James M. Brown, late of Toledo, for many years a prominent figure in legal and political circles, and one of the city's most influential and philanthropic citizens, first beheld the light of day, in Delaware, Ohio, in 1835. He was the son of Hyram J. L. and Rosanna P. Brown, the former, for many years, prominent as a farmer, miller and merchant, in Delaware county. James M. Brown acquired his educational training in the public schools of Delaware and at Ohio Wesleyan University of that city. At an early age, he became an apprentice in the office of the "Olentangy Gazette," later known as the "Delaware Gazette," and continued to follow the printing business in its various branches for seven years, during the latter part of which period he was proprietor and editor of the "Oskaloosa Herald," at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
In 1858, he withdrew from the printing business and commenced his preparations for the legal profession, in the offices of the firm of Lee & Brewer, at Tiffin, Ohio. Two years later, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice, at Lima, Ohio, with William E. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Brown, which professional relationship was continued until 1869, when Mr. Brown entered into a partnership with his former preceptor, Gen. John C. Lee, then lieutenant-governor of Ohio. The firm established headquarters in Toledo and continued in active practice until 1891, when General Lee died. The following three years, Mr. Brown was engaged in the work of his profession by himself, and, in the summer of 1894, associated himself with his eldest son, Walter F. — one of Toledo's prominent attorneys, and now chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume — which firm rapidly attained a leading position at the Lucas county bar, and was continued until Jan. 1, 1909, when James M. Brown, subject of this sketch, retired from active practice.
James M. Brown's professional career was characterized by marked success, and he was held in high esteem by his legal brethren, his clients, and all others with whom he came in contact, as an able, dignified and high-minded lawyer. His industry was remarkable and his sound judgment, thorough legal knowledge, and indefatigable energy brought to him an extensive and lucrative clientage of a widely varying nature. He was a powerful antagonist, but always a fair adversary; and, although delighting in a legal triumph, he wanted it fairly won.
He was an active champion of the Republican party from the birth of that organization. He was chairman of the Lucas County Republican Committee for many years and of the County Executive Committee during the successive Presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield, James G. Blaine and Benjamin Harrison. For six years, Mr. Brown was a member of the Board of Elections, and, from 1902 until his death, in 1909, served as president of the Board of Review. During the Civil war period, he was Deputy United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, and also Assistant United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, in the Fifth Congressional district.
He was postmaster at Toledo from 1890 to 1894, under Benjamin Harrison's administration, and was frequently summoned to Washington to participate in conferences concerning improvements in the postal service. At the request of the postmaster-general, he drafted and presented to the Congressional Committee on Postal Affairs, bills providing for the establishment of postal-savings banks and the utilization of telegraph and telephone lines for postal purposes. He also contributed to leading periodicals and journals articles in support of the above measures, and during his term as postmaster, he was granted a three months' leave of absence that he might personally investigate the system of rapid transit, in England, France and Germany.
He devoted much of his time and attention to charitable and benevolent work and was widely known — not only in this State, but throughout the country — through his connection with the Toledo Humane Society, of which he was a charter member and its president from the organization, twenty-five years ago. He took an active part in the erection of the Newsboys' Home, and was also actively identified with the Miami Children's Home. For a few years he was the honored president of the American Humane Association and was serving as a director and vice-president of that organization at the time of his death. He was one of the five trustees of the $50,000 left by the late John T. Newton to the Toledo Humane Society, for the erection of a permanent home for the organization, and a memorial tablet to Mr. Brown will occupy a conspicuous place in this building. During the winter following the memorable panic of 1893, Mr. Brown was instrumental in providing daily relief to more than 7,000 poverty stricken people, and, during the first winter subsequent to the establishment of the society's wood yard, more than 1,500 indigent transients were given employment and were thus enabled to provide themselves with comfortable lodgings and necessary food.
