John Mason Brown

Birth Date

1837-04-26

Death Date

1890-01-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Frankfort native. Son of Mason Brown and Mary Yoder Brown. Attended school with Mr. Sayre in Frankfort. Graduate of Yale College, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, in 1856. Admitted to the bar in 1858. Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, and Frankfort, Kentucky. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major from October 1862 to April 1863. Assistant inspector general of Kentucky with the rank of colonel from November 1863 to February 1864. Served in the 45th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from February 1864 to December 1864. Attorney in Frankfort in 1865.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 209.
Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University, (http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituaryrecord/18591924/1889-90.pdf, 584-585) (accessed on February 16, 2017).
“Died in His Prime: Col. John Mason Brown’s Illness Terminated By Death Yesterday,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 30, 1890.
"Col James Mason Brown (1837-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial 73732532, accessed February 16, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73732532.

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