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Rev. Brown's son, Mark, was an early owner of the De Smet Leader , in partnership with Carter Sherwood. He married Laura Dudley in 1884. They had a son, Edward D., born on May 5, 1885. Mark Brown died in 1887, and Laura moved back to Wisconsin to live with her parents, Timothy and Flora.

Edward Brown graduated from high school in 1903 and there was a nice mention in the De Smet newspaper. On the 1910 census, he is listed as the head of household, his mother living with him.

From the January 9, 1914, De Smet News:

News learns with regret of the death of Edward Brown, son of the late Mark A. Brown, the first editor of the De Smet Leader, and grandson of the first pastor of the Congregational church in De Smet. The young man was born in 1885, and by the death of his father soon after he was left to the sole care of his devoted mother. Most of his life was spent in West Salem, Wis., where he attended school and was graduated with honor from the high school. Later he attended the Wisconsin State University and was finely fitted for a life of usefulness. But he had inherited tuberculosis, and the dread disease began to undermine his health. Accompanied by his mother he went first to Texas, then Arizona, and finally to southern California. He seemed to improve in the latter climate but the benefit was but temporary, for last August he died. The remains were taken to West Salem, Wis., and there placed beside those of his father. The last of his line! The heartbroken mother, with little to live for, is now with a sister in Minneapolis. Her hope was centered in Edward, and well she may have been proud of him. The ways of providence are indeed past finding out.
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