Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Alexander July 21, 1828 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 318
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Alexander Brown was born at Davidson's upper ferry, now 
East Riverside, Fayette county, Penna, July 21, 1828.  He 
was reared in the village of Merrittstown and attended 
school there.  He began business with his father as a clerk 
in a store.  He clerked for various firms until he came to 
Belle Vernon, and engaged as bookkeeper for L M Speer, boat 
builder.
    He remained at Belle Vernon employed by several 
different firms until 1878 when he went to Pittsburgh as a 
bookkeeper for Captain J W Clark and there he continued for 
five or six years.  He was next employed with the Speer and 
White Land Company and remained with them for two years.  
Since then he has been engaged with the First National Bank 
of Pittsburgh in looking after their coal interests in 
Westmoreland county.
    He was married November 8, 1848, to Miss Catherine R 
Dunaway, daughter of John Dunaway and Margaret Robinson 
Dunaway, natives of Fayette county and of Irish descent.  
They are the parents of five children, three in the drug 
business and one a practicing physician.  The daughter is 
the wife of O R Springer.
    William Brown, the great grandfather of Alexander Brown, 
came to this county about 100 years ago, settled on Redstone 
creek and was one of the earliest settlers here.  He came 
from Virginia to the county, and had been a teacher in a 
college in New Jersey.  He was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary War, fought at the battle of Brandywine Creek.
    He built his first distillery in this county.  He owned 
large landed estates in Virginia, and sold a farm near 
Winchester, which was paid for in Continental money.  The 
wife of this member of the Brown family was of the Piersol 
stock.
      Alexander Brown, son of William Brown, was born in 
Fayette county, and was the father of George Brown, the 
latter the father of Alexander Brown.
    George Brown married Miss Elizabeth Davidson, daughter 
of Jeremiah Davidson and Anna Alexander Davidson, who were 
of Scotch origin and of families who settled very early in 
Fayette county.
    The Davidsons were Presbyterians, and are a prominent 
family in this section of the state.

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