Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-15
DENTAL COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
Death OF DIR. Seneca II. Brown of Fort
Wayne, Ind. IA Native Of Marlboro.

Wayne, Ind, Native of Marlboro.
Dr. Seneca B. Brown died Tuesday
night, Jan. 8, at his home in Fort Wayne,
Ind, from heart disease. He had been in
failing health the past three years, but
was confined to hls house only three
weeks. Dr. Brown was born in Marlboro
August II, 1884. His father, John Brown,
was born in the city Of Rochester, county
Kent, England, August IS, 1857, and
came to America and located at Rutland,
Vt, in 1920 He married a daughter of
Archelaus Dean, native of Massachusetts,
of Puritan ancestry, who served through
the Revolutionary war and died in Yer
mont in 1876. The daughter was born at
Brattleboro March 10, 1899, and died at
Marlboro, September so, 1877. She was
a member Of the Baptist church John
Brown, who was member of the Church
of England, and in politics a Free Soil
Democrat, died at Westminster March 8,
1851. To the latter town the family re-
moved when DR.. Brown was four wears of
age. Here farm life occupied him until
1852. In the meantime, the district
school and three terms at Westminster
seminary completed his education. He
entered the Office of Oramel r. Post, d.
d. s., al Brattleboro, Nov. l, 1852, as a
student of dentistry, and on Jan. l, 1854,
began practice at Ticonderoga, n. Y, on
a circuit, incl, ding Ticonderoga, West
port, Essex, Elizabethtown, Schroon Lake
and Chestertown.
He came West and located at Piqua,
Ohio, October %, 1850, and there. on
June 9, 1864, he was married to Mamie
Louise, eldest daughter OF the Hon. Steph-
en- johnson of that city Mrs. Brown
died at Fort Wayne July 6, 1874 leaving
an only child, Katie, then seven years of
age. February IA, lSsS, he was married
TO Minnie Russell Graves, oldest daughter
of Charles L. Graves OF Fort Wayne, who
survives him. DR.. Brown came To Fort
Wayne May 3, 1868, when the population
of the city was 5000, and at the time of
his illness was the only resident dentist
who was practicing in his own name in
this city in 1865. DR.. Brown received the
degree of doctor of dental surgery from the
Pennsylvania dental college March, 1870:
was elected secretary of the Indiana dental
association June 20, 1863; received the de-
gree of doctor of dental surgery from the
Ohio college of dental surgery March l,
1871; was elected president of the Missis-
sipp valley dental association, the Oldest
in the world now in existence, March 6.
1874; was elected a member of the board
of Indiana dental examiners June 20, 1880,
holding the Office seven years; was elected
president of the Indiana state dental asso-
citation July l, 1885, and a member of the
board of trustees of Indiana dental college
March 8, 1886; received the honorary de-
gree of doctor of medicine from the Fort
Wayne college of medicine March 6, 1888,
and March g, 1885, was elected president
of the Indiana dental college. For over
20 years he has been a member of both the
American and Indiana state dental associa-
tions. DR.. Browns eminent skill in his
profession and his high personal character
were the commanding influences which
won for him an extensive clientage and a
satisfactory need of success. In politics
DR.. Brown was a staunch believer in the
principles of the Republican party. He
was the first president of the Fort WAYNE
colony of the American Sons of the Revo-
luton and took an active interest in that
society.
The Fort Wayne papers speak of DR..
Brown in the highest terms as a citizen
and as a member of the medical profession.
One of DR.. Browns brothers, the late c.
L. Brown, was for many years a furniture
dealer in Brattleboro, and was the builder