Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Brown, George S
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

George S. BROWN, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. New Lenox; was born in Tolland Co., 
Conn., May 18, 1825; came to this State in 1850, and settled in Mokena, where he 
remained two years; he removed from there to Lockport in 1852, and from there to New 
Lenox in 1876, where he now resides; his farm consists of eighty acres, valued at $5,000. 
Was married in New York Dec. 5, 1848, to Miss Martha A. PETTEYS, who was born in Wayne Co., 
N. Y., Dec. 23, 1830; they have had seven children, five of whom are living - Ida E., G. W., 
Rose Belle, Edward C. L. and Lillie May; deceased - Millard P. and Frankie. Mr. BROWN was 
a participant in the Mexican war of 1846. In his boyhood, he had a curiosity to see the 
world, and travel; he, therefore, left his home at the age of 16, and set out for New London, 
where he shipped on board the ship Mystic, bound for the northwestern coast of North America; 
she left her port Sept. 14, 1844; he was discharged at the Sandwich Islands, and there shipped 
aboard the sloop Portsmouth, a man-of-war, for the Mexican service; he served two years, and 
was discharged at the close of the war, at Boston, Mass., in May, 1848.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.