joseph Newland and Abigail Babbitt of Norton, Bristol County, MA, left Swanzey, NH in the spring of 1783 and relocated to Stillwater, then Albany County, NY. They sold their adjoining farm to Wright's half-brother, William Wright. William was one of three sons, of Hannah Burke Wright, widow of Cyprian Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co., MA. She after Cyprian's death became the third wife of Deacon Timothy Brown and had three children on record by him; Thankful, Wright and Joel. Other children have not been found but there probably were more.

When Wright and Hannah sold their property in Swanzey, one of the witnesses to the contract was Rial (Arial) Newland of Stillwater. By 1789, when the farm was paid off, Hannah's name did not appear on the signing off of the property. It is presumed she died shortly after the birth of their son, Arial Newland Brown, born about 1788/89 in Stillwater. Wright remarried a woman by the name of Bethiah (Bertha) about 1790. They had at least four children together. Only two are know of this marriage; Wright S. Brown, Jr.
b. 1 Jun 1796, in Stillwater on the same battle field where his father fought earlier, and Sarah Marie, b. abt 1799 probably also in Stillwater.

No land records are recorded for Wright in Stillwater, only taxes paid on personal property. According to a researcher on the area, this does not mean he didn't own property there. 1790 census for Saratoga Wright is listed as Wright Bacon.

In the 1800 Census, Wright and family are shown living in Saratoga, Saratoga County. He may have moved to Stillwater sometime after 1800.

In 1808, Wright, Bertha and family moved to Benton, Ontario County, which later became Milo, Yates County, NY and living in "The Gore." He purchased 40 acres very close to Lake Keuka's shore. After a few years, he purchased more land and continued to live on the same farm until his death on 25 Apr. 1837. His wife proceeded him in death by 12 years. She died 5 Mar 1825.

The census for Yates County shows Wright living in Benton in 1810 and in Milo in the years of 1820, 25, and 1835. The place of residence was the same, just the name of the village was changed.

According to genealogical records in "The History of Swanzey, NH, 1734-1890, p. 301" by Hon. Benjamin Reade, Published by The Salem Press in Salem, MA, 1892, p. 301, Wright, son of Timothy, had a child who died on 4 March 1780 and a son, Joel, who died on 21 March 1780. This may have been due to smallpox. His mother, Hannah, succumb to smallpox about the same time.

Wright and wife, Hannah Newland probably left Swanzey in the Spring of 1783 when he sold his adjoining property to his half-brother, William Wright. Both Wright Brown and his wife, Hannah, signed the land sale. A Rial Newland of Stillwater, NY witnessed the sale of the property. The final land deal was completed in 1787, but signed only by Wright Brown in Stillwater, Albany Co. NY. This is a good indication that Hannah had died between 1784 and 1787, after the first agreement to sell the property in 1783.

A child, Isaac was baptized in Stillwater on January 18, 1784. This is the last known living record of Hannah to date. No death records or grave can be found in Stillwater.

In 1793, Wright was back in Swanzey, selling more of his land to a Benjamin Hewes. The document says he is of Swanzey. He perhaps moved back after the death of Hannah until 1800 when he is back to New York and was remarried to Bethiah Olney Brown, known as Bertha.

NY census records for 1800 show that Wright was living in Providence, had was one male under 10yr. (Wright S. Brown, Jr.), 1 male between the ages of 10-16, (Ariel N.), one male between the ages of 16-26 (Isaac), one male 45 yrs. and older,(Wright, Sr.), 2 females under 10 years of age,(Sarah Marie, 1 yr. and ?) 2 females from 10-16 yrs. of age,1 female from ages 16-26, and one female, 26-45 (Bertha/ Bethiah, his wife.)

In the "History of Yates County," Wright is mentioned as owning 40 acres in "the Gore", Milo, NY where he became a resident in 1808. According to land records, he bought the south half of lot number 17 in Benton, then in Ontario County, from Thomas and Mary Hathaway for the price of $140.00. The land purchased was witnessed by Lewis French and Arial N.(Newland) Brown.

The 1800 NY Federal Census show a Calvin and JamesBrown, both living in Stillwater, Albany County. Are these his children or brothers? A William Brown was also in Saratoga, Albany County, as was a Thomas. (A part of Albany county became Saratoga county in 1790.)


Wright Brown is listed in the tax list of 1787 in Saratoga district.

On June 5, 1803, Wright S. Brown witnessed the signing of the will of Russell Allington of Northcumberland, Saratoga County, NY along with Andrew Mc Carty and William Angle, Jr.

On April 3, 1805, Wright witnessed the signing of a will for Oliver Perkins. Ephraim Annable and H. Metcalfe were also witnesses. His connection to the above people is unknown. They could be relatives or just friends.


American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) BROWN, Wright Birth Date: 175? Birth Place: New Hampshire (Information incorrect. He was born in Ware Parish, Hampshire Co. MA in 1748)Volume: 20 Page Number: 370 Reference: Rolls of the soldiers in the Rev. War, 1775 to May, 1777; and diaries of Lt. Jona Burton, Ed. By Issac Weare Hammond, v. 1 of War Rolls, NH. 1885. (13,3,) 799p.) Rolls of the soldiers in the Rev. War May 1777 to 1780: with names of NH. Men in Ms. regiments. V.2 of War Rolls. Concord, NH. 1886. (14,2,847p.), Rolls and documents relating to soldiers in the Rev. War, including some Indian and French rolls. V.3 of War Rolls. Manchester, NH. 1887. (10,2, 1021p.), Rolls and documents relating to soldiers in the Rev. War. Pt.11. Misc. Provincial papers from 1629 to 1725. V. 4 of War Rolls. Machester, NH. 1889. (22,2,819p.):1:428 (His place of birth is incorrect as is the birthdate)


On the Wright Brown monument in the City Hill Cemetery there is another name which can not be deciphered, but is a daughter born ?/8/1820 and died Feb 24, 1884. Who is she?

1813: In Benton, Ontario County, Wright owned a house and 41 acres. It also mentions he was worth $300. and taxed $.21.

1816: In Benton, Ontario County, Wright still owned a house and 40 acres, valued at $400. and taxed $1.4p.

1818: Tax roll for Milo, then Ontario County, listed Wright Brown's total estate including personal property as having 342 acres and paying a tax of $1.02. Arial Newland (N.) Brown, is listed as owning 304 acres and owing $.90.

1818: Arial sold land to Wright and by 1819, Wright is shown as owning 548 acres. Arial no longer lived in Milo. He sold Wright 206 acres. What Arial did with the other 98 acres needs to be researched. Arial moved to Ontario, Chemung Co., also a short time in VT and then to Cato, Manitowoc Co., WI by the late 1850s where he died late in life.

1800 Census for Wright Brown in Saratoga, Saratoga County, NY
Males: 1 under 10, 1 from 10-16, 1 from 16-12, and 1 over 45yrs.
Females: 2 under 10, 2 from 10-16, 1 from 16-26, and 1 from 26-45.


Abstract of Graves of Rev. War Veterans:

Wright Sr Brown Cemetery: City Hill Cem Location: Torrey, Yates CO NY 70 Reference: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.1, p. Serial: 12978; Volume: 1

In the book, "The History of Yates County, NY by Lewis Cass Aldrich, p. 437, Wright and his wife are mentioned as buried in City Hill Cemetery. This cemetery began as a cemetery for followers of Jemima Wilkenson, The Public Universal Friend. Wright and Bertha's daughter, Sarah married to Luther Sisson, was a prominent member of Jemima Wilkenson, Leader and founder of the "Friends" in Milo, Yates Co.

This information below is from the American Genealogical/Biographical Index. Date of birth and birth place are incorrect.

Name: Wright Brown Birth Date: 1750 Birthplace: New Hampshire
Volume: 20 Page Number: 370 Reference: Rolls of the soldiers in the Rev. War, 1775 to May, 1777; and diaries of Lt. Jona Burton, Ed. By Issac Weare Hammond, v. 1 of War Rolls, NH. 1885. (13,3,) 799p.) Rolls of the soldiers in the Rev. War May 1777 to 1780: with names of NH. Men in Ms. regiments. V.2 of War Rolls. Concord, NH. 1886. (14,2,847p.), Rolls and documents relating to soldiers in the Rev. War, including some Indian and French rolls. V.3 of War Rolls. Manchester, NH. 1887. (10,2, 1021p.), Rolls and documents relating to soldiers in the Rev. War. Pt.11. Misc. Provincial papers from 1629 to 1725. V. 4 of War Rolls. Manchester, NH. 1889. (22,2,819p.):1:428

Wright married NEWLAND Hannah about Jan 1770. Hannah (daughter of Newland Joseph and Babbitt Abigail) was born about 1747; died about 1789 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wright married OLNEY Bethiah about 1790 in Saratoga, Saratoga Co., NY. Bethiah (daughter of Olney Nathan and Goodspeed Elizabeth) was born in North Providence, Providence Co., RI; died on 05 Mar 1828 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joel fought in the Revolutionary War with the Woodward's Company Rangers,out of New Hampshire.

Joel married RICHARDSON Abigail on 24 Apr 1803 in Sturbridge, Worcester Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John and Hannah moved to Vt sometime between 1790 and 1797, according to the census report for Swanzey, NH and VT.

John married McAllister Hannah on 08 Jan 1784. Hannah was born on 19 Jan 1760; died on 21 Mar 1850 in Sodus, Wayne County, NY; was buried in Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus, Wayne County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cyprian and his wife, Esther, left Swanzey, NH for Pennsylvania and bought land from Mark Wilcox in the township of Delmar, Tioga County, PA on 1 September, 1808 as recorded in the land transactions of the county of Tioga, P. 2 and 5. They probably were accompanied by others from NH when they migrated west.

Cyprian, died at the age of 69 years, 5 months and 28 days. He and his wife, Esther Belding Wright are buried in one of the oldest cemeteries, except for the Indian burials, in Tioga County, PA. The Carpenter Cemetery is on the Loren Carpenter Farm about half mile east of Academy Corners in Deerfield. The cemetery is also called Academy Corners Cemetery.

Tioga County, PA History, 1897, by R. C. Brown and Co.

Personally came and appeared before ma Cyprian Wright Esqr. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Tioga, Godfrey Bowman and acknowledged the signing of the above Power to be his free act and deed for the purpose therein expressed and wished the same to be Recorded as such given under my hand this twenty fourth day of Feb. m the year of our Lord our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty.
CYPRIAN WRIGHT JUST. P.
To Godfrey Bowman Power of Attorney. JOHN RYAN ESQ.

Cyprian married Belding Esther Constance on 04 Nov 1790 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. Esther was born about 10 Feb 1770 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH; died on 17 May 1835 in Deerfield, Tioga County, PA; was buried in Carpenter Cemetery, Deerfield, Tioga County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jaditha. Jaditha was born in 1768; was buried in SwanzeyCenter Cemetery, Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stowell Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born in 1767; died in 1819; was buried in SwanzeyCenter Cemetery, Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Luther was born in Swanzey but moved to Middlebury, VT where he lived for a time, but afterwards returned to Swanzey and died in Winchester, Cheshire Co., NH in 1838. He married Rhoda, sister of the Hon. Elijah Belding, and reared a family of twelve children, two of whom are now living. One son, William, resides on road 17, in this town, is one of the selectmen, and has held the office of justice of the peace since 1850. He was town representative in 1849 and 1850, and has been largely engaged in settling estates, &c.

Luther is buried in Swanzey Center Cemetery and on his tombstone is the following;
Departing this life, Captain Luther Wright, June 9, 1838 at age 68 years.

Capt. married Belding Rhoda on 12 Feb 1797 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. Rhoda was born on 02 Oct 1773 in NH; died on 20 Oct 1857 in Winchester, Cheshire County, NH; was buried in Swanzey Center Cemetery, Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rachel. Rachel was born in 1801; died on 20 May 1859; was buried in Swanzey Center Cemetery, Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Calvin married Capron Elizabeth about 1795. Elizabeth was born about 1772 in Richmond, Cheshire County, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arial N. Brown was commissioned to paymaster in the 103rd Inf. Reg. on 4/24/1817 and again commissioned to Quartermaster, 103rd Inf. Reg. Ontario County,NY on 5/7/1818.

Ontario county, NY Military records.

In 1818, Ariel was one of the Overseers of Highways in the town of Milo. (History of Yates County, NY by Stafford C. Cleveland. p. 758.)

In 1818, he owned land in Benton, Ontario County worth $304. He sold it later in 1818 to Wright Brown, Sr. and left the area. Possibly going to Ashtabula, OH. His name was spelled Uriah N. Brown in the tax records.

In the Ontario Co. Deed Index, Arial sold land to Wright Brown in 1819, LIB-32, p. 272
In the Ontario Co. Deed Index, it shows he bought land from Mary Norris, in 1819, LIB- 32, p. 273.

In 1850, the Browns are living in Elmira, Chemung County, NY. Living with A. N., a farmer, (A. M) age 60, and Martha, age 52, are Oliver L. age 16; Fidelia, age 32; Catherine Woodhaven, age 22 b. VT; Oliver Lane, age 60; Patrick Conway, age 23; Daniel Cooper, age 23; Martha Brown, age 3, b. in MD; and Charles Brown, age 1 year, b. NY.

In the 1860 census, the Browns are living in Manitowoc District, Manitowoc County, WI. Arial is listed as a lumberman. No Children live with he and his wife, Martha. However, her brother, Oliver, age 70, is still living with them who had a personal estate of $600. Both Martha and her brother, Oliver were born in MA.

In 1863, Ariel was involved in a lawsuit along with William Nallow and his wife, Lisselle, Defendants with George Dutcher and John a. Le Fever, Plaintiffs. Nallow and his wife mortgage 15 acres of land on the lakeshore to guarantee payment of 500/yr. rent for Van Valkenburgh Mill. Water levels on the river were too low to float logs therefore defendants couldn't pay the rent and the land was forclosed. Other creditors of the defendants were Elizabeth Adams, Elizabeth Norris, both of Vermont; Frederick Kaker and Mathias Hug. Year 1863; # 2165; Box CF 15 FLB County of Manitowoc, WI.

1870 Federal census shows Ariel, 81, living in Cato, Manitowoc, WI with his wife, Martha, age 72 and born in MA; daughter-in -law, Sarah, age 37; Oliver Lane, 81 born in MA, a brother-in-law; and Orlo Brown, age 9 months, son of Sarah.. Sarah was the wife of Ariel's son, Oliver Lane Brown.

In the Manitowoc City Directory in 1875/1876, A. N. Brown is living at 15th north of Clark.

Oliver must have been scouting out Colorado because in 1880, both he and his wife, Sarah J. and son, Orlo, are living in South Pueblo, Puelblo county, CO.

Birth:
ABT 1788/1789
abt ABT 1788

Arial married Lane Martha about 1812 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Martha was born about 1798 in MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1805, General Schuyler's decendant's estate was settled by a Chancery Decree. Catherine Van Rensselear Schuyler Malcom, one of trhe daughters of General Philip Schuyler,inherited Farm # 3, Great Lott 16 undr the terms of the said Chancery Decree. (Department of State Docket 35, Page 312 to 315, New York State Archives, Albany, NY.

