The following was contributed by Amanda Fox (#47429422)
Birth date: Sept. 24 in McLean County, Illinois
Spouse: Effie Brown
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Byron A. Brown, engaged in general farming and stock raising in the New Plymouth district of Payette county, was born in McLean county, Illinois, September 24, 1868, his parents being A. C. and Mahala L. (Phillips) Brown, the latter a native of Woodford county, Illinois, and a representative of a farming family of that locality. The father was both a school teacher and farmer of Illinois.
Byron A. Brown acquired his early education in his native county and then attended the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, in addition to which he pursued a business course. He farmed in that state until 1901 and in 1902 came west to Idaho, settling on his present home place of forty acres three miles west of New Plymouth. He likewise homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres one mile south and three miles west of the town and eventually he sold the homestead to the Payette Valley Orchard Company. He has been keenly interested in everything that has tended to promote the development of the county along agricultural and horticultural lines or to advance its irrigation interests, upon which progress and prosperity so largely depend. He has served as one of the directors of the Farmers' Cooperative Ditch Company.
In 1894 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Effie Calder, of Illinois, a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Empey) Calder, who were farming people of Illinois. Her father was a native of Scotland and was a British soldier for thirteen years. Her mother was born in Bath, England, and was reared in London. Mrs. Brown has a sister, Miss Jeannetta Calder, who is her neighbor and cultivates five acres of land. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are three in number. Lyle M., twenty four years of age, married Rene Eldridge, a native of Kansas. Wendell P., twenty-two years of age, is a high school graduate and is now located on a twenty acre farm adjoining that of his father. Archie C, three years of age, completes the family. Mrs. Brown taught school for three years in Illinois before her marriage. Mr. Brown is now providing for his own household through carefully directed agricultural interests and has a valuable farm property, giving his attention to the general cultivation of the place and to the raising of stock, including about one hundred head of pure bred Hampshire sheep. He produces various kinds of grain and alfalfa and his business interests are bringing to him deserved success.
Mr. Brown keeps in close touch with all things political and is well posted on the vital questions and issues of the day. He has been a school trustee for two terms and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.
Birth date: Sept. 24 in McLean County, Illinois
Spouse: Effie Brown
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Byron A. Brown, engaged in general farming and stock raising in the New Plymouth district of Payette county, was born in McLean county, Illinois, September 24, 1868, his parents being A. C. and Mahala L. (Phillips) Brown, the latter a native of Woodford county, Illinois, and a representative of a farming family of that locality. The father was both a school teacher and farmer of Illinois.
Byron A. Brown acquired his early education in his native county and then attended the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, in addition to which he pursued a business course. He farmed in that state until 1901 and in 1902 came west to Idaho, settling on his present home place of forty acres three miles west of New Plymouth. He likewise homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres one mile south and three miles west of the town and eventually he sold the homestead to the Payette Valley Orchard Company. He has been keenly interested in everything that has tended to promote the development of the county along agricultural and horticultural lines or to advance its irrigation interests, upon which progress and prosperity so largely depend. He has served as one of the directors of the Farmers' Cooperative Ditch Company.
In 1894 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Effie Calder, of Illinois, a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Empey) Calder, who were farming people of Illinois. Her father was a native of Scotland and was a British soldier for thirteen years. Her mother was born in Bath, England, and was reared in London. Mrs. Brown has a sister, Miss Jeannetta Calder, who is her neighbor and cultivates five acres of land. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are three in number. Lyle M., twenty four years of age, married Rene Eldridge, a native of Kansas. Wendell P., twenty-two years of age, is a high school graduate and is now located on a twenty acre farm adjoining that of his father. Archie C, three years of age, completes the family. Mrs. Brown taught school for three years in Illinois before her marriage. Mr. Brown is now providing for his own household through carefully directed agricultural interests and has a valuable farm property, giving his attention to the general cultivation of the place and to the raising of stock, including about one hundred head of pure bred Hampshire sheep. He produces various kinds of grain and alfalfa and his business interests are bringing to him deserved success.
Mr. Brown keeps in close touch with all things political and is well posted on the vital questions and issues of the day. He has been a school trustee for two terms and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.
