JAMES R. BROWN,
retired farmer, post-office Greenville, was born in West Salem Township
March 27, 1812, and is a member of one of the oldest families of the
township. In the year 1800 James, William, Richard and Andrew Brown
came to Mercer County, Penn., and, after exploring the country, the two
last mentioned located in West Salem Township, while James and William
settled across the line in Trumbull County, Ohio. They were natives of
Eastern Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry. A few years after coming
Richard Brown married Barbara Grenier, a resident of West Salem
Township, and a native of Pennsylvania, of German extraction. They
reared a family of nine children: Andrew (deceased), James B., Sarah
(deceased), William (deceased), Lorinda, Eliza (deceased), Cunningham
B. (deceased), Emeline (deceased) and Caroline. The parents both died
in West Salem Township, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
at ripe old ages. Politically Richard Brown was first a Whig, and
afterward a Republican, and served in the War of 1812. Our subject has
always lived in West Salem, and was here married, March 11, 1834, to
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann Speir, who was born in West Salem
Township February 8, 1808. She bore him four children: Richard C.,
Erwin, Malinda (deceased) and Robena, wife of William Lininger. Mrs.
Brown died March 6, 1880, in the Baptist faith. Mr. Brown is a stanch
Republican, and one of the oldest citizens of the township.
Source: History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1170
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