English Birth Registration showing full name:
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Sealey Henry Hercules Edwin Langford Browne
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1862
Registration District: Honiton
Inferred County: Devon
Volume 5b, Page 33
The following biography is extracted from the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas, Illustrated," 1903. The bio is incorrect in stating that Sealy was an only child. He had an older brother and a younger half-brother.
SEALY L. BROWN – The above will be recognized as the name of one of Montgomery’s most enterprising citizens, and whose success in the poultry business has called favorable attention to the county from all over the United States. He is also favorably known as a breeder of a fine strain of Poland-China hogs, and, in both of these lines, he holds prizes from many of the best stock shows in the west.
Sealy L. Brown is of English descent and birth, that event occurring March 30, 1862, in Devonshire, England. His father was Sealy L. Brown, his mother, Mary Lavis, he being their only child. The father died in England, December 25, 1865, at the age of seventy-five years. The mother, soon after, came to this country and settled in Chicago, where Sealy L. was reared until he had entered his ‘teens. He spent four years in Canada, then returned to the Lake City and remained until 1878. Circumstances combined, at this time, to turn his thoughts toward the Great West, and, at sixteen, he started out to test the stories which had so charmed his ear. He stopped in Montgomery, and finding employment on a farm, resolved to here make his future home. Carefully husbanding his resources, he in time, had saved sufficient to make the first payment on the present farm of one hundred and thirty acres. Home building has been a most pleasant and profitable pastime for Mr. Brown. He is one of those optimistic citizens who, like the great bard of his native heath, sees “good in everything.” He lives to help his friends, and they delight to return it in kind. In business, he is most diligent. As stated above, he has, for years, given careful attention to hogs and poultry and has had most flattering success. At the Kansas City Convention Hall stock show, in 1902, he entered a cockerel which scored 94 ½ points, taking first prize among three hundred birds. This bird sold for more money than was ever before paid for a single cockerel. Within the past year, Mr. Brown has sold $1,167.50 worth of eggs from his yards, shipping them to all points in the United States.
Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness.
To the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown have come three bright children: Thomas L., Joseph A. and Edwin McKinley. The latter name is an index of the political faith of our subject, this boy being named after that noble martyr president, William McKinley. Mr. Brown has no political aspirations of his own, but delights in furthering the interests of his friends. He has developed into a fine worker in the different conventions of his party, and is a member of the County Central Committee, and of the Congressional Committee, as well.
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Sealey Henry Hercules Edwin Langford Browne
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1862
Registration District: Honiton
Inferred County: Devon
Volume 5b, Page 33
The following biography is extracted from the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas, Illustrated," 1903. The bio is incorrect in stating that Sealy was an only child. He had an older brother and a younger half-brother.
SEALY L. BROWN – The above will be recognized as the name of one of Montgomery’s most enterprising citizens, and whose success in the poultry business has called favorable attention to the county from all over the United States. He is also favorably known as a breeder of a fine strain of Poland-China hogs, and, in both of these lines, he holds prizes from many of the best stock shows in the west.
Sealy L. Brown is of English descent and birth, that event occurring March 30, 1862, in Devonshire, England. His father was Sealy L. Brown, his mother, Mary Lavis, he being their only child. The father died in England, December 25, 1865, at the age of seventy-five years. The mother, soon after, came to this country and settled in Chicago, where Sealy L. was reared until he had entered his ‘teens. He spent four years in Canada, then returned to the Lake City and remained until 1878. Circumstances combined, at this time, to turn his thoughts toward the Great West, and, at sixteen, he started out to test the stories which had so charmed his ear. He stopped in Montgomery, and finding employment on a farm, resolved to here make his future home. Carefully husbanding his resources, he in time, had saved sufficient to make the first payment on the present farm of one hundred and thirty acres. Home building has been a most pleasant and profitable pastime for Mr. Brown. He is one of those optimistic citizens who, like the great bard of his native heath, sees “good in everything.” He lives to help his friends, and they delight to return it in kind. In business, he is most diligent. As stated above, he has, for years, given careful attention to hogs and poultry and has had most flattering success. At the Kansas City Convention Hall stock show, in 1902, he entered a cockerel which scored 94 ½ points, taking first prize among three hundred birds. This bird sold for more money than was ever before paid for a single cockerel. Within the past year, Mr. Brown has sold $1,167.50 worth of eggs from his yards, shipping them to all points in the United States.
Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness.
To the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown have come three bright children: Thomas L., Joseph A. and Edwin McKinley. The latter name is an index of the political faith of our subject, this boy being named after that noble martyr president, William McKinley. Mr. Brown has no political aspirations of his own, but delights in furthering the interests of his friends. He has developed into a fine worker in the different conventions of his party, and is a member of the County Central Committee, and of the Congressional Committee, as well.