At the time of the Chancery Decree was filed, Joseph Brown was the tenant, having assumed William Mead's lease in 1797. Catherine Van Rensselear Schuyler Malcome sold the farms in her Allotment under the said Chancery Decree. Not all of her Grantees recorded their deeds.

In 1850, Joseph was living in Malta, Saratoga County, NY.

On September 11, 1877, Edward D. Harris and C. E. Durkee copied inscriptions of the graves in the Presbyterian Cemetery, on the east slope of the ridge west of the River Road and Canal, a short distance north of the village of Stillwater. (Colonial Road, Stillwater.) Joseph and wife, Lucy are listed as being buried there.

Joseph married Spencer Lucy about 1795 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY. Lucy was born on 12 Jun 1776 in Westbrook, Middlesex County, CT; was christened on 28 Jul 1776 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, CT; died on 10 Apr 1821 in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY; was buried in Stillwater Presbyterian Cemetery, Saratoga County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Chase? Anna Marie after Apr 1821. Anna was born about 1800 in NY; died in 1880; was buried in Malta Ridge Cemetery, Malta, Saratoga County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The birthdate and birth order of this child is unknown. This information was taken from "The History of Swanzey, NH" by Reade, p. 301.

Notes:

The gender of this child is unknown as is the date of birth and it's birth order in the family.

Taken from the "History of Swanzey, NH" by Reade p. 301.

Notes:

SAMUEL RIGHT (WRIGHT) BROWN, 1775-1817


Samuel was a noted journalist, author and publisher in the upper New York area from 1807 to his death in 1817. His first newspaper, the New York Guardian in Albany, was published in Johnstown in 1807-1808. He was in Ballston Spa, 1809, Milton in 1810, in Saratoga Springs, 1812, in Albany, 1813 and 1814 started the Cayuga Patriot in Auburn, NY. He and his family lived in Auburn, Cayuga County, NY at the time of his death in 1817.

On Feb 5, 1814, he established the Geographical and Military Museum paper. It was a quarto size with eight pages to an issue. He listed twenty three distributors for the Museum, including publishers in New York City, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The paper gave detailed accounts of geographical areas, reported on the War of 1812 and other military events such as the war in France.

In 1804, David C. Miller began at Court-house Hill the publication of the Saratoga Advertiser, size of page, thirteen by eighteen, or one-fourth that of the present Ballston Journal; terms of subscription not stated; politics anti-Federal. In the issue of Sept. 23, 1806, appeared the following advertisement:

"FOR SALE. -A healthy middle-aged negro wench and child. For particulars, inquire of the printer."

In that year a man named Riggs was taken into partnership. He was bought out in 1807 by Samuel R. Brown, and the name was coolly changed to The Aurora Borealis and Saratoga Advertiser. In 1808, Mr. Brown retired from the establishment, and Mr. Miller restored the original name. It was discontinued in 1811, and the office merged into that of of The Independent American. Mr. Brown went to Saratoga Springs in 1809, and in that year began the publication of the Saratoga Patriot. He moved his establishment to Albany in April, 1812, and gave his paper the name of the Albany Republican. He sold out in the latter part of the year 1813, and went to Auburn, Cayuga Co., where in 1814 he started the Cayuga Patriot, which he conducted for several years until his death in 1817.

It is apparent from the books he authored, Samuel had a wandering spirit. He also had a curious mind and a wonderful sense of humor that becomes obvious when one reads his newspaper articles and his books.

In the autobiography of Thurlow Weed, who later became a famous politician and journalist, he writes that he came to work for Samuel in the fall of 1814 in the upstairs printing office on Lumber Lane, an old street following an Indian trail situated between what was later known as Mechanic Street and the creek, in the small village of Auburn.

"When I arrived at Utica, I learned that Samuel R. Brown, editor of a paper at Auburn was about to publish a "History of the War" and wanted a Journeyman. I lost no time in making my way to Auburn, and became immediately an inmate of Mr. Brown's printing office and dwelling.

Out of my seven weeks residence there, Mr. Dickens would have found characters and incidents for a novel as rich and as original as that of "David Copperfield" or "Nicholas Nickleby."

Mr. Brown, himself was an even-tempered, easy-going, good natured man, who took no thought of what he should eat or what he should drink or wherewithal he should be clothed. He wrote his editorials and his "History of the War" upon his knee, with two or three children about him, playing or crying as the humor took them. Mrs. Brown was placid, emotionless and slipshod. Both were inperturbable. Nothing disturbed either. There was no regular hour for breakfast or dinner, but meals were always under or over-done. In short, like a household described by an early English author, "everything upon the table was sour, except the vinegar." The printing sympathized with the housekeeping. We worked at intervals during the day; and while making a pretense of working in the evening, those hours were generally devoted to blindman's bluff with two or three neighboring girls, or to juvenile concerts by Richard Oliphant, an amateur vocalist and type-setter, to whom I became much attached."

Auburn, NY was then a small village without a sidewalk or a pavement, and, with the exception of Sacketts Harbor, the muddiest place I ever saw. It was muddy, rought-hewn, and straggling."
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In the book, "History of Auburn" pp. 117-119 reads of Hon. Thurlow Weed;
These are the circumstances in his own words: (Some what different than above.)

"Nor shall we ever forget the upper story of a wagon-maker's shop, where the "Cayuga Patriot" was first printed; for there we worked, and larghed, and played away most of the winter of 1814. Samuel R. Brown, who published the "Patriot", was an honest, amiable, easy, slip-shod sort of man, whose patient, good-natured wife was 'cut from the same piece.' Mr. Brown, the year before, had been established at Albany, with a paper called the "Republican, " under the auspices of Governor Tompkins, Chief-Justice Spencer, and other distinguished Republicans, with whom Mr.Southwick, of the "Register", and then State printer, had quarreled. The enterprise, like everything in our old friend Brown's hands, failed. and he next found himself at Auburn, then a small village, without a sidewalk or a pavement, and, save for Sackett's Harbor, the muddiest place we ever saw. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were originals. Neither of them, so far as we remember,ever lost their temper or ever fretted. The work in the office was always behind-hand, and the house always in confusion. The paper was never out in season, and neither breakfast nor dinner were ever ready. But it was all the same. Subscibers waited for the paper till it was printed, and we waited for our meals till they were cooked. The office was always full of loungers communicating or receiving news; and but for an amateur type-setter, Richard Oliphant, late editor of the "Oswego County Whig" and brother of the editor of the "Auburn Journal", to whom we became much attached, and who, though a mere boy, used to do a full share of the work, the business would have fallen still further behind-hand."

The same article appeared in "The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879" by Elliot Storke, p. 55 but added:

We will close the Chapter on the History of the Press, with brief, characteristic sketches of a few of the "men of the Press", who, by long and conspicuous connection with it, have won a place in its annals.

The "Cayuga Patriot" was the first paper published in the County that became thoroughly established and continued for a long series of years, under the management, for the most part, of the same persons. The first publisher of that paper, of whom recollections are preserved, was Samuel R. Brown, with whom in 1814, that veteran journalist, Thurlow Weed worked, and of whom he writes: (The same as above.)
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A letter from the American Antiquarian Society of Boston, MA gives the following information:

"We have several issues of the "Cayuga Patriot" printed by Samuel R. Brown at Auburn, NY running from 1814 to 1819. (Others published it because he died in 1817.) Occasional other issues are to be found in various libraries, chiefly in upper New York state. He also published the "Albany Republican", "The Rural Visitor" at Ballston Spa, NY in 1812. "The Saratoga Advertiser" at Ballston Spa, NY until 1813. "The Geographical and Military Museum" at Albany in 1814.
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History of Saratoga County, NY by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1878, Chapter XXII, History of the Press:

In that year a man named Riggs was taken into partnership. He was bought out in 1807 by Samuel R. Brown, and the name was coolly changed to The Aurora Borealis and Saratoga Advertiser. In 1808, Mr. Brown retired from the establishment, and Mr. Miller restored the original name. It was discontinued in 1811, and the office merged into that of The Independent American. Mr. Miller moved to Batavia, Genesee Co., and there, in connection with Benjamin Blodgett, started the Republican Advocate, which is still published. Mr. Miller continued to issue the Advocate until near the end of the year 1828. He printed the Morgan pamphlet, which professed to disclose the secrets of the first three degrees of Freemasonry; and a weekly paper, called The Morgan Investigator, was issued from his office in 1827, continuing about a year. At that day he was a conspicuous and famous man. Mr. Brown went to Saratoga Springs in 1809, and in that year began the publication of the Saratoga Patriot. He moved his establishment to Albany in April, 1812, and gave his paper the name of the Albany Republican. He sold out in the latter part of the year 1813, and went to Auburn, Cayuga Co., where in 1814 he started the Cayuga Patriot, which he conducted for several years.


"The Cayuga Patriot was established in Auburn in 1814. It was the first competitor of the "Western Federalist." Representing the views of the Democratic Party, which was fast rising into importance in the State, and contained in it's ranks some of the finest men of the country and district, it was well received and supported. It was a dusky-looking little quarto of eight pages and was printed in a shop on Lumber Lane- an old street following an Indian trail, situated between what is now Mechanic Street and the creek. In this office the Honorable Thurlow Weed set type for several months. (Thurlow Weed later became a journalist and famous politician.)

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OBITUARY FOR SAMUEL R. (WRIGHT) BROWN, given to Ruby Wilson Mortensen in 1940 by Maude Dodd, descendant of Samuel Right Brown, Jr. This was published in the Auburn, NY newspaper:

'Departed this life, on Monday evening past, in the 42nd year of his age.
After a short but very painful illness, Mr Samuel R. Brown. For sometime Mr. Brown had been a resident of this village. Business called him to New York for a few days, where he contracted a fever which terminated in his sudden death. He, however, had returned from the city, as far as Messrs. Gurdon and Mason Fitch, near the village of Cherry Valley, before relinquishing the hope of once more beholding his wife and little ones. Here his desease grew more alarming, his natural strength of body was subdued by suffering..his hopes of home vanished..every worldly prospect fled and he yielded up his spirit to his God, and left his body in the hands of strangers.

"the Clouds and Sunbeams o'er his eye, that once their shades and glory threw, Have left on yonder silent sky, no vestage where they flew."

Mr. Brown was an ardent and sincere friend; possessed of a noble and ingenious disposition, and endowed with a liberal and discriminating mind..and although he had not the advantage of an early classical education, he had, however, by dint of industry and application to the study of men and things, acquire a large fund of practical knowledge and useful information. He spent much time in traveling, particularly in exploring our Western Territories; and as the fruit of his statistical researches in that section of our Country, he wrote the "Western Gazetteer" or "Emigrants Directory" recently published by H. C. Southwick. He was also the author of the "Views of the Campaigns of the Northwestern Army'" and a "History of the Late War" in two volumes. His "Gazetteer" has undergone the criticisms of scientific men and travelers of eminince, and from them received the commendation of a valuable work, especially valuable to those emigrants desirous of settling in our Western Hemisphere.

Mr. Brown was a rational lover of our free, Republican Institutions; warmly attached to the best interests of his country, and ever vigilant and prompt to promote it's prosperity, and defend and enhance it's glory. On the tented field he was a patriotic soldier. In the heat of battle, he stood a hero, undismayed by the crash of arms, unappalled by the sight of blood, and, proud and fearless in the front of danger, he did breast himself against...

"....his country's foe" "......to roll.....onward"

In the late War,(1812) Mr. Brown evinced the spirit of a freeman, under the immediate command of Col. Johnson of Kentucky. Not until Proctor was vanquished and Tucumseh slain upon the battlefield did the unfortunate Brown quit the frontiers of his country and return to the bosom of his family, his kindred and his friends.

In the death of this man, society must deplore the loss of a valuable citizen, but none can so well appreciate his worth and so tenderly feel the bereavement, as his amiable wife and six fatherless and almost helpless children; for from the dutiful husband and affectionate father, they have inherited neither riches or renown, nothing but the remembrance of the paternal sympathies and honorable and patriotic virtues of their friend and sire.

"O Let his babes and wife be cherished and protected in the country which their father loved and defended. Let the hand of Christian charity be opened to succour the needy.....the soul of sympathy awake to welcome. "Weary pilgrims! Welcome here" "Welcome family of grief, welcome to my warmest cheer."

The family and friends of the deceased, return their warmest gratitude to the Messrs. Fitches, and to Doctors White, Little and Pringle, for their kind and diligent attention to Mr. Brown during his illness.'

Auburn Bank..Advocate of the people, by H. C. Southwick.


Samuel's death notice was published in many newspapers including The New York Evening Post
Monday, Sept. 29, 1817 issue:

Died: At Cherry Valley, on the 15th inst.in the 42d yeaar of his age, Mr. Samuel Barown. He was on his return from New-York to Auburn his place of residence. He was the author of the "Western Gazetteer or Emigrant's Directory"--"Views of the campaigns of the Northwestern Army," and a "History of the late war in 2 volumes.

His body is buried in Cherry Valley, Ostego County, NY, perhaps in an unmarked grave. Just outside of Cherry Valley, there is a family cemetery belonging to a Brown family where he may be buried with relatives who came to Cherry Valley area earlier.

In the 1880 Federal Census for St. Anne, Kankakee County, IL, his son, Erasmus Darwin Brown states both Samuel and Eunice were born in CT.

In the 1810 Census for Milton, Saratoga Co., NY, Samuel is listed as having 4 sons under the age of 10, and one son age 10 thru 15. Since none of his shown sons were old enough to be 10 and over in 1810, was he married previously to someone else and had a son by another woman? His first son by Eunice was born in 1804. They were married in 1803. It could possibly have been a younger half-brother staying with them as well.

Samuel married Annable Eunice Mary on 13 Feb 1803 in Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York. Eunice (daughter of Annable Isaac and Swain Eunice, daughter of Annable Isaac and Peckham Lydia) was born on 01 Apr 1780 in New Bedford, Bristol Co., MA; died on 24 Mar 1874 in Torrey, Yates Co., NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Dresden, Yates County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Short Creek MM on 20 Apr 1819 Isaac Brown and w. Mary was granted certificate to Stillwater MM, p. 70.
Center for Archival Collections. "Short Creek Monthly Meeting: 185., Transfer Certificates 1805-1832" in "The Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends records, 1760-1965." Roll 24. Indexed by: Carole Dutton Malisiak, February, 2000. Could this be the same Isaac Brown, son of Wright Brown?

Christened:
Bapt. Sunday, 18 Jan 1784

Notes:

William was a printer in Auburn, possibly working with Samuel Right Brown before the demise of Samuel, on the Cayuga Patriot. He lived at 46 Orchard Street in Auburn, Cayuga county, NY. In 1850, however, he is listed as a Prison Keeper in the Auburn Census.

