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BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

Lewis Kosseth Brown, better known locally as “L.K.,” was born in Illinois in 1856. His family moved to Wisconsin when he was age 7. He was educated in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, public schools and graduated from Wisconsin State Normal School at Oshkosh.

He taught school there until moving to Asotin in what was then known as Washington Territory, arriving on March 25, 1878. Asotin is located in the southeast corner of Washington state next to the

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