In 1889, Mr. Brown drafted and presented to the Ohio legislature a bill granting convicts' children the privilege of participating in the earnings of their parents, which bill finally became a law, being the first statute of its nature enacted in this commonwealth. In 1890, he drafted and presented to the legislature a measure compelling parents abandoning their children to either go to prison or enter into bonds of at least $1,000 for the children's support, which bill was also enacted into law, and has been of unlimited benefit to abandoned children in the State. Before the World's Humane Congress, which convened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, Mr. Brown delivered a nota1)le address on the duty of the State toward the families of its criminal classes, which attracted the attention of students of penal reform throughout the world, and in which he forcibly maintained that all convicts should be compelled to work, and that a fair proportion of their earnings should go to their families, thus protecting the latter from unnecessary shame, pauperism and crime. At a meeting of the American Humane Society, held in Cleveland, in September, 1896, he delivered another celebrated discourse, entitled 'Unwanted Children," which dwelt at length on the barbarous practice of infanticide, and which received much favorable comment from the press of the country. Mr. Brown was a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo, in the affairs of which he took an active interest.
He was happily married, in 1865, to Miss Lavina C. Folger, daughter of Robert H. Folger, of Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, and she received her summons to the life eternal, in 1887, leaving three children: viz., Amelia H., the eldest, and Ralph P., the youngest, who now reside in the Belvedere Apartments in Toledo; and Walter F., sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. On Aug. 25, 1909. While sitting in an automobile in Walbridge Park, on the afternoon of King Aniba's Home-Coming Day, as chairman of which he had labored unceasingly, day and night, during several months for its success, Mr. Brown suffered a fatal attack of apoplexy. He and John W. Dowd, the principal orator of the day, had ridden in an automobile to the park, where Mr. Brown, in a few well chosen words, addressed the thousands about him, closing with an introduction of the principal speaker. He sat in a corner of the car, listening to Dowd's address, when suddenly he sank back, and a reporter, noticing the sudden shaking of his hand, called the speaker's attention to it. A physician was summoned, but it was apparent that Mr. Brown was dying. He was hurried in the automobile to the home of the custodian of the park, where vain attempts were made to restore heart action. Thousands were at the park, enjoying the music and speeches, and deep gloom was cast over all by the tragic death of Mr. Brown. He is at rest in beautiful Woodlawn cemetery.
From “Memoirs of Lucas County and the city of Toledo, from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families,” Harvey Scribner (editor), Western Historical Association, 1910, Vol. 2, pp. 175-177
Bio provided by F.A.G. member: Ralph Wilson (#49222058)
NOTE: Burial Aug. 27th, 1909 per death certificate.
Age 74 years old.
In 1858, he withdrew from the printing business and commenced his preparations for the legal profession, in the offices of the firm of Lee & Brewer, at Tiffin, Ohio. Two years later, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice, at Lima, Ohio, with William E. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Brown, which professional relationship was continued until 1869, when Mr. Brown entered into a partnership with his former preceptor, Gen. John C. Lee, then lieutenant-governor of Ohio. The firm established headquarters in Toledo and continued in active practice until 1891, when General Lee died. The following three years, Mr. Brown was engaged in the work of his profession by himself, and, in the summer of 1894, associated himself with his eldest son, Walter F. — one of Toledo's prominent attorneys, and now chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume — which firm rapidly attained a leading position at the Lucas county bar, and was continued until Jan. 1, 1909, when James M. Brown, subject of this sketch, retired from active practice.
James M. Brown's professional career was characterized by marked success, and he was held in high esteem by his legal brethren, his clients, and all others with whom he came in contact, as an able, dignified and high-minded lawyer. His industry was remarkable and his sound judgment, thorough legal knowledge, and indefatigable energy brought to him an extensive and lucrative clientage of a widely varying nature. He was a powerful antagonist, but always a fair adversary; and, although delighting in a legal triumph, he wanted it fairly won.
He was an active champion of the Republican party from the birth of that organization. He was chairman of the Lucas County Republican Committee for many years and of the County Executive Committee during the successive Presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield, James G. Blaine and Benjamin Harrison. For six years, Mr. Brown was a member of the Board of Elections, and, from 1902 until his death, in 1909, served as president of the Board of Review. During the Civil war period, he was Deputy United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, and also Assistant United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, in the Fifth Congressional district.
