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- Occupation: Butcher
George Brown was the founder of Brown's Market in Rochester. After emigrating about 1853, he settled in Rochester and carried on his trade as a butcher, originally in the Front Street area. Within a few years, he acquired property on Asylum Street [later named Richmond Street] and established the meat market there. His first wife was Elisabetha Heim from Pfaffenhausen, now part of Hammelburg. We do not know whether they married there or after emigrating to Rochester. Elisabeth died shortly after the birth of their 6th child. Shortly after her death, George married Magdalena Wittman. They had 8 children. The business struggled at first, but eventually prospered. Upon his death, the business passed to his son, Joseph J. Brown. George Brown was a devout Catholic, and his oldest child with his second wife Magdalena became a Sister with the Sacred Heart convent in Detroit, MI. George Brown was born Georg Breun in Hammelburg, Bavaria. The Bishop's Archives in Würzburg, Catholic Parish of Hammelburg, Baptism book 1832, page 143, marriage number 24, listed Georgius, fifth child of Georgius Breun, master butcher, Catholic, midwife Barbara Seufert, residence house number 74, mother Margaretha Wald, butcher's wife, Catholic, house number 74, DOB May 15, 1832, 2 p.m., date of baptism May 16 in church, minister P. Engelbert (...), witness George Hurzlein, unmarried, Catholic, from here.George Brown is buried in Section 10 East Division, Lot 60, Grave 3N-E, age 72, at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.George Brown is listed in the July 1870 Census for the 10th Ward, City of Rochester, page 57, age 38, Butcher, Real Estate $2,000, butcher, POB Bavaria. Wife Lena, 28, keeping house, b. Bavaria. Mary, 15, Adam, 14, Frances, 12, Barbara, 10, George, 8, Louisa, 6, Margaretta, 4, Jacobina [male], 2, and Joseph, 9/12. The entry for Josephina is not clear, but the sex of the child was an obvious error on the census form. All children born in NY.
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