Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Brown, John Kelly September 4, 1811 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 417
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John K Brown's paternal grandfather was of German 
extraction, and his maternal grandfather, Alexander Kelly, 
was born in about 1771 in Ireland. The latter came to 
America and, in all probability, settled in Westmoreland 
county.  He married and had the following children by his 
first wife: Jane Brown and Elizabeth Brown.  He married the 
second time Catherine Campbell, who was born December 2, 
1783, and had the following children: Samuel Brown, George 
Brown, John Brown, Rebecca Brown, James Paull Brown, 
Washington Brown, Campbell Brown, Catherine Brown and 
Susannah Brown.
    John K Brown's parents were Adam Brown and Mary Kelly 
Brown.  Adam Brown was born in Westmoreland county, Penna, 
and was a shoemaker.  They had the following children: John 
K Brown; James Brown (dead); Mary Brown married David 
Hepler; Elizabeth Brown; Jane Brown married David Sherril of 
McKeesport; Alexander Brown (dead); and William Brown 
(dead).  
    John Kelly Brown was born in Westmoreland county, Penna, 
September 4, 1811, brought up in that county and was 
educated in the subscription schools of the day.  He learned 
the trade of a shoemaker at which he has worked since he 
became of age.  He has been living in Connellsville for 
fifty five years.  
    July, 1836, he was married to Elizabeth Sheppard, the 
daughter of Theophilus Sheppard, a native of Westmoreland, 
who married Elizabeth Stafford, and had the following 
children: Mary Sheppard, James Sheppard, Phoebe Ann 
Sheppard, Henry L Sheppard, Elizabeth Sheppard, Sarah A 
Sheppard, Catherine Sheppard, Theophilus Sheppard, Robert W 
Sheppard, John Sheppard, Joseph Sheppard, Paoli Sheppard, 
Athanasia Sheppard, and George Sheppard.  
    Of this union were born: Theodore M Brown (deceased); 
Artemisia S Brown married Albert S Cameron of Connellsville; 
Joseph K Brown married and lives in Canton, Ohio, and there 
engaged in glass manufacturing; Fielding D Brown (dead); 
Florence Henrietta Brown married E Y White (see his sketch); 
Mary Alice Brown (dead); George B Brown married and lives in 
Connellsville; Sarah Ann Brown married to David Baer and 
lives in Ohio; William Brown (dead); Eliza Eva Brown (dead); 
John Charles Brown, a druggist in the West; Ida May Brown 
married to Flavius O Goodwin, a resident of Connellsville, 
and runs a steam laundry there; Cora Adella Brown (dead); 
Albert Brown, a traveling salesman for his brother.  
    Mr Brown had two sons who served in the Civil War.  
Theodore Brown volunteered at the beginning and served 
during the entire war.  Joseph K Brown enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Forty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, under 
Captain Du Shane in 1862, and served to the close of the 
war.  
    Mr Brown and his wife are members of the MP church and 
have been for the last fifty three years.  He is the 
president of the board of trustees and a steward of the 
church.  He has served as a delegate to the following 
conferences: at Pittsburgh, Washington and Beaver Falls.  He 
is a member of the following orders: IOOF, K of P and 
Redmen.  He is the only charter member of Gen Worth's Lodge 
at Connellsville now living.  He has never drawn any money 
from any of the above orders.  He has always been a strong 
advocate of the cause of temperance, and has belonged to 
various organizations whose objects were for the furtherance 
of that cause.
    He was the originator of the Connellsville Hill Grove 
Cemetery Company ub 1868, is at present president of the 
company, and the chief stockholder of the same. 

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Originally submitted 2000.

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