Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Charles H. BROWN

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 861, 862

  Charles H. Brown, banker at Lamar, is a native of Albany, N. Y., born
July 3, 1842.  He received a liberal education at Fredonia Academy, N.Y.,
and at the age of twenty years entered the Chicago Law School, from 
which he graduated in 1863, at the head of his class.  He then opened 
an office at Monmouth, Ill., and in January, 1866, he came to Lamar.  
At that time there were but three lawyers at the Lamar bar, but a number
of the ablest attorneys of the State resided at Springfield, and 
practiced throughout the circuit.  Contact with such ability was very 
beneficial to the young lawyer, and with increase of knowledge and 
experience came additional practice, until he was accounted one of the 
busiest and most successful lawyers at the bar.  In 1872 he withdrew 
from the practice and turned his attention especially to the banking 
business.  In this business he has been associated with several different
men, and the firm name has been several times changed, but in 1871 it 
took its present firm name of C. H. Brown & Co.  Mr. Brown is a stanch 
Republican in politics, and an active worker in building up the county 
and Lamar.  He has never been an office-seeker, though in 1866 and 1867 
he was prosecuting attorney for Barton County, and representative in 
1874-75.  In 1869 Mr. Brown married Miss Emma Wills, daughter of M. N. 
Wills.  To this union were born three children, two sons and a daughter.  
Mr. Brown came to Lamar with little money, but with a wonderful stock 
of energy; now he is accounted one of the wealthy men of the county.

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