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EDWARD BROWN, a prominent stock dealer of Bernard, an influential citizen and well known Trustee of Prairie Creek Township, Dubuque County, has from his earliest youth been intimately associated with the local growth and history of both Jackson and Dubuque Counties and is highly esteemed as an energetic, able and intelligent man, faithful in official duty and of sterling integrity of character.

Our subject is a native of New York City and was born April 10, 1850. His parents, John and Johanna (Harrington) Brown, were born in County Kerry, Ireland, and are yet living, hale and hearty. The father was bred a farmer in the Old Country and first emigrated to America in 1840. Returning to Ireland he made but a brief stay in the Emerald Isle and was soon again upon his way to the United States, where he found ready employment with a railroad corporation at Norwich, Conn. After a number of years he came to the west and engaged in sub-contracting, and finally located in Butler Township, Jackson County, Iowa, where he bought a homestead and farmed for some length of time. Finally disposing of this property Father Brown purchased land in White Water, Dubuque County, but for the past six years has lived in Cascade, in the same county.

The venerable father and mother, now aged respectively seventy-eight and seventy-four years, came to America rich in youth, ambition and energy but with very little capital to invest. Today they own five hundred acres of valuable land and in the evening of their lives enjoy a well earned competence. Both Mr. and Mrs. John Brown are devoted members of the Catholic Church and liberally assist in the extension of its good work. Of their family of nine children, four sons and four daughters yet survive. Our subject, Edward Brown, was reared upon his father's farm until he was ten years old, and went a long distance to the rude log schoolhouse where he received a primary education. He remained with his parents until twenty-seven years of age; he then began buying stock for William Ryan of Dubuque, and since 1880 has spent considerable of his time in traveling through the counties of Jackson and Dubuque, mainly engaged in the stock business for himself. For four years, from 1882, he entered into mercantile pursuits, handling dry goods and merchandise in Bernard, but although successful in this enterprise he preferred his former occupation and returned to stock-buying again, in which he has since profitably continued.

Mr. Brown was married June 21, 1885, to Miss Jane Seery, of Jones County, Iowa, and a daughter of John Seery, a prominent farmer of Jones County. Our subject and his estimable wife have been blessed with the birth of one child, a son, Frank, a promising little lad. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are widely known and command the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends. Since arriving at his majority our subject has been closely identified with many of the leading enterprises of his part of the state, and established a creamery at Bernard. He has given intelligent and faithful service upon the grand jury and, in 1891 was elected Trustee of the township. Financially he has been prospered, and aside from other interests owns one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land upon section 28, Prairie Creek Township. Politically Mr. Brown is an ardent Democrat and has ably represented his constituents at various county and state conventions. A man of independent thought and action, straightforward in business transactions and firm in his convictions of right, our subject has won the confidence and high regard of all who know him; he occupies a position of influence and is a most important factor in the upward growth of his home locality.

NOTE: Jane Seery, Edward's wife, was of Irish descent also.