This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1513 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes. Obviously, Mabel was interested here in the fact that Samuel Brown had been living in Iowa for 16 years--since about 1840. (She doesn't show him as having been a resident of Fremont county in 1854.) 1856 Iowa State Census, "Franklin township", Fremont county. Samuel Brown....54...N.Y....Mill wright.....16 years in Iowa. Lovina................48...N.Y........................16 Mary L...............20...Pa..........................16 Eunice...............16...Iowa........................16 John W..............13...Iowa........................13 Hiram G.............11...Iowa........................11 Laura J............... 6...Iowa...........................6