He was postmaster at Toledo from 1890 to 1894, under Benjamin Harrison's administration, and was frequently summoned to Washington to participate in conferences concerning improvements in the postal service. At the request of the postmaster-general, he drafted and presented to the Congressional Committee on Postal Affairs, bills providing for the establishment of postal-savings banks and the utilization of telegraph and telephone lines for postal purposes. He also contributed to leading periodicals and journals articles in support of the above measures, and during his term as postmaster, he was granted a three months' leave of absence that he might personally investigate the system of rapid transit, in England, France and Germany.
He devoted much of his time and attention to charitable and benevolent work and was widely known — not only in this State, but throughout the country — through his connection with the Toledo Humane Society, of which he was a charter member and its president from the organization, twenty-five years ago. He took an active part in the erection of the Newsboys' Home, and was also actively identified with the Miami Children's Home. For a few years he was the honored president of the American Humane Association and was serving as a director and vice-president of that organization at the time of his death. He was one of the five trustees of the $50,000 left by the late John T. Newton to the Toledo Humane Society, for the erection of a permanent home for the organization, and a memorial tablet to Mr. Brown will occupy a conspicuous place in this building. During the winter following the memorable panic of 1893, Mr. Brown was instrumental in providing daily relief to more than 7,000 poverty stricken people, and, during the first winter subsequent to the establishment of the society's wood yard, more than 1,500 indigent transients were given employment and were thus enabled to provide themselves with comfortable lodgings and necessary food.
In 1889, Mr. Brown drafted and presented to the Ohio legislature a bill granting convicts' children the privilege of participating in the earnings of their parents, which bill finally became a law, being the first statute of its nature enacted in this commonwealth. In 1890, he drafted and presented to the legislature a measure compelling parents abandoning their children to either go to prison or enter into bonds of at least $1,000 for the children's support, which bill was also enacted into law, and has been of unlimited benefit to abandoned children in the State. Before the World's Humane Congress, which convened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, Mr. Brown delivered a nota1)le address on the duty of the State toward the families of its criminal classes, which attracted the attention of students of penal reform throughout the world, and in which he forcibly maintained that all convicts should be compelled to work, and that a fair proportion of their earnings should go to their families, thus protecting the latter from unnecessary shame, pauperism and crime. At a meeting of the American Humane Society, held in Cleveland, in September, 1896, he delivered another celebrated discourse, entitled 'Unwanted Children," which dwelt at length on the barbarous practice of infanticide, and which received much favorable comment from the press of the country. Mr. Brown was a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo, in the affairs of which he took an active interest.
He was happily married, in 1865, to Miss Lavina C. Folger, daughter of Robert H. Folger, of Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, and she received her summons to the life eternal, in 1887, leaving three children: viz., Amelia H., the eldest, and Ralph P., the youngest, who now reside in the Belvedere Apartments in Toledo; and Walter F., sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. On Aug. 25, 1909. While sitting in an automobile in Walbridge Park, on the afternoon of King Aniba's Home-Coming Day, as chairman of which he had labored unceasingly, day and night, during several months for its success, Mr. Brown suffered a fatal attack of apoplexy. He and John W. Dowd, the principal orator of the day, had ridden in an automobile to the park, where Mr. Brown, in a few well chosen words, addressed the thousands about him, closing with an introduction of the principal speaker. He sat in a corner of the car, listening to Dowd's address, when suddenly he sank back, and a reporter, noticing the sudden shaking of his hand, called the speaker's attention to it. A physician was summoned, but it was apparent that Mr. Brown was dying. He was hurried in the automobile to the home of the custodian of the park, where vain attempts were made to restore heart action. Thousands were at the park, enjoying the music and speeches, and deep gloom was cast over all by the tragic death of Mr. Brown. He is at rest in beautiful Woodlawn cemetery.
From “Memoirs of Lucas County and the city of Toledo, from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families,” Harvey Scribner (editor), Western Historical Association, 1910, Vol. 2, pp. 175-177
Bio provided by F.A.G. member: Ralph Wilson (#49222058)
NOTE: Burial Aug. 27th, 1909 per death certificate.
Age 74 years old.
