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EBER L. BROWN, owner of a seven hundred acre farm in the town of Minisink, and much valuable real estate in
the village of Unionville and the cities of Middletown and New York, was born in Sussex County, N. J., in 1828.
As a boy he clerked for a number of years and subsequently became a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Stillwell,
Brown & Co., of New York City, for five years. In 1848 he went to California and engaged in mining with much
success. On his return East he was connected with a wholesale dry goods house in New York and a wholesale grocery
house.
Business cares affected his health and he came to Unionville and settled on the farm where his father was born.
There he made his home and supervised the farm for twenty years. He then opened a wholesale and retail feed store
in Unionville, and here organized a silk manufacturing establishment, giving employment to fifty hands. The plant
was destroyed by fire in 1894. Mr. Brown now devotes his time principally to his real estate holdings in Unionville
and Middletown. He is one of the directors of the Sussex Bank and has served as supervisor of the town.
Mr. Brown was twice married, his first wife being Miss Sarah E. Lewis. His second wife was Miss Caroline M. Lain,
and they became the parents of twelve children, of whom five are living.
From:
The History of Orange County New York
Edited by: Russel Headley
Van Deusen and Elms, Publishers
Middletown, N. Y. 1908
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