J. VALLANCE BROWN
The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent. Covenanter ancestors on the father's side were driven from Scotland to the north of Ireland by religious persecution.
From the latter home the paternal great-grandfather, James Brown, came, with a little colony of relatives, to Charleston, South Carolina. His wife, Elizabeth Beggs, was born in 1772, in Antrim county, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1785, was married January 1, 1791, and died in 1868. Of these parents nine children were born.
The grandfather, John Brown, was the second child of James and Elizabeth Brown and was born January 5, 1794. He was twice married,—first on December 31, 1817, to Elizabeth Porter, and on January 8, 1835, to Eliza Andrews. By the former he had eight children, by the latter six.
The father, John Hervey Brown, was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Brown and was born February 20, 1834. With the third generation noted came exchange of the farm for a profession and at the age of twenty-one John Hervey Brown entered Monmouth (Illinois) College, received his A. B. degree in 1862 and two years later graduated at the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, also located in Monmouth at that time. March 1, 1864, dated his marriage to Catherine McClanahan. His first pastoral charge was Clayton, Illinois, 1864-1869. Here, December 29, 1864, was born a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, now the wife of John Frazier, a retail dealer in general merchandise at Viola, Illinois. Three and a half years after the subject of this sketch was born, [on] May 29, 1868, some six weeks after his birth, the mother died. The father's second pastorate was Piqua, Ohio, 1869-1884. August 31, 1870, dated his marriage to Rachel Emma Gibson. A daughter, Katherine Geno, was born September 8, 1873. Her husband, Robert Frank Wilkin, is the cashier of a private bank in Lenox, Iowa. The youngest child of Rev. John H. Brown is Arthur Gibson, born March 7, 1880, and at present (1900) a junior in Monmouth College. From the same institution, in 1882, the father received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His later pastoral settlements were: Rock Island, Illinois, 1885-1888; and Lenox, Iowa, 1889-1895. In 1895 he retired from the active ministry and removed to Monmouth, since that time his home. Of this period the years 1895-1897 were spent as financial agent of Tarkio, Missouri, College.
The maternal ancestry was also Scotch-Irish, as the McClanahan name sufficiently testifies.
The great-grandfather, Robert McClanahan, was born in the year 1771 and died July 17, 1832. His first wife, Isabel, was born in 1766 and died July 21, 1828. At the birth of their first child we find them located in Rockbridge county, Virginia. The second wife, Margaret, was born in 1782 and died January 24, 1832. In all there were born of these parents two sons and six daughters.
The grandfather of our subject, John McClanahan, was the oldest child of Robert and Isabel McClanahan and was born September 15, 1794. He served his country as a private in the war of 1812. January 29, 1818, dated his marriage to Margaret Black Wright. The latter was born in Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, July 19, 1800, and died in 1873. The married life of John and Margaret McClanahan was successively spent at West Union, Adams county, Ohio; Ripley, Ohio; Cedar Creek, Warren county, Illinois; and Monmouth, Illinois. The husband was now surveyor, now miller, now farmer. In the Ohio state militia he was a general. At the age of sixty-eight he enlisted in the Union army for service in the war of the Rebellion and organized, at Monmouth, Company B, Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, of which he was elected the captain. At the battle of Fort Donelson, February 3, 1863, while gallantly leading a charge, he was struck by a mine ball and died from the wound February 23. In his memory the Monmouth branch of the Grand Army of the Republic is named McClanahan Post. To John and Margaret McClanahan were born seventeen children. Nine of these were sons. With the exception of one daughter, Sarah, who died at the age of eighteen, all reached years of maturity, were married, and, with one other exception, left families. Four of the sons also served the Union in the Civil war. John Porter was assistant surgeon to the Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. William Steel was the second lieutenant of Company F, Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, and on a re-enlistment was the captain of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Francis Marion and Monroe Roubantile were privates, respectively, in the Thirty-sixth and in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiments, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. Catherine McClanahan, later the wife of John Hervey Brown and the mother of John Vallance Brown, was the youngest daughter and the next youngest child of General McClanahan.
