Lamoille

BROWN, Curtis

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 46

Curtis BROWN, of Belvidere [Lamoille County, Vermont], was born 16 October 
1825 in Coventry [Orleans County, Vermont], son of Lybeout and Betsey W. 
(WARD) BROWN. His father was the first Republican representative in the 
Legislature of the state, to which both his son and grandson have been 
elected. Mr. [Curtis] BROWN was educated in the common schools of Coventry 
and afterwards at Waterbury, New York [Waterbury, New Haven County, 
Connecticut?], residing with his parents until the age of twenty-one.

At that time he purchased a farm in Belvidere, and in order to pay for it 
went to Massachusetts, where he worked industriously in a mill for several 
years until he had accomplished his object. For a time he engaged in the 
manufacture of butter tubs and lumbering, but has given this up and now 
resides upon his farm. Mr. BROWN is said to be the champion bear hunter of 
the state, having shot or captured sixty-eight of these animals, once 
performing the feat attributed to General PUTNAM of Revolutionary times by 
entering a cave and crawling a distance of forty feet on his hands and knees, 
when with unerring aim by the light of a torch he brought down the object of 
his pursuit.

On 13 March 1852 he [Curtis BROWN] married Helen M., daughter of Edmund L. 
and Lucy (HODGKINS) CROZIER, of Calais [Washington County, Vermont], by whom 
he has had five children: Reuben J., Edmund L., Alexander (deceased), 
Francis B., and Nora. Mr. BROWN is one of the best representatives of the 
old class of sturdy woodsmen, who have given such lasting fame to the hunters 
of the Green Mountains, so few of whom remain to narrate the deeds of their 
early days.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly