W. C. Brown

Distinguished military officer, inventor and historical researcher were all embodied in the person of William Carey Brown. General Brown never married, and there is no indication that he ever allowed anything to interfere with historical devotion to service of his country.

Brown's experience with Indian wars began at the age of 8 when his family became fugitives in Minnesota during the Sioux uprising in 1862. His father, Garretson Addison Brown and mother, Susan (Carey) Brown, had migrated to Traverse des Sioux, Nicollet County, Minnesota, from Ohio, in 1853, where he established a store and engaged in mercantile business until 1857 when he went in to the livestock business. He was for a short while the postmaster and a probate judge.

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