Orson Pratt Brown - Life, Times, Family

COLONIA DUBLÁN

Date First Settled: 1888, latter part	By Whom: George Lake	Notes: In 1890 also known as "Lake Town" or "San Francisco" or "Colonia Huller"
Land Purchased From: George M. Brown purchased 73,000 acres from Lewis Huller but due to his insolvency the contracts became invalid.		See Juárez Stake The land near Casas Grandes did eventually become Colonia Dublán.
Located: 17 miles south from Colonia Juárez up into the Sierra Madre foothills; and perhaps 95 miles south of Ciudad Juárez.	second largest colony	on Casas Grandes R. (irrigation), and 2 mi/3 km N of Nuevo Casas Grandes, on RR; 30°28'N 107°53'W
Name sake: one of the federal cabinet members	Date: 1890 colony name established as Dublán	Dublán (doob-LAHN)
San Francisco Branch Br.Pres. Frederick W. Johns 1^st coun. James H. Carlton 2^nd coun. Charles A. Foster	Date: 14 April 1889 (Colony Specialties)	Attached to the Juárez Ward As branch of Juárez Ward (Turley)

First Bishopric: Bishop Winslow Farr 1^st coun. Frederick G. Williams 2^nd coun. Phillip Harrison Hurst Superintendent of Sun.School: Anson B. Call	Date: July 18, 1891 Date: 1893 (Turley) 1890 (Colony Specialties) Date: 1893 to 1895	Dublán Ward First Organized from the San Francisco Branch. Notes: 1892 first meetinghouse built. Used until 1917 when destroyed by fire.
Bishop G. W. Sevey Coun. Anson B. Call? Ward Clerk: J.C. Bentley Sunday School Superintendent: S.J. Robinson	Date: 1892 Date: c.1913? Date: 1892 Date: 1898?
Bishop Samuel John Robinson 1^st Coun. Joseph S. Cardon 2^nd Coun. Anson B. Call	Date: 1899 December 3 Date: 1899 December 3 to fall 1901, resumed March 1902
Bishopric: Albert Daniel Thurber 2^nd Coun. Anson B. Call	Date: 1907 December 10 to 1909 June 24 Date: 1907 December	Notes:
Bishopric: Anson B. Call 1^st Coun. W. Ernest Taylor 2^nd coun. Nephi W. Thayne Niels Fredrickson temp	Date: 1915 to 1944 Dec. 5 Date: 1917	Total of 45 years in one or other bishopric. Remained to watch over Dublán until Call's return.
Firsts: temporary church house Permanent church house Third church built. Fourth church built	Date: 1891? Date: 1894 Date: 1928 Date: 1970	Burned down in 1917. Old Relief Society building was used for a chapel until 1928. At a cost of $25,000.
Events:	Date: 1898 March 23	George Lake, one of the first Mormon settlers in Mexico, died at Colonia Dublán.
	Date: 1904 February 26	Miles Park Romney, president of the High Priests quorum of the Juarez Stake died.
	Date: 1909 November 26	Helaman Pratt, died at Colonia Dublán.
	Date: 1913 May 1	Brigham H. Stowell was shot by Mexican rebels while irrigating his alfalfa field at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico.]
	Date: 1914 November 14	Anson B. Call was seized by red flaggers at Colonia Dublán and requested to pay $2,000 as a ransom for himself. He was kept a prisoner for several days and threatened with death. At last he bought his release with $200
Population: 1,200	Date: 1912 at time of Exodus	Exceptional homes and schools were here in 1912.
Economy: spur of railroad built from El Paso, Texas to Dublán and twelve miles beyond. Flour mill, dairy products, mercantile establishments,	Date: 1897
Firsts: Store opened by John McFarland Second store opened by Anson B. Call and Joseph C. Bentley Another store opened, the Union Mercantile, a cooperative Another store opened by Franklin Demarcus Haymore Another store opened by Romney Farnsworth Another Store opened by Henry Eyring Bowman	Date: 1891 Date: 1893 Date: Date: 1897 Date: Date: 1902?	partner Patrick C. Haynie
Firsts: Orson P. Brown was called to dredge for a canal and lakes system for Dublán's Laguna Canal Company	Date: 1906 or 1907 ready for use by 1911. worked along with Samuel Robinson and Joseph Cardon	The Dublán Lake is still in use today (1998) to furnish irrigation water in the colony
Juárez Stake Patriarch: Anson B. Call	Date: 1943 March 3
Mexican Branch: presided by O.P. Brown 1^st Coun. 2^nd Coun. Jose Ontiveros Relief Society Pres: Angela Gabaldon Brown - served in this position for 17 years	Date: 1927 Angela Gabaldon Brown Date: c.1929	Served for 15 years. Culto Verde Chapel
Residents: Anson B. Call, Theresa, Hattie, three daughters	Date: 1890 December
Agriculture: cotton growing center; cereals; cattle

Colonia Dublan Anson B. Call home

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"History of Colonia Dublan and Guadalupe Mexico" by Wayne Dunham Stout (1894-1981)

Pages 95-101 Main text from "The Mormon Colonies in Mexico" with additions in brackets, photos, bold, made as noted by Lucy Brown Archer.

Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico

ORSON PRATT BROWN FAMILY UPDATES

ORSON PRATT BROWN 1863-1946

ORSON'S JOURNALS AND BIOGRAPHIES

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S PARENTS
- Captain James Brown 1801-1863

- Phebe Abbott Brown Fife 1831-1915

- Colonel William Nicol Fife - Stepfather 1831-1915

ORSON'S GRANDPARENTS

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S 5 WIVES

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S 35 CHILDREN

ORSON'S SIBLINGS from MOTHER PHEBE

ORSON'S 28 SIBLINGS from JAMES BROWN

ORSON'S 17 SIBLINGS from STEPFATHER FIFE

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S IN-LAWS

INDEX OF MORMON COLONIES IN MEXICO

INDEX OF MORMON MEXICAN MISSION

INDEX TO POLYGAMY IN UTAH, ARIZONA, MEXICO

INDEX TO MEX. REVOLUTION & THE MORMON EXODUS

INDEX OF SURNAMES

MAPS OF THE MEXICAN COLONIES

BROWN FAMILY MAYFLOWER CONNECTION 1620

BROWN's in AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783

BROWN's in AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865

BROWN's in WARS AFTER 1865

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