Bio:
Joseph Taliaferro Brown
A cowboy 'Roughrider' in the Spanish-American War
"The late Capt. Joseph T. Brown, a ranchman and widely known settler on the Tongue River in the community of Birney, came to Montana in the fall of 1886. He arrived with 1,000 head of cattle which he had driven from the Indian Territory. Having started early in the year he grazed them through or across Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The homestead which he proved up is a part of the family estate; this estate is one of the two most valuable ranches in this community, extending for twenty miles along the river. His recorded brand was and is still, the "Three Circles", one on the right hip and two on the right ribs. This ranch is known everywhere as the Three Circle ranch...chosen a member of the Legislature from Custer County and served a term in the Lower House. He was captain of a cowboy company [Troop I, Montana Cavalry] of Roughriders, which company formed a part of Colonel Grigsby's regiment during the Spanish-American War. [Google and read online: "Grigsby's Cowboys"]
Captain Brown was formerly a Texas man and resided there for many years, having gone there as young man of twenty-two. He became claim agent for the Texas and Pacific Railway. Following his plans to engage in the cattle business, when he should become able, he eventually found a friend of means who joined him in the enterprise and they assisted themselves together as partners. The Three Circles cattle which his partner, John Wyeth, owned in the Indian Territory were gathered and driven by Captain Brown into Montana...
Captain Brown was a native of Copiah County, Mississippi, born January 26, 1849. A college man, he graduated from the University of Virginia, and also from the Kentucky Military School. During the late war years, he had entered the Confederate service as a member of General Forrest's command. He was a son of Hezekiah George David Brown, a sailor of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, whose ancestors first settled in Virginia and finally drifted south to Mississippi. Captain Brown's mother was Mary Peachy Taliaferro, her surviving son being Edwin Rice Brown of Deer Park, Dallas, Texas.
Captain Brown was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Knight Templars, held his membership at Miles City. In church matters, he was a Methodist.
Captain Brown was married at Marshall, Texas, December 13, 1883, to Mary G. Humphreys, a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Jeffries) Humphreys. She is a great-granddaughter of Ralph Humphrey, who went to Mississippi from Virginia and was an officer in the Colonial army during the war of the Revolution.
Captain Brown died October 26, 1908 and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Miles City.
...parents of three children...[first] Albert Gallatin...educated in the Virginia Military School...business manager of the Brown Cattle Company...married Annie May Powell...two children: Josephine and Albert Gallatin...[second] Joseph Taliaferro...educated in the Virginia Military School...manager of the stock department of the Brown Cattle Company...married to Willie B. Powell, sister of Albert's wife...daughter of William Byrd Powell of Utica, Mississippi...[third] Natalie Humphreys...wife of Gilbert Woodward, a ranchman near Birney, with one daughter, Mary Brown.
Captain Brown possessed a liking for books and owned a library of no mean proportions. His fondness for history was proverbial, and, being a lawyer by profession, he appreciated to the full the literary efforts of able writers and speakers and was interested in all manner of questions coming before the body politic."
Source: Custer County History, "As We Recall"
INFORMATION PROVIVED BY: Jeanne S.
Joseph Taliaferro Brown
A cowboy 'Roughrider' in the Spanish-American War
"The late Capt. Joseph T. Brown, a ranchman and widely known settler on the Tongue River in the community of Birney, came to Montana in the fall of 1886. He arrived with 1,000 head of cattle which he had driven from the Indian Territory. Having started early in the year he grazed them through or across Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The homestead which he proved up is a part of the family estate; this estate is one of the two most valuable ranches in this community, extending for twenty miles along the river. His recorded brand was and is still, the "Three Circles", one on the right hip and two on the right ribs. This ranch is known everywhere as the Three Circle ranch...chosen a member of the Legislature from Custer County and served a term in the Lower House. He was captain of a cowboy company [Troop I, Montana Cavalry] of Roughriders, which company formed a part of Colonel Grigsby's regiment during the Spanish-American War. [Google and read online: "Grigsby's Cowboys"]
Captain Brown was formerly a Texas man and resided there for many years, having gone there as young man of twenty-two. He became claim agent for the Texas and Pacific Railway. Following his plans to engage in the cattle business, when he should become able, he eventually found a friend of means who joined him in the enterprise and they assisted themselves together as partners. The Three Circles cattle which his partner, John Wyeth, owned in the Indian Territory were gathered and driven by Captain Brown into Montana...
