Biography taken from:
History of Seneca County, Ohio
By A. J. Baughman
Vol. II.
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago-New York
1911
Pages 805, 806 & 807
Henry H. Drown. — One of Seneca county's representative citizens is Henry H. Drown, a man of versatile talents who has made a success of many lines of endeavor, — such as general agriculture, produce, stock buying and selling, hardware and real estate. In the capacity of a public spirited benefactor he has served the interests of the community well and one of his most notable achievements was his assisting in securing the right of way for the Nickle Plate Railroad. Although from time to time Mr. Drown has made a change of residence and has engaged in business in other states, he has always paid Seneca county the compliment of returning.
Mr. Drown was born September 29, 1839, and is the son of Solomon and Fannie (Dennis) Drown, natives respectively of Maine and New Hampshire. They were married in New England, but came to Ohio in 1836 and took up their residence on Butternut Ridge in Adams township, Seneca county, where they farmed until his death in 1858. Solomon Drown was a good business man as well as a judicious agriculturist and he finally became the possessor of a fine six hundred acre farm. He was a man much respected in the community and his advise was greatly sought in public matters. He was active in politics and he was the champion of good education and the building of schools. He was a Whig and later, upon the organization of that party, became a Republican. He was married twice, first to Betsy Hatch and afterward to Fanny Dennis, who bore him the following nine children : Dennis, Charlotte, D.C, J.B., Rebecca, J.R., Lucy J., Henry H. and Elvira.
Mr. Drown was educated in the district schools, and upon his father's farm received his training in the most successful methods of the great industry of agriculture. He resided upon the old homestead until his father died and engaged in farming until he was about twenty-three years of age. His first venture far afield was when he went to the state of Illinois and his stay there was of six months duration. He returned to Ohio and in Green Creek township bought eighty acres of. land, upon which he began operations in the produce business and proved sufficiently successful. He then took up the buying and selling of stock. He again decided to try his fortunes in another locality and removed his goods and chattels to Iowa, where, in Liscomb, Marshall county, he engaged in a hitherto untried line of endeavor, the hardware business. This was a new settlement and it was his distinction to build the first business house in the town, which property he subsequently exchanged for a farm of one hundred and forty acres located near the town, and received in addition some six hundred dollars. He again returned to Seneca county, making the journey from Liscomb, Iowa, a distance of one thousand miles, driving a span of colts, and during the entire trip having slept in a house but two nights. He proceeded to dispose of his Iowa property, getting in exchange the farm known as the Chapen farm and located in Green Creek township, Sandusky county, the said tract consisting of about sixty-five acres. He was also the possessor of two hundred acres on the county line. Again he followed his inclination for change, and disposing of this property bought two hundred and forty-five acres in Pleasant township, Seneca county. He at once assumed a position of importance in the locality where he and his family were so well known, and it was about this time that he assisted in securing right of way for the Nickel Plate Railroad through the section, which has proved of immeasurable value and advantage to those effected. He was also in the employ of Smith & Company, buying stock, wool, etc., for them, and managed his own farm meantime.
In 1886 the love of change which has ever seemed to be innate in Mr. Drown again asserted itself and he removed to Wichita, Kansas, and in this thriving city he engaged in the hardware and real estate business. This again was a new departure. In his two years in the Jayhawker state he built three large business, houses, and otherwise had dealings of an important character. Again his native Seneca county drew him as the magnet draws the steel and he came back to engage for a time in the wool business, in which he had previously achieved success. A few years later he retired from life of such an active character as that in which he had previously been engaged, having an ample competence and being well justified in enjoying its comforts in greater leisure. He is a large landowner, possessing hundreds of acres in this and other states. One of his properties is a drug store in Logan, Kansas, which is operated by his grandson. Earl Drown. He is of a social nature and finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in his lodge relations, which extend to the Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of Pythias.
When eighteen years of age, in 1858, Mr. Drown married Susan Hihlman, of Seneca county. They had one child, Melville W., born in July, 1859 and died in April, 1900. He studied to be a Physician, being educated in the Medical College at St. Joe, Missouri, and also at St. Louis, and he practiced his profession at Lenora, Norton county, Kansas. He took as his wife Mabel Emery in 1882 and seven children were bom to their union of whom only two are living. They are Earl M., who married Blanche Eckerman, and Dale, who resides with them.
