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Surnames: Roper, Brown, Lundy, Richardson, Phillips, Smith, Harrison,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Roper, Brown, Lundy, Richardson, Phillips, Smith,
Harrison,
MILTON W. BROWN has been a resident of Hobart, Lake County, since 1904, and is here senior
member of the firm of Roper & Brown, which is engaged in the milling and feed business
and which conducts one of the largest and most important enterprises of this kind in the
county. Mr. Brown has proved one of the progressive, reliable and successful businessmen
of Hobart and has made a reputation that in itself is a distinct business asset. The firm
is also the owner of a fine farm estate of 260 acres, situated near Wheeler, Porter
County. Milton W. Brown was born at Whitby, Province of Ontario, Canada, November 1, 1874,
and is a son of S. C. and Euphemia (Lundy) Brown, who were born and reared in that section
of. Ontario and who there passed virtually their entire lives, their one interval of
absence having been the two years of their residence in Nebraska. S. C. Brown made farm
industry his life vocation, and he met his death in a farm accident, in 1891. He was a
birthright and si!
ncere member of the Society of Friends, as is also his venerable widow, who still resides
at Whitby and who celebrated on May 6, 1931, the eighty-seventh anniversary of her birth.
Of the four children the eldest is Sarah Luella, wife of George F. Richardson, of Whitby,
Ontario; Frank L., is a resident of Lampton Mills, a suburb of the City of Toronto,
Canada; Milton W., of this review, was next in order of birth; and Carrie, wife of Charles
Phillips, died at Toronto. The public school education of Milton W. Brown culminated in
his course of study in the high school at Whitby, Ontario, and thereafter he had charge of
the home farm near that place until 1900, when he came to Indiana and passed a short time
in Hobart. During the ensuing four years he was engaged in railroad work in Michigan, and
in 1904 he established his permanent residence at Hobart, where he purchased an interest
in the milling and feed business conducted by Smith & Roper and later by Smith, Roper
& company,!
the present firm name of Roper & Brown having been adopted in 1910, and the concern’s
business being one of substantial and representative order, with the result that Mr. Brown
has rank among the sterling and successful men of affairs in the city and county of his
adoption. Mr. Brown has consistently become a naturalized citizen of the United States,
and his political allegiance is given to the Republican Party. He served five years as
secretary of the Hobart Board of Education, he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
is a member of the local Lions Club, and he is president of the board of trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in his home city, his wife like wise being an earnest member,
besides which she has membership in the Order of the Eastern Star and is active in woman’s
club work. Mr. Brown is loyal and progressive as a citizen, and in the World war period
he was an active worker in connection with the various patriotic movements in Lake C!
ounty. At Hobart, on the 1st of July, 1906, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss
Martha Harrison, who was born in Porter County, this state, and who is a daughter of the
late Andrew Harrison, long one of the successful farmers and honored and influential
citizens of that county, where his farm estate was situated near Wheeler. He gave
prolonged service as township trustee, and his death occurred in 1888, his widow having
survived him less than two weeks and their mortal remains being interred in a cemetery in
the City of Valparaiso, the county seat. Mrs. Brown received the advantages of the Hobart
public schools, and after completing her high school course was for four years a
successful teacher in the schools of this section of the state. Of the three children of
Mr. and Mrs. Brown, one died in infancy; Frank Harrison was graduated from the Hobart High
School in 1927 and graduated from the University of Indiana, with the class of 1931; Edith
Larene graduated from the Ho!
bart High School as a member of the class of 1931. The family is one of prominence and
marked popularity in the social life of Hobart.