Businessman. President and founder of J. S. Brown & Bro. Mercantile Company. By 1899, it became the largest Mercantile Company in the western United States. He was a director in the South Park railroad, assisted in the building of the Denver Pacific Railroad, between Denver and Cheyenne, and was a promoter, director and vice-president of the Denver & New Orleans Railroad. The J.S. Brown Mercantile building was added to the National Historic Register in 1988, and currently houses the Wynkoop Brewing Company (developed and chaired by current Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper). (bio by: Eric Crow)  Family links:  Spouse:  Irene A. Sopris Brown (1841 – 1881)*  Children:  Frederick S Brown (1869 – 1933)*  Elizabeth Brown Inglis (1871 – 1924)*  Edward Newton Brown (1873 – 1936)*  William Knight Brown (1878 – 1963)* *Calculated relationship