Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Brown, John Lejin December 23, 1863 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

JOHN LEJIN BROWN, son of Jacob Jennings and Amanda Elizabeth 
(Saxton) Brown, was born December 23, 1863, on a farm that 
had been in the Brown family for several generations, and 
had constituted their home. It was located in Middletown 
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He attended public 
school, and until his eighteenth year pursued his studies. 
He then went to Philadelphia and engaged with William King & 
Company, wholesale and importing grocers, with whom he was 
employed for a period of eight years. He then engaged as 
traveling salesman for four years.

In the meantime he married, November 14, 1892, Rachel 
Swayne, daughter of Thomas B. and Rosa (Stackhouse) Headley, 
farmers, of Bristol, Bucks county. He settled at Woodbourne, 
in that county, remaining there a year after his marriage, 
and erecting a dwelling for a home. His career as commercial 
traveler had not fitted him, however, to enjoy the quiet and 
monotony of rural life. He therefore decided to engage in 
business, and accordingly leased the general store at 
Penllyn, the property of the Clark Wharton estate, at which 
place he has established himself and enjoys an extensive 
patronage from residents of the surrounding country. Besides 
keeping a general store, Mr. Brown is the postmaster at 
Penllyn, and is much interested in local affairs. He has 
been a manager of the Farmers' Mutual Live Stock Association 
of Montgomery county since 1901. In politics Mr. Brown is a 
Republican, has frequently served as a delegate to county 
conventions, and is a member of the board of school 
directors of Lower Gwynedd. Mr. and Mrs. Brown affiliate 
with the Society of Friends, and formerly attended Langhorne 
Meeting at Langhorne, Bucks county.

Jacob Jennings Brown (father), son of Samuel Brown, was born 
on the Brown homestead, in Bucks county, working on the home 
farm in the intervals of home study. His children: Wollston, 
married Ida, daughter of William Davis, contractor, of 
Philadelphia; George Fremont, married Dora Subers, of Lower 
Makefield township, and resides at Bristol; William Saxton, 
married Elizabeth Johnson, of Falls township, Bucks county, 
Pennsylvania, and resides on the homestead; Harry Harrison, 
married Florence Worthington, daughter of Benjamin F. 
Worthington, a noted hotel proprietor; Mary, married George 
Douglass, of Hulmeville, Bucks county; John L., subject of 
this sketch.

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