SHERMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Alfred (Alf) Brown was one of the early, early settlers in Sherman County.
Brown was born in Ohio in 1841, had a seventh-grade education, fought in the Civil War for four years, married, and then farmed in Ohio for seven years. In the middle of October 1872, he, his wife, son Ora, and several other friends and relatives moved to the St. Paul area at the urging of his friends. Two of those friends, Nick and Jim Paul, had organized the town of St. Paul and made it the county seat of Howard County.
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