Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Brown, J D
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

J.D. BROWN, druggist and chemist, Joliet; born in Raymertown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., 
March 12, 1826; he received his academical education in Lyman Cross Academy, Troy, N.Y., 
completing the course in 1842 at the age of 16; he then engaged in the drug business with 
his uncle at Lansingburg, N.Y., where he remained three years. He emigrated West and 
located in the drug trade in Joliet in 1846, since which time he has been successfully 
engaged in the above business during a period of upward of thirty-two years; he is the 
senior member of the firm of J.H. BROWN & Co., his brother, J.H., being the junior partner 
for the past nine years. He married in New York Sept. 10, 1846, to Adelia BROWN; four 
children were the fruit of this union, two of whom are now living, viz., George and Mary 
M. Mrs. BROWN died in September, 1855. His second marriage, to Emily G. BARTLE, was 
celebrated in September 1858; three children have been born to them - - Eugene, Helen, 
and Horace. 


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

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