Brown, Wood, Colvin, Bennett

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:



Other surnames mentioned in the biography of James B. Brown are: Brown, Wood, Colvin, Bennett,

JAMES B. BROWN. While the demand for farm produce has steadily increased, agriculture is the oldest industry for tilling the soil and breeding and raising stock has occupied man from pre-historic days. It has been, however, only within the past thirty years that farming has been conducted as a business, with the best of machinery and appliances, and, therefore, although the years are not so numerous, as history is written, since the late James B. Brown began farming, in 1882, to the present day, the methods have been revolutionized. In spite of the hard work and few implements of his day, this sturdy son of Indiana made progress, and when he died, in 1926, he left behind him a large and valuable estate, and at the same time was admitted to be one of the leading citizens of Wayne County.Wayne County was his birthplace, and he came into the world in 1854. His parents, William and Ann (Wood) Brown, were farming people, he born in Ireland and she in Union County, Indiana, and after they were married they bought a farm in Wayne County, which continued their home until death claimedthem. Pioneers of the county, they experienced the hardships incident to rural life atthat time, but they had faith in the region, and believed that their calling was an honorable and profitable one. Their neighbors found in them helpful friends in times of need, and they were good church people, and tried to secure educational advantages for their children. The common schools gave James B. Brown his education as far as books go, but he learned much from contact with others in his after life. He was residing in Union County, Indiana, at the time of his marriage, in 1882, to Miss Mary E. Colvin, a native of Union County, and a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca (Bennett) Calvin, he born in Scotland and she in Union County, Indiana. Mrs. Brown is a granddaughter of Robert Bennett, also born in Union County. For eight years following their marriageMr. and Mrs. Brown resided on a farm near Abbington, Indiana, and from that one moved to another in the vicinity of Philomath, Indiana. Six years later they bought 250 acres near Webster, and lived upon it until 1919, when they rented the farm, moved to Richmond, Indiana, and purchased the fine modern residence, at 32 North Twelfth Street, where Mrs. Brown still maintains her home, and where Mr. Brown passed away, May 17, 1926. In political faith Mr. Brown was a staunch Republican, but he was not a man to desire public honors, preferring at all times his home and family, his farming and stock raising to anything else. Therefore he is deeply missed by his family, who, although several years have passed since his death, mourn his demise, and remember his wise and honorable precepts. There were four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, namely: Richard and Walter, both of whom reside at Richmond; Metta Anna and Esther Frances, both of whom live with their widowed mother in the Brown home. All of the children are a credit to their parents and upbringing, and Mrs. Brown takes great comfort in them now that she has been bereft of her life companion.