Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical Authors: J H Herrick; John Paul Jones; Weston A. Goodspeed; R H Herrick Published: Chicago, F A Battey & Co., 1882 =========================================================================== BROWN, Samuel - Greenfield Township =========================================================================== Samuel Brown was a native of Westchester, N.Y., where his parents, Samuel and Susan Brown, died. They were farmers and natives of New York. Samuel Brown was reared in the place of his birth, and when not in school aided his parents. December 31, 1804, he was married to Miss Sarah Kniffin, in Westchester, where they lived about eleven years with Mr. Brown's parents; then removed to Cayuga County, N.Y., thence to Richland County, Ohio, coming to Indiana and locating, in 1833, on the farm in this township, where they died. Mrs. Brown and her parents, Benjamin and Charity Kniffin, were natives of New York; the former died in Cayuga County, N.Y., and the latter in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Brown, before his death, had accumulated 720 acres of land that lies near the center of English Prairie. He was a member of the Presbyterian and his wife of the Methodist Church, and they were parents of seven children, viz.; Lama, who is married and resides in Iowa; Sarah A. Nathan, deceased; Loretta; Caroline; Susan, married and a resident of this township, and Maria L., deceased; the three sisters, Sarah, Loretta and Caroline, are single, and live together on the home farm, 180 acres of which, since the death of their parents, they have successfully managed up to the present time. ===========================================================================