Representative John Gaddis Brown View All Years

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John Gaddis Brown

Marshall County

Born at Farmington; Illinois, February 17, 1839. He was reared on a farm and his common school education was supplemented by a course in Illinois College Jacksonville. When the civil war broke out he enlisted in 1861 and served three years as a musician in the Fifty-fifth Illinois infantry, re-enlisting as a veteran and serving until August 28, 1865. He came to Marshall County in 1871 and purchased land in Logan Township where he was very successful in farming. Mr. Brown was actively interested in politics in his younger days and was elected by the Republican Party to a seat in the house of Twentieth and Twenty-first general assemblies. He was active in supporting the movement to establish the soldiers' home here. The Twenty-second general assembly elected him a trustee of the Soldiers' Orphans Home, Davenport, and twice re-elected him. Mr. Brown was married to Miss Anna Marie Negley on November 13, 1866. Mr. Brown was a member of the Congregational church, Cosmopolitan lodge. No. 33, Knights Pythias and Frank M. Thomas Post No. 91, G. A. R., city, and Daytona Yacht Club, Daytona.

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