He married Rebecca Wood/Weed of Preston, Chenango county, NY and had at least two children; Thurlow Weed Brown and daughter, Emma.

After the death of Rebecca at the age of 55 years old, William moved to Fort Atkinson, WI to be with his children where he died in 1878.

In an article published in the Cayuga Republican on 1 Oct. 1828, is mentions the death of Edward Weed, a merchant of Weedsport, aged 32 years, died in Auburn on 30 of Sept. 1828 at the house of his brother-in-law, William Brown, Esq.

William married Weed Rebecca in Feb 1819 in Preston, Chenango Co., NY. Rebecca was born about 1802; died on 06 Apr 1857 in Auburn, Cayuga Co., NY; was buried on 10 Apr 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Wright Jr. is the fourth child of Wright Sr's second marriage.

His father and mother moved him and the rest of their family to Milo, Yates County, in 1808 from Providence and earlier, Stillwater, Saratoga County, NY. They left their farm in Stillwater which was located on the battlefield where his father had fought during the Revolutionary War. No land records can be found there. It is thought they may have rented the farm in Stillwater before moving on to Providence.

He father, Wright Sr., homesteaded forty acres in Torrey (Milo) and later gave a portion to his son, Wright Jr. to which he added many more acres. The homestead was still in possession of the family as late as the death of Wright Jr. in 1874. I do not know if it still remains in the Brown family today.

Wright Brown, Jr. was always regarded as a substantial citizen and was called upon to discharge public duties in various capacities among his neighbors and it is believed with universal satisfaction. He was also a man of inquiring mind and generous spirit and it was said that his life was truly a blessing to those associated with him and his death was a greater loss to others than to himself, for he had lost his sight and sat in darkness for many years and had suffered much from a nervous derangement due to an unsuccessful operation. (Taken from his obituary.)

Wright enjoyed being one of the first Masters of the Masons in Torry.
This was taken out of a family bible owned by Marjelia Chubb and past down to her grandson, D. Michael Beard of Arlington, TX. Also, in this Bible, there is a reference someone had written in pencel,"Who is Sam Brown?" Sam was Wright's half-brother by his father's first marriage to Hannah Newland.



Census Report of 1825 Milo, Yates County, NY for Wright Brown, Jr.:
3 males and 2 females.

Census Report of 1855 Torrey, Yates County, NY for Wright Brown:
Brown, Wright 59, b. Saratoga County, NY
Emily (wife) 42, b. Cayuga County, NY
Margaret Rebecca, 14, dau. Yates County, NY
Richard, 12, son, Yates County, NY
Justina, 6, dau, Yates County, NY

DEATH: Fran Dumas, Yates County Historian, says that an obituary of Wright Brown, Jr. says he died on 21 June, 1874.
Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle, 9 July 1874.
Editor: Stafford C. Cleveland
May - July 1874

Died at his residence in the town of Torrey, Wright Brown, Esq., on Sunday June 28th, aged 78 years. Mr. Brown has been a resident of the locality since 1808, and was the son of Wright Brown, who was born in New Hampshire in 1750, and was associated with his father in the French war and afterwards in the Revolution, participating in the battle at White Plains and at Stillwater, Saratoga County, and after the war, settled on the farm which was the battlefield of that memorable event, the "Stillwater farm." Althought he had served through the war seven years, he sternly refused to accept a pension for his services, to the day of his death, from personal pride and early educational influences.

It was at this farm in Saratoga Mr. Wright Brown of whom we write, was born, June 1, 1796, and he was the fourth child of a second marriage.

Mr. Brown, the father, was induced to emigrate to this section and in1808 settled on what remained his homestead about forty acres, and also formed a portion of the homestead of the son during his life, and he having added many acres to it. Mr. Brown, Jr. married Emily King of Port Byron, and they have four children; Sarah D., Margaret R., Richard K; and Justina S. The last two named are unmarried and reside on the homestead with their mother.

Mr. Brown has always been regarded as a substantial citizen and was called upon to discharge public duties in various capacities among his neighbors and it is believed with universal satisfaction. He was also a man of enquiring mind and generous spirit and it may truly be said that his life has been a blessing to those associated with him and his death a greater loss to others than himself, for he has sat in darkness for many years from the loss of his sight and suffered much from a nervous derangement consequent upon an unsuccessful operation resulting in his blindness.

Wright Brown's will is at the following location in Penn Yan, Yates county, NY: Penn Yan county court house.

Brown Wright 1874 42B Richard, Emily B & Joshua Brown; Sarah Beard. Who is Joshua?

One of the first Masters of the Masons in Milo.


Appeared in the Yates County Chronicle newspaper on 9 July 1874 by Stafford C. Cleveland, Editor:
Died at his residence in the town of Torrey, Wright Brown, Esq., on Sunday June 28th, aged 78 years. Mr. Brown has been a resident of the locality since 1808, and was the son of Wright Brown, who was born in New Hampshire in 1750, and was associated with his father in the French war and afterwards in the Revolution….[The] Mr. Wright Brown of whom we write was born June 1, 1796, and he was the fourth child of a second marriage. Mr. Brown the father was induced to emigrate to this section and in 1808 settled on what remained his homestead about forty acres, and also formed a portion of the son during his life, he having added many acres to it. Mr. Brown married Emily King of Port Byron, and they have four children—Sarah D. Margaret R., Richard K. and Justina B. The two last named are unmarried and reside on the homestead with the mother.

Wright married King Emily B. about 1832 in New York. Emily was born on 12 Jan 1813 in Port Byron, Cayuga Co., NY; died on 07 May 1889 in Torrey, Long Point, Yates Co., NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Dresden, Yates County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County ChronicleEditor: Stafford C. ClevelandJanuary - April 1871
5 January 1871Died at his residence in Dresden on Monday, January 2, 1871, Luther Sisson, at the age of seventy-seven years and five days. [He] was the son of George Sisson and his wife Bethany Luther, natives of Rhode Island. His parents were firm and devoted members of the Friend’s Society, and his birth Dec. 27, 1793, is said to have been the third in the Friend’s Settlement. He was the youngest of the children. His brothers were Benoni and Jonathan, and his sisters Lydia and Lament. Benoni married Mary Meek, and was the father of James and John Sisson of Jerusalem. Jonathan married Catharine Vosbinder, and was the father of six children, among whom is Harrison H. Sisson of Jerusalem. Lydia married Isaac Prosser, and has a son living in Torrey. Lament was the wife of Richard Hayes. George Hayes, her son, resides in Dresden…. [Luther Sisson] married Sarah Maria, sister of Wright Brown of Torrey, who is still living. They had one son, Charles H. Sisson, who resides at Dresden.

Sarah married Sisson Luther on 07 Feb 1822 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Luther was born on 28 Dec 1793 in Warren, Herkimer County, NY; died on 02 Jan 1871 in Dresden, Yates Co., NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born about 1802 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The person buried in the Wright Brown family plot could very well be a Brown who married an Annable. It is actually unknown if the person buried in the marked grave is a female or male since the headstone is broken and the only remains of the first name is " as" on the end of the name. Earlier notes from the Historical Society in Penn Yan say it was a Dorcas who is buried there but can not be confirmed. Because the marker is in the shape of a heart, it is believed to be a female.

Family/Spouse: Annable. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Smedley Solomon. Solomon died in Sodus, Wayne County, NY; was buried in Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus, Wayne County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Loveland Rebecca. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Manly Sophronia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1897 Tioga County, PA History, Chapter 27, Elkland BoroughSchools-The early schools in Elkland, as in other places throughout the county, were supported by subscription, and until the building of the first school house in 1827, were taught in any house that could be secured for the purpose. The year when the first school was opened has not been ascertained, but it was probably as early as 1814 or 1816. Among the first teachers were Henry Womer, Miss Mary Ryon and Harriet B. Wright. Miss Wright, who afterwards became the wife of Ira Bulkley, taught a term of thirteen weeks beginning June 14, 1824, in an old log dwelling house "located where C. L. Pattison now resides." She had eighteen pupils—eight boys and ten girls. They were John, Amariah and Hannah (wife of George L. Byon) Hammond; Esther Wright (second wife of Ira Bulkley); Elizabeth Cook (wife of Orsemus Rathbone); Willis and Nancy (wife of Brockhurst L. Baker) Hammond; George L. and Harris T. Ryon; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs; Maria Coates (wife of Lorenzo Cook); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright’s pay for teaching was "calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat." In 1892 her sister Esther, one of her pupils, who became the second wife of Ira Bulkley, dictated for publication an article which appeared in the Elkland Journal.

Harriet married Buckley Ira about 1825 in Tioga County, PA. Ira was born on 03 Mar 1804 in Osceola, Tioga County, PA; died on 19 Nov 1876 in Tioga County, PA; was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Osceola, Tioga County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Buckley Ira after 1832 in Tioga County, PA. Ira was born on 03 Mar 1804 in Osceola, Tioga County, PA; died on 19 Nov 1876; was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Osceola, Tioga County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sally married Thompson Moses T. on 28 Mar 1816 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sally married Thompson Moses T. on 28 Mar 1816 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laura married Scott John on 01 Oct 1832 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. John was born in Of Richmond Cheshire County, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elliott married Youngman Louisa in 1835. Louisa was born on 05 Aug 1815 in Antrium, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Wright, Esq. from Swansey, b. Nov. 23, 1813, married Nov. 29, 1838, Larina, daughter of Daniel Buffum. After living a few years on the Deacon Amos Garnsey farm, he removed to the Enoch Whipple place, and from thence to the Naromore place, now owned by Andrew Dodge, where his wfe died May 30, 1872. Is a justice of the peace; has frequently been on the board of selectmen and has represented the town in the General Court. Had two children; L. Warren, b. Jan. 27, 1842; Lucy J. born april 7, 1840 who married Preston L. Freeman. (The Hisotry of Richmond, Cheshire County, NH, by William Bassett, p. 537-538.)

William married Buffum Larina on 29 Nov 1838 in Richmond, Cheshire County, NH. Larina died on 30 May 1872 in Richmond, Cheshire County, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Underwood Rachel on 31 Dec 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Betsey married Stratton Isaac on 31 Mar 1831 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marilla married Underwood Hiram on 06 Feb 1825 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., NH. Hiram died on 13 Mar 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1850 Manitowoc twp. census, Joseph was living next to Henry and Ethan Brown. Was he a brother to Ethan?

Notes:

In the 1850 Census for Manitowoc Rapids, Manitowoc county, WI, Ethan was living in a hotel with his wife and three daughters along with his brother, Nathanial and his family. He gave his occupation as Inn Keeper.


Ethan bought 80 acres of land in Section 14,;Township, 18N; Range, 21 E.; L_O, 08; Document number, 22156; signed on February 22, 1858.

Manitowoc Tribune: Vol. 18, No. 17, Thursday, August 10, 1871, p. 4, Column: 7
Died. Ethan A. Brown

Brown, In the town of Rockwood (says Rockland) in this county, Mr. Ethan A. Brown, at the age of fifty-eight.
Mr. Brown has long been a resident of our county, and was respected by all who knew him. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

ETHAN A. BROWN cemetery #44 Manitowoc Tribune Vol. 18 No. 17, Thursday August 10, 1871, Page 4 Column 7 Died. Brown. -- In the town of Rockland in this county, Mr. Ethan A. Brown, at the age of fifty-eight. Mr. Brown has long been a resident of our county, and was respected by all who knew him. He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery.


In the year 1858, Ethan A. vs. Wyman Murphy, year 1858, CF 13 in Manitowoc County, WI court.

Ethan married Brown Sarah about 1839 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, WI. Sarah was born about 1820 in NY; died on 12 Dec 1855 in Manitowoc Rapids, Manitowoc County, WI; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the 1850 Manitowoc Twp. Manitowoc Co. WI census record, Henry was living next to Ethan as was Joseph Brown. He had a real estate vaulue of $1,000.

From Der nord Westen Newspaper Obituraries: 17 May 1900

Henry W. Brown, an old resident of our city, died Sunday morning , (May 13, 1900) following a heart attack. The deceased, who was born in 1814, came to Manitowoc in 1849 where he has lived ever since. He leaves sorrowing widow, three children, 23 grandchildren and 5 great granchildren. His funeral was Tuesday. (May 15, 1900)

Henry married Richey Rosanna C. on 26 Jun 1845 in Lumber twp., Clinton County, PA. Rosanna was born on 12 Oct 1824 in PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1850 census for Manitowoc Rapids, Manitowoc county, WI, Nathaniel, age 32, is living in an hotel with his wife, Nancy, age 26, and daughter, Louisa, age 5. He stated he was an Inn Keeper.

In 1860, Nathaniel, a carpenter and joiner, was living in Port Huron, Ward 2, Saint Clair, MI. with his wife, Mercy (Nancy?) and daughter Louisa A. Brown, age 15.

Family/Spouse: Mercy Nancy. Nancy was born about 1824 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Carey William. William was born about 1817 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Catherine. Catherine was born about 1829 in Baden, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Woodhouse. Woodhouse was born in 1824 in Middletown Springs, Rutland, VT?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Oliver L. Brown, plaintiff, Gideon B. Collins, Jacob Halverson, and Benjamin Wellington, Defendants. Plaintiff seeks to stop a sieze order for plaintiff's property instituted by defendants who contend that plaintiff intends to dispose of his property to defraud defendants, his debtors. Year 1861; #1744; Box CF 14 FLB Manitowoc Co.,WI.

Oliver L. Brown, Defendant and Collins and Co., Plaintiff. Defendant purchased goods from Plaintiff for resale over a period of time. Defendant repaid part of debt by sawing logs, plaintiff would like the balance of $453.09. Year 1861; # 2168, Box CF 16 FLB, Manitowoc County, WI.

In1865-1867, Oliver was a Master Mason with the Manitowoc Masonic Lodge.

Oliver married J. Johnson Sarah in Feb 1859 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, WI. Sarah was born about 1834 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Catherine about 1849. Catherine was born about 1827 in VT; died on 01 Feb 1914 in Malta, Saratoga County, NY; was buried in Malta, Ridge Cemetery, Malta, Saratoga County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles Volney died without children. He was known by the name, Volney. He is buried in the W. H. Brown plot in City Hill Cemetery. He was 74 years old.
In the1830 census, he was living in Cameron, Steuben County as head of the household of his mother's household since her husband and his father had been dead 13 years (Sept. 1817). By this time, Achilles was no longer living at home but was married. Eunice, the mother is not living with the family either. Perhaps she was living with Achilles or possibly taking care of her father who was also a widower.

He lived next door to his uncle Cornelius, his mother's brother in Cameron.

In the 1860 census he was living in Italy, Yates County. NY.

In the 1870 Census for Torrey, he is shown living with his brother, William Henry Harrison Brown and his family. His mother, Eunice Annable Brown also lived with the family.

Notes:

Archilles married first, Lucretia Ann Miller on 13 Feb. 1827 and married second, Angeline R. Davis on 27 June 1854. He went by the name of Calais according to "The Home Folks Book of the Darius Myer's Family", by Violet M. Beck.

