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ney for the Home Savings & Loan Association at Lincoln.

A Republican, he served as a member of the Nebraska legislature 1927-28. He is a member of the Hiram Club; the Red Cross; the Nebraskana Society; the National Geographic Society; and the Young Men's Christian Association. He served as president of the school board from 1905 to 1915. He is affiliated with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lincoln; is a member of the University Club; and holds membership in North Star Lodge Number 227 of the mt Free and Accepted Masons.

He was married to Ida Dibble at Moody, South Dakota, March4, 1896. Mrs. Brown, who was born in Howard County, Iowa, November 20, 1872, died at Lincoln, June 21, 1927. Five children were born to this marriage: Elizabeth, born October 9, 1899; Frances Marion, born May 15, 1901, who married Rev. George E. Mitchell; James Lowell, born August 14, 1907; Ida Lois, born August 14, 1907, who married Henry Huff; and William Oscar, born March 14, 1909, who married Mildred Farnsworth, August 15, 1931. Mr. Brown was married to Edith I. Foster at Grand Island, Nebraska, August 18, 1930. She is recorder for the Nebraska University. She is the mother of three children, Myrtha, who married Dr. Wilber E. Deacon; Hugh and Walter who are at home. Residence: Lincoln.

John Brown

John Brown, successful farmer in Clay County, Nebraska, has lived in this state since 1878, when he came to Sutton from Illinois. He was born in Lee County, Illinois, August 3, 1863, the son of Hiram C. and Lucy Ann (Bidwell) Brown. His father, a stockraiser and farmer, was born in Steuben County, Indiana, April 28, 1837, and died at Sutton, Nebraska, September 15, 1909. His mother was born in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1840, and died at Sutton, April 28, 1910; her ancestry was Scotch.

Mr. Brown received his education in pioneer rural schools in Illinois. On March 17, 1886, he was united in marriage with Fidelia L. Gormon in Clay County. Mrs. Brown was born of Scotch-Irish parents in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1851, and died at Sutton, November 17, 1927. Two children were born to this marriage: Erma, January 30, 1887; and a son, born October 29, 1889, who died in infancy.

He holds membership in the Nebraskana Society, is affiliated with the Congregational Church of Sutton, and is a member of the Democratic party. Residence: Sutton.

Julius Philip Brown

Julius Philip Brown, physician and surgeon since 1924, was born at Omaha, December 20, 1900, son of Joseph Philip and Antonia (Kysela) Brown.

He attended the public and high schools of Omaha, received his B. Sc., from the University of Omaha in 1922, and the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Nebraska in 1924. He is a member of Phi Sigma Phi and Phi Chi.

On November 27, 1928, he was married to Sophia Maye Wefso at Stanton. She was born at Dustin, Nebraska, April 7, 1902, and is a graduate nurse. Dr. Brown is a member of the American, Nebraska State and Holt County Medical Associations, the Masons and Knights Templar. He enjoys golf. Residence: O'Neill.

Lulu Clyde Brown

Born at Franklin, Illinois, September 20, 1874, Lulu Clyde Brown has been a resident of Nebraska for the 47 years and has taken a prominent part in civic and educational affairs there. She is the daughter of James Henry and Sarah Jane (Southard) Nall, the former a teacher and contractor, who was born at Carlinville, Illinois, March 20, 1835, and died at Grand Island, Nebraska, February 26, 1920. Her father, who served in the Civil War, owned and operated the first brickyard in Frontier County, Nebraska; his ancestors were southerners. All the brick used in Frontier County at that time was manufactured by him at Stockwell.

Her mother, who was born at Pikeville, Tennessee, August 3, 1844, and died at Stockville, Nebraska, December 9, 1904, was a teacher prior to her marriage. Her family had lived in the south for many generations.

Mrs. Brown attended the public schools of Stockville. She was appointed postmistress in that village August 1, 1924, and has held the position continuously since then. She is vice president of the Frontier County Southwest Nebraska Historical Society, served four years as treasurer of the local school board, and was a charter member of the Kensington Social Club. She is affiliated with the First Congregational Church of Stockville, is a member of the Royal Neighbors of America, and holds membership in the Nebraskana Society.

