WILSON BROWN WAS LT. GOVERNOR, AUDITOR

The only other Cape Girardean to reach the highest ranks of the Missouri state government was Wilson Brown, who served as Missouri lieutenant governor and as state auditor.

Brown was born on Aug. 27, 1804, and came to Missouri in 1827. He was educated as a physician, but he gave much of his time to public service. In 1836 he represented Scott County in the Missouri legislature. He served as state auditor from Jan. 11, 1849, to Aug. 28, 1852, and as lieutenant governor beginning in 1853. He was serving in that capacity when he died on Aug. 27, 1855, in a brick house he had built in Cape Girardeau.

He was buried in the Giboney family graveyard south of Cape Girardeau, just over the line in Scott County. His wife was a cousin of Mary Hunter Giboney Houck. His grave was marked with a large, imposing monument erected by an act of the Missouri legislature.