Photographs and Family Information
Abraham Oliver Brown during the war
Bust in latter life
Picture of Abraham Oliver Brown, wife, and children taken December 1892
Identification: 10/2002 by Frances Brown Armstrong, daughter of Richard Baxter Brown
Standing (left to right): Alice, Percy, Hattie, Daniel, Anna, Seneca
Seated (left to right): George, Laura, Mary Caroline Bates Brown, Abraham Oliver Brown, Fred, Richard
Children of Abraham Oliver Brown
Name Birth Death Occupation Spouse George Oliver 4/19/1869 Cohasset MA 3/13/1950 Cashier, Northwestern Tel Minneapolis MN Sarah Ellen Christie Daniel Gould 5/20/1870 Cohasset MA 1/10/1949 Machinist, Plymouth Cordage Faustina Freeman Holmes Hattie Warren 12/29/1871 Duxbury MA 9/27/1898 Housewife Dr. J. Holbrook Shaw (Ophthalmologist) &
Plymouth Public School PhysicianRichard Baxter
(father of OWBB)7/6/1873 Duxbury MA 2/2/1937 Overseer, Plymouth Cordage;
Band & Glee Club DirectorAmy Locke
(born in Athol, MA)Anna Hale 6/27/1875 Plymouth MA 2/9/1925 Housewife George Edgar Bailey (died 12/1963) Alice 4/21/1877 Plymouth MA 8/8/1966 Housewife & Organist Fred Avery Hall (Statistical Dept Head, Plymouth Cordage) Percy Lyle 7/18/1880 Plymouth MA 5/1/1957 Art Salesman (Boston MA) Bessie Winslow Davis Seneca Porter 11/4/1881 Plymouth MA 11/1/1939 Architect-Engineer, Fuller Construction, Boston MA Alice Crane (11/2/1880 - 4/22/1955) Fred Carleton 12/7/1885 Plymouth MA 2/19/1969 Asst Treas. Plymouth Federal Savings & Load; organist Edith Magee Laura Eliza 8/10/1887 Plymouth 8/1/1971 Music Director & Organist Remained single
Abraham Oliver Brown was a railroad conductor & Plymouth's first appointed letter carrier. He was born 3/3/1842 in Hanover, New Hampshire and died 9/7/1896. He married Mary Caroline Bates Brown, who was born 2/12/1849 in Cohasset MA and died 3/14/1914.
Note the following from Oliver Warren Bates Brown of 30 Vine Street, Winchester MA typed on March 18, 1980 " the above verified information on my preceding generation, Brown Family aunts & uncles, was obtained during the years 1979 & 1980 by Oliver W. B. Brown."
Credits: Robert Brown and Jeane Hunter Brown, of Massachusetts (contributed by David Brown, their nephew).
See also, Abraham's wartime diary.


