Brown, John Stillman, 1806-1902.

John Stillman Brown was born at New Ispwich, New Hampshire in 1806. He graduated from Union College of Schenectady, New York in 1834. Brown was an educator and an Unitarian Minister. In 1836, he married Mary Ripley: they had four children; Sarah, William, Charles, and Mary. Mr. Brown, and his family, moved to Kansas in March of 1856, and they settled west of Lawrence. Mary's sister, Hannah Ripley, lived at Brook Farm in Massachusetts and in Lawrence at the same time as Mary. However, Hannah eventually returned to New England. Mary died in Lawrence in 1878. John had many professions while a Kansan. He was a farmer, pastor, secretary of the Kansas State Agricultural Society, Lawrence city clerk, and he was the superintendent for public schools of Lawrence and Douglas County.