Bios: JOHN D. BROWN: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    JOHN D. BROWN,
    
    [p. 652] a prominent business man of New Castle, and a dealer in
  agricultural implements, buggies and wagons, fertilizers, etc., and also
  conducting a prosperous transfer and storage business, with warehouse located
  at 165 South Mill Street, was born in the neighboring township of Union Sept.
  1, 1859. He is a son of John and Esther (Sankey) Brown; the latter was born
  in Union township, and was a daughter of James and Nancy (Cox) Sankey; James
  Sankey was a son of Ezekiel and Jane (Cubbison) Sankey, and Nancy Cox was a
  daughter of Joseph Cox.
    
    John Brown, our subject's father, was born near Pulaski in 1859, and died
  at the early age of twenty-eight years. He made a business of dealing in
  horses, shipping them to the eastern markets; in politics he was a
  Republican. His parents were Nathan and Rebecca (Willy) Brown; the former was
  a stonemason by trade, and died in 1874, aged seventy-five years.
    
    John D. Brown was reared in Union township, attending what was known as the
  Sankey School until he was eighteen years of age. For the next two years, he
  worked on a farm, and then for two years was employed in the saw-mill of
  Young Bros. During the past seventeen years Mr. Brown has owned and operated
  through the summer season a threshing machine, with which he has traveled
  over a large part of Lawrence County. Since 1892 he has been dealing very
  largely in agricultural and farm implements, handling some of the most
  reliable and standard makes, and is patronized very well by such
  agriculturists as come to New Castle for their supplies, because of his wide
  acquaintance. On Jan. 1, 1897, Mr. Brown opened a large storage house at 165
  South Mill Street, and entered the draying and hauling business in addition
  to his agricultural implement business, and it has proven in its short trial
  to be a profitable enterprise.
    
    Mr. Brown was joined in the bonds of matrimony June 2, 1885, with Olive A.
  Echols, a native of Tipton, Missouri, and a daughter, of John Echols, and
  three children now bless their home: Archie B.; Merrill; and Dwight. Mrs.
  Brown is a member of the Baptist Church, but the family generally attend the
  United Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Brown is a Republican, and has
  served on the election board and the board of education. In the community at
  large he exerts a powerful influence as a superior man of business, and as
  one who has ever thrown his influence in maintaining a high order of morality
  in public affairs.