Bio: Brown, John H. (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 222.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN H. BROWN

JOHN H. BROWN, P. O. Bloomer, came with his father, Stephen Brown, to Lafayette, Chippewa Co., July 16, 1865, John being then a little less than twenty-one years of age. Together, they entered 120 acres of land and subsequently purchased 360 acres and commenced farming. John was elected Sheriff of Chippewa County the same year that he came there, and was the third Sheriff elected in the county. The duties of Sheriff at that date involved a good deal of rough, hard work. He served his term of two years and then was appointed Deputy Sheriff. In the Fall of 1863, he enlisted in Company A, 7th Wis. I., which regiment formed a part of the famous "Iron Brigade." He was engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, and during the engagement was severely wounded in the shoulder, a rifle ball carrying away a portion of the right shoulder blade. Was discharged with his regiment at Madison, in August, 1865. He resumed farming and followed it for two years and then went to locating pine lands for other parties, seven times traversing the vast, uninhabited wilderness to Lake Superior, and undergoing great hardship. He retired from that business in the Fall of 1874, and settled in Bloomer. Was elected Constable in 1875, and the year following was elected Justice of the Peace and has held it since, also Town Clerk except one year. He was married in 1853, to Miss Mila C. Eaton, of Cattaraugus, Pa. She went home on a visit to her parents to Leona, N. Y., in 1856, and after an illness of six months died there Feb. 5, 1857, leaving one son, Edward H., who died in Bloomer in 1876, aged a little over fourteen years. Mr. Brown married Miss Ada C. Langdon, of Kilbourn City. Have two children, Edward and Alfretta.