Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Albert M. September 20, 1854 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

ALBERT M. BROWN, president of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of
Tyrone and largely interested in the lumber business, was born in his
father's house along Brush Mountain, between Altoona and Hollidaysburg, Pa.,
September 20, 1854, and is a son of William H. and Rebecca (Yon) Brown.
     William H. Brown was born in Blair County, Pa., in 1828, and died in
November, 1904, aged seventy-six years. For many years he was engaged in the
lumber business and always resided in his native county. His parents were
Samuel and Mary (Hay) Brown. The widow of William H. Brown still survives.
She was born October 25, 1828. Six children were born to them, namely: Samuel
S., who lives at Milroy, Mifflin County; Crawford I., who is deceased; Mary
C., who died in the fall of 1909, was the wife of Hiram Baker; Albert M.;
Flora, who is the widow of J. L. Reifsnider; and Savanah, who is the wife of
Andrew Rodgers, of Lewiston, Pa.
     Albert M. Brown attended the public schools until old enough to give his
father material assistance in business and he was identified with him in the
timber industry in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pa., and in West Virginia,
until 1888. In 1889 he started in business in lumbering on a small scale. In
1890 he started in Center County, operating Huntingdon, Center, and West
Virginia, for 20 years. He is now living in Tyrone and operating in
Huntingdon County, Pa., and Fulton County, Pa. He has been one of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's heaviest shippers for 20 years. On November
16, 1902, he organized and started the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of
Tyrone, serving at first as vice president and later accepting the presidency.
He is also a man of public spirit and has always been willing to look
favorably on substantial business enterprises by which his city might be
improved. In connection with other capitalists he erected a trolley line
between Temple and Belton, Tex., where large oil concerns are interested. Mr.
Brown owns a large farm in Mifflin County and an equally valuable one in
Huntingdon County and for a number of years has been a large dealer in
livestock. He has been very successful in his many undertakings and in the
business world his name stands also for personal integrity.
     In 1884 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Dora Mitchell, of Mifflin County,
Pa., and they have had three sons born to them: James Blaine, who resides on
his father's farm in Huntingdon County, married Mary Leech; William D., who
was a graduate of Susquehanna University and then was employed in his
father's bank until his lamented death in July, 1905, when but nineteen years
of age and Benjamin Harrison, who was educated at Susquehanna University, and
is now employed in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
married Bessie Myers and they have one daughter, Marion. Mr. Brown and family
belong to the Lutheran Church at Gatesburg, Center County. In politics he is a
Republican but not an unduly active one. He is, however, widely known in
Masonry and is also an Odd Fellow, in the latter organization belonging to
Milroy Lodge, No. 213, of Milroy, Pa. He belongs to Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, I.
and A.M., Tyrone, Pa.; Mountain Royal Arch Chapter, No. 189, Altoona: Mountain
Commandery, No. 10, Altoona; Harrisburg Consistory, Harrisburg; and Jaffa
Temple, Altoona.

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