Brown - George D.
GEORGE D. BROWN
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 8 April 1903 p 5
George D. Brown, Miller, Waynetown, was born in Butler county, Ohio, October 3, 1829, and is the son of Preserve and Margaret Brown, his father being a Pennsylvanian, and his mother from Maryland. In 1836 he came with his parents to Fountain county, and at the age of fourteen has worked at his present business in different parts of this state and Illinois. At sixteen years of age he entered a mill at Terre Haute, where, after being there eight months, he narrowly escaped being burned to death while attempting to save the books of the mill, which had taken fire. In 1858 he bought a half interest in a mill on Coal creek, and in 1860 sold it and purchased a farm near Hillsboro, which, after five years, he sold, and since has given his entire attention to milling, now owning and operating "Brown's Steam Mills" at Waynetown. In April, 1855, he was married to Ann M. SIMPSON, who was born in Ohio, and by whom he has had ten children, only two of whom are living, the others having died in infancy: Elizabeth, who is the wife of F. B. BORCH, and Rachel E. In 1874 he joined the Christian church, of which he is now a trustee and elder. He became a Mason in 1859, and for several years has belonged to the I.O.O.F., being a charter member of the lodge here. In politics he is democratic, and an upholder of the principles of temperance. - typed by kbz