John Brown (August 12, 1772October 12, 1845) was an American mill owner and statesman from

Lewistown, Pennsylvania Lewistown is a borough in and the county seat of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the principal city of the '' Lewistown, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area'', which encompasses all of Mifflin County. It lies along the Juniata Ri ...

. He represented

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in the

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from 1821 to 1825.

Biography

John Brown was born on August 12, 1772, near Lewistown in the

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. He attended and received his education from the

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and moved to Lewistown in 1800. Brown became involved in the

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

and

sawmill A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensi ...

businesses and was elected to the

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, where he served from 1809 to 1813. Brown was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for the 17th Congress in 1820. He was reelected in 1822 to the 18th Congress as a

Jackson Republican The Democratic-Republican Party, known at the time as the Republican Party and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early ...

. After departing the House of Representatives in 1825, Brown resumed his former business interests. He subsequently moved to

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in 1827, where he participated in the

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

and

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

businesses. Brown died in Buncombe County, North Carolina, near Skyland, on October 12, 1845. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, John 1772 births 1845 deaths People from Lewistown, Pennsylvania Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians