Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brown, John I. August 18, 1849 - 
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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

JOHN I. BROWN, proprietor of the Roaring Spring Foundry and Machine Shop and
manufacturer of and dealer in all kinds of machinery, castings, etc., has
been in business at Roaring Spring, Pa., since 1904. Mr. Brown was born in
South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pa., August 18, 1849, and is a son
of David F. Brown, who was formerly a well known and respected resident of
Bedford County, where he died in 1861.
     John I. Brown was ten years old when his father died and he was already
motherless and the oldest of a family of five children. Orphanage is
particularly sad when children are young and John I. Brown found the world a
very different place than it would have been had conditions been otherwise.
He was, however, a sensible, ambitious boy, with industrious habits and
strong moral leanings, and when he left school at the age of fifteen years,
it was to immediately enter upon an apprenticeship to a trade. Without
interruption he served out his four years in Keagy's foundry, near Woodbury,
and after that worked as a journeyman through Indiana, Ohio and Missouri. In
1873 he went into business for himself at the foundry where he had learned
his trade and continued until 1903, when he sold out and spent about a year
looking around for a satisfactory location, visiting points in Ohio and
Indiana as well as Pennsylvania. In 1904 he came to Roaring Spring, investing
here and becoming one of the settled residents. Mr. Brown is a very capable
man in his line of business and is a practical moulder, woodworker and
blacksmith, and his enterprise at Roaring Spring is very prosperous. He is a
Republican in politics and during his period of residence at Woodbury, Pa.,
he served two terms as burgess and was also a valued member of the council.
     Mr. Brown was married in 1878, to Miss Geneva Allen of Woodbury, who is
a daughter of the late Christian Allen, formerly one of the leading citizens
of that borough.

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