On the 6th day of August, 1863, when he was twenty-three years of age, Mr. Drown married Miss Barbara H. Stephens, of Castalia, bom November 27, 1838, in Dundee, Scotland. She is the daughter of Alexander and Jessie (Grant) Stephens, natives of Scotland, who left the land of the thistle to seek better fortunes in America in 1839. They resided in New York city for three years and went from that metropolis to Canada, where they stayed but a short time, then going to Detroit, from Detroit to Huron, Michigan, thence to Monroeville, and thence to Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, in which latter town he settled permanently and engaged in business, his death occurring some twenty-eight or thirty years thereafter. A family of children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Drown. Mary, born February 15, 1865, became the wife of P. A. Burress, of California, and they have one child, Harold Drown Burress. Mrs. Burress was a teacher and the principal of the Wichita city schools for fifteen years before she married. Mr. Drown 's second child is Jessie G., who was bom August 16, 1866, and is now engaged in teaching in Cleveland. She received her education in the Greenspring Academy, graduating with the class of 1885, supplementing this with literary and scientific courses. She is a successful teacher, standing high in her chosen profession, and having had fourteen year's experience in Wichita, Kansas, and seven as one of the teaching staff in the Halle school located at Cleveland. The third child. Myrtle, was born September 20, 1867, her short life being terminated by death July 19, 1887. The fourth child, Elmer L., was born July 13, 1874. He has been twice married, his first wife, Catherine Schwan, dying August 6, 1900. They had three children : Howard H., born February 14, 1897 ; Willard G., born May 12, 1898; and Helen, born October 25, 1899. He married Ruth Woody, of Wichita, Kansas, in 1901. She was a teacher in the public schools there for a number of years. Elmer Drown is a business man of Greenspring and is very prominent in all of its affairs.
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Note: Two paragraphs above, "Susan Hihlman" should be Susannah Hileman. They married November 21, 1858, in Seneca County, Ohio. In the 1860 census, Henry is 20 and living in his older brother Dennis Drown's household in Adams Township, Seneca County, Ohio and ex wife Susannah is 19 and living in her father Daniel Hileman's house in Adams Township, Green Springs, Seneca County, Ohio, with their son Melville Drown, 10 months old.
History of Seneca County, Ohio
By A. J. Baughman
Vol. II.
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago-New York
1911
Pages 805, 806 & 807
Henry H. Drown. — One of Seneca county's representative citizens is Henry H. Drown, a man of versatile talents who has made a success of many lines of endeavor, — such as general agriculture, produce, stock buying and selling, hardware and real estate. In the capacity of a public spirited benefactor he has served the interests of the community well and one of his most notable achievements was his assisting in securing the right of way for the Nickle Plate Railroad. Although from time to time Mr. Drown has made a change of residence and has engaged in business in other states, he has always paid Seneca county the compliment of returning.
Mr. Drown was born September 29, 1839, and is the son of Solomon and Fannie (Dennis) Drown, natives respectively of Maine and New Hampshire. They were married in New England, but came to Ohio in 1836 and took up their residence on Butternut Ridge in Adams township, Seneca county, where they farmed until his death in 1858. Solomon Drown was a good business man as well as a judicious agriculturist and he finally became the possessor of a fine six hundred acre farm. He was a man much respected in the community and his advise was greatly sought in public matters. He was active in politics and he was the champion of good education and the building of schools. He was a Whig and later, upon the organization of that party, became a Republican. He was married twice, first to Betsy Hatch and afterward to Fanny Dennis, who bore him the following nine children : Dennis, Charlotte, D.C, J.B., Rebecca, J.R., Lucy J., Henry H. and Elvira.
