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NameFirst: Brown ~H. A. W.
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OriginalBirthNation: Germany
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DeathDay: 26
DeathYear: 1908
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OriginalDeathCity: Valparaiso
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Parents: Fred Brown and D. K.
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OriginalNotes: Indiana Death Certificates - Henry A. W. Brown of Locust St, Valparaiso, d, June 26, 1908, age 64, married to Anna Brown, b. Germany, parents Fred Brown and D. K.

Find A Grave #22804593 - Henry A. Brown, June 14, 1844 - June 26, 1908 / Annie Brown Cole, Jan. 12, 1865 - Feb. 9, 1911

Early Photographers of Porter County, on blog "Porter County's Past: An Amateur Historian's Perspective, by Steve Shook, dated April 30, 2017, updated April 4, 2019 (viewed April 30, 2019 by Joan Hostetler http://www.porterhistory.org/2017/04/early-photographers-of-porter-county.html?fbclid=IwAR35AFnb2sr3nusPUOrnOLkz1wm6IAbLSTp12_fi_XJSYFKfqQach_2oTQQ)
Henry A. W. Brown marked his photographs as Brown & Company. Brown operated a photography gallery located on College Hill in Valparaiso, and his business is listed in the Valparaiso city directories of 1893 and 1902 as being located at 20 South Locust Street. Research suggests that Brown purchased the photography business of Beatty around 1892 or 1893. Brown likely remained in business till 1897 when he and Valparaiso resident Theodore Hansen, son of Liberty Township farmer John N. Hansen, were each convicted on November 28, 1897, in federal court of counterfeiting silver certificates; Brown and Hanson were consequently sentenced to five years imprisonment at Columbus, Ohio. Brown was described as "a nervous little German with mutton chop whiskers just turning gray, and a face suggesting the ideal anarchist" and "a photographer of more than ordinary ability." 
Brown made photographs of one, two, and five dollar silver certificates. He used the negatives to produce plates for printing money. Thomas B. Carter and Thomas J. Porter, agents with the United State Secret Service, learned that counterfeit bills were circulating in the Indiana counties of Lake, LaPorte, and Porter and had detectives dispatched to the region to identify the producer of the fake money. The Secret Service raided Brown's College Hill studio and discovered a nearly completed counterfeit ten dollar silver certificate. At the Hanson farm, situated just south of Mink Lake in Liberty Township, investigators found other plates, a small press, paper, and inks used to produce counterfeit bills in a small outhouse.
Henry A. W. Brown was born June 14, 1844, in Germany. He married Anna Cole. Brown died at his Locust Street property in Valparaiso on June 26, 1908, and interred in nearby Maplewood Cemetery.
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OriginalSource: Ancestry.com. Valparaiso, Indiana Directory, 1890. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data:  Valparaiso, IN, 1890. Valparaiso, IN: Talcott & Tevis, 1890. H. A. W. Brown, Brown & Co., photographers, 20 S. Locust

1893 Valparaiso City Directory - Brown & Co., Photographers, 20 S. Locust; H. A. W. Brown, Brown & Co., 20 S Locust

Early Photographers of Porter County, on blog "Porter County's Past: An Amateur Historian's Perspective, by Steve Shook, dated April 30, 2017, updated April 4, 2019
Henry A. W. Brown marked his photographs as Brown & Company. Brown operated a photography gallery located on College Hill in Valparaiso, and his business is listed in the Valparaiso city directories of 1893 and 1902 as being located at 20 South Locust Street. Research suggests that Brown purchased the photography business of Beatty around 1892 or 1893. Brown likely remained in business till 1897 [when he was caught making counterfeit money].
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OriginalSource: 1895-96 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 986
St. Louis and Canadian Photographer, Nov. 1897, p. 500:
Henry A. W. Brown, a photographer of Valparaiso, IN, and Theodore Hanson, a farmer near there, were brought before United States Commissioner S. E. Williams on a charge of counterfeiting, and bound over to the federal court at Indianapolis in $5,000 each.  Couterfeit $1, $2, $5, and $10 bills were found on the men, besides a full counterfeiting outfit.

Shook, "Early Photographers of Porter County"
Brown likely remained in business till 1897 when he and Valparaiso resident Theodore Hansen, son of Liberty Township farmer John N. Hansen, were each convicted on November 28, 1897, in federal court of counterfeiting silver certificates; Brown and Hanson were consequently sentenced to five years imprisonment at Columbus, Ohio. Brown was described as "a nervous little German with mutton chop whiskers just turning gray, and a face suggesting the ideal anarchist" and "a photographer of more than ordinary ability."  Brown made photographs of one, two, and five dollar silver certificates. He used the negatives to produce plates for printing money. Thomas B. Carter and Thomas J. Porter, agents with the United State Secret Service, learned that counterfeit bills were circulating in the Indiana counties of Lake, LaPorte, and Porter and had detectives dispatched to the region to identify the producer of the fake money. The Secret Service raided Brown's College Hill studio and discovered a nearly completed counterfeit ten dollar silver certificate. At the Hanson farm, situated just south of Mink Lake in Liberty Township, investigators found other plates, a small press, paper, and inks used to produce counterfeit bills in a small outhouse.
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