History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, / by Paul Leake ... [Vol. 3]

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HISTORY OF DETROIT

semblage, including representatives of the various unions,German social organizations and other societies, the while more than two hundred
fine floral pieces testified on this sad occasion the regard in which he
had been held. In politics he was a Republican. His loved and devoted wife was to him a true helpmeet, and he attributed much of his success to her good business judgment and wise counsel. After his death
she continued his business until she was able to dispose of the same.
On the 27th of July, 1892, Mr. Stoebler was united in marriage to
Miss Marie Ehemann, who was born in the city of Buffalo, New York,
but who was a child at the time of her parents' removal to Detroit,
where she was reared and educated and where she has continuously
maintained her home. She is a daughter of Matthew and Marie (Rite)
Ehemann, who were old citizens of Detroit. The father died in 1902,
and the mother still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Stoebler became the parents
of two children, Hilda and Carl, who remain with their widowed mother
and constitute her chief interest, and solace.
ROBERT H. BROWN. The honors of large and worthy accomplishments rested upon the late Robert Hamilton Brown, who brought to
bear in the world's work the sterling qualities of a. sincere and upright
character and the well matured powers of a discriminating and broadminded man of affairs. He was long and prominently identified with the
insurance business, to which he devoted the major part of his time and
attention during the years of his residence in Detroit, where he was also
one of the principals in the Brown Brothers Tobacco Company, the management of which rested in the hands of his brother, J. H. Brown, who
still resides in this city. Robert H. Brown was a man who had no desire for the spectacular in life and his career was one of quiet and unassuming order, but there was no obliquity in his vision as a man of
business and practical application, so that, placing true valuations upon
men and affairs, he pressed surely forward to the goal of large and definite achievement, the while he ordered his course upon a high plane of
integrity and honor and thus gained and retained the confidence and
esteem of those with whom he came in contact.
Robert Hamilton Brown claimed the fine old Buckeye state as his
place of nativity and was a representative of one of its sterling pioneer
families. He was born on the homestead farm of his parents near
Rushsylvania, Logan county, Ohio, on the second day of November,
1844, and was a son of Robert and Jane (Aiken) Brown, both of whom
were born and reared in the north of Ireland and both of whom traced
their lineage to stanch Scottish origin. Robert Brown removed with
his family to Ohio in an early day, having come to America when a
young man, and he first located near Steubenville, Jefferson county,
when he later removed to the vicinity of Rushsylvania, Logan county,
where he reclaimed a farm from the wilds and where he and his wife
continued to reside until their death-persons of steadfast purpose
and sterling character.
He to whom this memoir is dedicated found his boyhood and youth
compassed by the environment and sturdy discipline of the home farm
and he early began to contribute his quota to its work, while he attended
the district schools during the winter terms and thus laid the foundation for the comprehensive knowledge and broad information which he
later gained through well directed reading and through close association with men and affairs. He was a man of most alert and receptive
mentality and thus he effectually overcame the educational handicap of
earlier years and attained to distinctive culture. Mr. Brown continued
to be actively identified with the great basic industry of agriculture
until he had attained the age of eighteen years, when he severed the