Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.

LAWSON E. BROWN was born in Clark County, Ky., March 26, 1818, to 
William W. and Sarah (Staples) Brown, natives of Virginia.  His grandfather,
Swanson Brown, came from Scotland, served as a soldier eight years in the
French and Revolutionary wars; was at Braddock's defeat, and lived to be
one hundred and one years of age.  On the maternal side Mr. Brown is of
Scotch-Irish extraction.  When a child he was taken from Clark to Bracken
County, and at fifteen years of age was apprenticed, at Newport, Ky., and
served three years in learning carpentering.  He then went to Mason County
and erected the first house at Sardis; in 1842 he went to Covington, and
abandoned his trade in 1844 for the study of dentistry.  He moved to Shelby
County in 1846, and to Eminence, Henry County, in April, 1851, being the
first person to settle in the last named place.  He was married January 7,
1841, to Miss Mary Watson, of Mason County, who died November 25, 1847,
the mother of three children: Sarah J., Liddie Ann and Mollie.  January 14,
1851, Mr. Brown married Miss Carrie O. Forbes, a native of Henry County and
daughter of B. M. and Mary (Neal) Forbes, born respectively in Henry and
Jessamine Counties, and to this union have been born two children:
W. Curtis and Florence.  Since the age of twenty-one the Doctor has been a
Free Mason and an Odd Fellow, and he is also a member of the Baptist
Church.  He is remarkably well preserved, has never been ill, and has never
had a tooth extracted.  He has been a member of the board of trustees of
his town for twenty-seven years, has been a member of the Eminence Cemetery
Board for twenty-three years, and chairman of the supervising committee
during all that time, and still is in both boards.  He was a member of the
board of directors of the Eminence Agricultural Fair for twenty-one years,
of the Shelby County Agricultural Fair directors for twelve years, and of
the agricultural association of the State for seven years--part of this
time in all of the three.  He was identified with a company of business men
of his vicinity, engaged in importing improved cattle, sheep and swine from
abroad, and was the principal purchasing member, making thirty trips to the
Dominion of Canada for the purpose of selecting, buying and bringing such
stock to the State, and the impression of these importations is now seen in
the marked degree of improvement in the live stock of his own and adjoining
counties.

Brown Staples Watson Neal Forbes
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Clark-KY Bracken-KY Newport-Campbell-KY Mason-KY Jessamine-KY
VA Scotland

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