Mr. Drown was educated in the district schools, and upon his father's farm received his training in the most successful methods of the great industry of agriculture. He resided upon the old homestead until his father died and engaged in farming until he was about twenty-three years of age. His first venture far afield was when he went to the state of Illinois and his stay there was of six months duration. He returned to Ohio and in Green Creek township bought eighty acres of. land, upon which he began operations in the produce business and proved sufficiently successful. He then took up the buying and selling of stock. He again decided to try his fortunes in another locality and removed his goods and chattels to Iowa, where, in Liscomb, Marshall county, he engaged in a hitherto untried line of endeavor, the hardware business. This was a new settlement and it was his distinction to build the first business house in the town, which property he subsequently exchanged for a farm of one hundred and forty acres located near the town, and received in addition some six hundred dollars. He again returned to Seneca county, making the journey from Liscomb, Iowa, a distance of one thousand miles, driving a span of colts, and during the entire trip having slept in a house but two nights. He proceeded to dispose of his Iowa property, getting in exchange the farm known as the Chapen farm and located in Green Creek township, Sandusky county, the said tract consisting of about sixty-five acres. He was also the possessor of two hundred acres on the county line. Again he followed his inclination for change, and disposing of this property bought two hundred and forty-five acres in Pleasant township, Seneca county. He at once assumed a position of importance in the locality where he and his family were so well known, and it was about this time that he assisted in securing right of way for the Nickel Plate Railroad through the section, which has proved of immeasurable value and advantage to those effected. He was also in the employ of Smith & Company, buying stock, wool, etc., for them, and managed his own farm meantime.
In 1886 the love of change which has ever seemed to be innate in Mr. Drown again asserted itself and he removed to Wichita, Kansas, and in this thriving city he engaged in the hardware and real estate business. This again was a new departure. In his two years in the Jayhawker state he built three large business, houses, and otherwise had dealings of an important character. Again his native Seneca county drew him as the magnet draws the steel and he came back to engage for a time in the wool business, in which he had previously achieved success. A few years later he retired from life of such an active character as that in which he had previously been engaged, having an ample competence and being well justified in enjoying its comforts in greater leisure. He is a large landowner, possessing hundreds of acres in this and other states. One of his properties is a drug store in Logan, Kansas, which is operated by his grandson. Earl Drown. He is of a social nature and finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in his lodge relations, which extend to the Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of Pythias.
When eighteen years of age, in 1858, Mr. Drown married Susan Hihlman, of Seneca county. They had one child, Melville W., born in July, 1859 and died in April, 1900. He studied to be a Physician, being educated in the Medical College at St. Joe, Missouri, and also at St. Louis, and he practiced his profession at Lenora, Norton county, Kansas. He took as his wife Mabel Emery in 1882 and seven children were bom to their union of whom only two are living. They are Earl M., who married Blanche Eckerman, and Dale, who resides with them.
On the 6th day of August, 1863, when he was twenty-three years of age, Mr. Drown married Miss Barbara H. Stephens, of Castalia, bom November 27, 1838, in Dundee, Scotland. She is the daughter of Alexander and Jessie (Grant) Stephens, natives of Scotland, who left the land of the thistle to seek better fortunes in America in 1839. They resided in New York city for three years and went from that metropolis to Canada, where they stayed but a short time, then going to Detroit, from Detroit to Huron, Michigan, thence to Monroeville, and thence to Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, in which latter town he settled permanently and engaged in business, his death occurring some twenty-eight or thirty years thereafter. A family of children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Drown. Mary, born February 15, 1865, became the wife of P. A. Burress, of California, and they have one child, Harold Drown Burress. Mrs. Burress was a teacher and the principal of the Wichita city schools for fifteen years before she married. Mr. Drown 's second child is Jessie G., who was bom August 16, 1866, and is now engaged in teaching in Cleveland. She received her education in the Greenspring Academy, graduating with the class of 1885, supplementing this with literary and scientific courses. She is a successful teacher, standing high in her chosen profession, and having had fourteen year's experience in Wichita, Kansas, and seven as one of the teaching staff in the Halle school located at Cleveland. The third child. Myrtle, was born September 20, 1867, her short life being terminated by death July 19, 1887. The fourth child, Elmer L., was born July 13, 1874. He has been twice married, his first wife, Catherine Schwan, dying August 6, 1900. They had three children : Howard H., born February 14, 1897 ; Willard G., born May 12, 1898; and Helen, born October 25, 1899. He married Ruth Woody, of Wichita, Kansas, in 1901. She was a teacher in the public schools there for a number of years. Elmer Drown is a business man of Greenspring and is very prominent in all of its affairs.
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Note: Two paragraphs above, "Susan Hihlman" should be Susannah Hileman. They married November 21, 1858, in Seneca County, Ohio. In the 1860 census, Henry is 20 and living in his older brother Dennis Drown's household in Adams Township, Seneca County, Ohio and ex wife Susannah is 19 and living in her father Daniel Hileman's house in Adams Township, Green Springs, Seneca County, Ohio, with their son Melville Drown, 10 months old.
