Person:Enos Brown (1)

Enos Brown was "the first of three brothers Brown, who, coming from Whitesboro, found a lodgment in Utica. William, their father, a minute man of the Revolution, had removed from Rhode Island in 1796, and was serving the country about him with meat. His son Enos, was for a while similarly employed, both at Whitesboro and at Utica. But having married in 1809 Isabella, daughter of Joab Stafford the coppersmith, who died the next year, he joined Daniel Stafford, the son and successor of Joab, and entered their pursuit. Prospered therein, Stafford & Brown soon enlarged their establishment, and made a name as dealers in hardware. And thus they went on until 1820, when the tide turned against them, and they signed over their interest to Spencer Stafford & Co. of Albany. To Albany Mr. Brown went and lived for a while, but was back again by 1825. He was a second time a butcher, and a second time a dealer in hardware, but never enjoyed his former prosperity. He became infirm in health, and before his death much impoverished. His decease occurred July 3, 1856.

In his better days he was tall, athletic and wiry; fond of fun and mischief, and jovial in temper, no one of his age was more of a leader than Enos Brown. He was so unerring a shot that he would cut off the line from the pole of a boy fishing, and he so far away that the boy could have no suspicion of his tormentor. He built for himself the house on Broad street, now occupied by E. S. Barnum, and at a later period a brick house on Main street, east of second. After the death of his first wife he married Mercy, daughter of David Stafford, and a cousin of the first one. She died January 5, 1869. The offspring of the first are all deceased. By the second he had four children, of whom a son is living in Michigan, and one in Brooklyn, and a daughter in Fredonia." -- M. M. Bagg, The Pioneers of Utica (1877), pp. 189-190.

In 1818 Enos Brown was a Utica village trustee from second ward. -- M. M. Bagg, The Pioneers of Utica (1877), page 451.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Grave Marker/Cemetery Records.

   Enos Brown, died July 23, 1856, age 75y, 4m, 15d.
   His grave was relocated here from Potter Cemetery, identified as Removal #129.