Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Downs, William Brownfield May 27, 1824 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 167
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    William Brownfield Downs was born in Redstone township, Fayette county,
Penna, May 27, 1824, and is the son of Jonathan Downs and Mary Miller Downs.
Jonathan Downs was born in Redstone township in 1788, was a farmer and
died in 1844, aged fifty six years.  He was in active membership in the
old regular Baptist church and was a republican.
    The grandfather of W B Downs, Jeremiah Downs, was a native of England,
and came to this country in the latter part of the last century and
settled in Redstone township.
    Mary Miller, the mother of William B Downs, was the daughter of Peter
Miller of Jefferson township; she was born in 1790 and died June 4, 1855,
in the sixty fifth year of her age.
    Jonathan and Mary Downs had ten children: Lucinda Downs married to Thomas
Stephens of Washington township; David Downs lives at New Geneva and is
the father of A F Downs, county treasurer; Margaret Miller Downs married
to John Master of Washington township; Joseph Miller Downs lives in Know
county, Illinois; Alex Campbell Downs lives in Pike county, Ohio; William
B Downs; Jonathan Downs resides in Noble county, Ohio; Caleb Bracken
Downs lives at Granville, Fairfield county, Ohio, and is a Presbyterian
minister; Isaac Newton Downs lives at West Newton, Westmoreland county,
Penna, and Mary Downs is matron in the Newsboys' Home, Columbus, Ohio.
William B Downs was reared on the farm and has been a farmer all of his
life.  He was educated in the subscription schools of Redstone township,
and is a republican in politics.  On March 24, 1848, he was married to
Miss Rebecca M Wells by Rev Thomas Martin.  She was born August 12, 1828,
and was the daughter of Joseph Wells, the latter for many years a worthy
citizen of the county.  They have two living children: John Allen Downs,
born March 12, 1853, married to Miss Alice Rittenhouse and lives in
Franklin township, and they have two children.  Mary T Downs born October
12, 1862, married to James Reid of Uniontown.
    Mr Downs and wife are both members of the Presbyterian church of
Uniontown.

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