Archilles moved his family to Papineau , Iroquois County, Illinois in the mid 1840s-50s, where his brother, Erasmus had also moved.

He is listed in the 1840 census living in Shawnee, Fountain County, Indiana, next door to his brother, Erasmus Brown and George Loghry.

In 1850 census for Iroquois County, IL, age 44 and having a wife, Lucy, age 42 yr., and a son, Guilford, age 17 yrs. He was a farmer and had no personal property or real estate.

His brother, Erasmus D. Brown, is shown as a land owner of 160 acres. He possible came after Erasmus was settled in the area.

Year Surname Given Name (s) County State Page Township or Other Info Record Type Database ID#

1850 BROWN ACHILLES V. Iroquois County IL 147 21st District Federal Population Schedule IL 1850 Federal Census Index ILS7a647921

1850 BROWN ACHILLES V. Iroquois County IL 147 21st District Federal Population Schedule IL 1850 Federal Census Index ILS7a647922

From a newspaper report is the following. I don't know if it is the same Achilles M. Brown or not. The person murdered was George W. Routt of Obling, Crawford County, IL.

The People vs A. M. Brown, Third Day, Deposition of Samuel Wright, 3 Sept 1873, Office of the Clerk of the Court, Crawford County, Robinson, Illinois. Shot in his office by Achilles M. Brown, accused of philandering with Mr. Brown's wife. Shot in the chest and as he lay on the floor, shot in the ear with the bullet exiting his other ear. Mr. Brown was acquitted.

He also went by the names of Achilles V or AV.

Achilles married Miller Lucy Ann on 13 Feb 1827 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Lucy was born about 1808 in Of Milo, Yates County, NY; died before Jun 1854 in St. Anne, Iroquois Co., IL; was buried in Probably on the Brown farm family cemetery.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Achilles married SIPES Rachel A. on 27 Jun 1856 in Kankakee County, Il. Rachel was born on 16 May 1826; died in Jan 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Erasmus Darwin left Stillwater, NY early as a youngster with his family. They lived in several different places, including, Ballson Spa, Albany, Auburn and Caniesteo, Steuben Co. and Dresden, Yates County, NY.

He went to live briefly in Ohio, where Letty was living with the Schock family, in-laws of her brother, George. He and Letty were married about 1834 in New York. Their first two daughters were born in New York state.

He and Letty moved their small family to Shawnee, Fountain county, Indiana around 1838 where his third child, Mary, was born. His son, Allen, born in 1844 was his last child born in Indiana.

'Dar' and his familiy finally moved to the state of Illinois and settled in the wilderness area known as St. Anne sometime between 1844 and 1846 where his son, Samuel was born. Dar's brother, Achilles and his wife, Lucy, also came to IL.

An article written in the old book of the county history, 'Kankakee County History' is the following:

"Few of the early settlers or families of Kankakee County are better represented in its second generation both among its relief and active citizens, then that established here by Erasmus Brown and Letty Loughry Brown, the former born in New York in 1808. This worthy couple to whom in early life came the desire to travel West and ally their fortunes with its undeveloped strength, left their native New York state and settled in the Wilderness of what then was St. Anne but now is Pembroke township, Kankakee County. Loneliness and deprivation were their portion for they had little of this world's goods and there were few neighbors to whom they could turn for counsel or sympathy. Nevertheless, they had grit and determination and their farm yielded of its fertility in response to their untiring labor.

With the passing of years their family increased until seven children played around their hearthstone. Of these, Jane was the oldest." We know that eventually there were ten children born to this couple.

Sometime around 1856, Dar and Achilles were joined by their youngest brother, Samuel Right Brown, Jr. and his wife, Sally Ann Coss but wanting to move closer to his inlaws, Sally's sisters and other cousins, Samuel moved north to Algonquin after several years in the Iroquois-Kankakee county area and later to neighboring Cary, McHenry County, IL where he made his final home. His descendants live in that area today.

Erasmus married Loghry Lettice Lorena about 1834 in Oscaloosa, Mahaska County, OH. Lettice (daughter of Loghry Joseph Leander and Santee Mary) was born about 1820 in Cameron, Steuben Co., NY; died on 21 Dec 1893 in St. Anne, Kankakee Co., IL; was buried in Old Brown-Hanen Cemetery four miles east of Witchert in Pembroke Township on the old Brown farm.IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert E. Brown married Mary Loghry from Canisteo, Stueben County, NY., dau. of Joseph Leander and Mary Nancy ( Santee) Loghry on 14 Aug. 1831. They were married the same day in a double wedding with his sister, Juliette to Charles E.Loghry. Robert was known to his family as "Emm" as referred to in letters written in later years by his brother-in-law, Charles Loghry to Wm. Henry Harrison, (Henry) Loghry.

After "Emm" and Mary (Molly) were married, they lived for many years at Brown's Crossing where they conducted a tavern. This they sold in 1855 to Curtis Allen and removed to the Mitchell Ellison farm on North Hill, Cameron, where Emm died.

In a letter written by Charles Loghry to his son, Henry, from Cameron, March 15, 1880; "your unkel Emm is very poorley this winter he lais A bed the most of the time. He haint bin from home in nine years. He is nothing but skin and bones."

In the 1870 census for Cameron, Steuben county, NY, it mentioned one of the daughters, Anna, age 20, was idiotic.

The farm on North Hill is still in Loghry (Gerald and Sylvia Loghry) possession in 1998.

According to the History of Saratoga County, NY by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, 1878, Robert's father, Samuel R. Brown and family were in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY between the years 1809 and April of 1812 at which time he took his family to Albany, NY.

Robert married Loghry Mary on 14 Aug 1831 in Canisteo, Steuben Co., NY. Mary (daughter of Loghry Joseph Leander and Santee Mary) was born on 17 Oct 1815 in Canisteo, Steuben Co., NY; died on 29 Sep 1881 in Cameron, Steuben Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Juliette was the only daughter of Samuel and Eunice (Annable) Brown. On Aug. 14, 1831 she married Charles Loghry, son of Joseph Leander Loghry and Mary (Santee) Loughry of Cameron, Stueben County, NY. Her brother, Robert Emmett Brown and Charles' sister, Mary Loghry were married at the same time in a double wedding. After her marriage, she and Charles settled near the Oregon schoolhouse on the road to Brown's Crossing where John Hedges had formerly resided.

Brown's Crossing is at the foot of the Oregon schoolhouse road, down from North Hill Road where a large steel bridge crosses the Canisteo River. Juliette's brother, Robert Brown had a tavern near the river crossing and a farm directly across the river as well.

Julitette died shortly after the birth of her son, Franklin. She is buried at Brown's Crossing at the bottom of the hill on Oregon Schoolhouse Road and the Canisteo River.

The cemetery near the bridge at Brown's Crossing is the burying ground for some familiy members of the Santee, Moore, Loghry and Brown relatives. At one time there were as many as thirty five people buried at Brown's Crossing but today only one stone, that of Isaac Santee remains intact. Years ago when the river flooded, many of the bodies were washed from their resting places and their markers taken by the rushing river water.

Juliette's birth records have not been found. Her family was in Albany, Albany County, NY from April 1812 and moved to Auburn, Cayuga County in 1813. They continued to live in Auburn until the death of her father in Sept. of 1817.

Juliette married Loghry Charles L. on 14 Aug 1831 in Cameron, Steuben Co., NY. Charles (son of Loghry Joseph Leander and Santee Mary) was born on 30 Oct 1811 in Cameron, Steuben Co., NY; died on 13 Aug 1882 in Bath Township, Steuben Co., NY; was buried in Unionville Cemetery, Bath Township, Steuben Co. NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William went by the name of Henry during his life. He married Elenor Jane Townsend,(known by Jane) dau. of Uriah Townsend of Dresden, Yates County,NY. At the time of his marriage, Henry was living in Cameron, NY according to " The Vital Records of Western New York" There is another birthdate of 2 Feb 1815. I don't know which one is correct.

In a letter written from Cameron, March 15, 1880, Charles Loghry, husband to Juliette Brown, sister to Henry; writes to his son, William Henry Harrison Loghry (Henry,the above's namesake) and mentions 'Uncle Henry', William Henry Harrison Brown.



Cameron, March 15, 1880

Well Henry Loghry it has bin A long time since we have heard from you you dont rite very often and today I thaut that I woud rite you a few lines to let you noe that we are in the land of the living but not very smart this winter I have bin qite poorley this winter and lame not abel to doe my chores nor to cut my wood I am giting old and will soon be out of this world and it wont mater how qick if I am prepard for that day that day will surly come prepared or not Ada and her man is with us this winter and will stay with us this year or that is the talk now if nothing hapens. We have had A very warm winter and noe snow it has bin rather unheathy this winter. A grate many old fokes has dropt off this winter some without one moments warning there are several that has dropt dead seting their chair and it stands us in hand to be ready to meet it if we never meet on this earth less try to meet in heaven your unkel Em Brown* is very poorley this winter he lais A bed the most of the time he haint bin from home in nine years he is nothing but skin and bones.
the rest of the family is well but hard up this winter they had their barn burnd and all their hay and grain and it is touf for them this winter I hurd form you unkel Henry Brown* the other day he is bad off he dont noe hardly any thing and the man told me that they had lost ther property he thout it was all used up they sold out but dident saave mutch
that is bad to loes his senses and property to
times is beter this spring that it has bin for sevel years past money is plenty and proptery is chang hands and things looks beter now than they have for some time
Wheat is 140 rie 90 corn 65 oats 50 potatoes 40 Apels from 50 to 65
hay is from $10 to $12 tone
give my best Respects to all the frends and tell them that I would (like) to see them very much I would like to see you and your wife today and have you hear
tell Juliaette* to rite to us I will rite to her before long now Henry rite soon as you git this and till us how you are giting A long

from your father
(signed)
Charles Loghry

* 1. unkel Henry Brown is William Henry Harrison Brown, brother to Juliette, Charles first wife.
2. Juliaette is Charles'granddaughter by William Henry Harrison Loghry and Elizabeth Williams.

At the time the 1870 Federal Census was taken for Torrey, Yates County, it shows that William and Jane were living next door to Wright Brown, Jr., his uncle.

William went by the name of Henry during his life. He married Elenor Jane Townsend,(known by Jane) dau. of Uriah Townsend of Dresden, Yates County,NY. At the time of his marriage, Henry was living in Cameron, NY according to " The Vital Records of Western New York"

William and Jane lived next door to Wright Brown, Jr. and his wife, Emily in Torrey in 1870.

In another data base on Ancestry.com he is listed as being born on 2 Feb. 1815 in Auburn, Cayuga Co., NY.

William married Townsend Elenor Jane on 19 Jan 1840 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Elenor was born on 27 Nov 1817 in Romulus, Seneca County, NY; died on 23 Nov 1890 in Gorham, Ontario County, NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Samuel Right Brown Jr. was born about 2 months after his father died in Dresden, Yates County, NY. He married Sarah ( Sally) Ann Coss of Bath or Cameron, Steuben County, NY and had 10 children.

In early life, Sam settled on the Robert Water's farm on North Hill, Cameron which he bought of John Sherer, where he resided for eleven years. He ran a saw mill and rafted lumber on the river for a time. In 1852, he walked to Astubula, Ohio and assisted in clearing the site of the present city of Oberlin, Ohio. His brother-in-law, George William Loghry had gone there earlier and there married his first wife. Also, George's sister, Letty had gone to Astubula (Oberlin) to live with the Schocks (in-laws of her brother, George) after her mother died when she was thirteen years of age.

In 1855, Samuel is listed in theTorrey, Yates County, NY Federal Census. His mother, Eunice, was 72 years of age at the time and living with this family. He moved his wife and children to Algonquin Township, McHenry County, Illinois after first settling in Kankakee, Kankakee County for a short period sometime around 1856.

He followed his older brother, Erasmus Darwin Brown, who settled in St. Anne, Kankakee County after Erasmus and family had lived a few years in Fountain County, Indiana. Samuel and Sally's son, Melvin was born in St. Anne, Kankakee County on 3 April, 1858. After two years in the Kankakee area, Samuel moved north to Algonquin, McHenry County to be closer to his wife's sisters, Lucy Coss, wife of Asa L.Weaver and Matilda, wife of David Miller, both of Algonquin Township who had come to the area about the same time.

Upon arrival in Algonquin, Samuel and Sally rented a farm on which was an old house. It was partly covered with timber. He cleared off the land, drained it and put up a good set of buildings, to which a silo and other improvements were added. For years, Samuel made butter for private customers in addition to carrying on his farmings, becoming one of the well-known men of his community. In the 1860, Samuel was listed as a farmer. In 1870, a stonemason and still living in Algonquin. Living with the family in 1870 was Althea Brown, age 18, wife of his son, Samuel Right Brown, the 3rd. She was born in Illinois. Thomas Morin, age 38, born in Canada and was a farm laborer also lived with them.

On December 3, 1902, Samuel lost his wife, Sally. They are buried next to each other in the Brown family plot at Cary Cemetery, McHenry County, Cary, IL.


Prior to his death in 1909, he had been retired for seventeen years. He was the eldest Mason in the state. In Buffalo, NY. He also ate breakfast with the son of Sacajawea, the guide for Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West. He helped organize the Algonquin Mutual Insurance Company in 1874. The Brown family was one of the best known ones in McHenry County, and its members during their long residence there have been connected with some of the most constructive work of their section, and were recognized as being typical of the advanced spirit which seemes to have prevailed in this portion of Illinois. (From The History of McHenry Co., IL, 1922.)

In a letter below, written by Charles Loghry (brother-in-law to Samuel) to his son, Henry in the 1850s, he writes;

"Sam Brown has got home from the asilum and seams to bee all rite he Chops wood every day Brown's foxes (folks) is well and doing well they are in the the hoop pole business this winter."

It is apparent from letters written by Charles Loghry about his brother-in-law, Samuel Right Brown, Jr., he suffered some type of illness where he had to be institutionalized.

It is commonly believed that some form of mental illness was present in several of the Annable families according to a few descendants, thus shedding some light on the mental problems of Henry (William Henry Harrison Brown) and Samuel Brown, sons of Eunice Annable and Samuel Right Brown, Sr. In early history on the Peckhams family (Eunice Annable Brown's paternal grandparents side) there is mention of the "idiot" in the family back in the early 1700's.

Samuel was very involved in the town of Cary Station once he moved there from Algonquin. He as well as his daughter, Julia Ann worked very hard, keeping the local cemetery beautiful and peaceful-looking. It was in this light that he, FayetteThomas, E. Sprague and John Brandon each purchased a family monument of white Bronze, of T. D. Warwick, agent for a Detroit company. The first three named erected their monument in the Cary cemetery, which the Crystal Lake Herald article of March 3, 1882 , mentioned, 'will add much to its improvement. Mr. Crane of Janesville, who has done all in his power to improve our cemetery will be gratified to see those having relatives and friends buried here taking an interest also.'

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The following is an obituary notice for Samuel R. Brown, Jr.