The subject of this sketch, John Vallance Brown, the youngest son of John Hervey and Catherine (McClanahan) Brown, was born, as stated above, at Clayton, Illinois, April 13, 1868. From his mother's death, six weeks later, until his own graduation at college, he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wickens, the latter of whom was his mother's sister. With the exception of three years passed in Kirkwood, Illinois, this period was spent at Monmouth. From Monmouth College, June 12, 1890, he received his A. B. and three years later his A. M. degree. Since graduation he has held the chair of Greek language and literature in Tarkio College. One year of this period, the school year of 1893-94, was spent in absence for study at Johns Hopkins University. In 1897, as a correspondence student of the University of Chicago, he received first rank and a certificate of work in advanced New Testament Greek. In 1899 he was elected the vice-president of Tarkio College, and in 1900, during President Thompson's four months' absence in Europe, was acting president.
September 7, 1893, dated his marriage to Ada May Moore, of Hanover, Illinois. The latter is the only surviving child of John and Agnes Moore and was born near Hanover, March 28, 1866. A younger sister died in childhood. Her father, John Moore, the third child of Charles and Hannah Moore, was born near Galena, Illinois, May 1, 1836, was a student at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1856-57; a teacher in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, 1859-60; married June 22, 1865; and died at Hanover March 9, 1868. Her mother, Agnes Moore, was the first child of John and Jane Nesbitt and was born near Hanover, January 10, 1846. Her second marriage was to James Moore November 9, 1870. The grandparents of Ada Moore Brown were John Nesbitt and Jane Moffat, Charles Moore and Hannah Rogers, and they, with others, came to Hanover from county Monaghan, Ireland, the first named in 1841, the second in 1845, the last two June 18, 1834. Of Ada Moore Brown and John Vallance Brown have been born two sons—John Moore Findley, April 3, 1897, and Arthur Thomas, May 6, 1900.
A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties Missouri.
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1901.
pp. 226-228.
The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent. Covenanter ancestors on the father's side were driven from Scotland to the north of Ireland by religious persecution.
From the latter home the paternal great-grandfather, James Brown, came, with a little colony of relatives, to Charleston, South Carolina. His wife, Elizabeth Beggs, was born in 1772, in Antrim county, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1785, was married January 1, 1791, and died in 1868. Of these parents nine children were born.
The grandfather, John Brown, was the second child of James and Elizabeth Brown and was born January 5, 1794. He was twice married,—first on December 31, 1817, to Elizabeth Porter, and on January 8, 1835, to Eliza Andrews. By the former he had eight children, by the latter six.
The father, John Hervey Brown, was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Brown and was born February 20, 1834. With the third generation noted came exchange of the farm for a profession and at the age of twenty-one John Hervey Brown entered Monmouth (Illinois) College, received his A. B. degree in 1862 and two years later graduated at the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, also located in Monmouth at that time. March 1, 1864, dated his marriage to Catherine McClanahan. His first pastoral charge was Clayton, Illinois, 1864-1869. Here, December 29, 1864, was born a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, now the wife of John Frazier, a retail dealer in general merchandise at Viola, Illinois. Three and a half years after the subject of this sketch was born, [on] May 29, 1868, some six weeks after his birth, the mother died. The father's second pastorate was Piqua, Ohio, 1869-1884. August 31, 1870, dated his marriage to Rachel Emma Gibson. A daughter, Katherine Geno, was born September 8, 1873. Her husband, Robert Frank Wilkin, is the cashier of a private bank in Lenox, Iowa. The youngest child of Rev. John H. Brown is Arthur Gibson, born March 7, 1880, and at present (1900) a junior in Monmouth College. From the same institution, in 1882, the father received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His later pastoral settlements were: Rock Island, Illinois, 1885-1888; and Lenox, Iowa, 1889-1895. In 1895 he retired from the active ministry and removed to Monmouth, since that time his home. Of this period the years 1895-1897 were spent as financial agent of Tarkio, Missouri, College.
