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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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