February 11, 1909; Crystal Lake Herald, Crystal Lake, McHenry Co. IL



THE DEATH ROLL

Three Aged Ones Fall Beneath the Scythe of Time

Samuel R. Brown of Cary--Mrs. T. H. Ashton of Ridgefield- Mrs. Robert Baxter of Chicago

Samuel R. Brown was born in Dresden, Yates County, NY, November 17, 1817, and died at his home in Cary, Ill., February 4, 1909, aged 91, years, 2 months and 17 days.

He was married to Sally Ann Coss of Bath, Steuben County, NY, Jan 1, 1844. The family consisted of six sons and four daughters-S. R., Jr., E. D., Melvin and D. M., Mrs. Martha Osgood, Julia A. and Mrs. Dora Raue.

He resided in New York state until 1856, coming west and locating in McHenry County, where he resided until his death.

He was left fatherless in early infancy, and was thus thrown upon his own resources. He traveled on foot from his native state to Ashtabula County, Ohio, where the present city of Oberlin now stands. He helped the early pioneers of that section to clear the site of that city. Later in life he became an expert raftsman, piloting rafts down the Canisteo and Susquehanna rivers.

For seven years he owned and operated a sawmill at Cameron, Steuben County, N. Y., and after coming to Illinois engaged in farming on his farm, located near Cary.

His father, Samuel R. Brown, was associated in journalism with Soloman Southwick, at Albany, N. Y., and employed as a typesetter, Thurlow Weed, who afterward became a noted journalist and politician of New York city. His father was also an author of considerable prominence, one of his noted works being "The Western Gazetteer." He was also a volunteer in the War of 1812.

Mr. Brown was a man of sterling worth and strong convictions, kind and sympathetic in his nature, always generous to the needs of others, and his hospitality knew no bounds. He was of a cheerful, happy disposition, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. He was possessed of a modest, retiring nature, and only his most intimate friends could fully appreciate his worth. He was a great reader, and inherited from his father a love for literature. He was especiallly fond of Scott's poems, and after failing eyesight prevented him from reading, he delighted in quoting from this favorite authors up to a very short period previous to his death.

The community in which he resided is certainly better for his having lived in it. His was a noble character, and worthy of emulation. He was a member of the Masonic order for the past 61 years, having joined that order in Bath, N. Y., in 1848, later transferring his membership in Nunda Lodge 169, in 1867. (* 5. * 5Date could be later.)

Impressive funeral services were held at the M. E. Church on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 11 a. m., conducted by Rev. A. N. Foster of the Universalist church of Elgin. Music by the M. E. choir.

At the conclusion of the service at the church, the remains were tenderly laid to rest in the family lot, where the beautiful and impressive burial service of the Masonic order was given. The many lovely floral tributes attested the love and esteem in which he was held.

The following appropriate line from Bryant were read by the officiating clergyman:

I saw an aged man up on his bier,
His hair was than and white, and (the rest is unreadable)

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The letters below, written in 1868, 1869 and 1880 seem to indicate Samuel and Sally were still in New York in the late 1860s but the census report for the township of Algonquin, McHenry County, IL show Samuel and Sally living there in 1860. Their son, Melvin was born in April, 1858 in Illinois, probably in Algonquin.

These letters were written by Charles Loghry to his son, William Henry Harrison Loghry. In them he mentions the mental condition of Samuel and that of his brother, William Henry Harrison Brown (Henry). Charles Loghry was married to Juliette Brown, sister to William and Samuel.


Alens Station, N. Y. August 30, 68 (1868)

Well henry it has bin some time sinse I have rote to you. We had A leter from you A short time a goe and was glad to hear that you and your family was well and was doing well.
We are as usual working and tuging through this world and triing to git something to live on when we Cant work any more. We have had it very dry this sumer. Spring crops is very poor this year hear and as been as I can hear. Corn aint more than half a crop.
When you git this you must tell us how times is with you. We had A good crop of hay and winter wheat but Barley and oats was lite this year potatoes is A lite crop I have a good croop of buckwheat.
I am going to rite to franklin Loghry*. I begin to think that he has forgotten us it has ben A long time sinse he has rote to us. tell him to rite and let us noe what he is doing.
We have had the hotest weather that was ever none in this country. it was so hot it was all most imposibel to work.
I have sowed one peis of wheat and am redy to sow five acors more this week. I have had the falow ready two weeks.
We are well to day and nobody but us two hear. Ada* is to sunday school while I am riting.
You must come and make us a visit as soon as you can. You must rite as soon as you git this and let us noe how you git along.
You must doe what you can for Seymour and Blain the Democrats will carie this state by A big majority as was ever nown.
Give my respects to unkel Dar* and Lety* and all their fokes.
Good by for this time
to Henry Loghry and wife (signed

Charles Loghry


*1. Franklin Loghry is his son.
2. Ada was a girl they had taken in to raise.
3. Unkel Dar is Erasmus Darwin Brown, brother of Juliette Brown Loghry, and brother-in-law to Charles.
4. Lety is Lettice Loghry Brown, a sister; one of the three Loghry Children to marry three Brown children.
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Cameron, N.Y. Dec 26, 1869

Well Henry it is some time sinse I have rote to you. I thout this morning I woud rite to you and let you noe that we are in the land of the living and as well as usual. I have in qite lame this fall and winter I have got A bad nee that is very lame and pains me very bad so that I cant sleep good nites. it was taken lame last summer and is giting worse. I have got most discourage of its ever giting any beter I haint ploud any this fall help is hard to git and wages is high hear.
Comon labor is one dollar A day and bord and wheat is worth $1.00 for that is good
You rote that you wanted me to send you some money that is out of the question this winter for money is hard to git and very scarce there is nothing that will fetch money hear.
we have had some cold wether and good slaying But this warm today and raining there aint mutch going on this winter hear Sam Brown* has got home from the Asilum and seams to bee all rite he Chops wood evry day Brown's foxes* is well and doing well they are in the hoop pole business this winter
Henry you must keep good Courage your young yet and you mustent git the horers for that dont doe any good if I was of your age and had my health I could live any where I think that I can doe as much as I ever could But when I goe to work I soon git tierd and soon think difernt I have worked this fall that when I got in the house and sot down I had all that I could doe to git up I have the rheumatism most all the time
My nee pains me so that I can hardley rite while I am now riting
We got a leter from your wife on Chrismuss for A Chrismuss present and was glad to hear that you was well and all the friends
I wish that you was hear today to hellp us eat some Big Aples we have the Bigest Aples that you ever seen David Williamson was hear last sunday and he meshered one that was 14 inches round we have got 20 bushels of grafted aples in the seler
Good By for this time rite soon as you git this
We like to hear from you often as we can
Direct to Alens Station
(signed)
C. Loghry
* 1. folks
2. Sam Brown is Samuel Right Brown, Jr.; a brother to Charles's first wife, Juliette.
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Cameron, March 15, 1880

Well Henry Loghry it has bin A long time since we have heard from you you dont rite very often and today I thaut that I woud rite you a few lines to let you noe that we are in the land of the living but not very smart this winter I have bin qite poorley this winter and lame not abel to doe my chores nor to cut my wood I am giting old and will soon be out of this world and it wont mater how qick if I am prepard for that day that day will surly come prepared or not Ada and her man is with us this winter and will stay with us this year or that is the talk now if nothing hapens. We have had A very warm winter and noe snow it has bin rather unheathy this winter. A grate many old fokes has dropt off this winter some without one moments warning there are several that has dropt dead seting their chair and it stands us in hand to be ready to meet to meet it if we never meet on this earth less try to meet in heaven your unkel Em Brown* is very poorley this winter he lais A bed the most of the time he haint bin from home in nine years he is nothing but skin and bones.
the rest of the family is well but hard up this winter they had their barn burnd and all their hay and grain and it is touf for them this winter I hurd form you unkel Henry Brown* the other day he is bad off he dont noe hardly any thing and the man told me that they had lost ther property he thout it was all used up they sold out but dident saave mutch that is bad to loes his senses and property to. times is beter this spring that it has bin for sevel years past money is plenty and proptery is chang hands and things looks beter now than they have for some time
Wheat is 140 rie 90 corn 65 oats 50 potatoes 40 Apels from 50 to 65
hay is from $10 to $12 tone
give my best Respects to all the frends and tell them that I would (like) to see them very much I would like to see you and your wife today and have you hear.
tell Juliaette* to rite to us I will rite to her before long now Henry rite soon as you git this and till us how you are giting A long

from your father
(signed)
Charles Loghry

* 1. unkel Henry Brown is William Henry Harrison Brown, brother to Juliette, Charles' first wife.
2. Juliaette is Charles'granddaughter by William Henry Harrison Loghry and Elizabeth Williams.

* 5. In the above letters, it mentions that Samuel Right Brown, Jr. was still living in Cameron, NY in 1868. His arrival date in Illinois appears to be at a much later date. Membership in the Masonic Lodge was transferred to the Nunda Lodge in 1867. That date could be wrong.


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Last Will and Testament of S. R. Brown, Sr. (Jr.) Deceased.
Filed McHenry County, ILLS. Feb. 19, 1909, G. F. Rushton, Clerk County Court


Know all men by these presents, that I, S. R. Brown Sr. of Cary Station, Illinois, being aged but of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.

As to my worldly estate, Real or Personal I dispose thereof in the manner following--

First my will is, that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall by my exectutors hereinafter named, be paid ou of my Estate as soon after my decease as shall be found by them convenient,

Item- I give devise and bequeath my entire Estate to be divided equally between my sons S. R. Brown Jr., E. D. Brown, Melvin Brown, and D. M. Brown, and to my daughters Julia Brown, Martha Osgood, and Dora Raue and my Grandson Dexter D. Brown, share and share alike.

In the event of the death of my son S. R. Brown, Jr. before my death the bequeath as relates to him shall be void and his daughter being my Grand daughter, Alice is to receive One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars.

Lastly I do nominate and appoint my daughter Julia Brown, and my son E. D. Brown the executors of this my last Will and Testament.

In testimony whereof, I the said S. R. Brown Sr. have to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper, subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 14th. day of August A. D. 1906.

S. R. Brown Sr. (Seal)


Signed, sealed, published and delivered by the said S. R. Brown Sr. as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request, and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.

Luna E. Mentch, Cary Station, Illinois.
Foy L. Mentch, Cary Station , Illinois.




In the History of McHenry County, IL , Vol. 2, pp 497-98, the following but not intirely accurate:

Samuel Right Brown, now deceased, was born at Bedford, Mass.,(he was born in Dresden, Yates Co., NY. His mother was born there) Nov. 17, 1817, and died at Cary, Ill., Februdary 2, 1908, having lived in retirement in that village for some seventeen years prior to his demise. He married at Bath, NY to Sallie Ann Cass (Coss), born June 3, 1817, at Bath, NY. After his marriage he came to Kankakee, IL. where a brother, Darien E. (Erasmus Darwin) Brown had already located, and about two years later, Samuel R. Brown came to McHenry County, to join Mrs. Brown's two sisters, Lucy, who was Mrs. A. L. Weaver; and Matilda, who was Mrs. David Miller, both of Algonquin Township, where their husbands had secured land from the government. Samuel R. Brown rented the farm he later bought, on which was an old house. It was partly covered with timber. He cleared off the land, drained it and put up a good set of buildings, to which a silo and other improvements have since been added. For years Mr. Brown made butter for private customers in addition to carrying on his farmings, becoming one of the well-known men of his community. On December 3, 1902, Mr. Brown had the misfortune to lose his wife. They were the parents of the following children: William C., who enlisted when only sixteen years old in Company I, Ninely-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under Captain James Nish, and he served through the Civil War, coming out of the conflict without any wounds but with his health so impaired that he died fifteen years later; Samuel K., (Samuel R., III) who is a well-known stockman, lives at Cary with his sister; Martha, who is the widow of Mark Osgood, also lives at Cary; Charlotte, who died at the age of eighteen years, had attended the academy at Elgin; Julia, who lives at Cary, is a very progressive lady, who during the World War was active in Red Cross work, and belongs to the Woman's Club, Royal Neighbors and Ladies' Aid Society; Darwin who is a prominent man and successful farmer of Lake County, IL; Melvin , who is deceased, was a prominent cement contractor, and passed away at Wancenda (Wauconda) IL in 1913; Daniel M., was a milk dealer of Chicago for some years, was educated in the Elgin Academy; and Dora, who married Ben Rand (Raue) of Crystal Lake, died when about fifty years of age. The Brown family is one of the best known ones in McHenry County, and its members during their long residence here have been connected with some of the most constructive work of their secation, and are recognized as being typical of the advanced spirit which seems to prevail in this poration of Illinois.

Samuel Right Brown Jr. was born about 2 months after his father died in Dresden, Yates County, NY. He married Sally Ann Coss of Bath or Cameron, Steuben County, NY and had 10 children.

In early life, Sam settled on the Robert Water's farm on North Hill, Cameron which he bought of John Sherer, where he resided for eleven years. He ran a saw mill and rafted lumber on the river for a time. In 1852, he walked to Astubula, Ohio and assisted in clearing the site of the present city of Oberlin, Ohio. His brother-in-law, George William Loghry had gone there earlier and there married his first wife. Also, George's sister, Letty had gone to Astubula (Oberlin) to live with the Schocks (in-laws of her brother, George) after her mother died when she was thirteen years of age.

In 1855, Samuel is listed in theTorrey, Yates County, NY Federal Census. His mother, Eunice, was 72 years of age at the time and living with this family. He moved his wife and children to Algonquin Township, McHenry County, Illinois after first settling in Kankakee, Kankakee County for a short period sometime around 1856.

He followed his older brother, Erasmus Darwin Brown, who settled in St. Anne, Kankakee County after Erasmus and family had lived a few years in Fountain County, Indiana. Samuel and Sally's son, Melvin was born in St. Anne, Kankakee County on 3 April, 1858. After two years in the Kankakee area, Samuel moved north to Algonquin, McHenry County to be closer to his wife's sisters, Lucy Coss, wife of Asa L.Weaver and Matilda, wife of David Miller, both of Algonquin Township who had come to the area about the same time.

Upon arrival in Algonquin, Samuel and Sally rented a farm on which was an old house. It was partly covered with timber. He cleared off the land, drained it and put up a good set of buildings, to which a silo and other improvements were added. For years, Samuel made butter for private customers in addition to carrying on his farmings, becoming one of the well-known men of his community. In the 1860, Samuel was listed as a farmer. In 1870, a stonemason and still living in Algonquin. Living with the family in 1870 was Althea Brown, age 18, wife of his son, Samuel Right Brown, the 3rd. She was born in Illinois. Thomas Morin, age 38, born in Canada and was a farm laborer also lived with them.

On December 3, 1902, Samuel lost his wife, Sally. They are buried next to each other in the Brown family plot at Cary Cemetery, McHenry County, Cary, IL.


