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Born:
Brownsville, Pennsylvania
At an early day
he came to Lebanon, Ohio, and entered the law
office of that distinguished lawyer and
statesman, the late Thomas Corwin. Mr. Brown
proved himself a worthy student of is talented
preceptor, and soon occupied a high position in
this judicial circuit as a lawyer, and from the
day he first came to this city up to the time of
his death was never without clients in
abundance, especially in criminal cases. No
man, in his day, in the State ranked higher as a
criminal lawyer than Hiram Brown. There are
many of our old citizens who will remember his
defense of Major John Jamison in a case where a
woman was the prosecuting witness. During his residence of thirty years in and adjoining this city, there was no man more generally or favorably known than he. He was the fourth lawyer to make this place his home, having come here in November, 1823. He was a native of Brownsville, Pennsylvania; his father was the proprietor of the that town, hence its name. Nowland, John H. B., "Early Reminiscences of Indianapolis, with Short Biographical Sketches of Its Early Citizens, and of a Few of the Prominent Business Men of the Present Day," 1870, pp. 160-161. |