BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
STEPHEN P. BROWN.
Page 539
Stephen
P. Brown, the grandson of Adam and Margaret Spait Brown, and the son of Paul
and Maria Wotring brown, was born July 19, 1835, in North Whitehall township.
The neighboring school afforded him the rudiments of learning, and Allentown
Seminary later enrolled his name among its pupils. At the age of seventeen he
learned the trade of carpenter and that of mining engineer, finding employment
for five years in this connection with the Ironton Railroad Company. On his
removal, at the expiration of this period, to Allentown, he engaged with Barber
& Co as a builder of mining machinery and a pattern-maker. Three years
after he entered the establishment of William F. Mosser & Co in the same
capacity. He subsequently erected much of the machinery for the slate-quarries,
and was also occupied in the superintendence of the Brown Iron Mine, owned by
his father’s estate. In 1879, Mr. Brown returned to the homestead, made it his
permanent home, and has since been interested in the cultivation and
improvement of the land embraced within its area. He was married in 1859 to
Miss Elmina, daughter of Thomas Ruch, of North Whitehall township, whose
children are Edward S., Laura C., Annie C., and Elmer J., living, and Hiram T.,
Wilson P., and Lizzie, deceased. Mr. Brown affiliates with the Democracy in
politics, though neither his tastes nor his life of ceaseless activity have
encouraged participation in the busy scenes attending public life. He is in
religion a Lutheran, and member of the church of that denomination at Egypt.
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From
The History of the
Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
By
Alfred Mathews &
Austin N. Hungerford
Published
in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1884
Transcribed
from the original during winter 2006
by
Shirley
Kuntz
Proofing and web page by
May 2006