History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
669.

DANIEL H. BROWN was born eight miles south of Shelbyville, Shelby Co.,
Ky., April 24, 1840.  His parents were William and Elizabeth (Meeks)
Brown.  His father was born near Richmond, Va., in 1799.  He was but
twelve years old when he came with his parents to Shelby County, Ky.,
where he was married.  He was a rope and bag manufacturer, manufacturing
from hemp, making rope and bagging for cotton bales.  He also followed
farming.  He was a Mason.  His mother was a member of the Baptist
church.  There was a family of seven children.  Daniel was the third son
and sixth child.  He remained on the old homestead farm in Shelby County
until twenty-four years of age when he went to Illinois; located in
Clinton where he traded in stock two years, then went to Decatur, Ill.,
and clerked in the county clerk's office until June, 1866.  He then
returned to Shelby County, Ky., and in the fall of 1867 came to Daviess
County; located on a farm in Masonville Precinct and has farmed in this
precinct ever since.  Mr. Brown married Lulie Stateler, Sept. 21, 1875. 
She was born five miles east of Hartford, Ohio Co., Ky., and was a
daughter of Ignatius P. and Senia (Stevens) Stateler, natives of Ohio
County, Ky.  They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
They had a family of nine children.  Mr. Daniel H. Brown is a Mason and
is a member of John J. Daveiss [sic] Lodge, No. 389, at Sugar Grove
church.  In politics he is a Democrat.  Mrs. Brown's grandfather,
Stephen Stateler, came to Kentucky at a very early date and was one of
the pioneers and hunters of Daniel Boone's time.  He came to Owensboro
when there were but three houses.  It was then called Yellow Banks.  He
located near the fort at Hartford, Ohio County, and was a prominent man
of his time and held various offices.  Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one
daughter--Tassa, born Nov. 22, 1879.

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