Brown, Sr., Marcus L.

Born: 1805-01-27 North Carolina

Died: 1873-10-23 White County, Illinois

Flourished: 1850 to 1865 White County, Illinois

Marcus L. Brown, Sr., a physician, married Martha A. Brown, and they moved their family of nine children to White County in 1850. He practiced medicine there for about fifteen years, and his namesake son, Marcus L. Brown, Jr., studied medicine under him and also became a physician. In 1860, Brown had amassed $5,000 in real estate and had a personal estate worth $600.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), White County, IL, 356; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), White County, IL, 177; History of White County, Illinois (Chicago: Inter-State, 1883), 716; Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2012); Gravestone, West Union Cemetery, Brownsville, IL.