Bremer County, Iowa Obituaries
Hon. A. F. Brown Hon. A. F. Brown, who died at Waverly on the 25th of January, was one of the pioneer editors of Cedar county, one of the early lawyers of Scott county, and a Senator from Black Hawk county from 1860 to 1864. He was born near Zanesville, Ohio. Dec.8th, 1828, graduated at Granville College, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In 1850 he came to Scott county, Iowa, to practice his profession, and soon after became editor of the Cedar County News, a paper published at Rochester. Upon the removal of the county seat to Tipton, he transferred his office to Cedar Falls and named his paper the "Cedar Falls Banner." In 1855 Mr. Brown was elected prosecuting attorney and served with ability in that position for several years. In 1859 he was elected State Senator for the 36th District, composed of the counties of Grundy, Black Hawk, Butler and Franklin. He became a prominent member of the Senate, serving four years. In 1860 Mr. Brown was chosen a delegate to the Republican National Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President. In 1879 he moved to Waverly in Bremer county where he acquired a large law practice, and remained up to the time of his death. The Waverly Democrat says of him: "He was exceptionally free from jealousy and vindictiveness in professional and political life. It is true, he fought hard in the forum and on the rostrum, and necessarily gave and received many hard blows, but all the asperity died with the occasion; and when the curtain fell upon the last act of his life, every heart in the large circle of his acquaintance felt a genuine pang of sadness and regret as some deed of courtesy or kindness of the departed lawyer was recalled to memory." [Annals of Iowa, April 1894, submitted by Cathy Danielson] John J. Foutch Joins The Dead Over Fifty Years In Bremer County Died This Morning at Home of Son in Waterloo John James Foutch, affected by the ailments of old age, died in this city at 2:30 o’clock at the home of his son, Hiram, 848 Riehl street. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, the services being brief and in charge of the Rev. H. G. Beeman. The funeral party will go overland to Denver, the old home of the family, and there further services will be conducted and interment made. The remains will lie beside the wife, who died at Denver 10 years ago. Mr. Foutch was a native of Illinois, having been born in that state in 1833. He came to Iowa when 18 years of age and first located on a farm a short distance north of Denver. When he approached his home in the wilderness that early day he crossed the Cedar river at a point where Waterloo was established later. Until two years ago Mr. Foutch resided in or near Denver, with a short intermission, when he came to this city to make his home with his son. There are four children surviving. They are Mrs. William Stark at St. Marie, Mont.; William J. and Hiram and Mrs. Henry Heiner of this city. Two children are dead. He was a member of the Free Methodist church and a member of the Masonic order at Janesville, Ia. Mr. Foutch was a man highly respected and in his day and time served an important part in the development of the section of Iowa in which he was a pioneer. [Waterloo Evening Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Published June 22, 1911] Submitted by Cathy Danielson
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