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Joseph M. Browne
Madison County
Merchant, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 24; P. O. St. Charles; born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1820; he lived there till 1850, when he removed to Union county, Ohio; while there he was married to Miss Mary Stillings, January 21, 1852. They came to this county and located in St. Charles in the spring of 1855; he owns 508 acres of Madison county's best soil; he deals in thoroughbred and graded stock; in August, I862, Capt. Brown organized Co. F, of the 39th Iowa Infantry, and at the organization was elected captain; he was wounded at the battle of Parker's Cross Roads; shortly afterward he resigned on account of ill-health; Mr. Brown represented this county in the Eleventh General Assembly, in the winter of 1865-6.
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