On April 14, 1892, she was united in marriage with Ellsworth Dayton Brown at Stockville. Mr. Brown, who was clerk of the district court for 11 years, was born at Bethesda, Ohio, July 23, 1865, and died at Stockville, October 3, 1918. His ancestors were pioneers of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They have four children: Martha Dimon, born March 3, 1893, she is living in Denver, Colorado; Ethel Elizabeth, born January 15, 1900, who married Lewis Verne Hogoboom, they are living in Pauline, Nebraska; Richard Dayton, born August 9, 1904, who married Marie Agnes Lloyd, living in Denver, Colorado; and Rex Raeburn, born February 15, 1908, who is at home with his mother. Residence: Stockville. (Photograph in Album).

Mentor Alsworth Brown

Born at Janesville, Wisconsin, February 19, 1853, Mentor Alsworth Brown, newspaper publisher and editor, is the son of Jeremiah and Ann Hancelia (Pound) Brown. The father, born in Ohio, served in the Civil War with the 25th Wisconsin Volunteers, and died while with Sherman on his march to the sea, April 14, 1864. He was a teacher and a physician of Anglo-Saxon ancestry. His wife, born in December, 1826, was a student and teacher, whose parents were Quakers. Both were graduates of Milton (Wisconsin) College. She died at Jamestown, on April 22, 1854, when Mentor A. Brown was little more than a year old.

Mr. Brown became a printer's apprentice at the age of thirteen in Jefferson, Iowa, and at the age of seventeen came to Nebraska, working for a short time in the summer of 1870, at Nebraska City, Thereafter he worked for a few weeks in the Redfield Job Printing office at Omaha, and was recommended for a place with W. H. Vaughan, a job printer at Council Bluffs. During the spring and summer of 1871 he was a compositor for the Daily Nonpareil, and was then recommended for foremanship of the Express office at Beatrice.

Continuing there until January 1, 1874, Mr. Brown purchased a half interest in the Express, the senior member of the firm being Theodore Coleman, a newspaper pioneer in Nebraska, and a brilliant editor. When A. S. Paddock was elected to the senate, Mr. Coleman accompanied him to Washington, as his private secretary, and soon thereafter sold his half interest in the paper to L. W. Colby. Mr. Colby soon purchased Mr. Brown's share of the paper also, and in the early months of 1877, Mr. Brown, then aged twenty-three, purchased a half interest in the Fairbury Gazette. Shortly afterward he resold the business to his former partner, George Cross, and being footloose again, started for Beatrice with the intention of establishing a paper there. On the way he met I.

MENTOR A. BROWN

W. Colby, and after a short talk by the roadside became sole owner of the Express.

From that time on the growth of the town and of the paper was rapid. The paper was published in the form of a daily in January, 1884. In 1888, Mr. Brown received a tempting offer to sell his interests in the Express, and a few months later he was located in Kearney, in the vortex of the boom. Negotiating for the purchase of the Central Nebraska Press, then owned by Rice Eaton and J. P. Johnson, he was successful, a corporation being formed with Mr. Eaton and J. T. Cassel as minor stockholders. The name of the paper was changed to the Hub, and the first copy of the paper printed on October 22, 1888.

Very soon afterward the boomers subsidized a new morning daily with the associated press franchise, a corps of brilliant young newspaper men from Boston, and a unionized detail of printers from Denver, and the Daily Enterprise became the journalistic sensation of the west. When the boom collapsed and the Enterprise blew up, Mr. Brown was found still plugging along as editor and manager of his paper, giving Kearney a good newspaper service. Other competition, just as dangerous, was encountered and outlived. The Hub has built up one of model printing and newspaper plants of the state, housed in its own building, with a well paid corps of managers, solicitors, reporters and skilled workmen and a leased wire telegraphic service.

Mr. Brown, now dean of Nebraska editors, writes a column of editorial daily, renders first aid when necessary, and watches closely the various branches of the newspaper, printing and bookbinding departments. In 1906 he was appointed postmaster of Kearney, holding that office until 1914. He is a Republican, takes an active interest in party politics, but has never run for elective office, except for presidential elector in 1904. He was electoral messenger in 1905.

Twice married, Mr. Brown has three sons and two daughters living, two sons deceased. There are twelve grand children, and five great grand children. The daughters are Mrs. C. E. Eustice, of Omaha, and Mrs. G. H. Connell, of Oakland, California. Ulysses, the oldest son, is publisher of the Arnold Sentinel; Oliver F. is in the printing business at Lincoln; while Hugh R. is manager of the Kearney Daily Hub.