The maternal ancestry was also Scotch-Irish, as the McClanahan name sufficiently testifies.
The great-grandfather, Robert McClanahan, was born in the year 1771 and died July 17, 1832. His first wife, Isabel, was born in 1766 and died July 21, 1828. At the birth of their first child we find them located in Rockbridge county, Virginia. The second wife, Margaret, was born in 1782 and died January 24, 1832. In all there were born of these parents two sons and six daughters.
The grandfather of our subject, John McClanahan, was the oldest child of Robert and Isabel McClanahan and was born September 15, 1794. He served his country as a private in the war of 1812. January 29, 1818, dated his marriage to Margaret Black Wright. The latter was born in Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, July 19, 1800, and died in 1873. The married life of John and Margaret McClanahan was successively spent at West Union, Adams county, Ohio; Ripley, Ohio; Cedar Creek, Warren county, Illinois; and Monmouth, Illinois. The husband was now surveyor, now miller, now farmer. In the Ohio state militia he was a general. At the age of sixty-eight he enlisted in the Union army for service in the war of the Rebellion and organized, at Monmouth, Company B, Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, of which he was elected the captain. At the battle of Fort Donelson, February 3, 1863, while gallantly leading a charge, he was struck by a mine ball and died from the wound February 23. In his memory the Monmouth branch of the Grand Army of the Republic is named McClanahan Post. To John and Margaret McClanahan were born seventeen children. Nine of these were sons. With the exception of one daughter, Sarah, who died at the age of eighteen, all reached years of maturity, were married, and, with one other exception, left families. Four of the sons also served the Union in the Civil war. John Porter was assistant surgeon to the Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. William Steel was the second lieutenant of Company F, Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, and on a re-enlistment was the captain of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Francis Marion and Monroe Roubantile were privates, respectively, in the Thirty-sixth and in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiments, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. Catherine McClanahan, later the wife of John Hervey Brown and the mother of John Vallance Brown, was the youngest daughter and the next youngest child of General McClanahan.
The subject of this sketch, John Vallance Brown, the youngest son of John Hervey and Catherine (McClanahan) Brown, was born, as stated above, at Clayton, Illinois, April 13, 1868. From his mother's death, six weeks later, until his own graduation at college, he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wickens, the latter of whom was his mother's sister. With the exception of three years passed in Kirkwood, Illinois, this period was spent at Monmouth. From Monmouth College, June 12, 1890, he received his A. B. and three years later his A. M. degree. Since graduation he has held the chair of Greek language and literature in Tarkio College. One year of this period, the school year of 1893-94, was spent in absence for study at Johns Hopkins University. In 1897, as a correspondence student of the University of Chicago, he received first rank and a certificate of work in advanced New Testament Greek. In 1899 he was elected the vice-president of Tarkio College, and in 1900, during President Thompson's four months' absence in Europe, was acting president.
September 7, 1893, dated his marriage to Ada May Moore, of Hanover, Illinois. The latter is the only surviving child of John and Agnes Moore and was born near Hanover, March 28, 1866. A younger sister died in childhood. Her father, John Moore, the third child of Charles and Hannah Moore, was born near Galena, Illinois, May 1, 1836, was a student at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1856-57; a teacher in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, 1859-60; married June 22, 1865; and died at Hanover March 9, 1868. Her mother, Agnes Moore, was the first child of John and Jane Nesbitt and was born near Hanover, January 10, 1846. Her second marriage was to James Moore November 9, 1870. The grandparents of Ada Moore Brown were John Nesbitt and Jane Moffat, Charles Moore and Hannah Rogers, and they, with others, came to Hanover from county Monaghan, Ireland, the first named in 1841, the second in 1845, the last two June 18, 1834. Of Ada Moore Brown and John Vallance Brown have been born two sons—John Moore Findley, April 3, 1897, and Arthur Thomas, May 6, 1900.
A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties Missouri.
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1901.
pp. 226-228.
