Sketches of prominent citizens of 1876 : with a few of the pioneers of the city and county who have passed away . ive duties of newspaper lifethan those in which he is now engaged. Mr. Brough was married inMay, 1857, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Isaac H. Taylor, Esq., ofMadison. They have had five children, three of whom are living, aboy and two girls. The eldest daughter is the wife of Joseph W. Bing-ham, a well-known newspaper man of this city. Mr. Brough is con-sidered one of the best newspaper men in the city. The truth of thisis attested by the fact that he is always engaged on some one
Sketches of prominent citizens of 1876 : with a few of the pioneers of the city and county who have passed away . ive duties of newspaper lifethan those in which he is now engaged. Mr. Brough was married inMay, 1857, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Isaac H. Taylor, Esq., ofMadison. They have had five children, three of whom are living, aboy and two girls. The eldest daughter is the wife of Joseph W. Bing-ham, a well-known newspaper man of this city. Mr. Brough is con-sidered one of the best newspaper men in the city. The truth of thisis attested by the fact that he is always engaged on some one of thecity papers. AUSTIN H. BROWN Was born on the 19th of March, 1828, at Milroy, Rush county, Indi-ana. His father, William J. Brown, and mother (formerly Miss SusanTompkins) soon afterwards removed to Rushville. Here Austin receiveda limited education, sometimes attending school a few months in townand sometimes going to a school two miles in the country; removingwith his father to Indianapolis, January, i, 1837 I h^ Oc^^w went to schoolunder the tutorship respectively of Josephus Cicero Worrall, Heman A USTIN H. BR 0 WN. 417 Barlow, Jacob S. Kemper, a Mr. Tuffts, John Wheeler and AlexanderJameson. When not in school he worked as roller boy (printers devil)and carrier in the office of the Indiana Democrat, The Mechanic andthe Indiana State Sentinel. In the fall of 1844 he went to IndianaAsbury University, at Greencastle, remaining there until February,1845, when he was summoned to Washington City to take a clerkshipin the auditors office of the treasury for the Post Office Department,under the administration of President Polk (at that time he was butseventeen years old), serving in that position and as assistant chief clerkof the same bureau until May, i, 1850, when he returned to Indiana-polis. Having purchased of the Messrs. Chapman the Indiana StateSentinel, he assumed the control of that paper and the management ofa large book and job printing office; was elected pri
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