Cumberland County, Maine - Charles Curtis Brown
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Biography
Charles Curtis Brown
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 615-616


Charles Curtis Brown, Postmaster at Deering Centre and a dealer in periodicals,
etc., was born at Corinna, Me., October 18, 1822, on the home farm of his
parents, John and Sarah (Smith) Brown. His paternal grandfather was Ephraim
Brown, who was for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits in Penobscot
County, this State. Of the ten children born to him and his wife, three are now
living, namely: William P.; Ruel J.; and Charles Curtis, the subject of this
sketch.

Charles C. Brown early became familiar with farm labor, having to assist in the
care of the stock and do chores about the house when out of school, becoming so
used to the care and management of horses that when but sixteen years of age he
began driving a four horse team from St. Albans, this State, to Bangor, and
continued as a teamster for three or four years. Going then to Boston, be was
for several months brakeman on a train running between that city and Medford.
Becoming infected with the gold fever, at that time the prevailing epidemic, he
went to California, where he spent five years variously employed mining,
farming, gardening, hotel-keeping, or stage driving, but never out of work. In
1858 be returned East and entered the mercantile business in Palmyra, Me., where
he was also Postmaster in 1859, 1860 and 1861. During the succeeding fifteen
years he carried on a substantial drug business in Newport, Penobscot County,
coming thence to Deering, which has since been his place of residence. He has
been engaged in mercantile business much of the time, having at different times
in Portland conducted a drug store, a grocery store, and a book and stationery
establishment. In 1891, under Postmaster-general John Wanamaker, Mr. Brown
received his appointment to his present office; accepting the position August
12, and being one of the few to retain the office through the political changes
In politics he supports the principles of the Republican party; and, socially,
he is a Mason.

Mr. Brown wedded Martha A. Pollard, daughter of Dr. T. B. and Olive A. (Shaw)
Pollard, the only child born of their union being Frank P., who resides in
Malden, Mass., but is engaged in business in Boston. Frank P. Brown married Miss
Augusta Montgomery; and they have three children - Doris, Pauline, and Barbara.