Robert Brown, 1860-1944
Robert Brown (1860-1944) is my great-great-grandfather.He was born in Chicago.The story is that sometime in the 1860s his father John died in the sinking of a ship on one of the Great Lakes and that his mother put him and his older brother John in an orphans home (called asylum back then).In the great Chicago fire of 1871 and/or its aftermath any connection with his brother and mother was lost to him.
Robert married Elizabeth Ann Shaw (who had been married to Henry Rohrbaugh), and a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, Lena Roxanna Brown, is my great-grandmother.
I would like any more information on Robert's father John Brown or his mother, whose name I don't have, or his brother John Brown.I can share what I know about Robert's descendants.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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