Prior to his death in 1909, he had been retired for seventeen years. He was the eldest Mason in the state. In Buffalo, NY. He also ate breakfast with the son of Sacajawea, the guide for Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West. He helped organize the Algonquin Mutual Insurance Company in 1874. The Brown family was one of the best known ones in McHenry County, and its members during their long residence there have been connected with some of the most constructive work of their section, and were recognized as being typical of the advanced spirit which seemes to have prevailed in this portion of Illinois. (From The History of McHenry Co., IL, 1922.)

In a letter below, written by Charles Loghry (brother-in-law to Samuel) to his son, Henry in the 1850s, he writes;

"Sam Brown has got home from the asilum and seams to bee all rite he Chops wood every day Brown's foxes (folks) is well and doing well they are in the the hoop pole business this winter."

It is apparent from letters written by Charles Loghry about his brother-in-law, Samuel Right Brown, Jr., he suffered some type of illness where he had to be institutionalized.

It is commonly believed that some form of mental illness was present in several of the Annable families according to a few descendants, thus shedding some light on the mental problems of Henry (William Henry Harrison Brown) and Samuel Brown, sons of Eunice Annable and Samuel Right Brown, Sr. In early history on the Peckhams family (Eunice Annable Brown's paternal grandparents side) there is mention of the "idiot" in the family back in the early 1700's.

Samuel was very involved in the town of Cary Station once he moved there from Algonquin. He as well as his daughter, Julia Ann worked very hard, keeping the local cemetery beautiful and peaceful-looking. It was in this light that he, FayetteThomas, E. Sprague and John Brandon each purchased a family monument of white Bronze, of T. D. Warwick, agent for a Detroit company. The first three named erected their monument in the Cary cemetery, which the Crystal Lake Herald article of March 3, 1882 , mentioned, 'will add much to its improvement. Mr. Crane of Janesville, who has done all in his power to improve our cemetery will be gratified to see those having relatives and friends buried here taking an interest also.'

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The following is an obituary notice for Samuel R. Brown, Jr.

February 11, 1909; Crystal Lake Herald, Crystal Lake, McHenry Co. IL



THE DEATH ROLL

Three Aged Ones Fall Beneath the Scythe of Time

Samuel R. Brown of Cary--Mrs. T. H. Ashton of Ridgefield- Mrs. Robert Baxter of Chicago

Samuel R. Brown was born in Dresden, Yates County, NY, November 17, 1817, and died at his home in Cary, Ill., February 4, 1909, aged 91, years, 2 months and 17 days.

He was married to Sally Ann Coss of Bath, Steuben County, NY, Jan 1, 1844. The family consisted of six sons and four daughters-S. R., Jr., E. D., Melvin and D. M., Mrs. Martha Osgood, Julia A. and Mrs. Dora Raue.

He resided in New York state until 1856, coming west and locating in McHenry County, where he resided until his death.

He was left fatherless in early infancy, and was thus thrown upon his own resources. He traveled on foot from his native state to Ashtabula County, Ohio, where the present city of Oberlin now stands. He helped the early pioneers of that section to clear the site of that city. Later in life he became an expert raftsman, piloting rafts down the Canisteo and Susquehanna rivers.

For seven years he owned and operated a sawmill at Cameron, Steuben County, N. Y., and after coming to Illinois engaged in farming on his farm, located near Cary.

His father, Samuel R. Brown, was associated in journalism with Soloman Southwick, at Albany, N. Y., and employed as a typesetter, Thurlow Weed, who afterward became a noted journalist and politician of New York city. His father was also an author of considerable prominence, one of his noted works being "The Western Gazetteer." He was also a volunteer in the War of 1812.

Mr. Brown was a man of sterling worth and strong convictions, kind and sympathetic in his nature, always generous to the needs of others, and his hospitality knew no bounds. He was of a cheerful, happy disposition, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. He was possessed of a modest, retiring nature, and only his most intimate friends could fully appreciate his worth. He was a great reader, and inherited from his father a love for literature. He was especiallly fond of Scott's poems, and after failing eyesight prevented him from reading, he delighted in quoting from this favorite authors up to a very short period previous to his death.

The community in which he resided is certainly better for his having lived in it. His was a noble character, and worthy of emulation. He was a member of the Masonic order for the past 61 years, having joined that order in Bath, N. Y., in 1848, later transferring his membership in Nunda Lodge 169, in 1867. (* 5. * 5Date could be later.)

Impressive funeral services were held at the M. E. Church on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 11 a. m., conducted by Rev. A. N. Foster of the Universalist church of Elgin. Music by the M. E. choir.

At the conclusion of the service at the church, the remains were tenderly laid to rest in the family lot, where the beautiful and impressive burial service of the Masonic order was given. The many lovely floral tributes attested the love and esteem in which he was held.

The following appropriate line from Bryant were read by the officiating clergyman:

I saw an aged man up on his bier,
His hair was than and white, and (the rest is unreadable)

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The letters below, written in 1868, 1869 and 1880 seem to indicate Samuel and Sally were still in New York in the late 1860s but the census report for the township of Algonquin, McHenry County, IL show Samuel and Sally living there in 1860. Their son, Melvin was born in April, 1858 in Illinois, probably in Algonquin.

These letters were written by Charles Loghry to his son, William Henry Harrison Loghry. In them he mentions the mental condition of Samuel and that of his brother, William Henry Harrison Brown (Henry). Charles Loghry was married to Juliette Brown, sister to William and Samuel.


Alens Station, N. Y. August 30, 68 (1868)

Well henry it has bin some time sinse I have rote to you. We had A leter from you A short time a goe and was glad to hear that you and your family was well and was doing well.
We are as usual working and tuging through this world and triing to git something to live on when we Cant work any more. We have had it very dry this sumer. Spring crops is very poor this year hear and as been as I can hear. Corn aint more than half a crop.
When you git this you must tell us how times is with you. We had A good crop of hay and winter wheat but Barley and oats was lite this year potatoes is A lite crop I have a good croop of buckwheat.
I am going to rite to franklin Loghry*. I begin to think that he has forgotten us it has ben A long time sinse he has rote to us. tell him to rite and let us noe what he is doing.
We have had the hotest weather that was ever none in this country. it was so hot it was all most imposibel to work.
I have sowed one peis of wheat and am redy to sow five acors more this week. I have had the falow ready two weeks.
We are well to day and nobody but us two hear. Ada* is to sunday school while I am riting.
You must come and make us a visit as soon as you can. You must rite as soon as you git this and let us noe how you git along.
You must doe what you can for Seymour and Blain the Democrats will carie this state by A big majority as was ever nown.
Give my respects to unkel Dar* and Lety* and all their fokes.
Good by for this time
to Henry Loghry and wife (signed

Charles Loghry


*1. Franklin Loghry is his son.
2. Ada was a girl they had taken in to raise.
3. Unkel Dar is Erasmus Darwin Brown, brother of Juliette Brown Loghry, and brother-in-law to Charles.
4. Lety is Lettice Loghry Brown, a sister; one of the three Loghry Children to marry three Brown children.
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Cameron, N.Y. Dec 26, 1869

Well Henry it is some time sinse I have rote to you. I thout this morning I woud rite to you and let you noe that we are in the land of the living and as well as usual. I have in qite lame this fall and winter I have got A bad nee that is very lame and pains me very bad so that I cant sleep good nites. it was taken lame last summer and is giting worse. I have got most discourage of its ever giting any beter I haint ploud any this fall help is hard to git and wages is high hear.
Comon labor is one dollar A day and bord and wheat is worth $1.00 for that is good
You rote that you wanted me to send you some money that is out of the question this winter for money is hard to git and very scarce there is nothing that will fetch money hear.
we have had some cold wether and good slaying But this warm today and raining there aint mutch going on this winter hear Sam Brown* has got home from the Asilum and seams to bee all rite he Chops wood evry day Brown's foxes* is well and doing well they are in the hoop pole business this winter
Henry you must keep good Courage your young yet and you mustent git the horers for that dont doe any good if I was of your age and had my health I could live any where I think that I can doe as much as I ever could But when I goe to work I soon git tierd and soon think difernt I have worked this fall that when I got in the house and sot down I had all that I could doe to git up I have the rheumatism most all the time
My nee pains me so that I can hardley rite while I am now riting
We got a leter from your wife on Chrismuss for A Chrismuss present and was glad to hear that you was well and all the friends
I wish that you was hear today to hellp us eat some Big Aples we have the Bigest Aples that you ever seen David Williamson was hear last sunday and he meshered one that was 14 inches round we have got 20 bushels of grafted aples in the seler
Good By for this time rite soon as you git this
We like to hear from you often as we can
Direct to Alens Station
(signed)
C. Loghry
* 1. folks
2. Sam Brown is Samuel Right Brown, Jr.; a brother to Charles's first wife, Juliette.
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Cameron, March 15, 1880

Well Henry Loghry it has bin A long time since we have heard from you you dont rite very often and today I thaut that I woud rite you a few lines to let you noe that we are in the land of the living but not very smart this winter I have bin qite poorley this winter and lame not abel to doe my chores nor to cut my wood I am giting old and will soon be out of this world and it wont mater how qick if I am prepard for that day that day will surly come prepared or not Ada and her man is with us this winter and will stay with us this year or that is the talk now if nothing hapens. We have had A very warm winter and noe snow it has bin rather unheathy this winter. A grate many old fokes has dropt off this winter some without one moments warning there are several that has dropt dead seting their chair and it stands us in hand to be ready to meet to meet it if we never meet on this earth less try to meet in heaven your unkel Em Brown* is very poorley this winter he lais A bed the most of the time he haint bin from home in nine years he is nothing but skin and bones.
the rest of the family is well but hard up this winter they had their barn burnd and all their hay and grain and it is touf for them this winter I hurd form you unkel Henry Brown* the other day he is bad off he dont noe hardly any thing and the man told me that they had lost ther property he thout it was all used up they sold out but dident saave mutch that is bad to loes his senses and property to. times is beter this spring that it has bin for sevel years past money is plenty and proptery is chang hands and things looks beter now than they have for some time
Wheat is 140 rie 90 corn 65 oats 50 potatoes 40 Apels from 50 to 65
hay is from $10 to $12 tone
give my best Respects to all the frends and tell them that I would (like) to see them very much I would like to see you and your wife today and have you hear.
tell Juliaette* to rite to us I will rite to her before long now Henry rite soon as you git this and till us how you are giting A long

from your father
(signed)
Charles Loghry

* 1. unkel Henry Brown is William Henry Harrison Brown, brother to Juliette, Charles' first wife.
2. Juliaette is Charles'granddaughter by William Henry Harrison Loghry and Elizabeth Williams.

* 5. In the above letters, it mentions that Samuel Right Brown, Jr. was still living in Cameron, NY in 1868. His arrival date in Illinois appears to be at a much later date. Membership in the Masonic Lodge was transferred to the Nunda Lodge in 1867. That date could be wrong.


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Last Will and Testament of S. R. Brown, Sr. (Jr.) Deceased.
Filed McHenry County, ILLS. Feb. 19, 1909, G. F. Rushton, Clerk County Court


Know all men by these presents, that I, S. R. Brown Sr. of Cary Station, Illinois, being aged but of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.

As to my worldly estate, Real or Personal I dispose thereof in the manner following--

First my will is, that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall by my exectutors hereinafter named, be paid ou of my Estate as soon after my decease as shall be found by them convenient,

Item- I give devise and bequeath my entire Estate to be divided equally between my sons S. R. Brown Jr., E. D. Brown, Melvin Brown, and D. M. Brown, and to my daughters Julia Brown, Martha Osgood, and Dora Raue and my Grandson Dexter D. Brown, share and share alike.

In the event of the death of my son S. R. Brown, Jr. before my death the bequeath as relates to him shall be void and his daughter being my Grand daughter, Alice is to receive One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars.

Lastly I do nominate and appoint my daughter Julia Brown, and my son E. D. Brown the executors of this my last Will and Testament.

In testimony whereof, I the said S. R. Brown Sr. have to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper, subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 14th. day of August A. D. 1906.

S. R. Brown Sr. (Seal)


Signed, sealed, published and delivered by the said S. R. Brown Sr. as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request, and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.

Luna E. Mentch, Cary Station, Illinois.
Foy L. Mentch, Cary Station , Illinois.




In the History of McHenry County, IL , Vol. 2, pp 497-98, the following but not intirely accurate:

Samuel Right Brown, now deceased, was born at Bedford, Mass.,(he was born in Dresden, Yates Co., NY. His mother was born there) Nov. 17, 1817, and died at Cary, Ill., Februdary 2, 1908, having lived in retirement in that village for some seventeen years prior to his demise. He married at Bath, NY to Sallie Ann Cass (Coss), born June 3, 1817, at Bath, NY. After his marriage he came to Kankakee, IL. where a brother, Darien E. (Erasmus Darwin) Brown had already located, and about two years later, Samuel R. Brown came to McHenry County, to join Mrs. Brown's two sisters, Lucy, who was Mrs. A. L. Weaver; and Matilda, who was Mrs. David Miller, both of Algonquin Township, where their husbands had secured land from the government. Samuel R. Brown rented the farm he later bought, on which was an old house. It was partly covered with timber. He cleared off the land, drained it and put up a good set of buildings, to which a silo and other improvements have since been added. For years Mr. Brown made butter for private customers in addition to carrying on his farmings, becoming one of the well-known men of his community. On December 3, 1902, Mr. Brown had the misfortune to lose his wife. They were the parents of the following children: William C., who enlisted when only sixteen years old in Company I, Ninely-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under Captain James Nish, and he served through the Civil War, coming out of the conflict without any wounds but with his health so impaired that he died fifteen years later; Samuel K., (Samuel R., III) who is a well-known stockman, lives at Cary with his sister; Martha, who is the widow of Mark Osgood, also lives at Cary; Charlotte, who died at the age of eighteen years, had attended the academy at Elgin; Julia, who lives at Cary, is a very progressive lady, who during the World War was active in Red Cross work, and belongs to the Woman's Club, Royal Neighbors and Ladies' Aid Society; Darwin who is a prominent man and successful farmer of Lake County, IL; Melvin , who is deceased, was a prominent cement contractor, and passed away at Wancenda (Wauconda) IL in 1913; Daniel M., was a milk dealer of Chicago for some years, was educated in the Elgin Academy; and Dora, who married Ben Rand (Raue) of Crystal Lake, died when about fifty years of age. The Brown family is one of the best known ones in McHenry County, and its members during their long residence here have been connected with some of the most constructive work of their secation, and are recognized as being typical of the advanced spirit which seems to prevail in this poration of Illinois.

Samuel married Coss Sarah Ann on 01 Jan 1844 in Bath, Steuben Co., NY. Sarah was born on 03 Jun 1817 in Bath, Steuben Co., NY; died on 01 Dec 1902 in Cary Station, McHenry Co., IL; was buried in Cary Cemetery, Cary Station, McHenry Co. IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DEATH: In the Wisconsin Chief, dated May 15, 1866, the following written by Emma Brown, sister to Thurlow Weed Brown;

DEATH: Editorial Correspondance

DEATH: "The Oaks", April 29, 1866.

