Brown, Isaac B.

ISAAC B. BROWN, attorney, Corry, was born February 20, 1848, in Rasselas, Penn., son of Rasselas W. (after whom the place was named) and Mary P. (Brownell) Brown, natives of New York. They were parents of six children, who received a good Christian training, with a common school education, sufficient to enable all of them to teach winters and attend the higher schools in summer. The family are— Jefferson, a civil engineer, lumberman and banker, at Wilcox, Elk County, Penn. (during the war of the rebellion he was a member of the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteers. He is now a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, having served two terms); William Wallace, an attorney in Bradford, McKean Co., Penn. (he served during the late war in the Twenty-third New York Regiment, and afterward in the Pennsylvania "Bucktails," is a Representative of the Sixteenth District in Congress, having formerly served two terms in the Pennsylvania Legislature; in politics he is a Republican); Olive J., wife of S. Moyer, a school teacher: Mary A., wife of George R. Allen, of the firm of Allen & Loomis, canning business in Syracuse, N.Y.; Eunice, wife of William E. Hewitt, a farmer, and Isaac B., our subject, who received his early education at Smithport Academy. When sixteen years of age, he enlisted, in 1864, in Company C, Two Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was present at the battles of Bermuda Hundred, Thatcher’s Run, Fort Steadman and Petersburg, and was under constant fire for five months of his service. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged, and resumed his studies in the University of Alfred, from which he graduated in 1869. In 1870, our subject was married to Hannah, daughter of Richard Partington, of Providence, R.I. Two children have been born to this union— Lillian and Sarah M. Mr. Brown finished his law studies under Crosby & Brown, and was admitted to the bar of Erie City, this county, in 1877. He was elected to the legislature in the Second District of Erie County on the Republican ticket in 1880, re-elected in 1882 by the largest majority of any district candidate, has been City Clerk, is a member of the Royal Arcanurn, the I.O.O.F. and Royal Templars; has been an officer in the National Guard since 1874. In politics Mr. Brown is a Republican.