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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;916Bulldogs123, post: 4476117, member: 75&quot;]I found them</p><p><b>FRANK M. BROWN</b></p><p>Stutsman county, North Dakota, is not without her well-regulated farms, and one of these carefully cultivated tracts is the property of the gentleman above named. He is extensively engaged in wheat raising in township 137, range 65, and has met with eminent success in his vocation. He also operates a steam threshing rig, and is the owner of a fine new outfit for this line of work. His home farm is one of the best improved in the locality, and every convenience of modern farming and the newest patterns of machinery are used to facilitate the work. Our subject was born in Oswego county, New York, in August, 1862. He was raised in his native place on a farm and attended the common schools, and at the age of twenty-one years left home and went to North Dakota. He located at Edgeley, then known as St. George, in the spring of 1884, where he rented land, and he and his brother filed claim to government land. Out subject took the southeast quarter of section 10, in township 137, range 65, and later took as a homestead the northwest quarter of section 10, township 137, range 65. He erected a 12x16-foot shanty in which he lived alone three years, and also built a stable 12x16 feet. His brother took government land on the southwest quarter of section 10, township 137, range 65. Our subject erected a larger dwelling about 1888, and has since built a complete set of farm buildings of the most approved style at a cost of two thousand dollars. He has a convenient residence, barn, two granaries, and all machinery for the economical conduct of the place, and for the past twelve years has operated a threshing outfit and has at present a twenty-horse-power steam rig. He has lost crops by hail and fire and met with many other discouragements, but has been successful in most of his work, and is now one of the substantial men of that region, and is the owner of nine hundred and eighty acres of land, of which he cultivates about seven hundred acres. He has ten acres of forest trees and his place is one of the pleasant farms of the locality. Our subject was married, in 1888, to Miss Florence L. Hart, of Oswego county, New York. Mrs. Brown’s father, A.A. Hart, was of English-Scotch descent, and was a miller by trade. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, as follows: Eva, born May 11, 1894; and Ella, born March 13, 1899. Mr. Brown is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Politically he is a Democrat, and is a man who keeps pace with the times, and is well-known and highly respected in his community. [Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota, Publ. 1900. Transcribed by Kim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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