Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-John W. Brown
Portrait and Biographical
Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
JOHN W. BROWN resides on section 18,
Sherman Township, Dickinson County. He
was born in Carroll County, Md., April 16,
1852. His father was George W. H. A.
Brown, and his mother was Elizabeth E. (Gummel)
Brown, both natives of Carroll County, Md.
They removed from there to York County, Pa.,
where they resided until the death of the father,
September 10, 1891. Our subject was the fourth
in their family of seven children, and when quite
young removed with his parents to Pennsylvania,
where he passed his boyhood on the farm and at
tended the common schools of the vicinity. He
remained with his father until 1874, when he
rented a farm in Carroll County, Md., thus starting
in life on his own account. Here he lived for
about one year and then returned to Pennsylvania,
where he rented a farm in Adams County, which
he operated for two years. At the end of that
time he purchased a farm one mile north of Gettysburg,
Pa., and lived there for the succeeding seven
years.
In the spring of 1886, Mr. Brown sold his Pennsylvania
farm and first located in Dickinson
County, and afterward removed to Clay, Kan.,
where he lived four years. In the spring of 1891,
he returned to Dickinson County and finally settled
in Sherman Township, where he owns a farm
of one hundred and sixty acres. Since then he
has given his undivided attention to agricultural
pursuits, and his well-kept and well-planned farm
bears the marks of his good management and industry.
Mr. Brown was united in marriage June 3, 1873,
to Eleranda A. J. Rohrbaugh, in Hanover, Pa.
She is the daughter of George and Cassie (Keller)
Rohrbaugh, born in York County, Pa., where the
father's death occurred. Mrs. Brown was their
only child, and she was born on the 19th of April,
1856, in York County, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Brown
have a family of eight children: Harvey E., Oliver
G., Ira S., Mervin C, Ova N., Jeremiah M.,
John E. and Tempest T. Though one of the later
arrivals in this county, Mr. Brown has won the
respect of all his acquaintances, and he is fast developing
his farm to a well-cultivated and model
homestead.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP