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Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Elizabeth Brown: Birth: 5 AUG 1885 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New York, United States.


Notes
a. Note:   Walter Scott Brown passes: A Member of Legal Profession Superintendent for Many Years
 of Adirondack Mt. Reserve On Saturday afternoon, November
 10, 1934, Walter Scott Brown passed quietly from this earthly life at his*
 home on Maple street, Elizabethtown, after a short illness.
 He was in his 81st year, having been born in Eiizabethtown January
 1854, the son of Lev! De Witt Brown and Lovina Kneeland, his wife.
 In the passing of Mr. Brown Eiizabethtown loses one of her most honored,
 respected and useful citizens, and with him also passes
 which for more than 130 years has been identified in thia community
 with everything pertaining to its welfare.
 September 7, 1881, Walter Scott Brown married Mary Pond, daughter
 of Judge Byron Pond of Elizabethtown, who with their daughter, Mrs.
 Mary E. B. Bullock, survives him. Mrs. Bullock is engaged in social service
 work in New York city.
 Mr. Brown studied law in the offtce of the late Arod K. Dudley and
 was admitted to the bar as attorney in 1877 and as counsellor in 1879. He
 served as Elizabethtown's supervisor in 1883, declining to accept a renomination.
 He was postmaster from 1889 to 1893. For a time he was a partner
 of the late Judge Byron Pond in the practice of law in Eiizabethtown.
 About this time a group of men from Philadelphia, New York city and Boston
 were forming the Adirondack Mountain Reserve with William G.
 Neilson as president. Mr. Neilson had been coming to Eiizabethtown
 and to Keene, where he had a summer home at SL Huberts, then known as
 Beede's, now Ausable Club. He knew Mr. Brown and, with E. J. H. Howell,
 persuaded him to accept a position as their bookkeeper. He soon became
 superintendent in 1883 in which position his knowledge of law meant
 much to them. He was a leader in the development of the place. When
 Beede's burned the Reserve took it over. They owned 30,000 acres of
 the surrounding forests and lakes.
 Mr. Brown superintended the building of cottaiges and roads, the water
 system from Gill Brook, laid out trails, superintended building of
 bridges, cutting timiber, stocking brooks apd lakes with fish, directed
 guide service, superintended building of private camps on upper lake for
 such people asW.A. and A. T. White, Edward Harkness, Robert W. De Forest,
 S. Burns Weston, Willis Wood and other prominent members.
 For seven years Mr. and Mrs. Brown s.pent the winters, as well as
 summers, at "Bowlder Cottage," which the club built for them at St. Huberts.
 After that they stayed until Christmas time, going back early in
 the spring. Mr. Brown represented club interests all the year around in
 legal matters, property, taxation, etc.
 He was a man who knew the woods of nature, the trees, animals, flowers.
 He had a great insight into, and love of his native hills. He had a talent
 for writing and has written many verses in sympathetic or humorous
 style on the scenes and surroundings
 of the Adirondack country. Many of
 them appeared in local newspapers
 and magazines. His verses on the
 mountains were used as an introduction
 to Mr. Russell Carson's recent
 book "Peaks and People of the
 Adirondacks." He had a great interest
 in the history of this region,
 in the Revolution and War of 1812
 periods, and hunted out and marked
 many graves of veterans in little cemeteries
 that had been forgotten and
 nearly obliterated by time. He was
 a member of the Sons of the Revolution,
 being a descendent of Captain
 Josiah Brown, and of the General Society
 of the War of 1812. .
 He had a valuable collection of Indian
 arrow heads andJ other relics
 gathered from various parts of Essex
 county. This collection is at the
 Eiizabethtown Circulating Library.
 In 1921 Mr. Brown retired from active
 service with the Adirondack
 Mountain Reserve but was retained
 as counselor and attended to club
 business with faithfulness and devotion
 to the end.
 He was a trustee of the Congregational
 church, having be,en a member
 of that church since young manhood,
 a trustee of the Cemetery Association,
 a Red Cross worker, having been
 chairman, and recently treasurer, and
 he also served several terms as town
 assessor, retiring about two. years
 ago.
 Upon the death of Judge Pond in
 1904, Mr. Brown bought the Pond
 home, enlarged and modernized i t In
 the summer it has been the. gathering
 place for members of the Pond
 family who have come to enjoy the
 old place, hold family reunions and
 share In the warm wetoome ataray*
  Walter Scott Brown Died:
  In the passing of Walter Scott Brown Essex county loses another of
 her Iong list of honorable sons, and Elizabethtown a well-beloved and
 respected citizen—a citizen trusted respected and beloved by its entire
 community from early childhood. The writer's acquaintanceship with Mr.
 Brown dates back to May, 1869, and during that intervening period of time
 nothing but the best of .good fellowsihip ever existed between us.
 Scott Brown, as he was familiarly known, was a man whose veracity
 was never questioned—whose word was never at stake in all matters
 where truth and honesty was called upon to prevail, where truth, honesty
 of purpose and Justice were looked forward to as a result.
 During his young life he married Miss Mary L. Pond, from which a
 happy union existed throughout. Miss Pond was the second daughter of the
 late Byron Pond whose presence for so many years with honor filled the
 offices of Essex County Judge and Surrogate. Judge Pond was of that
 calibre of manhood that made him all that could be desired In an honorable
 citizen of the state of New York. Mrs. Pond, mother of the
 large family, was of that, type of womanhood that made her very existence
 in the community a matter to be .greatly desired by all good residents.
 The name of Walter Scott Brown ,
 will for many, many years be remembered and held in high esteem by all
 whose good fortune it was to know him during his life as a citizen in a
 community in which he had been during his entire life deeply interested in it's welfare.
  It seems to me that it is time that a continuation of Watson's History of
 Essex County should be revived. That since the last publication of this important
 publication enough of her prominent sons and daughters have
 gone forth into the world whose lives, if written correctly, would be of great
 interest to the coming generation. Let us hear from some of the young and old
 readers both.
  HE WAS A POSTMASTER , AND AN ATTORNEY , ALSO 2ND SUPER OF ADIRONDAK PERSERVE.
 have pictures of he and wife at wedding 1881,
 and at 50th anniversary 1931...
 1880 census:
 Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
 Elizabeth JUDD Self W Female W 63 VERMONT Keeping House VERMONT VERMONT
 A. Mcd. FINNEY Other S Male W 64 NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK
 Bridget KELLEY Other S Female W 17 NEW YORK At School IRELAND IRELAND
 Walter S. BROWN Other S Male W 27 NEW YORK Lawyer NEW YORK NEW YORK
  Source Information:
 Census Place Elizabethtown, Essex, New York
 Family History Library Film 1254832
 NA Film Number T9-0832
 Page Number 92C
 HE WAS A POSTMASTER , AND AN ATTORNEY , ALSO 2ND SUPER OF ADIRONDAK PERSERVE. have pictures of he and wife at wedding 1881, and at 50th anniversary 1931...
 HE WAS A POSTMASTER , AND AN ATTORNEY , ALSO 2ND SUPER OF ADIRONDAK PERSERVE. have pictures of he and wife at wedding 1881, and at 50th anniversary 1931...
 HE WAS A POSTMASTER , AND AN ATTORNEY , ALSO 2ND SUPER OF ADIRONDAK PERSERVE. have pictures of he and wife at wedding 1881, and at 50th anniversary 1931...
 HE WAS A POSTMASTER , AND AN ATTORNEY , ALSO 2ND SUPER OF ADIRONDAK PERSERVE. have pictures of he and wife at wedding 1881, and at 50th anniversary 1931...


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