Captain Brown was a native of Copiah County, Mississippi, born January 26, 1849. A college man, he graduated from the University of Virginia, and also from the Kentucky Military School. During the late war years, he had entered the Confederate service as a member of General Forrest's command. He was a son of Hezekiah George David Brown, a sailor of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, whose ancestors first settled in Virginia and finally drifted south to Mississippi. Captain Brown's mother was Mary Peachy Taliaferro, her surviving son being Edwin Rice Brown of Deer Park, Dallas, Texas.
Captain Brown was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Knight Templars, held his membership at Miles City. In church matters, he was a Methodist.
Captain Brown was married at Marshall, Texas, December 13, 1883, to Mary G. Humphreys, a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Jeffries) Humphreys. She is a great-granddaughter of Ralph Humphrey, who went to Mississippi from Virginia and was an officer in the Colonial army during the war of the Revolution.
Captain Brown died October 26, 1908 and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Miles City.
...parents of three children...[first] Albert Gallatin...educated in the Virginia Military School...business manager of the Brown Cattle Company...married Annie May Powell...two children: Josephine and Albert Gallatin...[second] Joseph Taliaferro...educated in the Virginia Military School...manager of the stock department of the Brown Cattle Company...married to Willie B. Powell, sister of Albert's wife...daughter of William Byrd Powell of Utica, Mississippi...[third] Natalie Humphreys...wife of Gilbert Woodward, a ranchman near Birney, with one daughter, Mary Brown.
Captain Brown possessed a liking for books and owned a library of no mean proportions. His fondness for history was proverbial, and, being a lawyer by profession, he appreciated to the full the literary efforts of able writers and speakers and was interested in all manner of questions coming before the body politic."
Source: Custer County History, "As We Recall"
INFORMATION PROVIVED BY: Jeanne S.
Bio:
Joseph Taliaferro Brown
A cowboy 'Roughrider' in the Spanish-American War
"The late Capt. Joseph T. Brown, a ranchman and widely known settler on the Tongue River in the community of Birney, came to Montana in the fall of 1886. He arrived with 1,000 head of cattle which he had driven from the Indian Territory. Having started early in the year he grazed them through or across Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The homestead which he proved up is a part of the family estate; this estate is one of the two most valuable ranches in this community, extending for twenty miles along the river. His recorded brand was and is still, the "Three Circles", one on the right hip and two on the right ribs. This ranch is known everywhere as the Three Circle ranch...chosen a member of the Legislature from Custer County and served a term in the Lower House. He was captain of a cowboy company [Troop I, Montana Cavalry] of Roughriders, which company formed a part of Colonel Grigsby's regiment during the Spanish-American War. [Google and read online: "Grigsby's Cowboys"]
Captain Brown was formerly a Texas man and resided there for many years, having gone there as young man of twenty-two. He became claim agent for the Texas and Pacific Railway. Following his plans to engage in the cattle business, when he should become able, he eventually found a friend of means who joined him in the enterprise and they assisted themselves together as partners. The Three Circles cattle which his partner, John Wyeth, owned in the Indian Territory were gathered and driven by Captain Brown into Montana...
Captain Brown was a native of Copiah County, Mississippi, born January 26, 1849. A college man, he graduated from the University of Virginia, and also from the Kentucky Military School. During the late war years, he had entered the Confederate service as a member of General Forrest's command. He was a son of Hezekiah George David Brown, a sailor of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, whose ancestors first settled in Virginia and finally drifted south to Mississippi. Captain Brown's mother was Mary Peachy Taliaferro, her surviving son being Edwin Rice Brown of Deer Park, Dallas, Texas.
Captain Brown was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Knight Templars, held his membership at Miles City. In church matters, he was a Methodist.
Captain Brown was married at Marshall, Texas, December 13, 1883, to Mary G. Humphreys, a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Jeffries) Humphreys. She is a great-granddaughter of Ralph Humphrey, who went to Mississippi from Virginia and was an officer in the Colonial army during the war of the Revolution.
