Brown County Biographies From "The Annals of Brown County", Grant Harrington, 1903
R. V. Brokaw.
R. V. Brokaw, proprietor of the
Family Drug Store was born in Middlebush, New Jersey, January 2, 1864.
He comes from French Huguenot
stock his ancestors settling in New
York and New Jersey in an early day.
In 1870 the family came to Paola,
Kansas and here he resided for thirteen years. In 1870 he went to work
for the Missouri Pacific Railway.
In 1881 he studied pharmacy at
Louisburg, Kansas and later went
into the drug business In the town of
Jetmore. In January 1888 he removed to Caldwell, where he continued in the
drug business, until 1889
when he went to Belle Plaine where
he continued the same business. In
September 1891 he came to Hiawatha entering the establishment of L.
R. Yates as prescription clerk. Here
he remained until a year ago when
he purchased the Family Drug Store
of R. D. McFadden. He is recognized
as one of the pushers of the community. He is an active worker in
the Knights of Pythias Lodge and is
at the present time Deputy Grand
Chancellor for the Eleventh District.
He Is also an active and influential
member of the Woodmen fraternity.
In politics he is a Republican and
has served on the county central
committee and was secretary of the
committee for two years. Mr. Brokaw was married December 29, 1887
to Miss Luella Parker. They have
one child, a daughter.
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