The following was contributed by Amanda Fox (#47429422)
Birth date: Sept. 24 in McLean County, Illinois
Spouse: Effie Brown
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Byron A. Brown, engaged in general farming and stock raising in the New Plymouth district of Payette county, was born in McLean county, Illinois, September 24, 1868, his parents being A. C. and Mahala L. (Phillips) Brown, the latter a native of Woodford county, Illinois, and a representative of a farming family of that locality. The father was both a school teacher and farmer of Illinois.
Byron A. Brown acquired his early education in his native county and then attended the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, in addition to which he pursued a business course. He farmed in that state until 1901 and in 1902 came west to Idaho, settling on his present home place of forty acres three miles west of New Plymouth. He likewise homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres one mile south and three miles west of the town and eventually he sold the homestead to the Payette Valley Orchard Company. He has been keenly interested in everything that has tended to promote the development of the county along agricultural and horticultural lines or to advance its irrigation interests, upon which progress and prosperity so largely depend. He has served as one of the directors of the Farmers' Cooperative Ditch Company.
In 1894 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Effie Calder, of Illinois, a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Empey) Calder, who were farming people of Illinois. Her father was a native of Scotland and was a British soldier for thirteen years. Her mother was born in Bath, England, and was reared in London. Mrs. Brown has a sister, Miss Jeannetta Calder, who is her neighbor and cultivates five acres of land. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are three in number. Lyle M., twenty four years of age, married Rene Eldridge, a native of Kansas. Wendell P., twenty-two years of age, is a high school graduate and is now located on a twenty acre farm adjoining that of his father. Archie C, three years of age, completes the family. Mrs. Brown taught school for three years in Illinois before her marriage. Mr. Brown is now providing for his own household through carefully directed agricultural interests and has a valuable farm property, giving his attention to the general cultivation of the place and to the raising of stock, including about one hundred head of pure bred Hampshire sheep. He produces various kinds of grain and alfalfa and his business interests are bringing to him deserved success.
Mr. Brown keeps in close touch with all things political and is well posted on the vital questions and issues of the day. He has been a school trustee for two terms and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.
Birth date: Sept. 24 in McLean County, Illinois
Spouse: Effie Brown
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Byron A. Brown, engaged in general farming and stock raising in the New Plymouth district of Payette county, was born in McLean county, Illinois, September 24, 1868, his parents being A. C. and Mahala L. (Phillips) Brown, the latter a native of Woodford county, Illinois, and a representative of a farming family of that locality. The father was both a school teacher and farmer of Illinois.
Byron A. Brown acquired his early education in his native county and then attended the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, in addition to which he pursued a business course. He farmed in that state until 1901 and in 1902 came west to Idaho, settling on his present home place of forty acres three miles west of New Plymouth. He likewise homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres one mile south and three miles west of the town and eventually he sold the homestead to the Payette Valley Orchard Company. He has been keenly interested in everything that has tended to promote the development of the county along agricultural and horticultural lines or to advance its irrigation interests, upon which progress and prosperity so largely depend. He has served as one of the directors of the Farmers' Cooperative Ditch Company.
In 1894 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Effie Calder, of Illinois, a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Empey) Calder, who were farming people of Illinois. Her father was a native of Scotland and was a British soldier for thirteen years. Her mother was born in Bath, England, and was reared in London. Mrs. Brown has a sister, Miss Jeannetta Calder, who is her neighbor and cultivates five acres of land. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are three in number. Lyle M., twenty four years of age, married Rene Eldridge, a native of Kansas. Wendell P., twenty-two years of age, is a high school graduate and is now located on a twenty acre farm adjoining that of his father. Archie C, three years of age, completes the family. Mrs. Brown taught school for three years in Illinois before her marriage. Mr. Brown is now providing for his own household through carefully directed agricultural interests and has a valuable farm property, giving his attention to the general cultivation of the place and to the raising of stock, including about one hundred head of pure bred Hampshire sheep. He produces various kinds of grain and alfalfa and his business interests are bringing to him deserved success.
Mr. Brown keeps in close touch with all things political and is well posted on the vital questions and issues of the day. He has been a school trustee for two terms and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.
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