Published in the Caledonia Era, Wednesday, July 29, 1908
Finley P. Brownell, a well known resident of this village, died at 10:30 Monday morning, after a lingering illness that extended over a period of two and one-half years. The funeral was held from his late home on North street at two o’clock this afternoon, Rev. C. J. Williamson officiating. The interment was in the Mumford Rural Cemetery.
Mr. Brownell was thoroughly a Caledonia man. He was born on the John H. Barks’ farm, one mile east of the village, July 5, 1852 and his whole life was passed either in the town or in the village.
His parents were Sylvester and Margaret McPherson Brownell, prominent among the early residents. He was educated in the Caledonia schools and spent one year in the Falley Seminary at Fulton, N. Y., and one year in the Geneseo State Normal School.
For some ten years he conducted the farm on which he was born then moved to the village, for a time carrying on the Caledonia Roller Mills and later engaging selling binders with A. F. Gordon. He engaged with William Hamilton & Son as foreman of their large grain and bean elevators, where he remained for seventeen years, until 1906, when he began assisting his son, Warner H., at the lumber yards. Though his long connection with the Hamilton elevators he became widely known to farmers in this and Monroe county.
In 1874 he was married to Mary Warner of Albion, who with three sons, Leonard F. of Buffalo, Warner H. and Lester C., of this village and two daughters Edith and Jane, both of Caledonia as well as one brother, Dr. William G. Brownell of Rochester, survive him, also two half-sisters, Miss Mary and Margaret Brownell of Mumford. Of the family there were four brothers and one sister, the brothers deceased being Leonard, who died in 1874, and Sylvester in 1875, also one sister Mary, who died in 1860.
Mr. Brownell was a charter member of the Chemical Hose Company and was an exempt fireman. He was instrumental in the forming of the Caledonia Fire Department. In his family he was highly regarded and throughout the community leaves many friends who sorrow with the family at the death at the age of fifty-six years of a man so widely and well known. Intestinal tuberculosis is given as the cause of death.
Finley P. Brownell, a well known resident of this village, died at 10:30 Monday morning, after a lingering illness that extended over a period of two and one-half years. The funeral was held from his late home on North street at two o’clock this afternoon, Rev. C. J. Williamson officiating. The interment was in the Mumford Rural Cemetery.
Mr. Brownell was thoroughly a Caledonia man. He was born on the John H. Barks’ farm, one mile east of the village, July 5, 1852 and his whole life was passed either in the town or in the village.
His parents were Sylvester and Margaret McPherson Brownell, prominent among the early residents. He was educated in the Caledonia schools and spent one year in the Falley Seminary at Fulton, N. Y., and one year in the Geneseo State Normal School.
For some ten years he conducted the farm on which he was born then moved to the village, for a time carrying on the Caledonia Roller Mills and later engaging selling binders with A. F. Gordon. He engaged with William Hamilton & Son as foreman of their large grain and bean elevators, where he remained for seventeen years, until 1906, when he began assisting his son, Warner H., at the lumber yards. Though his long connection with the Hamilton elevators he became widely known to farmers in this and Monroe county.
In 1874 he was married to Mary Warner of Albion, who with three sons, Leonard F. of Buffalo, Warner H. and Lester C., of this village and two daughters Edith and Jane, both of Caledonia as well as one brother, Dr. William G. Brownell of Rochester, survive him, also two half-sisters, Miss Mary and Margaret Brownell of Mumford. Of the family there were four brothers and one sister, the brothers deceased being Leonard, who died in 1874, and Sylvester in 1875, also one sister Mary, who died in 1860.
Mr. Brownell was a charter member of the Chemical Hose Company and was an exempt fireman. He was instrumental in the forming of the Caledonia Fire Department. In his family he was highly regarded and throughout the community leaves many friends who sorrow with the family at the death at the age of fifty-six years of a man so widely and well known. Intestinal tuberculosis is given as the cause of death.
