ISAAC R. BROWN, Esq.
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Mr. Brown was born in Burlington county, N. J., Sept. 1842. His paternal ancestry came from Scotland; his mother's family is of English extraction, and came to America with William Penn. In 1856 Mr. Brown came with his parents to Tazewell county, Illinois, and from thence, in the spring of 1864, to Mason county. He enlisted in the Union army during the war of the rebellion, and as a soldier acquitted himself with credit. When the Goddess of Peace had spread her wings over our undivided Union, and our citizen soldiers laid aside the habiliments of war, to don those of peace and home, we find Mr. Brown a student of the laws of the country in those service he had been on the tented field. He read law with Hon. Charles Turner, of Pekin, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1867. He then located at Mason City, where he has since resided. Mr. Brown is another instance, so frequently met with in this country, where the way to advancement is open and free to all; of a self-made man, with no other resources but his own indomitable energies and persevering will, to aid his naturally fine legal mind, he has established an enviable reputation. There are few young attorneys in Central Illinois who have made a fairer record.

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