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    JOHN W. BROWN

    JOHN W. BROWN, a well known agriculturist of Brown Township, Miami County, Ohio, is engaged in farming the home place of fifty-five acres and an additional tract of fifty acres, located about one mile west of his home, and he owns both farms. He was born in Shelby County, Ohio, and is a son of Augustus S. and Catherine C. (Wilson) Brown.

    Augustus S. Brown was born in Kentucky in 1814, and when young came to Miami County, Ohio. He lived with an uncle for a time and subsequently moved to Shelby County, where he lived until two years after the birth of the subject of this record. He then returned to Miami County and located upon the farm in Brown Township, where he lived until his death in 1855. He married Catherine C. Wilson, whose father lived at Troy and served some years on the Bench. They had the following children: Letitia, deceased; Elizabeth; William Perry, deceased; Thomas, deceased; Martha, deceased; Lucinda: Lydia; Caroline; Virginia; and John W.

    John W. Brown was two years of age when his parents moved from Shelby County to the farm on which he now lives, and with the exception of two years spent on a farm northeast of here, has since lived on this place. He attended the district schools and early in life turned his attention to farming. He bought out the other heirs to the home place and in 1907 purchased his farm of fifty acres, located one mile west. He erected the residence in which he lives, and the good barn which was on the place, he later moved to its present location, and has made many other important improvements. He is a substantial and progressive citizen, and is held in high esteem by his fellow men. Mr. Brown was united in marriage with Mary S. Duer, a daughter of William H. Duer, of Miami County. Religiously, they are members of the Baptist Church at Lena. He is a Democrat in politics, and is deeply interested in the success of the principles of that party.

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