MATTHEW B. BROWN, a well-known agriculturist of Mt. Pleasant township, was born in 1851, in Allegheny county, Penn. He is a son of David Brown, whose father, John Brown, was born in Lancaster county, Penn. John Brown was there married to Mary Acheson, and in 1785 the young people moved to Noblestown, Allegheny county, where he followed the tailor's trade and conducted a hotel. He afterward moved to a farm in the same county and reared his children. He died about 1851, his wife having entered the dark valley a few years before. David Brown was born in 1803, on the home farm in Allegheny county, and was trained from early boyhood to agricultural life. He was married in his native county to Rebecca Borland, remaining there a short time after that event. In 1847 he bought a partially improved farm of 339 acres in Mount Pleasant township, Washington Co., Penn., to which he moved in 1855, his wife having died in Allegheny county the year before.

Text taken from page 1297 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published February 1997 on the Washington County, PA pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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