“BROWN, Everett Chase, live stock commn. broker; born Oneida, ILL., Oct. 14, 1863: son Thomas and Emily (Ware) Brown; ed. Chicago pub. schools, Bryant & Stratton Business Coll., Chicago Evening Coll. of Law, Lake Forest Univ., LL.B., 1892; married Glencoe, ILL., Dec. 1901, Elizabeth Sawyer Dupee. Entered employ of St. John & Brown, live stock commn. merchants, 1881; now gen. mgr. of the Brown St. John Commn. Co. Mem. Co. C, 1st Regt. I.N. G., 5 years. Mem. Chicago Plan Commn. since 1909. Republican. Presbyterian. Mason (Home Lodge, LaFayette Chapter, Apollo Commandery). Dir. Chicago Live Stock Exchange, 1911-14; pres. Nat. Amateur Athletic Union, 1910-11. Clubs: Chicago Athletic (pres. 1909, 1910), South Shore Country (dir. 1910-13, chmn. finance com. 1911), Chicago Motor. Recreations: golf and motoring. Residence: 535 Aldine Sq. Office: 57 and 59 Exchange Bldg., U. S. Yards.”

Source:  The Book of Chicagoans, by Albert Nelson Marquis, A.N. Marquis & Company, Chicago, 1911, page 90