J. VALLANCE BROWN
The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent. Covenanter ancestors on the father's side were driven from Scotland to the north of Ireland by religious persecution.
From the latter home the paternal great-grandfather, James Brown, came, with a little colony of relatives, to Charleston, South Carolina. His wife, Elizabeth Beggs, was born in 1772, in Antrim county, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1785, was married January 1, 1791, and died in 1868. Of these parents nine children were born.
The grandfather, John Brown, was the second child of James and Elizabeth Brown and was born January 5, 1794. He was twice married,—first on December 31, 1817, to Elizabeth Porter, and on January 8, 1835, to Eliza Andrews. By the former he had eight children, by the latter six.
The father, John Hervey Brown, was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Brown and was born February 20, 1834. With the third generation noted came exchange of the farm for a profession and at the age of twenty-one John Hervey Brown entered Monmouth (Illinois) College, received his A. B. degree in 1862 and two years later graduated at the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, also located in Monmouth at that time. March 1, 1864, dated his marriage to Catherine McClanahan. His first pastoral charge was Clayton, Illinois, 1864-1869. Here, December 29, 1864, was born a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, now the wife of John Frazier, a retail dealer in general merchandise at Viola, Illinois. Three and a half years after the subject of this sketch was born, [on] May 29, 1868, some six weeks after his birth, the mother died. The father's second pastorate was Piqua, Ohio, 1869-1884. August 31, 1870, dated his marriage to Rachel Emma Gibson. A daughter, Katherine Geno, was born September 8, 1873. Her husband, Robert Frank Wilkin, is the cashier of a private bank in Lenox, Iowa. The youngest child of Rev. John H. Brown is Arthur Gibson, born March 7, 1880, and at present (1900) a junior in Monmouth College. From the same institution, in 1882, the father received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His later pastoral settlements were: Rock Island, Illinois, 1885-1888; and Lenox, Iowa, 1889-1895. In 1895 he retired from the active ministry and removed to Monmouth, since that time his home. Of this period the years 1895-1897 were spent as financial agent of Tarkio, Missouri, College.
The maternal ancestry was also Scotch-Irish, as the McClanahan name sufficiently testifies.
The great-grandfather, Robert McClanahan, was born in the year 1771 and died July 17, 1832. His first wife, Isabel, was born in 1766 and died July 21, 1828. At the birth of their first child we find them located in Rockbridge county, Virginia. The second wife, Margaret, was born in 1782 and died January 24, 1832. In all there were born of these parents two sons and six daughters.
The grandfather of our subject, John McClanahan, was the oldest child of Robert and Isabel McClanahan and was born September 15, 1794. He served his country as a private in the war of 1812. January 29, 1818, dated his marriage to Margaret Black Wright. The latter was born in Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, July 19, 1800, and died in 1873. The married life of John and Margaret McClanahan was successively spent at West Union, Adams county, Ohio; Ripley, Ohio; Cedar Creek, Warren county, Illinois; and Monmouth, Illinois. The husband was now surveyor, now miller, now farmer. In the Ohio state militia he was a general. At the age of sixty-eight he enlisted in the Union army for service in the war of the Rebellion and organized, at Monmouth, Company B, Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, of which he was elected the captain. At the battle of Fort Donelson, February 3, 1863, while gallantly leading a charge, he was struck by a mine ball and died from the wound February 23. In his memory the Monmouth branch of the Grand Army of the Republic is named McClanahan Post. To John and Margaret McClanahan were born seventeen children. Nine of these were sons. With the exception of one daughter, Sarah, who died at the age of eighteen, all reached years of maturity, were married, and, with one other exception, left families. Four of the sons also served the Union in the Civil war. John Porter was assistant surgeon to the Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. William Steel was the second lieutenant of Company F, Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, and on a re-enlistment was the captain of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Francis Marion and Monroe Roubantile were privates, respectively, in the Thirty-sixth and in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiments, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. Catherine McClanahan, later the wife of John Hervey Brown and the mother of John Vallance Brown, was the youngest daughter and the next youngest child of General McClanahan.
