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 & 717, Isabel Township
Thomas A. Brown was born in this township June 19, 1854, son of
Jacob and Priscilla Brown, the former a native of Harrison Co., O., and
the latter of Meigs Co., O. Our subject received a fair education, has
filled offices of trust and is at present School Treasurer and Town
Clerk. He manages for himself and father, on sec. 26, one of the nicest
farms in the township. Republican.