Biography taken from:
History of Seneca County, Ohio
By A. J. Baughman
Vol. II.
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago-New York
1911
Pages 805, 806 & 807
Henry H. Drown. — One of Seneca county's representative citizens is Henry H. Drown, a man of versatile talents who has made a success of many lines of endeavor, — such as general agriculture, produce, stock buying and selling, hardware and real estate. In the capacity of a public spirited benefactor he has served the interests of the community well and one of his most notable achievements was his assisting in securing the right of way for the Nickle Plate Railroad. Although from time to time Mr. Drown has made a change of residence and has engaged in business in other states, he has always paid Seneca county the compliment of returning.
Mr. Drown was born September 29, 1839, and is the son of Solomon and Fannie (Dennis) Drown, natives respectively of Maine and New Hampshire. They were married in New England, but came to Ohio in 1836 and took up their residence on Butternut Ridge in Adams township, Seneca county, where they farmed until his death in 1858. Solomon Drown was a good business man as well as a judicious agriculturist and he finally became the possessor of a fine six hundred acre farm. He was a man much respected in the community and his advise was greatly sought in public matters. He was active in politics and he was the champion of good education and the building of schools. He was a Whig and later, upon the organization of that party, became a Republican. He was married twice, first to Betsy Hatch and afterward to Fanny Dennis, who bore him the following nine children : Dennis, Charlotte, D.C, J.B., Rebecca, J.R., Lucy J., Henry H. and Elvira.
Mr. Drown was educated in the district schools, and upon his father's farm received his training in the most successful methods of the great industry of agriculture. He resided upon the old homestead until his father died and engaged in farming until he was about twenty-three years of age. His first venture far afield was when he went to the state of Illinois and his stay there was of six months duration. He returned to Ohio and in Green Creek township bought eighty acres of. land, upon which he began operations in the produce business and proved sufficiently successful. He then took up the buying and selling of stock. He again decided to try his fortunes in another locality and removed his goods and chattels to Iowa, where, in Liscomb, Marshall county, he engaged in a hitherto untried line of endeavor, the hardware business. This was a new settlement and it was his distinction to build the first business house in the town, which property he subsequently exchanged for a farm of one hundred and forty acres located near the town, and received in addition some six hundred dollars. He again returned to Seneca county, making the journey from Liscomb, Iowa, a distance of one thousand miles, driving a span of colts, and during the entire trip having slept in a house but two nights. He proceeded to dispose of his Iowa property, getting in exchange the farm known as the Chapen farm and located in Green Creek township, Sandusky county, the said tract consisting of about sixty-five acres. He was also the possessor of two hundred acres on the county line. Again he followed his inclination for change, and disposing of this property bought two hundred and forty-five acres in Pleasant township, Seneca county. He at once assumed a position of importance in the locality where he and his family were so well known, and it was about this time that he assisted in securing right of way for the Nickel Plate Railroad through the section, which has proved of immeasurable value and advantage to those effected. He was also in the employ of Smith & Company, buying stock, wool, etc., for them, and managed his own farm meantime.
In 1886 the love of change which has ever seemed to be innate in Mr. Drown again asserted itself and he removed to Wichita, Kansas, and in this thriving city he engaged in the hardware and real estate business. This again was a new departure. In his two years in the Jayhawker state he built three large business, houses, and otherwise had dealings of an important character. Again his native Seneca county drew him as the magnet draws the steel and he came back to engage for a time in the wool business, in which he had previously achieved success. A few years later he retired from life of such an active character as that in which he had previously been engaged, having an ample competence and being well justified in enjoying its comforts in greater leisure. He is a large landowner, possessing hundreds of acres in this and other states. One of his properties is a drug store in Logan, Kansas, which is operated by his grandson. Earl Drown. He is of a social nature and finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in his lodge relations, which extend to the Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of Pythias.
When eighteen years of age, in 1858, Mr. Drown married Susan Hihlman, of Seneca county. They had one child, Melville W., born in July, 1859 and died in April, 1900. He studied to be a Physician, being educated in the Medical College at St. Joe, Missouri, and also at St. Louis, and he practiced his profession at Lenora, Norton county, Kansas. He took as his wife Mabel Emery in 1882 and seven children were bom to their union of whom only two are living. They are Earl M., who married Blanche Eckerman, and Dale, who resides with them.
