Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. Cass County. CHARLES C. BROWN, drugs and hardware; Chandlerville; was born near Cleveland, O., Dec. 22, 1846, to O.P. and Lydia B. (Beebe) Brown; born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1826, and when a child was taken to the Western Reserve, O., by his parents, where, after he grew to manhood, became a prominent lawyer and judge of Portage County; was a member of the Legislature for several terms, and State Senator, and enlisted in Seventh Ohio Regiment, but died soon after the breaking out of the war. Gen. J.A. Garfield was one of his law students, and he nominated the future President to his first political office. His death occurred in 1862. His wife, the mother of our subject, was born in Chardon, O., in 1828, and died in 1862; she was the mother of three children, of whom Chas. C. was the oldest son. In 1861 he went to Cleveland, and engaged as clerk in wholesale drug business for about five years, with the exception of eleven months, while he was in the war-150th Ohio Regiment, Cleveland Grays, Company C. In 1866 he commenced in the mercantile business in Warren, Ohio. In 1867 he removed to Chandlerville, Cass County, where he engaged as clerk in different drug stores. In 1868 he started a dry goods, grain and grocery business in Chandlerville. In 1873 he started in the drug business with Mr. Ira N. Read, where he has since remained, engaged extensively in the drug business, also handling a large stock of hardware. He has been a member of the Town Board nearly all the time since he came to the county, and has filled other town offices. Oct. 12, 1881, he married Miss Anna Saunders, a native of DeWitt County, Iowa; was born in 1854; is a member of A.F. and A.M., and has served as Master; is a Republican, and has been several times Chairman of the Central Committee. Brown Beebe Garfield Read Saunders = OH NY Portage-OH DeWitt-IA