The Browne School: Property Transfers and Transactions

 Property Transfers and Transactions Involving the Browne School 

Milan Township, DeKalb County, Illinois

1847/1848 - United States Government & Silas J Wright

1853 - United States Government & Richard Pierce

1855 - Edwin Pearse & Richard Pearce

1857 - Elisha A Wright & Edwin Pierce

1869 - Richard Pearce & The School Trustees of the town of Milan, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois

1953 - The Trustees of Schools of Milan Township & Joyce (Aska) Faivre and Joseph Faivre Jr 

1954 - Joyce (Aska) Faivre and Joseph Faivre Jr & Helen Jeanette (Cook) Aska and Ronald Aska

1962 - The Prudential Insurance Company of America & Helen Jeanette (Cook) Aska and Ronald Aska

1965 - The Prudential Insurance Company of America & Helen Jeanette (Cook) Aska and Ronald Aska

1965 - Helen Jeanette (Cook) Aska and Ronald Aska & Donna and Kenneth Finnestad

1965 - Margaret (Olson) Cummins and Leonard Cummins & Donna and Kenneth Finnestad

1972 - Margaret (Olson) Cummins and Leonard Cummins & Donna and Kenneth Finnestad

1999 - Donna and Kenneth Finnestad & Arthur L Alberts

October 17, 1953 - Indenture

The Browne school transferred into private hands for the first time since 1865 following the auction that took place on October 17, 1953.   The Trustees of Schools of Milan Township sold the property to Joseph Faivre Jr in the amount of  $1,250.

A copy of the deed is shown below:

Joseph Faivre Jr was the 4th generation of the Browne family to be associated with the Browne school name.      William Browne never owned the property but his name was used for the rural school.    William Browne's eldest son, John Theron Browne married Edith Lenara Markell.   Their youngest daughter Elizabeth married Harold Nelson Aska.    Elizabeth and Harold Aska's daughter Joyce Lenore Aska married Joseph P Faivre Jr, thereby keeping the Browne school within the Browne family.    

The Aska family lived south of the Browne school on the western side of University Road, south of Keslinger road.    Their farmhouse can be seen on the plat map from 1947 in section 11 of the Milan township, DeKalb county, Illinois plat map.