Webster E. Brown
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Webster Everett Brown (July 16, 1851 - December 14, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Born near Peterboro village, Madison County, New York, Brown moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857. Resided for a time in Newport, Columbia County, and then in Hull and Stockton, Portage County. He attended the common schools. He completed a preparatory course at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, and later, in 1870, a business course at the Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1874. He engaged in the logging and lumber business at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in 1875. He moved to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, in 1882 and continued in the logging and lumber business. He also engaged in manufacture of paper. He served as mayor of Rhinelander in 1894 and 1895.
Brown was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907). He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906. He resumed his former business and manufacturing pursuits in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He died in Chicago, Illinois, while on a visit for medical treatment, December 14, 1929. He was interred in Forest Home Cemetery, Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
