Essex

BROWN, Albert L.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 45 
(portrait p 45)

Albert L. BROWN, of Lunenburg, was born 12 January 1828 in Lunenburg [Essex 
County, Vermont], son of Isaac and Lucretia (WOOD) BROWN, and was educated in 
the schools of Lunenburg. Remaining with his father until the age of 
eighteen, he went to Boston [Suffolk County, Massachusetts] and worked as a 
cabinet maker, then took up his abode in Portland [Cumberland County], Maine, 
where for eight years he kept an hotel. At the close of the war he sought 
his fortune in the West, and for a long period was employed as an agent by 
the Chicago Scale Company, after which he engaged in the grocery business. 
Satisfied with the competence, which was the result of his industry and 
business ability, Mr. BROWN returned to his native town and purchased the 
beautiful and picturesque estate, which was the early home of his first wife.

On 17 September he [Albert L. BROWN] married [his first wife] Lucretia S., 
daughter of Stephen and Almira POWERS; to them a son was born, George Albert, 
who died 13 June 1864. He [Albert L. BROWN] married at Chicago [Cook County, 
Illinois], 13 June 1878, [second wife] Julia F., daughter of James and Susan 
TROW; from this union there is one daughter, Mabel E. Mr. BROWN, a lifelong, 
stalwart Republican, has been elected to almost all the offices in the gift 
of his fellow townsmen, including a seat in the Legislature in 1888. In 
creed a Congregationalist.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly