U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown, Edward S. (b. 1869) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Page 771, EDWARD S. BROWN. The sawmills of Edward S. Brown, two extensive plans for manufacturing lumber, are on an extensive tract of woodland, about seventeen hundred acres in all, situated between Gladesville and Reedsville. About forty men are given employment at these two mills, and about 2,000,000 feet of lumber are produced annually. Mr. Brown is a son of Buckner and Jane Freeburn Brown and was born July 16, 1869. His father was a justice of the peace for many years and a soldier in the Civil War. He was raised a farmer. The homestead was the old Fairfax place, where the subject of this sketch spent the first twenty years of his life. In the spring of 1898 he bought the Zinn property, where he lives now, a farm consisting of some two hundred acres. Mr. Brown was married November 13, 1895, to Miss Nannie Welton, the daughter of Isaac Welton, and bought his residence property two years afterward of George C. Sturgiss. In 1905 he first began operating the store which is still run in connection with this lumber business. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown are as follows: (1) Argyle, born August 26, 1896; (2) Hoy, June 12, 1898; (3) Opal, April 24, 1900; (4) Van, March 5, 1902; (5) Lillian, October 16, 1904; (6) Rex, November 18, 1906; (7) Alma, May 30, 1908; (8) Max, July 8, 1910. Mr. Brown has been a very successful business man from the start He began business for himself without a dollar when twenty years of age, and besides his timber land he owns some 500 acres of cleared land besides. --------------------------------------------------------------------- (wife of Edward S. Brown) From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #'59-002425 FULL-NAME: Nannie Kathrine Brown BIRTH-DATE: May 16, 1872 BIRTH-PLACE: Buckhannon, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: February 4, 1959 DEATH-PLACE: Route #1, Reedsville, Preston County, WV USUAL-RESIDENE: Route #1, Reedsville, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: Isaac Welton MOTHER: Mary Reger CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Myocardial infarction / generalized arteriosclerosis INFORMANT: Mrs. Charles E. Dixon, (of Reedsville, W.Va.) BURIAL: Reedsville Cemetery, Reedsville, W.Va --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------