Posted on: USGenWeb Delta County Biographies Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Co/DeltaBios/10010 Surname: BROWER, ALLEN, WISHART, GRAY, STELL, BURRITT ------------------------- BROWER FAMILY John Allen Brower was born in 1825 in New Brunswick, Canada, descendant of two Loyalist familles: the Browers of Dutchess and Rockland Counties, New York, and the Allens of Bergen County, New Jersey. His parents were John and Catherine Fletcher Brower of New Brunswick. John Brower Sr.'s parents appear to have been Jacob and Agnes Allen Brower. His great grandfather John Allen was an active promoter of the Loyalist cause throughtout Northern New Jersey and Southern New York. By 1850 John Allen Brower had left New Brunswick and was in Ontario by 1860,and there met the newly widowed Felicia Matilda Lapham Wishart with an infant son and married her in 1861. John Allen raised Matilda's son Adam WIshart as his own and together they had five children: George b. 1863 m. Molly Gray d. 1934 in Cory; Amanda Catherine b. 1856 m. James William Stell 1883 d. 1927 in Eckert; William b. 1869 m. Cora Samuels 1902 d. 1908 in Silverton and father of Nelle Brower, respected school teacher of Austin; Isabelle Louisa b. 1871, m. Fred Ray Burritt 1888, d. 1920; and Ellen b. 1873 m. Louis Wyman 1893 d. 1956 in Durango, a long term resident of Silverton;