Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania

• Title	Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
  Short Title	Bio - Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania - p. 417
  Author	John M. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley
  Publisher	John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago: 1889
  Media	Book
  Source ID	S557
  Text	p417     JOHN K BROWN's paternal grandfather was of German extraction, and his maternal grandfather, Alexander Kelly, was born in about 1771 in Ireland. The latter came to America and, in all probability, settled in Westmoreland county.  He married and had the following children by his first wife: Jane Brown and Elizabeth Brown.  He married the second time Catherine Campbell, who was born December 2, 1783, and had the following children: Samuel Brown, George Brown, John Brown, Rebecca Brown, James Paull Brown, Washington Brown, Campbell Brown, Catherine Brown and Susannah Brown.     John K Brown's parents were Adam Brown and Mary Kelly Brown.  Adam Brown was born in Westmoreland county, Penna, and was a shoemaker.  They had the following children: John K Brown; James Brown (dead); Mary Brown married David Hepler; Elizabeth Brown; Jane Brown married David Sherril of McKeesport; Alexander Brown (dead); and William Brown (dead).     John Kelly Brown was born in Westmoreland county, Penna, September 4, 1811, brought up in that county and was educated in the subscription schools of the day.  He learned the trade of a shoemaker at which he has worked since he became of age.  He has been living in Connellsville for fifty five years.     July, 1836, he was married to Elizabeth Sheppard, the daughter of Theophilus Sheppard, a native of Westmoreland, who married Elizabeth Stafford, and had the following children: Mary Sheppard, James Sheppard, Phoebe Ann Sheppard, Henry L Sheppard, Elizabeth Sheppard, Sarah A Sheppard, Catherine Sheppard, Theophilus Sheppard, Robert W Sheppard, John Sheppard, Joseph Sheppard, Paoli Sheppard, Athanasia Sheppard, and George Sheppard.     Of this union were born: Theodore M Brown (deceased); Artemisia S Brown married Albert S Cameron of Connellsville; Joseph K Brown married and lives in Canton, Ohio, and there engaged in glass manufacturing; Fielding D Brown (dead); Florence Henrietta Brown married E Y White (see his sketch); Mary Alice Brown (dead); George B Brown married and lives in Connellsville; Sarah Ann Brown married to David Baer and lives in Ohio; William Brown (dead); Eliza Eva Brown (dead); John Charles Brown, a druggist in the West; Ida May Brown married to Flavius O Goodwin, a resident of Connellsville, and runs a steam laundry there; Cora Adella Brown (dead); Albert Brown, a traveling salesman for his brother.     Mr Brown had two sons who served in the Civil War.  Theodore Brown volunteered at the beginning and served during the entire war. Joseph K Brown enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, under Captain Du Shane in 1862, and served to the close of the war.     Mr Brown and his wife are members of the MP church and have been for the last fifty three years.  He is the president of the board of trustees and a steward of the church.  He has served as a delegate to the following conferences: at Pittsburgh, Washington and Beaver Falls.  He is a member of the following orders: IOOF, K of P and Redmen.  He is the only charter member of Gen Worth's Lodge at Connellsville now living.  He has never drawn any money from any of the above orders.  He has always been a strong advocate of the cause of temperance, and has belonged to various organizations whose objects were for the furtherance of that cause.     He was the originator of the Connellsville Hill Grove Cemetery Company in 1868, is at present president of the company, and the chief stockholder of the same.
  Linked to (35)	David J. Baer Albert Brown Artomisia S. Brown Cora Adella Brown Eliza Eva Brown Fielding D. Brown Florence Henrietta Brown George B. Brown Ida May Brown John Charles Brown John Kelly Brown Joseph Kelly Brown Mary Alice Brown Sarah Ann Brown Theodore M. Brown William Brown Albert S. Cameron Flavius O. Goodwin Athanasia Sheppard Catharine Sheppard Elizabeth Sheppard George Sheppard Henry Lenox Sheppard James Sheppard John Sheppard Joseph Paoli Sheppard Mary Sheppard Phoebe Ann Sheppard Robert W. Sheppard Sarah A. Sheppard Theophilus Sheppard, Jr. Edward Y. White Family: Flavius O. Goodwin / Ida May Brown Family: David J. Baer / Sarah Ann Brown Family: John Kelly Brown / Elizabeth Sheppard

  
  

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  Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of  Fayette County, Pennsylvania editorially managed by John M. Gresham assisted in the compilation by Samuel T. Wiley, A Citizen of the County Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.  Chicago: 1889