Col. John Mason Brown (USA)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73732532/John-Mason-Brown

Son of Mason Brown and Mary Yoder Brown; husband of Mary Owen Preston Brown (married 25 Nov, 1869; dad of Preston, John Mason, Jr, Mary Mason, and Margaret Wickliffe Brown. Served as a Colonol in the Tenth Cavalry Kentucky during the War Between the States.

Obit:

JOHN MASON BROWN, son of the Hon Mason Brown (Yale Coll 1820) and Mary (Yoder) Brown, and half-brother of the Hon B. Gratz Brown (Y. C 1847), was born in Frankfort, Ky., April 26, 1837, and entered this College (Yale) at the beginning of Junior year.

He returned to Frankfort after graduation, and was engaged in teaching school and in studying law under Thomas M, Lindsay, Esq., until April, 1860, when he began practice in St Louis. He spent a large part of the years 1861 and 1862 in traveling the Northwestern United States and British America, and among the Blackfeet Indians by whom he had been adopted. In October, 1862, he returned to Kentucky and was commissioned Major of the 10th Cavalry. In September, 1863, he was made Colonel and Assistant Inspector-General, and three months later was ordered to the field as Colonel of the 45th Kentucky Mounted Rifles.

Later he was assigned to the command of the Brigade to which his regiment belonged, and so continued until the expiration of his term of service in December, 1864.

In 1865 he resumed his practice of law in Frankfort, but in January, 1870, removed to Lexington, Ky., where he formed a partnership with Madison C. Johnson, Esq. In September, 1873, he removed to Louisville, Ky, where he remained in successful practice until his last illness. He died in Louisville, after twelve days' illness from the influenza and pneumonia, on January 29, 1890, in his 53rd year. His marked ability, upright character, and attractive personal qualities made his sudden death a widely-felt calamity.

He married at Lexington, Ky, November 25, 1869, Miss Mary O. Preston, eldest daughter of General William Preston, who survives him with four children—the oldest being a member of the Sophomore Class in this College (Yale).

Colonel Brown had prominent literary tastes and gifts, and had just prepared before his death a volume on the Political Beginnings of Kentucky, which is now published by the Filson Club.

http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf

Obit courtesy of Cheryl Cartwright.