Here's info on another BROWN from Cass Co. [IN]. I searched the internet
to see if this bio has been posted.... not only isn't it on the net; I
didn't find any queries posted on any of these people either.
Isn't anyone looking for this family?????
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COL. WILLIAM L. BROWN, veteran of two wars, was born in Ohio,
November 19, 1817, and was killed at the battle of Bull Run, Virginia,
in 1862. He came to Logansport in the early forties; was a brave soldier
in the Mexican war; united in marriage to Elizabeth Purveyance in
Logansport, June 27, 1849, from which union six children were born:
Eleanor H., Frederick L., Daisy, James A., Charles H. and William I.,
the latter still an honored resident of our city. On the breaking out of
the Civil war he raised a regiment, the Twentieth Indiana, and became
its colonel, which he gallantly commanded and fell while bravely
battling for his country. Colonel Brown was an energetic man and a
leader in civil and business affairs of Logansport and was interested in
banking and other business interests. He bought and improved the old
Fitch farm at Kenneth, west of town, where he lived for some time.
He had three brothers, all Presbyterian ministers who occupied the
pulpit of the First Presbyterian church of Lagansport at different times
during their ministerial labors. They were the Revs. James C. Brown,
Frederick T. and Hugh A. Brown.
Colonel Brown's widow was postmaster at Logansport from 1866 to 1870.
From the "History of Cass County" ed. by Dr. Jehu Z. Powell,
1913.
Note: The Indiana State Library's website, "Indiana Marriages Through
1850" lists Elizabeth's surname as PURVIANCE.
Indiana Marriages Through 1850
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html