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Abraham Oliver Brown

Abraham Oliver Brown during the war

Bust in latter life

Picture of Abraham Oliver Brown, wife, and children taken December 1892 Identification: 10/2002 by Frances Brown Armstrong, daughter of Richard Baxter Brown Standing (left to right): Alice, Percy, Hattie, Daniel, Anna, Seneca Seated (left to right): George, Laura, Mary Caroline Bates Brown, Abraham Oliver Brown, Fred, Richard

Children of Abraham Oliver Brown

Name	Birth	Death	Occupation	Spouse
George Oliver	4/19/1869 Cohasset MA	3/13/1950	Cashier, Northwestern Tel Minneapolis MN	Sarah Ellen Christie
Daniel Gould	5/20/1870 Cohasset MA	1/10/1949	Machinist, Plymouth Cordage	Faustina Freeman Holmes
Hattie Warren	12/29/1871 Duxbury MA	9/27/1898	Housewife	Dr. J. Holbrook Shaw (Ophthalmologist) & Plymouth Public School Physician
Richard Baxter (father of OWBB)	7/6/1873 Duxbury MA	2/2/1937	Overseer, Plymouth Cordage; Band & Glee Club Director	Amy Locke (born in Athol, MA)
Anna Hale	6/27/1875 Plymouth MA	2/9/1925	Housewife	George Edgar Bailey (died 12/1963)
Alice	4/21/1877 Plymouth MA	8/8/1966	Housewife & Organist	Fred Avery Hall (Statistical Dept Head, Plymouth Cordage)
Percy Lyle	7/18/1880 Plymouth MA	5/1/1957	Art Salesman (Boston MA)	Bessie Winslow Davis
Seneca Porter	11/4/1881 Plymouth MA	11/1/1939	Architect-Engineer, Fuller Construction, Boston MA	Alice Crane (11/2/1880 - 4/22/1955)
Fred Carleton	12/7/1885 Plymouth MA	2/19/1969	Asst Treas. Plymouth Federal Savings & Load; organist	Edith Magee
Laura Eliza	8/10/1887 Plymouth	8/1/1971	Music Director & Organist	Remained single

Abraham Oliver Brown was a railroad conductor & Plymouth's first appointed letter carrier. He was born 3/3/1842 in Hanover, New Hampshire and died 9/7/1896. He married Mary Caroline Bates Brown, who was born 2/12/1849 in Cohasset MA and died 3/14/1914.

Note the following from Oliver Warren Bates Brown of 30 Vine Street, Winchester MA typed on March 18, 1980 " the above verified information on my preceding generation, Brown Family aunts & uncles, was obtained during the years 1979 & 1980 by Oliver W. B. Brown."

Credits: Robert Brown and Jeane Hunter Brown, of Massachusetts (contributed by David Brown, their nephew).

See also, Abraham's wartime diary.