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Note: Notes per Faye Brown Hoven Went to Gold Rush in California. Memorial and Biographical Record of Columbia, 1901 (Wisconsin) p. 458 Edward Rose Brown, an honored veteran of the Civil War and a highly esteemed citizen of Portage, Wisconsin was born in Lower Canada, August 1, 1827, a son of David H. and Lucinda (Batchelor) Brown, natives of PA and New York respectively. The paternal grandfather, Jesse Brown, a millwright by trade, was also born in Pennsylvania, while his wife was a native of Germany. When a young man the father went to New York where he was married in 1827, removed to Canada, but after a few months spent there he took up his residence in Macomb, Michigan, where he spent the remainder of his life upon a farm near the present village of Utica, dying there in 1865, at age of 72 years. He was an active member of Baptist Church and influential in local politics, first as a Whig and later as a Democrat. He filled several offices of honor and trust. The mother of our subject died near Utica, Michigan in 1834. Edward R. Brown is the only one in the family of six children living in Wisconsin. He received a common school education and during his youth, learned the carpenter's trade at which he worked at intervals through his life. In 1853, he first came to Portage where he spent one winter in the pineries and then engaged in farming in Adams, for about 12 years. After which he located in Lewiston, Columbia, Selling his property here in 1881, he went to Dakota, but not finding a suitable location, he returned to Wisconsin. In 1884, however, he removed with his family to Walworth, South Dakota where he took up a homestead claim and lived for about 8 years, dividing his attention between the cultivation of grain and stock raising. Since June 1892, he has made his home in Portage and has followed the carpenter's trade. On the 1st of October, 1864, Mr. Brown enlisted in Company F, 44th Wisconsin Vol Inf., and with his command reached Nashville in time to take part in the battle at that place, under General Thomas, against General Hood. There the regiment was ordered to take a position one morning at daybreak in the front of the lines, but was soon afterward replaced by a colored regiment, nearly all of whom fell victims to a Confederate battery which opened fire on that part of the works a few minutes later. The 44th Wisconsin supported Fort Negley during that engagement. Just previous to the battle a detachment of one hundred men, including Mr. Brown, were ordered to take a drove of fifteen hundred head of cattle to Pulaski, Tennessee, through a district infested by bushwhackers, but they were able to avoid them by information given by the Negroes along the way. They were two weeks in reaching Pulaski, and then returned to Nashville by rail. From there the regiment went to Paducah, Kentucky, and were finally discharged in September, 1865. Mr. Brown was married May 31, 1853, to Miss Sarah C. Worden, a native of Willoughby, Ohio, and a daughter of Holley G. and Mary (Warner) Worden, of Portage, who came to this state in 1851. Of the eight children born to our subject and his wife four are now deceased: Ella, who died at the age of eight years; Charles, who died at the age of five; Herbert, who died at the age of seven; and Kinney at the age of sixteen. Those living are Albert, a resident of Walworth county, South Dakota; and Uzell E., Winnie M. and Holley N., all of Portage. The family are connected with the Baptist church, and Mr. Brown is an honored member of the Grand Army Post of Portage, in which he has served as adjutant. He is independent in politics and has filled a number of local offices, serving as town clerk and assessor in Jackson, Adams county, Wisconsin; supervisor in Lewiston, Wisconsin; and justice of the peace in Walworth county, South Dakota. He proved a very efficient and capable officer and in all the relations of life has been found true to every trust reposed in him. List of Pensioners 1883 - Vol. IV -Marquette, Wisconsin Edward R. Brown Briggsville - Chronic diarrhea $6.00 01-1882 E.R. Brown resided in Jackson in Adams, (near Big Springs) when he enlisted in Civil War. Sauk, Wisconsin Marriage Record, Vol. 1, p. 15 Edward R. Brown to Sarah Worden. father - David H. mother - Lucinda Occupation - farmer residence - Jackson Twp., Adams, Wisconsin birthplace of husband. - Canada wife - Sarah Worden father - Hawley mother - Mary time of marriage - 5-31-1853 place - Delton, Sauk,,Wisconsin color - white Monument near Bangor, South Dakota This monument marks the site of Bangor. County seat of Walworth, South Dakota from 1884-1909 Scranton 1883-1884 Bangor 1884-1904 Selby 1904-1905 Bangor 1905-1909 Selby 1909-1950
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