On the 6th day of August, 1863, when he was twenty-three years of age, Mr. Drown married Miss Barbara H. Stephens, of Castalia, bom November 27, 1838, in Dundee, Scotland. She is the daughter of Alexander and Jessie (Grant) Stephens, natives of Scotland, who left the land of the thistle to seek better fortunes in America in 1839. They resided in New York city for three years and went from that metropolis to Canada, where they stayed but a short time, then going to Detroit, from Detroit to Huron, Michigan, thence to Monroeville, and thence to Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, in which latter town he settled permanently and engaged in business, his death occurring some twenty-eight or thirty years thereafter. A family of children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Drown. Mary, born February 15, 1865, became the wife of P. A. Burress, of California, and they have one child, Harold Drown Burress. Mrs. Burress was a teacher and the principal of the Wichita city schools for fifteen years before she married. Mr. Drown 's second child is Jessie G., who was bom August 16, 1866, and is now engaged in teaching in Cleveland. She received her education in the Greenspring Academy, graduating with the class of 1885, supplementing this with literary and scientific courses. She is a successful teacher, standing high in her chosen profession, and having had fourteen year's experience in Wichita, Kansas, and seven as one of the teaching staff in the Halle school located at Cleveland. The third child. Myrtle, was born September 20, 1867, her short life being terminated by death July 19, 1887. The fourth child, Elmer L., was born July 13, 1874. He has been twice married, his first wife, Catherine Schwan, dying August 6, 1900. They had three children : Howard H., born February 14, 1897 ; Willard G., born May 12, 1898; and Helen, born October 25, 1899. He married Ruth Woody, of Wichita, Kansas, in 1901. She was a teacher in the public schools there for a number of years. Elmer Drown is a business man of Greenspring and is very prominent in all of its affairs.
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Note: Two paragraphs above, "Susan Hihlman" should be Susannah Hileman. They married November 21, 1858, in Seneca County, Ohio. In the 1860 census, Henry is 20 and living in his older brother Dennis Drown's household in Adams Township, Seneca County, Ohio and ex wife Susannah is 19 and living in her father Daniel Hileman's house in Adams Township, Green Springs, Seneca County, Ohio, with their son Melville Drown, 10 months old.
History of Seneca County, Ohio
By A. J. Baughman
Vol. II.
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago-New York
1911
Pages 805, 806 & 807
Henry H. Drown. — One of Seneca county's representative citizens is Henry H. Drown, a man of versatile talents who has made a success of many lines of endeavor, — such as general agriculture, produce, stock buying and selling, hardware and real estate. In the capacity of a public spirited benefactor he has served the interests of the community well and one of his most notable achievements was his assisting in securing the right of way for the Nickle Plate Railroad. Although from time to time Mr. Drown has made a change of residence and has engaged in business in other states, he has always paid Seneca county the compliment of returning.
Mr. Drown was born September 29, 1839, and is the son of Solomon and Fannie (Dennis) Drown, natives respectively of Maine and New Hampshire. They were married in New England, but came to Ohio in 1836 and took up their residence on Butternut Ridge in Adams township, Seneca county, where they farmed until his death in 1858. Solomon Drown was a good business man as well as a judicious agriculturist and he finally became the possessor of a fine six hundred acre farm. He was a man much respected in the community and his advise was greatly sought in public matters. He was active in politics and he was the champion of good education and the building of schools. He was a Whig and later, upon the organization of that party, became a Republican. He was married twice, first to Betsy Hatch and afterward to Fanny Dennis, who bore him the following nine children : Dennis, Charlotte, D.C, J.B., Rebecca, J.R., Lucy J., Henry H. and Elvira.
