W. Luman Brown

1846 – 1927

13th Indiana Light Artillery

Civil War

Walter Luman Brown was born near Cleveland, Ohio, on October 17, 1846, to William and Mary Ann (Moon) Brown.

Shortly after Brown’s birth, his father bought a farm near what is now Gary, Indiana, and it was from there that he enlisted in the Union Army when he was seventeen years of age; he was discharged July 10, 1865 after serving as a private in the 13th Indiana Light Artillery.

After the war he entered the railroad business and was yard master at Kensington, Illinois, for a number of years. In 1900 he was an insurance agent in Joliet.

Brown was twice married, about 1866 he married Charlotte Forbes of City West, Indiana, the daughter of a war comrade; two sons and two daughters were born of their union. Following the death of his first wife, he married Minnie Schultz of Michigan City, Indiana in 1880, and they raised four sons and four daughters.

Private Brown died in the home of his daughter in Barrington on December 12, 1927, one of the last four Civil War survivors in Barrington.

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution