PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

JACOB BROWN, retired farmer, Brimfield, was born in Marlboro, Stark Co.,
Ohio, March 28, 1818, and is a son of John and Catherine (Niswanger) Brown,
who settled in Stark County when it was a wilderness, and cleared and
improved the farm on which they lived and died.  Our subject was reared on
his father’s farm and received a limited education.  He was married in 1841,
to Lavinia, daughter of John and Sarah Baumbarger, of Stark County, by whom
he had six children, three now living:  Frank, a physician in Petoskey,
Mich.; Amanda, wife of Jacob Kline, in Franklin Township, and Emma J., wife
of Homer Boosinger, in Brimfield.  Mr. Brown settled in Rootstown in 1842,
where he cleared and improved a farm of 225 acres, on which he resided up to
1881, when he removed to Brimfield Center, and he has erected an elegant
residence.  He is independent in politics; a worthy citizen.