Biography

11/12/1842 - 07/20/1899

Gerrard Crane Brown (D28) York 1886-1894

Early Life: 

Gerrard Crane Brown, born Tower of London, England, (i) November 12, 1842, son of Benjamin Franklin Brown and Mary Sophia (Cops) Brown, Putnam County, New York; educated, Philips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Yale College, (1863); 1st Lieutenant (Civil War 1861), farmer, State Grange, elected Pennsylvania State Senate; married  Caroline Victoria Barcroft Brown, three children, Evalyn Woolverton Brown Gilbert, Benjamin Brown and Gerard C Brown; died July 20, 1899 (aged 56), home, Lower Windsor, York County, Pennsylvania, interment Canadochly Church Cemetery, York County, Pennsylvania,

Early Career:

Enlisted, 1st lieutenant, April 1861, Company G, 38th Regiment, New York State Volunteers, wounded July 1861, Bull Run, honorably discharged, September 1861. 

Moved, York, Pennsylvania, 1874; farming; Secretary, Lower Windsor Mutual Fire Insurance Company; lecturer, Pennsylvania State Grange, 1886-1888. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Appointed, State Grange Deputy for York County, 1876; appointed, State Grange Deputy for Adams County, 1882. 

Elected, Democrat Pennsylvania State Senate, 28th district, York, 1886-1894, member, Pensions and Gratuities, Compare Bills Committees.

Cited:                                                  

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1888) Cochran, T.B., Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 642-643 and 676-678.

(i) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11373167/gerard-crane-brown