Photographer: Brown
Belleville, Kansas
From the collection of
rfinch on Ancestry.com
The Belleville (KS) Telegram carries several items about Dr Brown and
Mrs R M Brown documenting their stay in that town in
1897 to 1899.
One item, 17 Sep 1897, mentions Dr and Mrs Brown and daughter
proposing to locate in Belleville, KS, from Alma, NE.
The following month, there was this very descriptive item in the same
newspaper.
In December 1897, there is this descriptive item in a feature
about new businesses in Belleview.
Following this, over 70 small ads and items were found in the
Belleville (KS) Telescope between the dates of 08 Oct 1897 and
19 May 1899. Examples:
Belleville (KS) Telescope - 17 Dec 1897
Belleville (KS) Telescope - 04 Feb 1898
Belleville (KS) Telescope - 18 Feb 1898
Belleville (KS) Telescope - 15 Apr 1898
Belleville (KS) Telescope - 06 May 1898
Continued in the next row
In 1899 this item appeared:
Belleville (KS) Telescope - 21 Apr 1899
On 02 Jun 1899, there appears a short item in the Belleville
(KS) Telegram which seems to indicate that Jun 23 and 24 will be
customer’s last chance to pick up their orders.
Unfortunately nothing has been found so far that documents their
travels before or after their stay in Belleville, KS.
Further leads have been inconclusive owing to the fact that there were
at least three doctors named Brown in the area. Though there are
mentions in area newspapers of the activities of Dr Brown, there is
nothing to indicate that it is the same Dr Brown that resided in
Belleville, KS, in 1897 to 1899.
It is also unclear whether the initials "R M" belong to Mrs Brown or
her husband. Some ads end with “Mrs R M Brown” and others with “R M
Brown”
It is fairly conclusive however that the cabinet card here was
finished between Oct of 1897 and June of 1899.
photographer Brown
Belleville, KS
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