Gustavus Brown Biography

	This biography appears on page 469 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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BROWN, GUSTAVUS, was born in Ogdensburg, New York, October 22, 1852; 
graduated from the city high school, and from the Bryant & Stratton 
commercial college; was then employed as cashier in the Ogdensburg & 
Champlain Railroad Company's office, and from 1872 to 1876 held the 
same position in the office of the Northern Pacific railroad at Duluth, 
Minn., was station agent at Hamburg, Iowa, and Kenton, Ohio, three 
years; came to Sioux Falls February 28, 1879, and was in the employ of 
the Phoenix Insurance Company, and the Omaha R. R. Co., until 1882, 
when he became the agent of the U. S. Express Co., and remained in its 
employ until 1890, since which time he has been bookkeeper for the 
Hickey and McNamara Mercantile Co. Mr. Brown has always been an 
efficient, capable man In his work, and has a large circle of friends.