People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1896 — Headley Brown Dead. [ARTICLE]

Headley Brown Dead.

Hon. George H. Brown, Sr., died at his home in Rensselaer at 7 a. m., Tuesday of this week, at the advanced age of nearly eighty years, of inflammation of the stomach combined with calcification of the arteries and heart trouble. He was taken sick Saturday and the attack being very severe the local physicians called Dr. H. N. Moyer of Rush Medical College. Chicago, to assist them, and he was in attendance when the end came. Though for twenty-four hours before he died it was known that he could live but a short time, the end came much more abruptly than was anticipated, his vital powers collapsing so suddenly that he was gone before the watchers could call the household. Mr. Brown was a man of exceptional standing in the community. and it is said he had not an enemy in the world. He was successful in the acquirement of property being one of the wealthiest men in Jasper county. He served two terms in the state legislature; was treasurer of the Indiana State Grange at one time, and served in other public capacities. He came to Jasper county 1840. The funeral will probably be held next Saturday as i. is expected one of his daughter’s, Mrs. Carsener, will have arrived from California by that time.