Captain Brown died October 26, 1908 and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Miles City.
...parents of three children...[first] Albert Gallatin...educated in the Virginia Military School...business manager of the Brown Cattle Company...married Annie May Powell...two children: Josephine and Albert Gallatin...[second] Joseph Taliaferro...educated in the Virginia Military School...manager of the stock department of the Brown Cattle Company...married to Willie B. Powell, sister of Albert's wife...daughter of William Byrd Powell of Utica, Mississippi...[third] Natalie Humphreys...wife of Gilbert Woodward, a ranchman near Birney, with one daughter, Mary Brown.
Captain Brown possessed a liking for books and owned a library of no mean proportions. His fondness for history was proverbial, and, being a lawyer by profession, he appreciated to the full the literary efforts of able writers and speakers and was interested in all manner of questions coming before the body politic."
Source: Custer County History, "As We Recall"
INFORMATION PROVIVED BY: Jeanne S.
Joseph Taliaferro Brown
A cowboy 'Roughrider' in the Spanish-American War
"The late Capt. Joseph T. Brown, a ranchman and widely known settler on the Tongue River in the community of Birney, came to Montana in the fall of 1886. He arrived with 1,000 head of cattle which he had driven from the Indian Territory. Having started early in the year he grazed them through or across Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The homestead which he proved up is a part of the family estate; this estate is one of the two most valuable ranches in this community, extending for twenty miles along the river. His recorded brand was and is still, the "Three Circles", one on the right hip and two on the right ribs. This ranch is known everywhere as the Three Circle ranch...chosen a member of the Legislature from Custer County and served a term in the Lower House. He was captain of a cowboy company [Troop I, Montana Cavalry] of Roughriders, which company formed a part of Colonel Grigsby's regiment during the Spanish-American War. [Google and read online: "Grigsby's Cowboys"]
Captain Brown was formerly a Texas man and resided there for many years, having gone there as young man of twenty-two. He became claim agent for the Texas and Pacific Railway. Following his plans to engage in the cattle business, when he should become able, he eventually found a friend of means who joined him in the enterprise and they assisted themselves together as partners. The Three Circles cattle which his partner, John Wyeth, owned in the Indian Territory were gathered and driven by Captain Brown into Montana...
Captain Brown was a native of Copiah County, Mississippi, born January 26, 1849. A college man, he graduated from the University of Virginia, and also from the Kentucky Military School. During the late war years, he had entered the Confederate service as a member of General Forrest's command. He was a son of Hezekiah George David Brown, a sailor of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, whose ancestors first settled in Virginia and finally drifted south to Mississippi. Captain Brown's mother was Mary Peachy Taliaferro, her surviving son being Edwin Rice Brown of Deer Park, Dallas, Texas.
Captain Brown was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Knight Templars, held his membership at Miles City. In church matters, he was a Methodist.
Captain Brown was married at Marshall, Texas, December 13, 1883, to Mary G. Humphreys, a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Jeffries) Humphreys. She is a great-granddaughter of Ralph Humphrey, who went to Mississippi from Virginia and was an officer in the Colonial army during the war of the Revolution.
Captain Brown died October 26, 1908 and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Miles City.
...parents of three children...[first] Albert Gallatin...educated in the Virginia Military School...business manager of the Brown Cattle Company...married Annie May Powell...two children: Josephine and Albert Gallatin...[second] Joseph Taliaferro...educated in the Virginia Military School...manager of the stock department of the Brown Cattle Company...married to Willie B. Powell, sister of Albert's wife...daughter of William Byrd Powell of Utica, Mississippi...[third] Natalie Humphreys...wife of Gilbert Woodward, a ranchman near Birney, with one daughter, Mary Brown.
Captain Brown possessed a liking for books and owned a library of no mean proportions. His fondness for history was proverbial, and, being a lawyer by profession, he appreciated to the full the literary efforts of able writers and speakers and was interested in all manner of questions coming before the body politic."
Source: Custer County History, "As We Recall"
INFORMATION PROVIVED BY: Jeanne S.
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