The subject of this sketch, John Vallance Brown, the youngest son of John Hervey and Catherine (McClanahan) Brown, was born, as stated above, at Clayton, Illinois, April 13, 1868. From his mother's death, six weeks later, until his own graduation at college, he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wickens, the latter of whom was his mother's sister. With the exception of three years passed in Kirkwood, Illinois, this period was spent at Monmouth. From Monmouth College, June 12, 1890, he received his A. B. and three years later his A. M. degree. Since graduation he has held the chair of Greek language and literature in Tarkio College. One year of this period, the school year of 1893-94, was spent in absence for study at Johns Hopkins University. In 1897, as a correspondence student of the University of Chicago, he received first rank and a certificate of work in advanced New Testament Greek. In 1899 he was elected the vice-president of Tarkio College, and in 1900, during President Thompson's four months' absence in Europe, was acting president.
September 7, 1893, dated his marriage to Ada May Moore, of Hanover, Illinois. The latter is the only surviving child of John and Agnes Moore and was born near Hanover, March 28, 1866. A younger sister died in childhood. Her father, John Moore, the third child of Charles and Hannah Moore, was born near Galena, Illinois, May 1, 1836, was a student at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1856-57; a teacher in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, 1859-60; married June 22, 1865; and died at Hanover March 9, 1868. Her mother, Agnes Moore, was the first child of John and Jane Nesbitt and was born near Hanover, January 10, 1846. Her second marriage was to James Moore November 9, 1870. The grandparents of Ada Moore Brown were John Nesbitt and Jane Moffat, Charles Moore and Hannah Rogers, and they, with others, came to Hanover from county Monaghan, Ireland, the first named in 1841, the second in 1845, the last two June 18, 1834. Of Ada Moore Brown and John Vallance Brown have been born two sons—John Moore Findley, April 3, 1897, and Arthur Thomas, May 6, 1900.
A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties Missouri.
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1901.
pp. 226-228.
The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent. Covenanter ancestors on the father's side were driven from Scotland to the north of Ireland by religious persecution.
From the latter home the paternal great-grandfather, James Brown, came, with a little colony of relatives, to Charleston, South Carolina. His wife, Elizabeth Beggs, was born in 1772, in Antrim county, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1785, was married January 1, 1791, and died in 1868. Of these parents nine children were born.
The grandfather, John Brown, was the second child of James and Elizabeth Brown and was born January 5, 1794. He was twice married,—first on December 31, 1817, to Elizabeth Porter, and on January 8, 1835, to Eliza Andrews. By the former he had eight children, by the latter six.
The father, John Hervey Brown, was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Brown and was born February 20, 1834. With the third generation noted came exchange of the farm for a profession and at the age of twenty-one John Hervey Brown entered Monmouth (Illinois) College, received his A. B. degree in 1862 and two years later graduated at the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, also located in Monmouth at that time. March 1, 1864, dated his marriage to Catherine McClanahan. His first pastoral charge was Clayton, Illinois, 1864-1869. Here, December 29, 1864, was born a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, now the wife of John Frazier, a retail dealer in general merchandise at Viola, Illinois. Three and a half years after the subject of this sketch was born, [on] May 29, 1868, some six weeks after his birth, the mother died. The father's second pastorate was Piqua, Ohio, 1869-1884. August 31, 1870, dated his marriage to Rachel Emma Gibson. A daughter, Katherine Geno, was born September 8, 1873. Her husband, Robert Frank Wilkin, is the cashier of a private bank in Lenox, Iowa. The youngest child of Rev. John H. Brown is Arthur Gibson, born March 7, 1880, and at present (1900) a junior in Monmouth College. From the same institution, in 1882, the father received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His later pastoral settlements were: Rock Island, Illinois, 1885-1888; and Lenox, Iowa, 1889-1895. In 1895 he retired from the active ministry and removed to Monmouth, since that time his home. Of this period the years 1895-1897 were spent as financial agent of Tarkio, Missouri, College.