DEATH: Emma: I am told, and very readily believe, that I walk no more among the living. To those who have been so kind to me and mine, I invoke God's choicest blessings, and give my wasted hand in a feeling "goodbye" to all. The battle is over. The Senior.

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DEATH: Personal (in the same paper, directly under his obituary is the following:)

DEATH: We have delayed referring to some matters, hoping the Senior would get strong enough to do so; but, saving one letter and the brief note at the head of our editorial columns, he never wrote a line for over three months before his death. All through the earlier months of his illness, he wrote diligently only giving up his accustomed tasks when to weak to sit up in an easy chair.

DEATH: For his wife, children, father and ourself, we again thank the many friends who have been so kind during his long illness. Their thoughtfulness in word and deed was more gratefully appreciated by him than any words of ours can express. Our own Lodge and friends at home, the Lodges at Hebron, Westford, Beaver Dam, and Fox Lake, old friends at
Lake Mills, H. P. Stanley, of Chicago, Elisha Hitcheus, of Williamsport, Indiana, and Gerrit Smith of N. Y., showed their regard practically, the remembrance adding much to his comfort and relieving anxiety.

DEATH: To the editors of the political papers who have remembered him in his sickness, paying just tribute to his services in the temperance cause, we are also grateful.

DEATH: In closing, we acknowledge the remittance from Ancient City Lodge, Aztalan, received a few days before his death, accompanied by the following resolution:

DEATH: Resolved, That we do not consider we are giving, but that we as a temperance organization owe to Bro. Brown, in view of his past labors in the temperance cause more than we shall ever be able to pay.

DEATH: Thanks to the brothers, and sisters for their testimonial.

BIRTH: Thurlow Weed Brown was an editor of the Cuyuga Chief in Auburn, Cayuga county, NY from Jan 4, 1849 to 1855.

BIRTH: His newspaper policy was Independent in everything, neutral in nothing. Temperance and anti-slavery. Format was: Four pages, varying sizes, 16" x 22 1/4", 18" x 23 1/4 ". Price: $1.00 per year in advance. Published from the corner of 74 Genesee St. and South St. over the Post Office. Then from the Exchange Building, corner of Genesee and South Sts.; in 1854 from the Markham Block on North St. "The Cayuga Chief was an original, vigorous and outspoken temperance journal, continued in Auburn for eight years when it was removed to Wisconsin, and there continued under the same ownership.(Storke, History of Cayuga County, p. 53)

BIRTH: By the time his mother died in April of 1857, Thurlow was already living in Fort Atkinson, WI as was his sister, Emma. He was staunch supporter of the Temperance Movement and his newspaper was dedicated its crusade against alcohol. He wrote a book, ' Minnie Hermon, The Rumseller's Daughter' and completed it while very ill. He wrote with conviction as his family had known the perils and heartaches associated with the trama of living with a drunkard. His father was also a temperance supporter.

BIRTH: He was extemely close to his mother and her death must have left a terrible ache in his heart.

Thurlow spent many years writing the book " Minnie Hermon, The Rumseller's Daughter." Several chapters were written about his own family. It was not until I read this tribute after his death, that it became evident the story was written about his mother and her father, the drunkard.


The Rev. H. A. Reid, of the Dodge County Citizen, gave a tribute to Thurlow about three weeks after his death. The following is the text that was delivered to the Temperance Society. The town in which it was delivered is unknown.

"Rev. H. A. Reid, of the Doge County Citizen, delivered the following on the life and character of T. W. Barown, late editor of the Wisconsin Chief."

Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention:

About three weeks ago I received the appointment of your President to prepare for this occation a "Memorial of the life and character of the late Thurlow W. Brown, of the Wisconsin Chief." The appointment came at a time when I was more than usually pressed with cares and engagements both at home and abroad; and I hence, from this fact, and the very short notice, at best, for such a work, and the task being one of which I had not had the remotest thought before, the preparation I have been able to make is necessarily very imperfecrt and incomplete; but I have done the best that my circumstances in the case would admit of.

Thurlow Weed Brown, our eminent confrere, recently deceased, and whose honorable careet and noble character it is my office to portray in works of fraternal esteem, was born in Preston, Chenango county, NY., Nov. 24th, 1819.

Mr. Brown was descended of full blood New England Puritan stock; he could readily trace the links of his lineage back to the 'Mayflower," of blessed memory, and that dreary December scene, where the Pilgrim Fathers, of towering faith, and calm submissive trust in Freedom's God, landed on Plymouth Rock, and planted amid the snows and rocks of the storm-beaten coast, the seed-principals of empire that now sway our continent and shape the destinies of untold millions of human souls. The blood of the Pilgrims, flowing throught some generations of unworthy veins, revived again and reasserted in him that lofty moral heroism and indomitable faith in God which was the chief great light they lifted amid the darkness of an age that knew not God, neither regared his laws in behalf of the poor, the down-trodden, the oppressed of every name.

Young Thurlow was brought up to habits of industry and thrift; he early evinced a remarkable degree of mechanical ingenuity and skill, making bureaus, stands, tables, chairs, with carvings, ornaments and parts all complete, that would have done credit to a professional master workman. While yet young, and withur any learning of the art, he made three first rate bass biols; and I have seen in his office a writing desk, a bank of drawers, case stands, brass galleys, &., of his own make, which were every way equal, and in some oints better than I have bought from professional manufacturers. From his childhood up, he wa a prodigy both in mechanical genius and handicraft, doing his work always neat, snug, tasteful, and substantial.

In his boyhood he was much engaged at farm work, and at the trade of carriage-making; both of which occupations his father carried on. And thus was built up from a naturally vigorous constitution, a manly frame of great muscular power and exceeding quickness. He was first among his fellows in all the accustomed boyish feats of strength, agility and athletic skill.

As a school boy, he was diligent, quick to learn, and always eager to make progress and gain knowledge; and his large conscientiousness tempered his exuberant love of sport with a deep respectful deference to the rights and wishes of the teachers, so that he rarely needed reproof, and always won the love, confidence and esteem of his teachers. he had also that manly earnestness of character and that matureness of thaought beyond his years, which commands the interest, affection and association of elder people; yet he was the life of the cirlcle among his youthful associates, when they came together for a party of the olden time- sleigh-ride, a quilting, an apple bee, a sugar party, or the like. On such occasions he was the merriest of the merry, and would set the whole company ablaze with the kindlings of his own vivacity.

His advantages of scholastic culture and training never reached beyond the comon schools of his day. But the people of his native town had established a good public library, which was kept by his father, as Librarian, for many years; and, as you might expect, young Thurlow did not fail to improve this advantage to the fullest extent--thus gaining a vast deal of unsystematized general information. His father was a man of strong, ardent sympathies, and alwys worked with a will for any cause he espoused; his house was always well supplied with the leading newspapers of the day, and he daily talked politics and other currents matters with his family just as freely as if they were all grown up, responsible members of society; and in this way the children were all early and deeply impressed with a livng sense of their duties for the public weal. And thus was our departed friend being taught in this daily school of experience, his own dear and cherished home circle those great and practical lessons of burning devotion, of self-sacrifice and enduring faith which his soul instinctively drank in as waters of life, richly refreshing its native thirst; and which laid the foundation of that grand mission, apostleship, martyrdom and triumph, in the midst of whose garnered fruits of fame and success his weary, weary spirit soared away to the haven of rest in the bosom of God's enfolding love, to go no more out forever.


In May, 1839, the family removed from Preston to the town of Sterling, in Cuyuga county; and we first find yung Brown before the public as a speaker during the memorable and fierce presidential campaign of 1840. Though himself not entitled to vote until about two weeks after the election, he seems to have entered into the whirling conflict of parties and policies with youthful ardor, and to have freely exercised and cultivated his gifts as a speaker by taking the stump in the rural districts, where the common people heard him gladly. His career was begun, though it did not yet appear what it should be, or whither it should tend. The passion for oratoruy stirred withim him; but the devine call to a great and holy mission had not yet voiced its living utterance in his soul; the warrior instinct burned and quickened in is spirit, but the great moral war-path of a lifetime was not yet revealed to his prophetic vision.

Again in 1844 we find him and his father hotly engaged in the political conflict, holding meetings and giving public addresses in every neighborhood, village and school district, in all the region round about their village home. In the year following, the State canvass of New York turned mainly on the license law question, as between the whiskey interest and the temperance principle on this subject. The elder Brown (William Brown) was a pioneer veteran in the temperance cause; the first public address ever given in Preston on this subject was by him, about forty years ago--and he took ground then full as radical as its most advanced advocates hold at the present day. The old man (Wright S. Brown) had drank deeply in his boyhood of the cup of bmitterness that comes to the drunkard's family, and commenced his toilsome career "by working to pay the rumseller's executions against his father." And thus from his youth up his heart had been a fiery furnace seven times heated with fire and brimstone hatred of the rum traffic. And his wife, too, Thurlow's mother, had suffered from her girlish days up to ripe womanhood the horrors and agonies that only a drunkard's child can know--pangful experiences more deeply tinged with the gall and bitterness of fate than ever a Bulwer's tragic pen portrayed. And thus was poured into young Thurlow's veins from two such memories, scourged and scarred with the fiendish wrongs of the rum traffic, the read hot currents of a subtler life. And deriving from a hardy stock, a tough and vigorour physical constitution, he leaped as it were into the foremost ranks of that grand army of reformers who have kept the temperance banner proudly afloat for lo, these many years.

From this time forward our friend felt the devine call and annointing for this mission, and daily consecrated every energy of his being to the one gigantic aim and effort of ridding our fair land of that burning curse--drunkenness and the rum traffic. In the latter part of this year, 1845, he achieved his first important success as a newspaper writer, in a series of articles which appeared in the Star of Temperance, a weekly journal published at the city of Auburn, N. Y.; and in a few months he was called to the editorial chair of the paper. Here his genius found full play in a congenial field, and he soon gave forth sterling proof of the fine mastery of language, thought and imagery which was native in him, and of the tremendous energy with which he could hurl the battle blades of logic, sacasm, invecive, denunciation, or sound the bugle blast of valiant leadership in so noble ans so sharp a fight. When he took hold of the Star of Temperance it had four hundred subscrivers, and in about two years he swelled the list to three thousand. In 1848 the Star office wa removed to Rochester; but he remained at Auburn. In 1849 he started the Cuyuga Chief, with a capital of just seven dollars, and a list of a hundred and seventy subscribers, which swelled in a few years upwards of three thousand. Such are the signs and crowning glory of successful editorship. And here he remained seven ears, wielding his trenchant pen, as the master spirit in the conduct of his press, while at the same time he was almost constantly traveling as a lecturer--thus doing double duty, overtaxing his energies, wearing his life out prematurely, as a willing sacrifice to the grand cause which it was his meat and drink to serve.

By the year 1853, he had attained such celebrity that Derby and Miller, the well lnown book publishers of Auburn, with their branch houses in Buffalo and Cincinnati, ventured a volume of "Temperance Tales and Hearth Stone Reveries, " gahtered from his writing in the Cuyuga Chief, and which attianed a large and prifitable sale. This volume was almost immediatley followed by his story of "Minnie Hermon," which made a book of 472 pages, issured by the same publishers, and met with a leeral deree of favor from the sotry reading public. His first volume is dedicated to his mother, with this sentiment, " My she live to see the dark night which rested upon her childhood's heart and home, pass away; and the eveing of her life close as cloudless as its morning dawned desolate and sad." His second volume, of "Minnie Hermon," is dedicated to his father, with this sentiment: "In his green old age, may he witness the passing away of that malign shadow which rested so gloomily upon his childhood."

The introductory pages of his volume of Temperance Tales and Sketches are devoted to a series of letters, under the heading of "Why I am a Temperance Man;" and in the closing letter he gives a brief sketch of his mother's childhood--depicting with sad vividness how her home was ruined, her mother heart-broken and untimely chrushed into a pauper grave by a husband and father's drunkeness. A frail, slender girl of fifteen, borne down with the keen agony of her great bereavement, is driven to toil in a factory, while the besotted father draws her wages week by week, the instant of their falling due, and squanders it at the tavern; he robs her of her hard earnings to slake his unholy thirst for strong drink, leaving her and a large family of smaller children to beg their bread or eke out a scanty subsistance as best they might, with the gnawings of hunger and the bitterness of cold sapping their young life, till at last they are scattered out to menial drudgery, or grudged support as pauper children; and one of the group, a dear little girl of three summers, dies in a dreary, cruel place, neglected and alone--her little heart broken and famished with its unrequited yearning for a mother;s love or a sister's gentle care--literally starved and frozen to death in a wintry night in the house of people who could barely give roof to the drunkard's child; and the factory girl could not even weep over the grave of that baby sister, so early gone to rest in the angel arms of the dear loved one gone before. In conclusion of this dark, sad story, Mr. Brown say: "Such are but the outlines of a childhood and youth of suffering, himiliation and sorrow. The details are known only to the sufferer and to God. Memory rolls back upon its bitter tide the history of such scenes, the fountain of tears is opened afresh, and flows as bitterly as in the past."

The factory girl--that drunkard's daughter--that child-pauper, who toiled while a drunken father drank down her wages--who went hungry for bread--who was deprived of society and education, and entered upon life's stern realities with no inheritance but poverty and a father's infamy--is our Mother!

"God! how the veins knot and burn, as the tide whose every drop is bitter with the memory of her wrongs sweeps to our finger ends! Our soul throbs fimly in our pen, until we clutch involuntarily for a good blade, and wish the rum traffic were embodied in one demon form, that we coudl go forth with God's blessing and smite the hell-born monster.

"To that mother we owe most of our hatred of the rum traffic. We imbibed it from her breast, and learned it from her in childhood. A father, too, his strong form untainted by the scourge, has taught us the same lesson. The memories of his childhood are darkened by the thoughts of a drunken father. He grappled alone with life's difficulties, and commenced his career by working to pay rumseller's executions against his deceased father.

"Thus from the cradle have we been educated to hate the scourge. that hatred is mingled with every Pilgrim drop in our veins. It grows with our growth and strenghtens with our strength. In athe high noon of manhood we swear, by friends on earth and God in Heaven, a life-long warfare against the traffic. There can be no compromise. It is a conflict of extermination, and the blows will only fail when the battle of life is ended, and our strong right arm is mingled with its mother dust."

These extracts will serve to show the heredity head-stream and native springs whence flowed the intensity of righteous bitterness and warfare against the liquor traffic that characterized his whole career, whether as editor, story writer, or public speaker.

In 1855, appeared Mr. D. W. Bartlet's book of "American Agitators and Reformers," in which T. W. Brown was ranked with such worthies of the living age as Theodore Parker, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greely, and some fifteen others scarcely less known to fame and the archives of heroism--the Hebrew prophets come again in the flesh, to rebuke sin in high places, and rebaptize our grovelling humanity with a sense of the living God, who executes righteousness and judgement in the earth for all them that are oppressed.

