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From: MRS GINA M REASONER< >
Subject: WILLIAM C. BROWN - History of Ohio
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:59:43, -0500

HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 333-334

WILLIAM C. BROWN, of Steubenville, who served two terms as
prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County, has the respect and regard of his
profession, and is not only a very able lawyer but a high minded citizen.
He was born in Toronto, Canada, February 15, 1877, son of Benjamin
J. and Margaret (BELL) Brown, while his grandparents were William and
Elizabeth Brown, and Samuel McClure, and Isabell Craig. The paternal
grandparents came from England and settled in Ontario, Canada, about 1834.
The maternal grandfather, Samuel McClure, was born in Ireland, while his
wife represented the old Craig family of Revolutionary stock. Benjamin J.
Brown was a Presbyterian minister, and in 1883 moved to Bluffton, Ohio, and
for nearly a quarter of a century held pastorates in Ohio. He died in 1908
and his wife in 1921. They had three children: Rev. S. T., who married Nell
Herron, and two children, John and Margaret; William C.; and John C., who
married Ethel Hinds.
William C. Brown was about six years old when the family came to
the United States. He acquired his first educational advantages in a
private school, attended Wooster College, where he graduated in 1899, and
subsequently entered the Ohio State University Law School. He was graduated
and admitted to the bar in 1902, and since that year has been engaged in
practice at Steubenville. In 1912 he was elected prosecuting attorney,
serving two terms, until 1917. He handled many important cases while in
office, and in all court work has attracted attention by the clear and
lucid exposition of his side of the cause. Besides his law practice he
gives much time to the affairs of the Ohio Valley Savings & Loan Company,
of which he was one of the organizers and is a director and attorney of the
company. He is heavily interested in the Schenly Park Land Company of
Steubenville, Ohio, which has handled the financial side of real estate
developments of several cities, including Steubenville and Youngstown. Mr.
Brown has been active in the republican party, serving as a member of the
County Central Committee. He belongs to the County Bar Association, and is
a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.
Mr. Brown married, June 21, 1906, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Miss
Catherine Silvey, daughter of George W. and Sarah (Hunter) Silvey. Her
mother died in 1878 and her father in November, 1923. He was a Civil war
veteran, a capitalist and financier. The only two children of Mr. and Mrs.
Silvey were Mrs. Brown and George W. The latter died unmarried, and Mr.
Brown passed away December 6, 1921. Her two children died in early
childhood.

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