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WILLIAM C. BROWN was born at Waddington, St. Lawrence County, New York, April 21, 1859, and died at Des Moines, Iowa, May 12, 1917. The body was interred at Clarion, Iowa. He removed with his parents to Ogdensburg, New York, when an infant and his education was obtained in the public schools there. He removed to Eagle Grove, Iowa, in 1882 and entered the employ of the Northwestern Railway Company as a fireman. He became an engineer in 1884 and followed the vocation of engineer until 1892 when he resigned and moved to Clarion and engaged in real estate and insurance business. For five years he was secretary of the Wright County Agricultural Society. In 1898 he was elected a director in the State Agricultural Society. He served four years as vice president of that society. He was sheriff of Wright County from 1904 to 1909, and was president of the Iowa State Sheriffs’ Association one year. In 1910 he was elected representative and served in the Thirty-fourth General Assembly. He was elected state treasurer in 1912 and was re-elected in 1914 and 1916, serving in that office until his death.