Bios: HENRY V. BROWN: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    HENRY V. BROWN,
    
    [p. 220] a market gardener of Moravia village, Taylor township, and
  well-known to many residents of New Castle and Mahoningtown to whom he sells
  garden produce, was born near Tarrentum, Allegheny Co., Nov. 22, 1859, and is
  a son of Thomas J. and Susannah (Ow) Brown. Our subject's mother was born in
  Westmoreland Co., Pa., and was a daughter of Henry Ow, who married Elizabeth
  Catherine Good, a native of Westmoreland County, and a daughter of Isaac and
  Elizabeth Catherine (Munschar) Good. Henry Ow was a farmer throughout the
  most of his life, although he learned the blacksmith's trade in youth and
  followed it for a considerable length of time; he died at the age of
  seventy-five. He was a son of Herman Ow, a native of Germany, who was a local
  preacher of the Lutheran denomination, and lived to be eighty-four or
  eighty-five years old. Thomas J. Brown was born in Hulton, Allegheny Co.,
  Pa., and died in Moravia, January, 1890. He was in early life a coal-miner,
  but when the oil was struck in Pennsylvania, he became a well-driller, and
  was superintendent for Brewer, Watson & Co., and lived in Clarion, Ohio four
  years and a half. From there he moved to Moravia, where he bought
  twenty-three acres of land well adapted to gardening, to which he devoted the
  whole into a wonderfully high state of cultivation. During a part of the time
  when he was gardening, he was proprietor of a grocery store, which he at
  length closed out, as he saw he could not give justice to his gardening,
  while still engaged in other work. He was a son of Thomas Brown. To our
  subject's parents were born two children: Vincent M. of Allegheny County, and
  Henry V., the subject of this sketch.
    
    Our subject was still an infant, when his parents moved to Clarion, and he
  was still under the school age, when they returned to Lawrence County;
  consequently, his school education was all received in Moravia, and he grew
  up to the gardening business, helping his father. When he was twenty-one, he
  moved to Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, where he engaged in farming on
  shares for a year or two. On his return to Moravia he was in a store for
  about five years, and since 1888, has been engaged extensively in gardening,
  marketing his produce in New Castle, Mahoningtown and Ellwood City.
    
    He was joined in wedlock, in Shenango township, Feb. 25, 1886, to Mary H.
  Davis, daughter of James and Lavina (Iddings) Davis, the latter a daughter of
  Joseph and Hannah (Hoopes) Iddings. Hannah Hoopes was a daughter of Ezra and
  Ann (Hickman) Hoopes, and her great-grandfather came to America with William
  Penn, and from him received a square on Market Street, Philadelphia. Joseph
  Iddings was a son of James and Mary (Pierce) Iddings. James Davis, Mrs.
  Brown's father, was a son of Levi and Catherine (Van Horn) Davis. Three
  children have been born to our subject and his wife: Emma Frances; Jesse O.;
  and Leora. Our subject and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
  Mr. Brown is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, No.
  322, Moravia Council. He is a strong Prohibitionist, both upholding and
  supporting the party of that name by his vote and influence, and also
  endeavoring to extend and strengthen the temperance feeling by being an
  active member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, Supreme Council, No. 83,
  of Moravia. He is an honest, law-abiding, upright citizen, who will in nine
  cases out of ten be found on the side of truth and sound morality.