Biographical Sketch of

Aaron Brown

Transcribed by Sandra Boudrou for the Marquette Co WI Pages


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Page 719


Aaron Brown, deceased, was born in Oneida County, N. Y., in June, 1811, and was a son of Jonas Brown.  The 
family from which our subject is descended was founded in America by a Pilgrim of the Mayflower in 1620.  
His mother's maiden name was Bryant, and she was a cousin of William Cullen Bryant, one of America's most 
illustrious poets.
 
The subject of this sketch, on attaining his majority, chose milling as the trade which he wished to follow, 
and in Oneida County was at one time proprietor of two sawmills and a gristmill, and did an extensive business 
in that line.  He was married in his native county, when Miss Lucina Nichols became his wife, and unto them 
were born three children, two daughters and a son--Florence A., the eldest, is the wife of A. G. Cary, of 
Centralia, Wis.; James P. N. is engaged in the manufacture of pumps in Berlin, and is represented elsewhere 
in this volume; Lillie is the wife of Dr. D. Silliman, of Hudson, Wis.  The death of the mother occurred in 
Berlin, April 23, 1881.  Mr. Brown had been married prior to his marriage with Lucina Nichols-his first wife 
having been Miss Hannah Osborn, by whom he had one child, who died at the age of ten years.
 
Mr. Brown removed to Syracuse, N. Y., and in that city engaged in the manufacture of printing presses and piano 
plates until 1860, when he came to Wisconsin, settling in Kenosha, where he worked as a millwright and also 
engaged in the manufacture of the New York patent churn.  He continued to make his home in Kenosha until 1863, 
when he removed to Berlin and bought an interest in a factory where pumps and water tanks are manufactured, and 
where windmills were also sold.  His son afterward became his partner, and he continued business in that line 
until his death, which occurred Sept. 9, 1883.  He was well and favorably known in militia circles in Central 
New York.
 
Mr. Brown was reared under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but after his marriage attended the 
Baptist Church with his wife.  In politics, he was a Democrat prior to the War of the Rebellion, but at that 
time he allied himself with the party of the administration, and until his death remained a stanch Republican.  
He was a member of Odd Fellows society of Berlin, and was esteemed an upright, honorable man, and a worthy 
citizen, whose death proved a sad loss to the county and his many friends.






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