Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . orating with na-ture and her possibilities. BROWN, Herman H.—Agricultural, monetaryand legal science have enriched the experienceand extended the usefulness of Herman , one of the most energetic and capable ofthe younger generation of toilers of Rushville. andwho at present is known to the community as ageneral attorney, assistant cashier of the Bankof Rushville, chief of the local fire department,and promoter of the Farmers Institute. is a native of Schuyler County, and wasborn on a farm in Woodstock Township, June 14,1875. He represents t
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . orating with na-ture and her possibilities. BROWN, Herman H.—Agricultural, monetaryand legal science have enriched the experienceand extended the usefulness of Herman , one of the most energetic and capable ofthe younger generation of toilers of Rushville. andwho at present is known to the community as ageneral attorney, assistant cashier of the Bankof Rushville, chief of the local fire department,and promoter of the Farmers Institute. is a native of Schuyler County, and wasborn on a farm in Woodstock Township, June 14,1875. He represents the third generation of hisfamily in this part of the State, for hither camehis grandfather, John Brown, of Virginia, andhis wife, Jane (Becket) Brown, of Kentucky,and here was born his father. Robert Brown, inthe then small village of Rushville. The pater-nal great-grandfather, John Brown, was bornin North Carolina. The maternal branch of thefamily named Hoffman also was etablished earlyin Schuyler County by Samuel Hoffman of Ohio,. dt & cMtrcKJu-^ HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY. 791 who was lather of Mary, the mother of HermanH., who married Margaret C. Nordin, a native ofFrance. The maternal great-grandparents, Jos-eph and Mary (Myers) Hoffman, were born inBerks County, Pa. Notwithstanding his withdrawal from agricul-ture as a direct means of livelihood, Herman continues an active promoter of that basicindustry of the world, lu his youth he receivedan excellent training on his fathers farm, andleft it only to augment his district school educa-tion by attendance at the Rushville Normal,from which he was graduated with honor in theclass of 1892. He then studied law in the officeof Montgomery & Glass, and., upon passing theState bar examination in 1890, when less thantwenty-one years of age, was obliged to other-wise employ himself until he had reached hismajority. In the emergency he became a clerkin the Bank of Rushville, soon after being ad-vanced to his present positio
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