English Birth Registration showing full name:
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Sealey Henry Hercules Edwin Langford Browne
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1862
Registration District: Honiton
Inferred County: Devon
Volume 5b, Page 33
The following biography is extracted from the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas, Illustrated," 1903. The bio is incorrect in stating that Sealy was an only child. He had an older brother and a younger half-brother.
SEALY L. BROWN – The above will be recognized as the name of one of Montgomery’s most enterprising citizens, and whose success in the poultry business has called favorable attention to the county from all over the United States. He is also favorably known as a breeder of a fine strain of Poland-China hogs, and, in both of these lines, he holds prizes from many of the best stock shows in the west.
Sealy L. Brown is of English descent and birth, that event occurring March 30, 1862, in Devonshire, England. His father was Sealy L. Brown, his mother, Mary Lavis, he being their only child. The father died in England, December 25, 1865, at the age of seventy-five years. The mother, soon after, came to this country and settled in Chicago, where Sealy L. was reared until he had entered his ‘teens. He spent four years in Canada, then returned to the Lake City and remained until 1878. Circumstances combined, at this time, to turn his thoughts toward the Great West, and, at sixteen, he started out to test the stories which had so charmed his ear. He stopped in Montgomery, and finding employment on a farm, resolved to here make his future home. Carefully husbanding his resources, he in time, had saved sufficient to make the first payment on the present farm of one hundred and thirty acres. Home building has been a most pleasant and profitable pastime for Mr. Brown. He is one of those optimistic citizens who, like the great bard of his native heath, sees “good in everything.” He lives to help his friends, and they delight to return it in kind. In business, he is most diligent. As stated above, he has, for years, given careful attention to hogs and poultry and has had most flattering success. At the Kansas City Convention Hall stock show, in 1902, he entered a cockerel which scored 94 ½ points, taking first prize among three hundred birds. This bird sold for more money than was ever before paid for a single cockerel. Within the past year, Mr. Brown has sold $1,167.50 worth of eggs from his yards, shipping them to all points in the United States.
Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness.
To the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown have come three bright children: Thomas L., Joseph A. and Edwin McKinley. The latter name is an index of the political faith of our subject, this boy being named after that noble martyr president, William McKinley. Mr. Brown has no political aspirations of his own, but delights in furthering the interests of his friends. He has developed into a fine worker in the different conventions of his party, and is a member of the County Central Committee, and of the Congressional Committee, as well.
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Sealey Henry Hercules Edwin Langford Browne
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1862
Registration District: Honiton
Inferred County: Devon
Volume 5b, Page 33
The following biography is extracted from the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas, Illustrated," 1903. The bio is incorrect in stating that Sealy was an only child. He had an older brother and a younger half-brother.
SEALY L. BROWN – The above will be recognized as the name of one of Montgomery’s most enterprising citizens, and whose success in the poultry business has called favorable attention to the county from all over the United States. He is also favorably known as a breeder of a fine strain of Poland-China hogs, and, in both of these lines, he holds prizes from many of the best stock shows in the west.
Sealy L. Brown is of English descent and birth, that event occurring March 30, 1862, in Devonshire, England. His father was Sealy L. Brown, his mother, Mary Lavis, he being their only child. The father died in England, December 25, 1865, at the age of seventy-five years. The mother, soon after, came to this country and settled in Chicago, where Sealy L. was reared until he had entered his ‘teens. He spent four years in Canada, then returned to the Lake City and remained until 1878. Circumstances combined, at this time, to turn his thoughts toward the Great West, and, at sixteen, he started out to test the stories which had so charmed his ear. He stopped in Montgomery, and finding employment on a farm, resolved to here make his future home. Carefully husbanding his resources, he in time, had saved sufficient to make the first payment on the present farm of one hundred and thirty acres. Home building has been a most pleasant and profitable pastime for Mr. Brown. He is one of those optimistic citizens who, like the great bard of his native heath, sees “good in everything.” He lives to help his friends, and they delight to return it in kind. In business, he is most diligent. As stated above, he has, for years, given careful attention to hogs and poultry and has had most flattering success. At the Kansas City Convention Hall stock show, in 1902, he entered a cockerel which scored 94 ½ points, taking first prize among three hundred birds. This bird sold for more money than was ever before paid for a single cockerel. Within the past year, Mr. Brown has sold $1,167.50 worth of eggs from his yards, shipping them to all points in the United States.
Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness.
To the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown have come three bright children: Thomas L., Joseph A. and Edwin McKinley. The latter name is an index of the political faith of our subject, this boy being named after that noble martyr president, William McKinley. Mr. Brown has no political aspirations of his own, but delights in furthering the interests of his friends. He has developed into a fine worker in the different conventions of his party, and is a member of the County Central Committee, and of the Congressional Committee, as well.
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