Chittenden

BROWN, Rufus E.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 130

Rufus E. BROWN, lawyer, Burlington [Chittenden County, Vermont]. was born 03 
December 1854 at Dickinson [Franklin County], New York, son of John T. and 
Margaret A. (DILLENBECK) BROWN. He was educated at Lawrenceville and 
Amsterdam Academies. He taught school and worked on a farm until 
twenty-three years of age. He studied law with Wales & Taft, Burlington 
[Chittenden County, Vermont], and was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1881; 
began practice in Burlington April 1891, continuing to the present time; in 
1911 was president of the Vermont Bar Association. Republican; states 
attorney, Chittenden County, 01 December 1894 to 01 December 1900; senator 
from Chittenden County 1900; was chairman of the committee on claims; member 
of the joint committee on state and court expenses; and on the committees on 
judiciary and banks. In religious preference a Methodist. In 1908 he [Rufus 
E. BROWN] married [Miss?] Elizabeth M. BROWNELL of Cambridge [Lamoille 
County, Vermont].

Submitted by Cathy Kubly