of this city. The Doctor and his wife have two children: Florine May, who was born at Pleasant Hill, Illinois, in 1894; and Russell Andrew, whose birth occurred in Pittsfield in 1896. The parents are members of the Christian church; and Dr. Crane is a republican in his political views, but without aspiration for office. He is serving on the official board of the church and takes an active and helpful interest in its work. He is also a member of the school board, and was on the pension board until it resigned bodily, a new board being later appointed. In the line of his profession he is connected with the Pike County and Illinois State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, and is vice president of the first named. The profession as well as the general public recognize his skill and learning. He maintains a high standard of professional ethics, and by reading and research is continually broadening his knowledge so that he is well qualified to meet the responsibilities that devolve upon him in connection with the important work he has chosen as his life vocation.                                                    _______________                                                WILLIAM  H.  BROWN        William H. Brown, the owner of six hundred acres of valuable land in Pike county and also well known in commercial circles as a dealer in hard and soft coal at Maysville, was born in Griggsville township on the 10th of November, 1867, a son of Henry R. and Jane (Chapman) Brown. The father's birth occurred in Brown county, Ohio, July 15, 1821, and he was a son of William Brown, Sr., a well known pioneer resident of Pike county. Henry Brown came to Illinois in 1834, making his way at once to this county and establishing his home on section 29, Griggsville township. He followed a breaking plow and dropped corn on the Griggsville prairie, the rows being one mile in length. He was employed at that work by George W. Jones, who has since passed away. Mr. Brown also worked in a cotton gin in Morgan county for about three years and like other boys of that early day he was largely deprived of educational advantages and was compelled to undergo many hardships and privations incident to the settlement of the frontier. He saw the first steamboat that sailed on the waters of the Illinois river and was a witness of many of the historic events which have marked the development of this county. He also saw deer running wild on the prairies, there being twenty or more in a drove, but he never shot one.      Henry R. Brown was married first to Miss Harriet Park on the 18th of January, 1842, and just two years later she passed away, leaving one son, George W., who was born November 18, 1843. He served his country in the Civil war as a member of the Union army and died July 7, 1900. On the 22nd of December, 1847, Henry R. Brown was married to Miss Jane Chapman, a daughter of E. W. Chapman, deceased, well known in early history of Pike county. By this marriage there were eight children. John Q., who was born October 13, 1848, and married Miss Ella Eastman, is now engaged in cultivating a farm of about five hundred acres in Kansas. Mary J., born June 16, 1850 is the wife of John F. Watkins, a farmer of Griggsville township. Sarah F., born May 17, 1852, is the wife of Dr. W. O. Skinner, a resident of Griggsville. William E., born August 12, 1854, died May 6, 1855. Julia A., born November 8, 1856, has also passed away. Flora E., born January 12, 1862, died January 10, 1867. Captain Amos W. Brown, born December 17, 1863, married Louise Lewis and they now reside in Kansas, where he follows farming and in 1902-3 he raised thirty thousand bushels of wheat. William H. completes the family. The father, Henry R. Brown, long an active, enterprising, prosperous and honored agriculturist of Pike county, passed away June 7, 1903, when eighty-two years of age, and his wife, who was born in 1823, is now living in her eighty-second year, at the present writing visiting her sons in Kansas.      William H. Brown, reared under the parental roof, acquired his elementary education in the public schools and afterward attended Illinois College at Jacksonville. He was early trained to habits of industry, economy and enterprise upon the old homestead farm and was associated.