James M. Brown, late of Toledo, for many years a prominent figure in legal and political circles, and one of the city's most influential and philanthropic citizens, first beheld the light of day, in Delaware, Ohio, in 1835. He was the son of Hyram J. L. and Rosanna P. Brown, the former, for many years, prominent as a farmer, miller and merchant, in Delaware county. James M. Brown acquired his educational training in the public schools of Delaware and at Ohio Wesleyan University of that city. At an early age, he became an apprentice in the office of the "Olentangy Gazette," later known as the "Delaware Gazette," and continued to follow the printing business in its various branches for seven years, during the latter part of which period he was proprietor and editor of the "Oskaloosa Herald," at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
In 1858, he withdrew from the printing business and commenced his preparations for the legal profession, in the offices of the firm of Lee & Brewer, at Tiffin, Ohio. Two years later, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice, at Lima, Ohio, with William E. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Brown, which professional relationship was continued until 1869, when Mr. Brown entered into a partnership with his former preceptor, Gen. John C. Lee, then lieutenant-governor of Ohio. The firm established headquarters in Toledo and continued in active practice until 1891, when General Lee died. The following three years, Mr. Brown was engaged in the work of his profession by himself, and, in the summer of 1894, associated himself with his eldest son, Walter F. — one of Toledo's prominent attorneys, and now chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume — which firm rapidly attained a leading position at the Lucas county bar, and was continued until Jan. 1, 1909, when James M. Brown, subject of this sketch, retired from active practice.
James M. Brown's professional career was characterized by marked success, and he was held in high esteem by his legal brethren, his clients, and all others with whom he came in contact, as an able, dignified and high-minded lawyer. His industry was remarkable and his sound judgment, thorough legal knowledge, and indefatigable energy brought to him an extensive and lucrative clientage of a widely varying nature. He was a powerful antagonist, but always a fair adversary; and, although delighting in a legal triumph, he wanted it fairly won.
He was an active champion of the Republican party from the birth of that organization. He was chairman of the Lucas County Republican Committee for many years and of the County Executive Committee during the successive Presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield, James G. Blaine and Benjamin Harrison. For six years, Mr. Brown was a member of the Board of Elections, and, from 1902 until his death, in 1909, served as president of the Board of Review. During the Civil war period, he was Deputy United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, and also Assistant United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, in the Fifth Congressional district.
He was postmaster at Toledo from 1890 to 1894, under Benjamin Harrison's administration, and was frequently summoned to Washington to participate in conferences concerning improvements in the postal service. At the request of the postmaster-general, he drafted and presented to the Congressional Committee on Postal Affairs, bills providing for the establishment of postal-savings banks and the utilization of telegraph and telephone lines for postal purposes. He also contributed to leading periodicals and journals articles in support of the above measures, and during his term as postmaster, he was granted a three months' leave of absence that he might personally investigate the system of rapid transit, in England, France and Germany.
He devoted much of his time and attention to charitable and benevolent work and was widely known — not only in this State, but throughout the country — through his connection with the Toledo Humane Society, of which he was a charter member and its president from the organization, twenty-five years ago. He took an active part in the erection of the Newsboys' Home, and was also actively identified with the Miami Children's Home. For a few years he was the honored president of the American Humane Association and was serving as a director and vice-president of that organization at the time of his death. He was one of the five trustees of the $50,000 left by the late John T. Newton to the Toledo Humane Society, for the erection of a permanent home for the organization, and a memorial tablet to Mr. Brown will occupy a conspicuous place in this building. During the winter following the memorable panic of 1893, Mr. Brown was instrumental in providing daily relief to more than 7,000 poverty stricken people, and, during the first winter subsequent to the establishment of the society's wood yard, more than 1,500 indigent transients were given employment and were thus enabled to provide themselves with comfortable lodgings and necessary food.