In 1849, He married a woman worthy of him, and in whose wifely love and devotion he found unceasing joy to the day of his death.. Unto them seven children have been born, three of whom passed early to the spirit-land, and four remain, to mourn with their mother the loss of him who was cherished with almost idolatrous reverence and affection in that beautiful home circle.

Mr. Brown early joined the Order of Sons of Temperance, and was at one time an officer in the Grand Division of Western New York.--and was, by his own desire , laid away to his rest with his Grand Division regalia on his breast--a fitting emblem of the warefare he had waged, and a token that he died in full panoply of fight.

In 1853, he first came West, to attend a session of the National Grand Divison of Son of Temperance, at Chicago; and lectured a few times before his return. In 1854, he again came West to seek rest and recuperation, and spent several weeks at Hebron, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, where he had relatives residing. The elimate seemed to be beneficial to him, and he bought a small place at Hebron, where he settled with his family in November of that year. From this quiet retreat he wrote editorial correspondence for the Cayuga Chief, which was still going on in his name, but was conducted and managed by his sister, Emma, he frequently passing back and forth, lecturing, from East to West. In 1856, it was decided to move the Chief West., and preparations were made to that end.

When the time finally came for the departure from Auburn, a grand Temperance demonstration was gotten up by his friends to commenorate the occasion, to give him and his the parting tear of affection and bid them Godspeed in their new field of arduous toil and battle against the great common foe of humanity. This meeting was one of the most flattering tributes ever said to an editor in this country--not even exceeded, all things considered, by the affecting birht-day honors to that venerable partiarch of the press, Wm. Cullen Byrant, less that a year ago. Nearly all the Temperance editors of the State were there, including the vereran, Rv. Dr. Marsh, of New York City, who gave a powerful address, and showered unmeasured thanks and compliments upon the Cayuga Chief. Letters all aglow with warmest gratitude, affection and eulogy, were read from Hon. Myron Clark, then Governor of the State, Hon. Neal Down, of Maine, Gen. S. F. Carey, of Ohio, Hon. Gerritt Smith, and others. Geo. W. Bungay,now one of the recognized poets of ur country prepared and read a lengthy poem for the occasion, in which he says:

"Among the laborers in this vineyard, few
Have worked like Thurlow, or have been so true;
Success to him where'er he drives his stakes:
No grass will grow upon the trail he makes.
When called to battle for the cause of right,
His plume will toss amid the thickest fight;
Wene'er he strikes, his tomahawk is felt,
And a new scalp is added to his belt.

The same poem has this pasing allusion to the elder Brown"

"There's one whose head is crowned with winter's snow,
But whose brave heart is warmed with summer's glow;
A man of vigor, talent, force and skill,
Who writes with aquafortis in his quill."

A tribute is also paid to the sister, Emma, whose noble, womanly worth, and untiring devotion to her brother's aid in his great work, has been an arm of strength, comfort and support to him from the first, and was indeed a corner stone of all the success he achieved. She has been joint editor and publisher with him for seventeen years, and is struggling on alone in the same path, now that his amnly arm is lad low, and his cheerful voice and strudy pen are silenced in the tomb. Let her be honered as a faithful and worthy compeer in our journalistic fraternity.

The first issue of the Cuyuga Chief in Wisconsin was dated at Fort Atkinson, Wednesday, October 15, 1856; but the name was soon changed to Wisconsin Chief, and so it stands to this day. The paper has never enjoyed the repute and sucess in this State that it did in New York, though kept up with the same vigor and abiltiy; many and various circumstances conspired to this result; but it is not my purpose or province now to meddle with matters which it were at once painful and useless to recall. Suffice to say, the paper and the publishers suffered great pecuniary loss by their removal West, and they have from that time to this labored under heavy, wearying, discouraging load of embarrassment, that would long ago have crushed out the last ray of hope from hearts less stout in the championship of their righteous cause.

At the annual session for the 1863 of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars, the Wisconsin Chief was voted to be the official organ of the Order in Wisconsin. The vote was renewed in 1864 and 1865--and so it stands at this day.

I have now passed over, in this hurried and imperfect manner, the main points of note in the personal history as a public man of our worthy friend and brother.

And is now remains for me to speak more particularly of his general character.; his peculiar talents and idiosyncracies, and his special gisfts of genius as an orator, a story wirter, and editor, and a sterling apostle of reform.

General Character.

In the early part of 1852, Mr. Brown passed an examination at the Phrenological rooms of Messrs. Fowler & Wells, in New York City, and received a Chart of his character, as indicated by the rules and principals of Phrenology. On looking over this document, written more than fourteen years ago, I find it to correspond very closely with the general character of the man as I have known him personally, or by reputation, or in his speeches and writings, and shall therefore quote freely from it. The very first sentence in the Chart says;

"Under favorable circumstances your body would be able to sustain your brain; but in a pruely mental occupation, your body would become deprived of its power and vital force."

And it is a painful remembrance among his friends, that for ten or twelve years past he has constantly suffered from a sense of weariness--always tired, so tired, --and finally passed away withut any special desease, but simply worn out--his life forces exhausted by unremitting mental toil. But agian I quote:

"You should be known for four or five leading traits of charachter; one is uncommon Firmness, which gives a desire to carry out what you begin, and makes yu cling to it until you effect your purpose;--another is prudence and watchfulness;--another is combative disposition--desire to be on the opposite side; smooth water would not please you. You began life with but little Self-Esteem--quite too little; but I think it is improving. you often feel so bashful you can hardly speak, though you may have the consciousness that you know as much as other men. You should be known for love of wit and the ridiculous, and the power of sacasm; and for your knowledge of human character, with a desire to understand and develop mind and character; hence you would make a very good story writer. But you would draw your matter from reflection and reason rather than from observation--give a picture of your own mind rather than of the outer world. You have a better memory of of ideas than of facts; you do not take enought notice of the active world around you to classifly facts and get them linked together and make them historically correct; You can make facts, and weave in supposed circumstances, and make a consistent story; but you have much more to do with dieas than facts."

Those who are in anywise famliar with his stories will at onced recognize the correctness of this sketch; and iscover in his large combativeness the source ofhtose almost inevitable scenes of savagery and teror, oozy with bllod, and black with horrible deaths, whcih he so delighted and excelled in portraying. And again;

"Language is well developed, and when warmed up you are quite fluent in conversation. If confined to statistics, with nothing to excite you, you would be a dry speaker. A subject in whcih your faculties work freeely arrouse such a class of energies as to make you eloquent.

You have children; you love home; and you have a strong love for friends; but you are so particular in the selection of your friends that very few will answer your purpose. You would review a whole regiment before you could select your staff.

"If you were a lawyer you would sometimes make a splendid effort, and sometimes make a failure; you must be in just such circumstances to call you out, --and the subject must be a matter of some consequence, and either a matter of ridicule or Benevolence on which you are to gain a victory.

You believe but little in the dogmatiic doctrines of men, yet you ahve a high reverence for things sacred, and for the center of the them--the Great Creator.

Your Casualty and Comparison are both decidedly large; you are a narual reasoner, and are stgrongly disposed to inquire into the philosophy of subjects. Had you more perceptivemess you would be more practiced. In business or in literature you should be coupled with those who have more practical talent."

Mr. Brown's social nature was warm, generous and free, among those with whom he was on terms of friendly intimacy; but he had no disposition to squander his energies with promiscuous acquaintance-making. His mother was the one dear idol of his strong affection, and his heart yearned to her with inexpressible love to his latest hour. A subtle and mysterious bond of the spirit consciously linked them, as only mother and son of noblest nature can feel earch other's living ministry of love. And when he became himself a husband and a father, he was no less idolatrous of the jewels in that new made family shrine. Home was ever to his heart the cherished ideal and synonym of Heaven.

His temperament was of the fine, exquisite, enthusiastic quality, ---susceptable, to a fault, and keenly capable of the most transcendent enjoyment or the most excruciating agony. And from the wild blossoming and fruitage of these extremes of the luxurieant life within himself, he gathered the strange, weird weapons of his power as an orator and a writer; he was unquestionably brilliant, original and impressive in both characters. He was in great measure one of those men who are "in the world, yet not of the world." The ideal life, within his own radiant world of mind, was more of living reality to him than all the pomp and bustle and circumstance of outward things. His philosophy was of the abstract rather thatn the concrete; he was an idealist rather than a materialist. But he stoutly and steadfastly drove his idealism to logical results, as a tangible, material power in the land. When the crucible of his brain had smelted a golden or silver thought, he hatened to barb it with flinty steel, and try its temper gainst some giant wrong of the ages and the age. And he recked not of party or power, of Church or State, if they stood, or seemed to stand, in the vantage ground to shield the monster iniquity, but grasped his trusty lance with all the more vigor and lusty relish of the tilt, as having found a foe waorhty of his knightliest thrust and sternest grapple, to wrench the victory out of the very jaws of fate.



Term: Brown, Thurlow Weed 1819 - 1866
Definition: temperance editor, author, b. Preston, N.Y. He moved with his family to Sterling, N.Y., in 1839 where he began temperance work. In 1849 he established the successful temperance paper, Cayuga Chief, at Auburn, N.Y. He also published two books on the subject, Temperance Tales (1853) and Minnie Hermon (1854). In 1854 he moved to Hebron, Wis., for his health. Two years later he moved the Cayuga Chief to Fort Atkinson, and in 1857 renamed it the Wisconsin Chief, adding antislavery agitation to his temperance crusade. His paper was a financial failure in Wisconsin, but more than any man, he revived the flagging Wisconsin temperance movement. His writing and oratory were vehement, sarcastic, and vitriolic. Proc. Wis. Editorial Assoc., 1866 (1866), pp. 23-27, 1867 (1868), pp. 113-120; Milwaukee Sentinel, May 7, 1866.
[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]

The dedication of one of his books, Minnie Hermon, was to his Father...as follows:

"To Our Father, whose precept and example have ever guided us to virtue, temperance and honor, this volume is affectionately dedicated. In his green old age, may he witness the passing away of that malign shadow which rested so gloomily upon his childhood."

Thurlow married Alward Helen E. on 06 Jun 1849 in Venice, Cayuga County, NY. Helen was born in 1831; died in 1890 in "The Oaks", Near the Village of Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., WI; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

EMMA BROWN
EMMA BROWN brought the firstpower press and the Cayuga Chief, a temperance paper, to Wisconsin fromupstate New York in 1856. She joined her brother, Thurlow Weed Brown, inFort Atkinson, and published the Wisconsin Chief, until 1889. It becamethe nation's longest- lasting temperance sheet.
Thurlow, a prominent temperance lecturer and author on the national lecturecircuit, sent his speeches and press reviews to Emma for publication. Emma,trained as a typesetter and compositor, ran the production side of the business,writing copy, setting type, selling ads and balancing the books. It wasnot until Thurlow's death in 1866 that Emma's role as the Chief's real editorbecame public.

Term: Brown, Emma, 1827-1889
Definition:
Co-founder of the journal "Wisconsin Chief" and the first successful woman editor and publisher in Wisconsin; her paper supported the temperance movement and women's suffrage. View more information elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org.
View newspaper clippings at Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles .
[Source: McBride, Genevieve G. On Wisconsin women. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993)]

The momentum for women's rights in the decades after the war was kept alive largely through the labors of Emma Brown (1827-1889). She was the first successful woman editor and publisher in Wisconsin, producing the weekly paper "Wisconsin Chief" out of her office in Fort Atkinson . She had started the paper in 1849 in new York, and it became the country's longest-running temperance paper. In its pages she supported not only the temperance movement but also women's suffrage, exposed harsh conditions in factories and prisons, and argued passionately for women's roles in public life. She produced the weekly paper almost singlehandedly from 1866 to 1889.

Notes:

Sarah died just six days after the death of her husband, Henry Beard. This information was taken from the family bible owned by Margelia Chubb, grandmother of D. Michael Beard of Arlington, TX.

She raised her sister, Justina's son Cornelius (Nealy). Justina knew she was dying and gave her son to Sarah to raise.

Sarah married Beard Henry H. on 12 Apr 1855 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Henry was born on 09 Dec 1825 in Yates County, NY; died on 26 Feb 1898 in Torrey, Yates Co., NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bertha and her little sister, Emily died within 13 days of each other. Both were small children at the time of their deaths.

Notes:

Emily and her older sister, Bertha died within 13 days of each other. Both were very small children when they died.

Margaret married Gelder William V. on 07 Nov 1868 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. William was born on 06 Sep 1840 in Torrey, Long Point, Yates Co., NY; died on 07 Nov 1904; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Purchase 1, Penn Yan, Yates County, Ny. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1880, Richard's mother, Emily B. King Brown was living in his household according to the census report. He was a farmer in the area.
At some point, Richard and his wife moved to Auburn, Cuyuga County, NY. Both are buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Ridgeland Section, plot 183.

Richard married Doty Mary Carrie on 11 Dec 1879. Mary was born in Feb 1846 in Galion, Crawford County, OH; died on 23 Jan 1923 in Auburn, Cayuga Co., NY; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Ridgeland Section, plot 183, Auburn, Cuyuga County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Justina died at age 30 years, 19 days, perhaps from complications of pregnancy. She gave her son, Nealy, (Cornelius) who was just nine days old when she died, to her sister, Sarah (Mrs. Henry Beard) to raise. This is according to the family bible in the possession of Margelia Chubb.

Justina is buried in the Wright Brown, Sr. cemetery plot in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates County, NY.


December 20th 1848. Sophiah Brown daughter of Wright Brown and Emily Brown was born.

Justina married Elting Louis B. on 25 Jul 1877 in Torrey, Yates Co., NY. Louis was born on 23 Aug 1833 in Conquest Cayuga County, NY; died on 11 Mar 1898 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1850, Benton, Yates Co., census, Charles was eleven years old and living with his father, Luther and stepmother, Patience. His father was a lawyer.

1860 census for Torrey, Yates Co., Charles is listed as a clerk and was 17 years old.

1870, also in Torrey, Charles, age 27, was still living with his father, a retired lawyer, and a housekeeper. He was the local postmaster.

The 1880 Federal Census for Milo, Yates County, NY, it lists Charles as a Boot and shoe dealer. He is 36 years old, married to Frances, age 31 and had daughter, Eva M., age 7, who suffers from paralysis.

1900 census for Penn Yan, Yates co., Charles was 56 years old, married 28 years to Frances E., age 50. The had only one child, Mary E., age 27 and single, living at home with her parents.

1910, census for Penn Yan, Charles is 66 years old, married 37 years to Frances E., age 61, with one child, Eva, age 37 years, single and still living at home with both parents.

1920 census for Penn Yan, Charles is 76 yrs., and works as a tax collector of the town of Penn Yan in the Town office. Frances is 61 yrs old. and daughter, Eva is 37 and single, living with her parents. He died sometime before the census in the 1930.

Charles married Seeley Frances E. on 18 Oct 1871 in Penn Yan, Yates County, NY. Frances was born on 16 Nov 1849 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]