The maternal ancestry was also Scotch-Irish, as the McClanahan name sufficiently testifies.
The great-grandfather, Robert McClanahan, was born in the year 1771 and died July 17, 1832. His first wife, Isabel, was born in 1766 and died July 21, 1828. At the birth of their first child we find them located in Rockbridge county, Virginia. The second wife, Margaret, was born in 1782 and died January 24, 1832. In all there were born of these parents two sons and six daughters.
The grandfather of our subject, John McClanahan, was the oldest child of Robert and Isabel McClanahan and was born September 15, 1794. He served his country as a private in the war of 1812. January 29, 1818, dated his marriage to Margaret Black Wright. The latter was born in Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, July 19, 1800, and died in 1873. The married life of John and Margaret McClanahan was successively spent at West Union, Adams county, Ohio; Ripley, Ohio; Cedar Creek, Warren county, Illinois; and Monmouth, Illinois. The husband was now surveyor, now miller, now farmer. In the Ohio state militia he was a general. At the age of sixty-eight he enlisted in the Union army for service in the war of the Rebellion and organized, at Monmouth, Company B, Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, of which he was elected the captain. At the battle of Fort Donelson, February 3, 1863, while gallantly leading a charge, he was struck by a mine ball and died from the wound February 23. In his memory the Monmouth branch of the Grand Army of the Republic is named McClanahan Post. To John and Margaret McClanahan were born seventeen children. Nine of these were sons. With the exception of one daughter, Sarah, who died at the age of eighteen, all reached years of maturity, were married, and, with one other exception, left families. Four of the sons also served the Union in the Civil war. John Porter was assistant surgeon to the Eighty-third Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. William Steel was the second lieutenant of Company F, Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, and on a re-enlistment was the captain of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Francis Marion and Monroe Roubantile were privates, respectively, in the Thirty-sixth and in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiments, Infantry, Illinois Volunteers. Catherine McClanahan, later the wife of John Hervey Brown and the mother of John Vallance Brown, was the youngest daughter and the next youngest child of General McClanahan.
The subject of this sketch, John Vallance Brown, the youngest son of John Hervey and Catherine (McClanahan) Brown, was born, as stated above, at Clayton, Illinois, April 13, 1868. From his mother's death, six weeks later, until his own graduation at college, he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wickens, the latter of whom was his mother's sister. With the exception of three years passed in Kirkwood, Illinois, this period was spent at Monmouth. From Monmouth College, June 12, 1890, he received his A. B. and three years later his A. M. degree. Since graduation he has held the chair of Greek language and literature in Tarkio College. One year of this period, the school year of 1893-94, was spent in absence for study at Johns Hopkins University. In 1897, as a correspondence student of the University of Chicago, he received first rank and a certificate of work in advanced New Testament Greek. In 1899 he was elected the vice-president of Tarkio College, and in 1900, during President Thompson's four months' absence in Europe, was acting president.
September 7, 1893, dated his marriage to Ada May Moore, of Hanover, Illinois. The latter is the only surviving child of John and Agnes Moore and was born near Hanover, March 28, 1866. A younger sister died in childhood. Her father, John Moore, the third child of Charles and Hannah Moore, was born near Galena, Illinois, May 1, 1836, was a student at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1856-57; a teacher in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, 1859-60; married June 22, 1865; and died at Hanover March 9, 1868. Her mother, Agnes Moore, was the first child of John and Jane Nesbitt and was born near Hanover, January 10, 1846. Her second marriage was to James Moore November 9, 1870. The grandparents of Ada Moore Brown were John Nesbitt and Jane Moffat, Charles Moore and Hannah Rogers, and they, with others, came to Hanover from county Monaghan, Ireland, the first named in 1841, the second in 1845, the last two June 18, 1834. Of Ada Moore Brown and John Vallance Brown have been born two sons—John Moore Findley, April 3, 1897, and Arthur Thomas, May 6, 1900.
A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties Missouri.
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1901.
pp. 226-228.
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