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RUSH BROWN was born in Hanover town, Chautauqua county, New York, December 12th, 1839, and is the son of Sidney and Harriet (Green) Brown. Marshal Brown, his paternal grandfather, emigrated to Chautauqua county, New York, from the State of Vermont. His grandfather on his mother’s side was also a native of Vermont, where he lived the life of a farmer and died. In politics he was a Jacksonian democrat, was married and reared a family of seven children. His son, Sidney Brown, father of the subject, was born in Vermont in 1809 and after he had received his education and had attained his majority removed to western New York and located near the present residence of Rush Brown. In politics he had changed from the Democratic to the Republican regime. He married Harriet Green and had a family of two children, one of whom, Emily, is wife of Almarion McDaniels, a farmer living near Smith’s Mills, Hanover town.

Rush Brown on June 30th, 1865, was united in marriage to Sarah Newbury, a daughter of John Newbury, of Ripley, New York. They have one son, Sidney M., married to Irene Melissa Peters, a graduate of Bryant & Stratton’s commercial college at Buffalo, New York, and at present a resident of Clyde, Cloud county, Kansas, where he is engaged in the merchandising and feed business.

Rush Brown gained his present education through the common schools and from actual experience in life. He commenced his career as a farmer, was reared upon a farm and has always been attached to that business. He owns a good farm in a fair state of fertility and repair, ten acres of which are in grapes. He is a prohibitionist, a member of the Hanover Baptist church and belongs to the Royal Arcanum, at Silver Creek.