The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-23
DEATH OF MRS. BROWN
Wife of a Pioneer Newspaper
Man Passes Away.
HAD LIVED HERE SINCE 1871.
Had Felfowed the Journalistic Fortunes
Of Her Hasb.nd. Eerfah Brown.
I'm Many Fields

After lingering Illness Of eight weeks
Mrs. JEANNE MeHasn Broxs, wife of Be-
riah Brown, died yesterday morning at
10 30 O'Clock. Fer over two months she
has not been awaY from her home, ut JEFF
ferson street. and the immediate cause oi
her death - attributed 20 cancer of the
stomach. She xas =, years old. Mrs.
Brown VAS one OF the early corners 20
Seattle. With her husband she arrived
here ia 1871. Her husband aud four sons.
Edward H. Beriah, jr.. James Ii. and A.
,. Brown, survive ner.
Mrs. Brown was born March 9, ISIS. At
Aohii, County Leishrim, Ireland. and Was
the daughter Of Rev. Stephen McH1gh. an
Episcopal clergyman. When she was only
2 years old her parents came TO America TO
live, and located at Delevan, Wis. She
was married in DeIevan November 8. is49.
and thus she had been married forty-fiye
years at the time of her death. In 1919
Mr.. Brown was state printer OF Wisconsin,
and was also editor and proprietor of
newspaper at Madison. the capital of the
state. Mr.. and Mrs. Browns oldest son,
Edward H., was born in Madison In 1852.
Beriah Brown, IT,, was bornfin Delafeld,
Wis, in 1856.
Mrs. Brown lived in California, and still
ater lived In Oregon. Their third son,
James H., vas born at Salem, the capital
of the latter state. in 1870. The youngest
son. A. n. Brown, vas born in this city in
lsI2. Their union was blessed with six
children, q son and daughter being dead.
The early home of Mr.. and Mrs. Brown
in this city was at the corner Of Third and
Seneca streets. IL was here ttat their
youngest son was born. From here they
moved TO the Ivy Cottage" built by Mr..
Brown at Ala Seventh street. and the cot
tage still stands.
For the past several years Mrs. Browns
health has been very poor, and the winters
Of 1890 and 1892 she spent in San
Rafaei. Cal. She was in Oregon good
part of last spring. Her first serious ILL
ness began last March. when she suffered
paraiytic stroke. She never entirely re-
covered, and eight weeks ago. suffering
from a cancerous growth in the stomach
and also from drcpsy. she took TO her bed
for the last time. She was conscious al
most up to.ihe moment of her death. and
was surrounded by her husband and all of
her sons except James II. Brown, who was
in Topeka. Kan.
Mr.. Brown will be remembered by nearly
all the pioneer newspapermen on the Pa
cific coast. He has run newspapers in
California and in Oregon. He was editor
of a paper at Olympia. I'm 1871 he started
the Puget Sound Dispatch in this city, at
first weekly, but later daily. being the
first daily paper published in the territory.
Mr.. Brown served his time at the printing
trade in New York city. and when IA years
old was friend of Horace Greeley. Both
were apprentices, worked in the same
printing office and roomed together at the
Graham house, great resort for printers,
and is still vividly remembered by many
of the trade throughout the United States.
Mr.. Brown owns considerable property in
this city and is financially comfortable.
The funeral OF Mrs. Brown will take
place Friday afternoon At 2 O'Clock from
st. Marks Episcopal church, Rev. ID. c.
Garrett officiating. The interment will be
made in the Masonic cemetery.