Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Charles W. Brown

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Charles W. Brown, member of the firm of Smart & Brown, proprietors of the livery, feed and sale
stable of Bentonville, was born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1847; son of William C. and Martha E.
(McBay) Brown. The father was also born in Warren County, Ohio, in 1811, and was a farmer and
stock dealer by occupation. He moved to Shelby County, Ohio, in 1861, and there died in 1874. The
mother was born near Harrisburg, Penn., and died in 1873. They were the parents of seven
children: Charles W.; Ellen, at home; Margaret, wife of Daniel Vandamark, of Shelby County, Ohio;
Joseph, who was conductor on a train and was killed while coupling a car; Martha, a teacher in
Sidney, Ohio; John, a railroad conductor, and Ida, a teacher by profession in Sidney, Ohio.
Charles W. was reared on his father's farm, and in March, 1864, he enlisted in the Eighth Ohio
Battery, Light Artillery, and was in service until the close of the war, being discharged at
Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in Mississippi, and was on garrison duty. After the war Mr. Brown
operated a threshing machine for fourteen years. In the spring of 1885 he went to Kinsley, Kas.,
and was engaged in a stock and ranch business. In 1886 he became a resident of Bentonville, Ark.,
and he and E. F. Henry speculated in real estate. They owned Clark's second addition, sold
numerous lots, and met with good success. In June, 1887, Mr. Brown and L. P. Smart became
partners in the livery and feed stable, and have since continued at this business. Mr. Brown
brought the first full-blooded Norman horse to Benton County, and he and Mr. Henry brought the
first Galloway cattle ever in the county.