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aylaj)ne»enirs.asigece-ib-indthe.intrmb a ses »ws .50 )ok eas tier er. ersvs:•st,$2.50$3ns-ersbs.oreve-ofE.»hnredH.ck.th.ce:es;Td,aton-»nsrillbea-ledda-ionus-ISS.totheich.redinionoreryeirthearid.ar.isi-m.ar-Rii.ro-.ellar-pf.theANDREW D. BROWN.Andrew D. Brown, aged 92 years, died at his home in Minneapolis of old age. Monday morning, May 1, 1911. Funeral will be held at the Baptist church in Brownsdale, Thursday afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. C. D. Belden of Austin officiating. Andrew' D. Brown was born in North Stonington. Conn. He was a lad of a restless disposition which lured him away from the quiet scenes of New England farm life. At the age of 18 years, he shipped on a sailing vessel at Stonington and for the next fourteen years steadily followed the sea. He first went on a two years whaling voyage to Beh-ri'ne sea. then visited various ports in South America, Europe and Asia and was finally made master of a ship sailing to the East Indies. He went around the cape of Good Hope once and around Cape Horn twice. In the spring of 184 9 he left New York on a sailing vessel bound for San Francisco with 150 passengers bound for the new gold fields, taking 120 days on this voyage around the Horn. He remained in California until the spring of 1854, where he boated and mined with profit. He returned to Connecticut in '54 and farmed there for two years, during which time he was married to Miss Adeline Portlo of Deerfield. Mass. In May. 1 850, he came with his.brother, Hosmer to Red Rock in Mower county. locating where the present village of Brownsdale is. In June Mr. Brown and his brother put in a steam sawmill near the York residence and worked up much lumber for the early settlers. In the spring of .1857 they completed the Browns-daie hotel which was for years a great resort for travelers. In the Indian scare of 1861 several hundred refugees from New Ulm and Spirit Lake gathered in Brownsdale to escape the threatened massacres. For two years during the civil war. Mr. Brown was in the south raising cotton, hiring 150 negroes from the Freed men's bureau. He assisted in the incorporation of the village of Brownsdale in 1S76 and was its first justice of peace. At one time he was postmaster. He was for many years extensively engaged in farming,and was Interested in milling. He was an accurate civil engineer and laid out many of the tracts of land in early years. For his second wife he married Miss Melissa Bacon of Brownsdale. They went to Nebraska and took up a large tract of land in 1883 returning to Brownsdale in May, 1 889. They built a new residence there and lived there until a few years ago whfn they moved to Minneapolis. Four children survive, two by his first wife and two by his second wife. The widow- also survives. Mr. Brown was a man who was wonderfully entertaining in his conversation. He had a laree fund of information obtained in all parts of the world and withall he had a practical judgment of matters that niadohim areal philosopher. Hecarne to this vicinity when all was wild prairie and shared largely in its early development. From being a roving ground for Indians and trappers he lived to see this county one of the most prosperous and improved of any In the northwest. He retained his faculties remarkably until well advanced in years. He was a worthy specimen of the sturdy New England stock that has done so much for the development of the great west.
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Austin Mower County Transcript
Austin, Minnesota, US
Wed, May 03, 1911
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