Mr. Drown was educated in the district schools, and upon his father's farm received his training in the most successful methods of the great industry of agriculture. He resided upon the old homestead until his father died and engaged in farming until he was about twenty-three years of age. His first venture far afield was when he went to the state of Illinois and his stay there was of six months duration. He returned to Ohio and in Green Creek township bought eighty acres of. land, upon which he began operations in the produce business and proved sufficiently successful. He then took up the buying and selling of stock. He again decided to try his fortunes in another locality and removed his goods and chattels to Iowa, where, in Liscomb, Marshall county, he engaged in a hitherto untried line of endeavor, the hardware business. This was a new settlement and it was his distinction to build the first business house in the town, which property he subsequently exchanged for a farm of one hundred and forty acres located near the town, and received in addition some six hundred dollars. He again returned to Seneca county, making the journey from Liscomb, Iowa, a distance of one thousand miles, driving a span of colts, and during the entire trip having slept in a house but two nights. He proceeded to dispose of his Iowa property, getting in exchange the farm known as the Chapen farm and located in Green Creek township, Sandusky county, the said tract consisting of about sixty-five acres. He was also the possessor of two hundred acres on the county line. Again he followed his inclination for change, and disposing of this property bought two hundred and forty-five acres in Pleasant township, Seneca county. He at once assumed a position of importance in the locality where he and his family were so well known, and it was about this time that he assisted in securing right of way for the Nickel Plate Railroad through the section, which has proved of immeasurable value and advantage to those effected. He was also in the employ of Smith & Company, buying stock, wool, etc., for them, and managed his own farm meantime.
In 1886 the love of change which has ever seemed to be innate in Mr. Drown again asserted itself and he removed to Wichita, Kansas, and in this thriving city he engaged in the hardware and real estate business. This again was a new departure. In his two years in the Jayhawker state he built three large business, houses, and otherwise had dealings of an important character. Again his native Seneca county drew him as the magnet draws the steel and he came back to engage for a time in the wool business, in which he had previously achieved success. A few years later he retired from life of such an active character as that in which he had previously been engaged, having an ample competence and being well justified in enjoying its comforts in greater leisure. He is a large landowner, possessing hundreds of acres in this and other states. One of his properties is a drug store in Logan, Kansas, which is operated by his grandson. Earl Drown. He is of a social nature and finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in his lodge relations, which extend to the Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of Pythias.
When eighteen years of age, in 1858, Mr. Drown married Susan Hihlman, of Seneca county. They had one child, Melville W., born in July, 1859 and died in April, 1900. He studied to be a Physician, being educated in the Medical College at St. Joe, Missouri, and also at St. Louis, and he practiced his profession at Lenora, Norton county, Kansas. He took as his wife Mabel Emery in 1882 and seven children were bom to their union of whom only two are living. They are Earl M., who married Blanche Eckerman, and Dale, who resides with them.
On the 6th day of August, 1863, when he was twenty-three years of age, Mr. Drown married Miss Barbara H. Stephens, of Castalia, bom November 27, 1838, in Dundee, Scotland. She is the daughter of Alexander and Jessie (Grant) Stephens, natives of Scotland, who left the land of the thistle to seek better fortunes in America in 1839. They resided in New York city for three years and went from that metropolis to Canada, where they stayed but a short time, then going to Detroit, from Detroit to Huron, Michigan, thence to Monroeville, and thence to Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, in which latter town he settled permanently and engaged in business, his death occurring some twenty-eight or thirty years thereafter. A family of children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Drown. Mary, born February 15, 1865, became the wife of P. A. Burress, of California, and they have one child, Harold Drown Burress. Mrs. Burress was a teacher and the principal of the Wichita city schools for fifteen years before she married. Mr. Drown 's second child is Jessie G., who was bom August 16, 1866, and is now engaged in teaching in Cleveland. She received her education in the Greenspring Academy, graduating with the class of 1885, supplementing this with literary and scientific courses. She is a successful teacher, standing high in her chosen profession, and having had fourteen year's experience in Wichita, Kansas, and seven as one of the teaching staff in the Halle school located at Cleveland. The third child. Myrtle, was born September 20, 1867, her short life being terminated by death July 19, 1887. The fourth child, Elmer L., was born July 13, 1874. He has been twice married, his first wife, Catherine Schwan, dying August 6, 1900. They had three children : Howard H., born February 14, 1897 ; Willard G., born May 12, 1898; and Helen, born October 25, 1899. He married Ruth Woody, of Wichita, Kansas, in 1901. She was a teacher in the public schools there for a number of years. Elmer Drown is a business man of Greenspring and is very prominent in all of its affairs.
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Note: Two paragraphs above, "Susan Hihlman" should be Susannah Hileman. They married November 21, 1858, in Seneca County, Ohio. In the 1860 census, Henry is 20 and living in his older brother Dennis Drown's household in Adams Township, Seneca County, Ohio and ex wife Susannah is 19 and living in her father Daniel Hileman's house in Adams Township, Green Springs, Seneca County, Ohio, with their son Melville Drown, 10 months old.
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