Since 1914, Mr. Brown's entire attention has been given to his paper and the general interests of his business. He has kept himself fit by frequent attendance on the golf links. More conservative in late years in some respects, he is more radical as a booster for development and in his support of the highest political and social standards, asserting that hard work and the simple virtues will make this a great country. His hobbies are history and economics and the advancement of Nebraska.

Mr. Brown is affiliated with St. Luke's Episcopal Church, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and the Elks, and a contributor to all welfare work, giving service as well as money. He is past president of the Nebraska State Press Association, a life member of The Nebraskana Society, and a member of the Kearney Country Club. He is a baseball and football fan. Residence: Kearney. (Photograph on Page 166).

Nettie Steinmeyer Brown

Nettie Steinmeyer Brown was born at Clatonia, Nebraska, April 23, 1880, the daughter of John H. and Sarah (Unland) Steinmeyer. Her father is a prominent stockman and banker of Gage County. He was born in Germany May 17, 1853, and has always been active iii Political and agricultural organization matters. Mrs. Steinmeyer was born at Beardstown, Illinois, April 19, 1857

Nettie Steinmeyer Brown attended Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1903. She is a member of the Willard Society. Her marriage to Charles S. Brown took place at Clatonia, June 7, 1905. (See Nebraskana).

Norris Brown, lawyer and former United States sen- (sic) Woman's club and is active in the work of the Methodist church. Residence: Aurora.

Norris Brown

Norris Brown, lawyer and former United States senator, was born at Maquoketa, Iowa, May 2, 1863, the son of William Henry Harrison and Eliza Ann Phelps Brown. He received the A. B. degree at the University of Iowa, 1883, and the A. M. degree, 1885. He was admitted to the bar in 1884. A Republican, Mr. Brown has been prominent in city, state, and national politics for many years, and has held the following offices: deputy county attorney; county attorney of Buffalo County, 1892-96; deputy attorney general, 1900-04; attorney general of Nebraska, 1904-06; and United States senator, 1907-13.

Since 1912, he has been a member of the law firm Brown, Baxter, VanDusen, & Ryan at Omaha. He is a member of the Omaha Club; Omaha Commercial Club; Country Club; Palimpsest; and the University Club, and the Nebraskana Society. He is a Mason, and he is affiliated with the Congregational Church.

He married Lula K. Beeler who was born at Perry, Iowa, November 28, 1865. Residence: Omaha.

Raymond Lindsey Brown

Raymond Lindsey Brown, owner of the Brown Stationery Company, was born at Louisville, Nebraska, July 1, 1896, son of Horace E. and May (Lindsey) Brown. Mr. Brown was born at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, May 19, 1867. Mrs. Brown was born at Boise, Idaho, September 4, 1870, both now reside at Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

He attended Scottsbluff High School and the University of Nebraska, and was formerly owner of the Brown Drug Company.

On December 25, 1917, he was married to Zona Irene Cline at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Mrs. Brown was born at Creston, Iowa, November 28, 1898. They have one daughter, Helen Irene, born September 4, 1922.

A Republican, Mr. Brown is now serving as city councilman of Scottsbluff. He is a member of the Masons, the Scottsbluff Country Club, and the Presbyterian Church. His favorite sports are golf and hunting. Residence: Scottsbluff.

Richard Carney Brown

Richard Carney Brown, executive, was born at Holdrege, Nebraska, July 8, 1906, the son of Eben E. and Edna Elvira (Carney) Brown. His father, born at New London, Iowa, July 22, 1879, is a merchant, and one of the founders and now president of the Brown Ekberg Company, Inc. His parents were Swedish immigrants, most of whose lives in America were spent on a farm in Phelps County. Edna E. Carney was born at Germantown, Ohio, June 21, 1881, of Pennsylvania Dutch and Irish extraction.

Educated in the public schools of Holdrege, Richard C. Brown was graduated from high school there in June, 1923. In June, 1927, he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, where he was valedictorian, treasurer and president of the Nebraska chapter of Sigma Chi, a member of the Kosmet Club, Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa.

In February, 1928, he entered the employ of Brown-Ekberg Company, and is now manager of the store established at Hastings, on August 30, 1930. On July 8, of that year he was married to Frances Hooper at Holdrege. Mrs. Brown was born at Oxford, Nebraska, May 20, 1905.

Mr. Brown is a Democrat. A 32nd degree Scottish

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