100 Years Ago

Herald of Jan. 13, 1922

Phillip Shelly Brown, 88, died in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 10, 1921. He was born on a farm near New Enterprise and was raised on the Abraham Shelly farm along Clover Creek after his father died. He moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855 and studied law in the office of John W. Thompson, formerly of Hollidaysburg. Brown moved to Kansas City in 1858, arriving by steamboat. At his death he was the oldest member of the Kansas City Bar and the oldest member of the Presbyterian church there. The local Kansas City paper stated that his death “removes a figure prominen...