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History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa
Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884.


F. M. Brown, of the law, real-estate and abstract firm of Brown, Andrews & Freeman, is a native 
of Clinton county, Iowa, and was born April 5, 1842. His father, Hiram Brown, was one of the 
early settlers of that county. F. M. was there reared, and was educated at the Cornell college, 
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and at the Mt. Carroll, Illinois, seminary. When twenty-four years of age, he 
began the study of law with Senator N. A. Merrill, and assisted his progress by private reading 
at home. He was admitted to the bar in Clinton county in 1874, and came to Greenfield later in 
the same year. Here he at once engaged in the business which he now follows. He has been more 
than once honored with office, having been justice of the peace two terms, and mayor of the city 
in 1882. He was married December 26, 1875, to Miss Sadie E. Dew, a native of Illinois. They have 
two children--Floyd M., and Erwin D. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Encampment. Mr. Brown 
is extensively engaged in the raising of blooded fowls, and has one of the best equipped 
henneries in the state. He is the inventor of the Brown patent hens'-nest. He began the business 
in 1878, and now has some three hundred fine chickens, old and young. He has been president of 
the Iowa Southwestern Poultry Association since its organization, and is one of the 
vice-presidents of the natioanal poultry association of the United States.