Published in the Caledonia Era, Wednesday, July 29, 1908
Finley P. Brownell, a well known resident of this village, died at 10:30 Monday morning, after a lingering illness that extended over a period of two and one-half years. The funeral was held from his late home on North street at two o’clock this afternoon, Rev. C. J. Williamson officiating. The interment was in the Mumford Rural Cemetery.
Mr. Brownell was thoroughly a Caledonia man. He was born on the John H. Barks’ farm, one mile east of the village, July 5, 1852 and his whole life was passed either in the town or in the village.
His parents were Sylvester and Margaret McPherson Brownell, prominent among the early residents. He was educated in the Caledonia schools and spent one year in the Falley Seminary at Fulton, N. Y., and one year in the Geneseo State Normal School.
For some ten years he conducted the farm on which he was born then moved to the village, for a time carrying on the Caledonia Roller Mills and later engaging selling binders with A. F. Gordon. He engaged with William Hamilton & Son as foreman of their large grain and bean elevators, where he remained for seventeen years, until 1906, when he began assisting his son, Warner H., at the lumber yards. Though his long connection with the Hamilton elevators he became widely known to farmers in this and Monroe county.
In 1874 he was married to Mary Warner of Albion, who with three sons, Leonard F. of Buffalo, Warner H. and Lester C., of this village and two daughters Edith and Jane, both of Caledonia as well as one brother, Dr. William G. Brownell of Rochester, survive him, also two half-sisters, Miss Mary and Margaret Brownell of Mumford. Of the family there were four brothers and one sister, the brothers deceased being Leonard, who died in 1874, and Sylvester in 1875, also one sister Mary, who died in 1860.
Mr. Brownell was a charter member of the Chemical Hose Company and was an exempt fireman. He was instrumental in the forming of the Caledonia Fire Department. In his family he was highly regarded and throughout the community leaves many friends who sorrow with the family at the death at the age of fifty-six years of a man so widely and well known. Intestinal tuberculosis is given as the cause of death.
Finley P. Brownell, a well known resident of this village, died at 10:30 Monday morning, after a lingering illness that extended over a period of two and one-half years. The funeral was held from his late home on North street at two o’clock this afternoon, Rev. C. J. Williamson officiating. The interment was in the Mumford Rural Cemetery.
Mr. Brownell was thoroughly a Caledonia man. He was born on the John H. Barks’ farm, one mile east of the village, July 5, 1852 and his whole life was passed either in the town or in the village.
His parents were Sylvester and Margaret McPherson Brownell, prominent among the early residents. He was educated in the Caledonia schools and spent one year in the Falley Seminary at Fulton, N. Y., and one year in the Geneseo State Normal School.
For some ten years he conducted the farm on which he was born then moved to the village, for a time carrying on the Caledonia Roller Mills and later engaging selling binders with A. F. Gordon. He engaged with William Hamilton & Son as foreman of their large grain and bean elevators, where he remained for seventeen years, until 1906, when he began assisting his son, Warner H., at the lumber yards. Though his long connection with the Hamilton elevators he became widely known to farmers in this and Monroe county.
In 1874 he was married to Mary Warner of Albion, who with three sons, Leonard F. of Buffalo, Warner H. and Lester C., of this village and two daughters Edith and Jane, both of Caledonia as well as one brother, Dr. William G. Brownell of Rochester, survive him, also two half-sisters, Miss Mary and Margaret Brownell of Mumford. Of the family there were four brothers and one sister, the brothers deceased being Leonard, who died in 1874, and Sylvester in 1875, also one sister Mary, who died in 1860.
Mr. Brownell was a charter member of the Chemical Hose Company and was an exempt fireman. He was instrumental in the forming of the Caledonia Fire Department. In his family he was highly regarded and throughout the community leaves many friends who sorrow with the family at the death at the age of fifty-six years of a man so widely and well known. Intestinal tuberculosis is given as the cause of death.
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*Finley Brownell & EMMA Warner are on the marriage record for their son Lester, who married Calia Felton
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