In 1889, Mr. Brown drafted and presented to the Ohio legislature a bill granting convicts' children the privilege of participating in the earnings of their parents, which bill finally became a law, being the first statute of its nature enacted in this commonwealth. In 1890, he drafted and presented to the legislature a measure compelling parents abandoning their children to either go to prison or enter into bonds of at least $1,000 for the children's support, which bill was also enacted into law, and has been of unlimited benefit to abandoned children in the State. Before the World's Humane Congress, which convened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, Mr. Brown delivered a nota1)le address on the duty of the State toward the families of its criminal classes, which attracted the attention of students of penal reform throughout the world, and in which he forcibly maintained that all convicts should be compelled to work, and that a fair proportion of their earnings should go to their families, thus protecting the latter from unnecessary shame, pauperism and crime. At a meeting of the American Humane Society, held in Cleveland, in September, 1896, he delivered another celebrated discourse, entitled 'Unwanted Children," which dwelt at length on the barbarous practice of infanticide, and which received much favorable comment from the press of the country. Mr. Brown was a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo, in the affairs of which he took an active interest.
He was happily married, in 1865, to Miss Lavina C. Folger, daughter of Robert H. Folger, of Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, and she received her summons to the life eternal, in 1887, leaving three children: viz., Amelia H., the eldest, and Ralph P., the youngest, who now reside in the Belvedere Apartments in Toledo; and Walter F., sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. On Aug. 25, 1909. While sitting in an automobile in Walbridge Park, on the afternoon of King Aniba's Home-Coming Day, as chairman of which he had labored unceasingly, day and night, during several months for its success, Mr. Brown suffered a fatal attack of apoplexy. He and John W. Dowd, the principal orator of the day, had ridden in an automobile to the park, where Mr. Brown, in a few well chosen words, addressed the thousands about him, closing with an introduction of the principal speaker. He sat in a corner of the car, listening to Dowd's address, when suddenly he sank back, and a reporter, noticing the sudden shaking of his hand, called the speaker's attention to it. A physician was summoned, but it was apparent that Mr. Brown was dying. He was hurried in the automobile to the home of the custodian of the park, where vain attempts were made to restore heart action. Thousands were at the park, enjoying the music and speeches, and deep gloom was cast over all by the tragic death of Mr. Brown. He is at rest in beautiful Woodlawn cemetery.
From “Memoirs of Lucas County and the city of Toledo, from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families,” Harvey Scribner (editor), Western Historical Association, 1910, Vol. 2, pp. 175-177
Bio provided by F.A.G. member: Ralph Wilson (#49222058)
NOTE: Burial Aug. 27th, 1909 per death certificate.
Age 74 years old.
In 1858, he withdrew from the printing business and commenced his preparations for the legal profession, in the offices of the firm of Lee & Brewer, at Tiffin, Ohio. Two years later, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice, at Lima, Ohio, with William E. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Brown, which professional relationship was continued until 1869, when Mr. Brown entered into a partnership with his former preceptor, Gen. John C. Lee, then lieutenant-governor of Ohio. The firm established headquarters in Toledo and continued in active practice until 1891, when General Lee died. The following three years, Mr. Brown was engaged in the work of his profession by himself, and, in the summer of 1894, associated himself with his eldest son, Walter F. — one of Toledo's prominent attorneys, and now chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume — which firm rapidly attained a leading position at the Lucas county bar, and was continued until Jan. 1, 1909, when James M. Brown, subject of this sketch, retired from active practice.
James M. Brown's professional career was characterized by marked success, and he was held in high esteem by his legal brethren, his clients, and all others with whom he came in contact, as an able, dignified and high-minded lawyer. His industry was remarkable and his sound judgment, thorough legal knowledge, and indefatigable energy brought to him an extensive and lucrative clientage of a widely varying nature. He was a powerful antagonist, but always a fair adversary; and, although delighting in a legal triumph, he wanted it fairly won.
He was an active champion of the Republican party from the birth of that organization. He was chairman of the Lucas County Republican Committee for many years and of the County Executive Committee during the successive Presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield, James G. Blaine and Benjamin Harrison. For six years, Mr. Brown was a member of the Board of Elections, and, from 1902 until his death, in 1909, served as president of the Board of Review. During the Civil war period, he was Deputy United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, and also Assistant United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, in the Fifth Congressional district.
