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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 278
ADAM MERCER BROWN, attorney, is a grandson of ADAM BROWN, of Cumberland Co., Pa., a soldier in Washington’s army in the revolutionary war. About the beginning of the century his grandfather moved to Butler Co., Pa., where he built the first gristmill, in the vicinity of what has since been known as Brownsdale. His progenitors were among the early residents of Eastern Pa.
JOSEPH BROWN, the third son of ADAM BROWN, married MARY, a daughter of JAMES MARSHALL, who with his family, had come from Londonderry, Ireland, to Pittsburgh in 1822. He soon moved to Butler Co. JAMES MARSHALL was also the father of JUDGE MARSHALL, of Butler Co.; HON. THOMAS M. MARSHALL, and A. M. MARSHALL, of Pittsburgh. JOSEPH BROWN spent most of his life on a farm near Brownsdale, where he died, in 1883; MARY MARSHALL, his wife, died in 1877, at the age o 79 years. Of their children, ADAM MERCER (the subject of this sketch), JANE, ESTHER, WILLIAM and SARAH are yet living.
ADAM MERCER BROWN, their second child, was born Aug. 3, 1830...In 1851, MR. BROWN was married to LUCETTE, the daughter of ADAM TURNEY, of Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa. MR. TURNEY was of Scotch-Irish lineage, and his wife, HANNAH, was a daughter of REV. JOHN WILLIAM WEBER, founder of the G. R. U. E. Church, at the corner of Sixth Ave. and Smithfield St., the earliest church in Pittsburgh. The following are the children of MR. BROWN, in the order of birth: MARSHALL (a Pittsburgh attorney), SARAH M. (wife of DR. T. G. HERRON, of Allegheny), CARRIE A. (MRS. JOHN H. HERRON), WILLIAM JOHN, THOMAS M. and JOHN DEAN.
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