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From History of Whitingham
by Leonard Brown, F.E. Housh, Brattleboro VT, 1886
Page 155
Josiah Brown, married Milicent Wright, and came to Whitingham about 1795, settled on the farm now owned by Joseph W. Morse, where he lived till he went to Bennington with his son Edmund, and lived there with him the rest of his days. He had a family of nine children; four of them only, lived to maturity; the rest died in infancy or quite young. The names of the four that lived to be men, were, Rufus, Clement, Edmund, and George W. Rufus was the most prominent man of the four; was often elected to important offices of trust in the town, was Clerk of the Baptist Church five years, and once represented the town in the General Assembly. He was a thrifty, well-to-do farmer, -- owned and lived on the same farm for fifty-five years, and died at his home, August 9, 1875, at the age of 78.
Clement was a very quiet unassuming man, lived and acted as his conscience directed, troubling himself but very little about what was going on in the world around him. He spent most of his life in Whitingham, but moved to Halifax a short time before he died. He too, was a devoted member of the Baptist Church, married Polly Eames, had no children, died at Halifax, August 7, 1849, aged 49.
Edmund once owned and run the grist-mill in Jacksonville, but afterwards went to live with his father on the old homestead farm, where he worked at farming there, till they sold out and went to Bennington, where he and his father both died. Edmund bought a farm there and followed farming the remainder of his life. Josiah Brown died at Bennington, January 20, 1858, at the advanced age of 91. Edmund also died there at his home, October 11, 1866, aged 61.
George W. acquired a good education in early life, left this town when a young man, went to the State of Pennsylvania, where for aught we know to the contrary, he is still living.
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