"Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Tyler County West Virginia"
H. H. Hardesty, 1872

NELSON H. BROWN - was born in New York State, August 8, 1833,
and at the age of eleven years accompanied his parents, Lewis S.
and Roxy (Hill) Brown to Tyler County, then part of Virginia.
May 2. 1861, he wedded a native of this county, Louisa J.
Hissam, born September 11, 1841. In the home their marriage
established are four children: Lizzie B., born April 3, 1862;
Ida V., June 5, 1864; Marion R., born August 3, 1867; Charley
M., November 9, 1870. The ancestors of Mr. Brown were of English
birth. His great-grandfather was a captain and lost at sea, his
grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his
father one of America's defenders in the 1812 war. His father
was born in New York, October 3, 1795, and died in Tyler county,
West Virginia, March 19, 1879. His mother, born November 29,
1801, died February 20, 1875. Levi and Elizabeth (Morgan)
Hissam, the parents of Mrs. Brown, now live in Campbell County,
Kentucky. Her father was born April 30, 1816, and her mother's
birth was on the 13th of June 1820. Her grandfather, John G.
Morgan, was born in Monongalia County, Virginia, November 6,
1792, is still living and a most remarkable instance of
longevity. He has never been sick, and the only dose of medicine
he ever took was one administered to him against his will in the
1812 war. Jesse Hissem, paternal grandfather of Mrs. Brown, was
one of the pioneer settlers in this county, coming with his
family from Pennsylvania. Nelson H. Brown has been living in the
village of Shiloh since 1861. He is a manufacturer of woolen
goods, and has been connected with the woolen factory here since
it started. His address is Littles Mills, Tyler county, West Virginia.

Submitted by Susie Koehrsen.