Son of Jonas and Polly Brown. Owned a 115 acre farm near East Market and Buchtel Ave. Brown Street was named in his honor.
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from Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County by Samuel A Lane:
Charles W. Brown, born Oct. 2, 1796, in North Stonington, Conn.; district school education; learning carpenter's trade, in 1817 came on foot to Ohio, reaching Middlebury, 700 miles, Feb. 28. Mrs. Brown, nee Miss Henrietta Halsey, to whom he was married June 9, 1816, arriving in the following August, by ox-team; lived in Middlebury 15 years, working at his trade, meantime purchasing the 115 acre farm upon which he resided from 1832 until his death, at the present junction of East Market street and Buchtel avenue, dividing his time between farming and jobbing at his trade, opening streets, building bridges, etc., among others opening Market and Main streets, building the Stone (late Baptist) Church, the High (Jennings) School building, etc. Though a man of peace, he took an active part in early local military matters, holding a lieutenant's commission for five years. Mr. Brown was the father of five daughters and one son, Mary, wife of Edward F. Pulsifer of Chicago; Prudence, wife of John W. Sabin, of Akron, (both deceased), Antoinette, wife of Benjamin McNaughton, of Akron; Lucy, wife of Robert P. Henry, of Akron, who died in 1850; Alice, now Mrs. William H. Mills, of Akron, and Capt. Henry H. Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Brown dying Sept. 23, 1859, Mr. B. was again married, on May 14, 1864, to Mrs. Lydia Williams, of Connecticut, who died Sept. 6, 1865, Mr. Brown himself dying June 1, 1888, at the age of 91 years, 7 months and 21 days.
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from The Brown Genealogy by Cyrus Henry Brown (1907):
John Baldwin Brown, b. No. Stonington, Aug. 13, 1798; d., Waterford, Conn., Mar. 26, 1874; son of Jonas Brown, whose father was Jonas Brown; his mother was Polly Williams, b., Stonington, 1775; d., aged eighty-two years; she was the dau. of John Williams, of Stonington, and Katurah Randall. Jonas Brown d., aged twenty-eight years, when his son J. B. Brown was about three years old; interred in the old New London Cemetery. Jonas Brown, grandfather of J. B. Brown, m. Clark, dau. of Ebenezer Clark, of Griswold, Conn. After the death of Jonas Brown, his widow, Mrs. Polly Brown, nee Williams, m. for her second husband, Henry Palmer. When J. B. Brown was twelve years old he moved with the Palmer family to Preston, Conn., and lived there till he was twenty-three years old, when he moved to Montville, Conn.; he was the second child; the oldest was Charles, who settled in Ohio and in 1885 lived there. J. B. Brown had three own brothers, four half-brothers and two half-sisters by the name of Palmer.
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from Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County by Samuel A Lane:
Charles W. Brown, born Oct. 2, 1796, in North Stonington, Conn.; district school education; learning carpenter's trade, in 1817 came on foot to Ohio, reaching Middlebury, 700 miles, Feb. 28. Mrs. Brown, nee Miss Henrietta Halsey, to whom he was married June 9, 1816, arriving in the following August, by ox-team; lived in Middlebury 15 years, working at his trade, meantime purchasing the 115 acre farm upon which he resided from 1832 until his death, at the present junction of East Market street and Buchtel avenue, dividing his time between farming and jobbing at his trade, opening streets, building bridges, etc., among others opening Market and Main streets, building the Stone (late Baptist) Church, the High (Jennings) School building, etc. Though a man of peace, he took an active part in early local military matters, holding a lieutenant's commission for five years. Mr. Brown was the father of five daughters and one son, Mary, wife of Edward F. Pulsifer of Chicago; Prudence, wife of John W. Sabin, of Akron, (both deceased), Antoinette, wife of Benjamin McNaughton, of Akron; Lucy, wife of Robert P. Henry, of Akron, who died in 1850; Alice, now Mrs. William H. Mills, of Akron, and Capt. Henry H. Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Brown dying Sept. 23, 1859, Mr. B. was again married, on May 14, 1864, to Mrs. Lydia Williams, of Connecticut, who died Sept. 6, 1865, Mr. Brown himself dying June 1, 1888, at the age of 91 years, 7 months and 21 days.
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from The Brown Genealogy by Cyrus Henry Brown (1907):
John Baldwin Brown, b. No. Stonington, Aug. 13, 1798; d., Waterford, Conn., Mar. 26, 1874; son of Jonas Brown, whose father was Jonas Brown; his mother was Polly Williams, b., Stonington, 1775; d., aged eighty-two years; she was the dau. of John Williams, of Stonington, and Katurah Randall. Jonas Brown d., aged twenty-eight years, when his son J. B. Brown was about three years old; interred in the old New London Cemetery. Jonas Brown, grandfather of J. B. Brown, m. Clark, dau. of Ebenezer Clark, of Griswold, Conn. After the death of Jonas Brown, his widow, Mrs. Polly Brown, nee Williams, m. for her second husband, Henry Palmer. When J. B. Brown was twelve years old he moved with the Palmer family to Preston, Conn., and lived there till he was twenty-three years old, when he moved to Montville, Conn.; he was the second child; the oldest was Charles, who settled in Ohio and in 1885 lived there. J. B. Brown had three own brothers, four half-brothers and two half-sisters by the name of Palmer.
