History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 714, Isabel Township
Jane E. Brown was born Feb. 13, 1810, in New Jersey, daughter of
Joseph and Esther Gordon, natives of Pennsylvania; in 1829 married
Charles Brown in Ohio, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1809;
came to Fulton county in 1831; discouraged, they returned East, but
before unloading the wagon concluded they could do better out West, and
back to Fulton county they came and settled on sec. 20, Isabel
township, where they have been reasonably successful. They brought up
14 children, 10 of whom are still living. Mr. Brown died Dec. 21, 1878,
leaving her with but one child at home, a young lady of 21 years of
age. Mrs. B. is carrying on the farm where her husband introduced the
first Durham cattle of the county. P. O., Otto.
