IN MEMORIAM.

Hon. Ed C. Brown, a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners from 1901 to 1904, residing at that time at Sheldon, Iowa, died Thursday, January 12, 1911 at his home in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Mr. Brown was a member of Co. 4 3rd Michigan Volunteers, and served in the latter part of the Civil War. He was a delegate from the Eleventh district in Iowa, to the National Republican Convention which nominated Benjamin Harrison for President, and was postmaster at Sheldon, Iowa, during the administrations of Presidents Garfield and Arthur. On the expiration of his term as Railroad Commissioner, Mr. Brown with his family moved to Glendive, Montana, and in the spring of 1907 he removed to Thermopolis, Wyoming, to take the management of the Big Horn Lumber and Land Company's yards at that place, in which he was quite extensively interested. Mr. Brown was born October 24, 1846. His former associates on the Railroad Commission held him in the highest esteem. He was a man of ripe judgment, and his services were of supreme value to the state.

The Commissioners through the secretary conveyed to Mrs. Brown and family their appreciation of the worth of the deceased