Richard H. Brown, Lt. Col.

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Richard H. Brown

CDV #1 owned by Michael Phillips; #2 owned by Linda Fluharty.

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BIOGRAPHY

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1923; pages 228-229

     Col. Richard Hooker Brown was graduated in the Duff Business College in the City of Pittsburgh, and he distinguished himself as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he became colonel of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, his service having continued until the close of the war. In 1867 Colonel Brown married Miss Elizabeth Pugh, daughter of David and Nancy (Allison) Pugh, Mrs. Brown having been reared at Pughtown, Hancock County, a place named in honor of the family of which she was a representative. Colonel Brown added the brick portion to the old stone house in which he was born, and he served as county commissioner prior to the creation of Hancock County as did he also after the organization of the new county. He served one term as county sheriff, but in the meanwhile continued his residence on the old home farm. Here his death occurred on the 19th of March, 1910, and his widow passed away on the 20th of January, 1917. Of their twelve children all but one attained to maturity: Walter died in young manhood; Anna is the wife of A. H. Bowker, of Rochester, New York; King resides at Chester, West Virginia; J. Campbell is a merchant at East Liverpool, Ohio; Austin Hooker is the immediate subject of this sketch; Alice died within a short time after her marriage to Frederick Porter; Margaret is the widow of Joseph Hough and resides at Chester, Hancock County; Frank is a mill man at Warren, Ohio, and his twin brother, Edward, died in child- hood; Barbara is the wife of Harry Darrington, an oil refiner, and they reside in the City of Chicago, Illinois; Richard is a railroad man at Wellsville, Ohio; Benjamin is a merchant at Toronto, Ohio.