Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brown, John T. April 19, 1839 - 
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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

J. T. BROWN, a veteran of the Civil War, who has been living in retirement
since May 1st, 1909, after an active career in the business world, was for 44
years identified with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has been a
resident of Blair County, Pa., since 1852. He was born April 9, 1839, in
Fayette County, Pa., and is a son of Alexander and Mary (Lafferty) Brown, and
is of Scotch-Irish descent. His parents were natives of Westmoreland County,
Pa., but resided for a time in Fayette County, Pa., and subsequently came to
Blair County, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Of the seven
sons and three daughters born to them but one still survives, namely, J. T.
Brown, the subject of this record.
     J. T. Brown was reared in Westmoreland County, Pa., and in 1852 came to
Blair County and was for a year employed in the furnaces at Blair Furnace. He
then lived in various parts of the county, but principally in Logan township.
and in 1865 entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, working
first in the car building department. He was then for 15 years employed as a
foreman in the car building department but since May 1, 1909, has been living
in retirement.
     On April 18, 1861, at President Lincoln's first call for troops, Mr.
Brown enlisted with Company B. and the 3rd Pa. Vol. Inf. for three months,
and at the end of that time enlisted with Company F, 76th Pa. Vol. Inf. for
three years and veteranized with that company. On July 11, 1863, he was
seriously wounded, receiving a gun shot wound through both thighs at Fort
Wagner, S.C. and was taken prisoner. He remained in the hospital some time
and was first confined at Charleston, S.C., then removed to Columbia, and was
also taken to Libby Prison and Belle Isle for a time, and was finally parolled
and taken to his own lines. At City Point his shoulder was broken by a shell
and he was confined to the hospital boat on the James River. His service was
principally in the army of the James in the department of the south. He was
then sent to Richmond, where he was a member of the Tenth Corps until that
corps was reduced to such an extent that it was consolidated with the
Eighteenth Corps, and was mustered out in May, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pa.
     On September 17, 1868, Mr. Brown married Sarah Jane Shotts, who was born
in Logan township, Blair County, Pa., a daughter of Philip and Katie (Mullen)
Shotts, who were well known agriculturists of the county. Of their union were
born the following children: James A., who lives adjoining his father, married
Annie Smith and has two children, Joseph Clare; and Margaret; Harry, died aged
11 years; Elmer Ellsworth; Joseph Ambrose, lives adjoining his father, and is
employed in the shops. He married Bertha Grove, and has three daughters,
Kathryn; Ethel and Minnie and one son Clyde; Cordella M., married John R.
Johnson of Dubois, Clearfield County, Pa.; Margaret; and Catherine.
     Mr. Brown is a member of the G.A.R. Post No. 468, the Union Veterans
Legion, the I.O.O.F., the I.O.R.M. and the Knights of Malta. In politics he
is a radical Republican, and has served in various local offices, having been
a member of the school board a number of years, auditor of the township one
term, and also jury commissioner one term. He and his estimable wife are
members of the Fifth Avenue M. E. Church of Altoona. 

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