Br. Lewis Daniel

John  William Brown was born the son of Michael and Katherine O'Donnell Brown on  May 29, 1910, in St. Joseph, Missouri.   In 1924 he was enrolled in Christian Brothers College in St. Joe.  One year later, on January 6, 1925, he  entered the Juniorate at La Salle Institute in Glencoe.  He graduated from the Juniorate on June 28,  1927, and entered the Novitiate on July 1.   On August 30th he received the habit and the religious name of Brother  Lewis Daniel.  He completed his first  year of Scholasticate in Glencoe before moving to Chicago where he completed  his Bachelor of Arts Degree from DePaul University on June 12, 1931.  His first teaching assignment was at St.  Mel High School in Chicago where he remained for two years before being  assigned to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois in 1934.  He loved teaching history and religion, and  his history classes always contained the importance of railroads in the  development of America, as his father had worked for the railroads for  fifty-six years and he had inherited his love for the rails.  The Brothers nicknamed him "Choo Dan" and he  arranged countless numbers of railroad trips for the Brothers.  Brother Lewis completed his M.A. in  Education at DePaul in 1936 and in 1939 he was assigned to Price College in  Amarillo, Texas.  One year later he was  assigned as Sub-Director at De la Salle High School in Chicago, where he  remained for the next eight years.   From 1938 to 1953 he served as Sub-Director at De La Salle Military  Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, but the death of his mother in 1953 caused  him to be transferred home to Chicago and St. Patrick's High School.  He remained there until 1976 when he  transferred to the Provincialate Community and eventually to St. Patrick  Residence in Joliet, Illinois, where he died at age sixty-seven, having been  a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-two years.