Warren Brown (August 11, 1836 – September 19, 1919) was an American politician, historian, gentleman farmer, businessman, and author from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.
Warren Brown was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the only child of John Berry and Sarah March Leavitt Brown. He was educated in the North School in Hampton Falls, the old Rockingham Academy in Hampton, and Phillips-Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Brown married Sarah Gertrude Norris on January 1, 1867. Sarah was a daughter of Daniel L. Norris and Sophia (Osgood) Norris, of Raymond, NH. She was born in Dover, NH on November 17, 1841. From the age of 10, Sarah was raised by her aunt Lavinia Osgood and uncle, Samuel Meserve in Lowell, Massachusetts, where she received her public-school education. She subsequently moved with the Meserves to Hampton, NH, where she taught in the public schools until her marriage.
Warren and Sarah had five children:
Norris (August 4, 1868 – August 4, 1868)
Harry Benson (June 8, 1870 – June 18, 1903)
Arthur Warren (July 20, 1873 – 1960) married Frances Wadleigh (1881–1966) on October 11, 1906
Charles Warren Brown (July 16, 1909)
Elinor Frances (December 12, 1915)
Ernest Norris (January 13, 1918
Winthrop Marshall (February 3, 1921)
Gertrude Norris (May 17, 1878 – May 17, 1896)
Mildred Leavitt (April 3, 1880 – December 5, 1965) married Roscoe Franklin Swain (1881–1946) on June 11, 1908
Marjorie Morrill (July 9, 1909 – July 16, 1909)
Pearl Elizabeth (February 2, 1911 – November 23, 1986)
Kenneth Warren (August 9, 1913 – September 6, 2003)
Dorothy Gertrude (June 30, 1918 – February 17, 2011)
Sarah Brown died on January 24, 1917, after celebrating the couple's Golden Wedding anniversary on January 1st. She was eulogized by her husband as being a "person of great executive ability and force of character." Sarah kept diaries, noting her daily activities as well as current events happening in her town, country and world. The collection ranging in dates from 1870-1916 is housed in the Special Collections and University Archives at the Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire. It is a part of the Brown, Warren & Sarah Norris Family Collection.