Bios: HON. WILLIAM M. BROWN 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      HON. WILLIAM M. BROWN,
  
  William M. Brown[p. 421] who formerly occupied the distinguished
  position of Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, and during
  1897, 1898 and 1899 was a prominent member of the Pennsylvania State
  Senate, is a resident of New Castle and is one in whom his fellow
  citizens take justifiable pride. He was born at Greenville, Mercer
  County, Pennsylvania in 1850, one of a family of three children born to
  his parents, who were Van Swearingen and Lydia J. Brown.
  
  William M. Brown attended several of the leading institutions of
  learning at New Castle, where he completed both a literary and
  commercial course, and then entered upon the study of law under Judge
  John McMichael, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He continued in the
  active practice of his profession for a number of years. He early became
  interested in public affairs, became a leading factor in the Republican
  party and closely identified with its interests. Prior to 1896, when he
  was elected to the State Senate, he had efficiently filled many
  important civic positions, and his name remains connected with
  enterprises in which his experience and judgment were of the greatest
  service. His election and subsequent reelection to the Senate but made
  him a more popular candidate for the position of Lieutenant-Governor and
  to this high office he was promoted in 1902. Since his retirement from
  public life he has given his time largely to electrical railroad
  contracting. He is a director of the Lawrence Savings and Trust Company
  of New Castle. Governor Brown married Margaret Foltz, who is a daughter
  of Samuel and Amanda G. Foltz.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 17 Oct 2001