Michael Brown
Michael Brown, proprietor of a farm on the Fairfield pike about two miles northwest of Yellow Springs, in Miami township, is a native son of the Emerald Isle, but has been a resident of this country since the days of his boyhood. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, December 15, 1838, and was seventeen years of age when he came to this country. For two years after his arrival on this side he worked at St. Louis, Missouri, and then came to Ohio and began working on a farm in the vicinity of Cedarville in this county. He later worked on the railroad and in the stone quarries. Some lime later Mr. Brown bought a farm in the vicinity of Clifton, but three years later disposed of his interests there and returned to Cedarville, where he remained for eighteen months, at the end of which time he decided to resume farming and in 1874 bought the farm of fifty-one acres on which he is now hving. He also owns a twenty-acre tract south of Yellow Springs.
In September, 1860, Michael Brown was united in marriage to Margaret Day, who died on February 10, 1909. To that union were born eight children, two of whom died in infancy, those who grew to maturity being the following: Margaret, who is living at home; John, a farmer, living in the vicinity of Yellow Springs; Martha, wife of John Meehan, who has one daughter, Martha; Thomas, who is at home in general charge of the farm; Mary Ann, who died in 1907, and Ellen, wife of David Bailey, living near Allentown, Ohio. Mr. Brown is a Democrat. He and his family are members of the Catholic church at Yellow Springs.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918