Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: age 21
GRAD: 1882 Milton College, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin

Datus Fitch Brown 1858-1913
"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1914, p 1.
Datus Fitch Brown, oldest son of Deacon Erastus and Maleta Davis Brown, was born November 28, 1858, on a farm four miles east of Milton, and died at his home in Denver, Colo., December 21, 1913. His boyhood days were spent on the farm and he was educated in Milton graduating from Milton college in 1882. Soon after his graduation he went to Dakota where he entered business in Redfield. He was married at Wonewoc, Wis., February 3, 1882, to Ellen E. Zuill of Rock Prairie, who has been a loving and devoted wife, tenderly caring for him up to the hour of his death. To them were born three children, Leta Mary who died in infancy, Edith Mary and Cleon Datus, who with the wife and two sisters, Eva S. Brown and Mrs. Bertha B. Osborn, of Long Beach, Cal., mourn his loss.
He held positions of trust in St. Paul, Cleveland and Albany but in October 1909, the family removed to Denver where, in partnership with his son, he entered the wholesale hardware business. Several weeks before his death he was taken seriously ill with blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, and after long weeks of patient suffering the spirit took its flight to the eternal home.
From infancy he was blessed with a cheerful, kindly, winsome, sunny disposition. None knew him but to love him. In the home he was everything that a faithful husband and devoted father could be. To his sisters and younger brother, who preceded him to the better land but two years before, he was both father and brother and the esteem in which he was held by all his friends and associates was testified by the many beautiful floral tributes sent both before and after his death. Also the many letters and telegrams sent to the bereaved ones which have been such a comfort to them.
He was baptized by Eld. Darwin Maxson when but eleven years of age and united with the Milton S. D. B. church. In his last days he talked of his heavenly home and said he was ready to go if it was the Father's will. Short but beautiful services were held at the home, conducted by the Rev. Coyle of the Presbyterian church and the remains were laid to rest in Fairmount cemetery near Denver.