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ARTHUR L. BKOWN, one of the enterprising young men of Silver Creek, is a son of Carlton S. and Caroline S. (Bancroft) Brown, and was born July 10, 1854, in Dunkirk, Chautauqua county. New York. His grandfather, Eleazer Brown, was of English ancestry, and born in Massachusetts in 1798 in which State he was a life-long resident, dying in 1853 at the age of fifty-five years. He was a hotel-keeper and manufacturer of oyster and powder kegs. Carlton S. Brown (father) is a native of Massachusetts, born in 1827, and removed to Dunkirk, this county, in 1850, where he resided ten years and then removed to Westfield, remaining there until 1867, and again changed his local habitation by removing to Silver Creek, where he has since lived. At Dunkirk and Westfield he operated a bakery and for twenty years thereafter was in the empIoy of the L. S. & M. S. R. R. He is now in his sixty-third year and has retired from active business. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian church, and in politics is a democrat. Carlton S. Brown married Caroline S. Bancroft, by whom he had five children. Mrs. Brown is a native of Massachusetts, born in 1829, is a member of the Presbyterian church and is still living, being in her sixty-first year.

Arthur L. Brown was reared in Dunkirk, Westfield and Silver Creek and attended the public schools of each place. After leaving school, which he did at the early age of fourteen, he was employed as a clerk in a store in Silver Creek until 1873, when he went west, remaining a year or more, where he was employed as a clerk and also travelling salesman for the Iowa Paper Co., of Davenport, Iowa. After returning to Silver Creek he was employed as clerk and bookkeeper for O. L. Swift & Co., until 1876, and in the following year was engaged in the grocery business on his own account in Buffalo, in which he continued a year and then sold out to return to Silver Creek and enter the office of roadmaster of the L. S. & M. S. R. R., as a clerk, where he remained three and one-half years. In the spring of 1882 he entered the office of Howes, Babcock & Co., manufacturers of the widely celebrated Eureka Smut and Separating Machine, where he held a clerkship for six years, and then (March 1, 1888) bought a third interest in the parlor furniture frames factory of Kofoed & Bro., in Silver Creek, the firm name being changed to Kofoed, Bros. & Brown, in which firm he still continues. They employ thirty operatives, their average sales being three hundred suits per month. In politics he is a democrat, and was a member of the board of trustees of Silver Creek for two years and in March, 1891, was elected president of the Village. He is a past-master of Silver Lodge, No. 757, F. and A. M. of Silver Creek.

Arthur L. Brown was married November 17, 1880, to M. Cora Norton a daughter of Henry S. Norton, of Belmont, Allegany county, this State, by whom he has one son and two daughters: Ralph A., Florence N., and Alice M.