He was postmaster at Toledo from 1890 to 1894, under Benjamin Harrison's administration, and was frequently summoned to Washington to participate in conferences concerning improvements in the postal service. At the request of the postmaster-general, he drafted and presented to the Congressional Committee on Postal Affairs, bills providing for the establishment of postal-savings banks and the utilization of telegraph and telephone lines for postal purposes. He also contributed to leading periodicals and journals articles in support of the above measures, and during his term as postmaster, he was granted a three months' leave of absence that he might personally investigate the system of rapid transit, in England, France and Germany.
He devoted much of his time and attention to charitable and benevolent work and was widely known — not only in this State, but throughout the country — through his connection with the Toledo Humane Society, of which he was a charter member and its president from the organization, twenty-five years ago. He took an active part in the erection of the Newsboys' Home, and was also actively identified with the Miami Children's Home. For a few years he was the honored president of the American Humane Association and was serving as a director and vice-president of that organization at the time of his death. He was one of the five trustees of the $50,000 left by the late John T. Newton to the Toledo Humane Society, for the erection of a permanent home for the organization, and a memorial tablet to Mr. Brown will occupy a conspicuous place in this building. During the winter following the memorable panic of 1893, Mr. Brown was instrumental in providing daily relief to more than 7,000 poverty stricken people, and, during the first winter subsequent to the establishment of the society's wood yard, more than 1,500 indigent transients were given employment and were thus enabled to provide themselves with comfortable lodgings and necessary food.
In 1889, Mr. Brown drafted and presented to the Ohio legislature a bill granting convicts' children the privilege of participating in the earnings of their parents, which bill finally became a law, being the first statute of its nature enacted in this commonwealth. In 1890, he drafted and presented to the legislature a measure compelling parents abandoning their children to either go to prison or enter into bonds of at least $1,000 for the children's support, which bill was also enacted into law, and has been of unlimited benefit to abandoned children in the State. Before the World's Humane Congress, which convened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, Mr. Brown delivered a nota1)le address on the duty of the State toward the families of its criminal classes, which attracted the attention of students of penal reform throughout the world, and in which he forcibly maintained that all convicts should be compelled to work, and that a fair proportion of their earnings should go to their families, thus protecting the latter from unnecessary shame, pauperism and crime. At a meeting of the American Humane Society, held in Cleveland, in September, 1896, he delivered another celebrated discourse, entitled 'Unwanted Children," which dwelt at length on the barbarous practice of infanticide, and which received much favorable comment from the press of the country. Mr. Brown was a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo, in the affairs of which he took an active interest.
He was happily married, in 1865, to Miss Lavina C. Folger, daughter of Robert H. Folger, of Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, and she received her summons to the life eternal, in 1887, leaving three children: viz., Amelia H., the eldest, and Ralph P., the youngest, who now reside in the Belvedere Apartments in Toledo; and Walter F., sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. On Aug. 25, 1909. While sitting in an automobile in Walbridge Park, on the afternoon of King Aniba's Home-Coming Day, as chairman of which he had labored unceasingly, day and night, during several months for its success, Mr. Brown suffered a fatal attack of apoplexy. He and John W. Dowd, the principal orator of the day, had ridden in an automobile to the park, where Mr. Brown, in a few well chosen words, addressed the thousands about him, closing with an introduction of the principal speaker. He sat in a corner of the car, listening to Dowd's address, when suddenly he sank back, and a reporter, noticing the sudden shaking of his hand, called the speaker's attention to it. A physician was summoned, but it was apparent that Mr. Brown was dying. He was hurried in the automobile to the home of the custodian of the park, where vain attempts were made to restore heart action. Thousands were at the park, enjoying the music and speeches, and deep gloom was cast over all by the tragic death of Mr. Brown. He is at rest in beautiful Woodlawn cemetery.
From “Memoirs of Lucas County and the city of Toledo, from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families,” Harvey Scribner (editor), Western Historical Association, 1910, Vol. 2, pp. 175-177
Bio provided by F.A.G. member: Ralph Wilson (#49222058)
NOTE: Burial Aug. 27th, 1909 per death certificate.
Age 74 years old.
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