Biography of Parley Brown

Biography of Parley Brown

This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.

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Brown, Parley, (page 1111), attorney-at-law, Lake City, is a native of

Lorraine, Jefferson county, New York, and is the second child of Walter

and Abigail (Risley) Brown, who reared a family of fourteen children,

eight of whom are now (1884) living. His parents were natives of Argyle,

Washington county, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut, respectively. He

was born April 11, 1818, and was reared on a farm till the age of

twenty-one, at which time he entered a mill with a view of learning the

trade. His tastes, however, inclining toward the legal profession, he soon

after began reading law. Being deprived of educational advantages during

early youth, or rather enjoying only such as the primitive schools in the

backwoods afforded, his way to the bar was necessarily slow and tedious.

But "as the race is to the swift nor the battle to the strong," so it was

with Mr. Brown. He completed his law course, and was admitted to the bar

at Syracuse in 1859 by the supreme court of the State of New York. In 1862

he removed to Minnesota, located at Lake City, and at once entered on the

practice of his profession. In 1840 he was united in marriage with Miss

Maria Myers, who was a native of Schoharie county, New York. She bore a

family of six children, two sons and four daughters, and died in 1875. Mr.

Brown's second marriage was in 1875, to Miss Charlotte Totman, who, too,

was born and reared in Jefferson county, New York. Mr. Brown takes little

interest in politics, and has been a life-long democrat.