Son of Jonas and Polly Brown. Owned a 115 acre farm near East Market and Buchtel Ave. Brown Street was named in his honor.
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from Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County by Samuel A Lane:
Charles W. Brown, born Oct. 2, 1796, in North Stonington, Conn.; district school education; learning carpenter's trade, in 1817 came on foot to Ohio, reaching Middlebury, 700 miles, Feb. 28. Mrs. Brown, nee Miss Henrietta Halsey, to whom he was married June 9, 1816, arriving in the following August, by ox-team; lived in Middlebury 15 years, working at his trade, meantime purchasing the 115 acre farm upon which he resided from 1832 until his death, at the present junction of East Market street and Buchtel avenue, dividing his time between farming and jobbing at his trade, opening streets, building bridges, etc., among others opening Market and Main streets, building the Stone (late Baptist) Church, the High (Jennings) School building, etc. Though a man of peace, he took an active part in early local military matters, holding a lieutenant's commission for five years. Mr. Brown was the father of five daughters and one son, Mary, wife of Edward F. Pulsifer of Chicago; Prudence, wife of John W. Sabin, of Akron, (both deceased), Antoinette, wife of Benjamin McNaughton, of Akron; Lucy, wife of Robert P. Henry, of Akron, who died in 1850; Alice, now Mrs. William H. Mills, of Akron, and Capt. Henry H. Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Brown dying Sept. 23, 1859, Mr. B. was again married, on May 14, 1864, to Mrs. Lydia Williams, of Connecticut, who died Sept. 6, 1865, Mr. Brown himself dying June 1, 1888, at the age of 91 years, 7 months and 21 days.
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from The Brown Genealogy by Cyrus Henry Brown (1907):
John Baldwin Brown, b. No. Stonington, Aug. 13, 1798; d., Waterford, Conn., Mar. 26, 1874; son of Jonas Brown, whose father was Jonas Brown; his mother was Polly Williams, b., Stonington, 1775; d., aged eighty-two years; she was the dau. of John Williams, of Stonington, and Katurah Randall. Jonas Brown d., aged twenty-eight years, when his son J. B. Brown was about three years old; interred in the old New London Cemetery. Jonas Brown, grandfather of J. B. Brown, m. Clark, dau. of Ebenezer Clark, of Griswold, Conn. After the death of Jonas Brown, his widow, Mrs. Polly Brown, nee Williams, m. for her second husband, Henry Palmer. When J. B. Brown was twelve years old he moved with the Palmer family to Preston, Conn., and lived there till he was twenty-three years old, when he moved to Montville, Conn.; he was the second child; the oldest was Charles, who settled in Ohio and in 1885 lived there. J. B. Brown had three own brothers, four half-brothers and two half-sisters by the name of Palmer.
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from Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County by Samuel A Lane:
Charles W. Brown, born Oct. 2, 1796, in North Stonington, Conn.; district school education; learning carpenter's trade, in 1817 came on foot to Ohio, reaching Middlebury, 700 miles, Feb. 28. Mrs. Brown, nee Miss Henrietta Halsey, to whom he was married June 9, 1816, arriving in the following August, by ox-team; lived in Middlebury 15 years, working at his trade, meantime purchasing the 115 acre farm upon which he resided from 1832 until his death, at the present junction of East Market street and Buchtel avenue, dividing his time between farming and jobbing at his trade, opening streets, building bridges, etc., among others opening Market and Main streets, building the Stone (late Baptist) Church, the High (Jennings) School building, etc. Though a man of peace, he took an active part in early local military matters, holding a lieutenant's commission for five years. Mr. Brown was the father of five daughters and one son, Mary, wife of Edward F. Pulsifer of Chicago; Prudence, wife of John W. Sabin, of Akron, (both deceased), Antoinette, wife of Benjamin McNaughton, of Akron; Lucy, wife of Robert P. Henry, of Akron, who died in 1850; Alice, now Mrs. William H. Mills, of Akron, and Capt. Henry H. Brown, of Akron. Mrs. Brown dying Sept. 23, 1859, Mr. B. was again married, on May 14, 1864, to Mrs. Lydia Williams, of Connecticut, who died Sept. 6, 1865, Mr. Brown himself dying June 1, 1888, at the age of 91 years, 7 months and 21 days.
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from The Brown Genealogy by Cyrus Henry Brown (1907):
John Baldwin Brown, b. No. Stonington, Aug. 13, 1798; d., Waterford, Conn., Mar. 26, 1874; son of Jonas Brown, whose father was Jonas Brown; his mother was Polly Williams, b., Stonington, 1775; d., aged eighty-two years; she was the dau. of John Williams, of Stonington, and Katurah Randall. Jonas Brown d., aged twenty-eight years, when his son J. B. Brown was about three years old; interred in the old New London Cemetery. Jonas Brown, grandfather of J. B. Brown, m. Clark, dau. of Ebenezer Clark, of Griswold, Conn. After the death of Jonas Brown, his widow, Mrs. Polly Brown, nee Williams, m. for her second husband, Henry Palmer. When J. B. Brown was twelve years old he moved with the Palmer family to Preston, Conn., and lived there till he was twenty-three years old, when he moved to Montville, Conn.; he was the second child; the oldest was Charles, who settled in Ohio and in 1885 lived there. J. B. Brown had three own brothers, four half-brothers and two half-sisters by the name of Palmer.
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