The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-10
.EDGEC0MBE COUNTY
Judge Geo. h. Brown a
Model Jurist
Sketch of the Labors of Judge and Solicitor
Who Were Greatly Favored at
Tarboro.

Tarboro, N c., March Court has
been in session throughout ,..e week. The
weather has been beautiful, hence the at
tendance has not been large. Farm work
is not so far advanced as is usually the
case this late in the year, hence our
farmers have neither the disposition nor
time for hanging on" at court The
county of Edgecombe is noted as an ag-
ricultural county and justly SO for her
lands are as productive as are the fertile
fields bordering the Nile and her people
as energetic as those Of any cline.
The town of Tarboro, always attractive.
becomes more 50 with the flight Of
years and the hand of enterprise not
withheld. Cozy homes and commodious
store houses OF modern architectural de-
sign, that would be a credit TO the Queen
| City OF the State, have recently beer
erected, taking the place of old, diIapidat-
| ed structures that had become an eye
| sore to citizen and visitor, giving an air
| of progress at once wholesome and in
vigorating. But it was my purpose to
speak of the court, its presiding officer
and it's District Attorney. The term was
| Tor criminal cases only, at which there
were about 1870 on the docket. These
average of % ped day. Judge George II.
| Brown, Jr., is a model jurist. Learned
in the law, a magnificent judge of hu-
| man nature Of keen perception; he wears
| the judicial ermine with an ease and
| dignity at once attractive. With the
| writer the man and Judge has been a
study for long while. OF commanding
| figure and courtly bearing he grows in
| interest the student progresses. He
| impresses one Of passing acquaintance As
! proud, naughty, stern but a closer con-
| tact with the man reveals his true nature
and the man of kindly affection and of
| noble heart steps to the front object
| Of admiration. Of his abilities all speak
we'll His opinions points of law are
| sought by many Of the legal fraternity
as if he were a Nestor in legal lore. His
rulings are rarely in error and his judS-
ments seldom reversed by the higher
| courts He is 50 yeas of age was born
| in Washington, N. c., his present home.
/ In the days of youthhood he was press
| telegraph operator in New York city,
| having begun as q messenger boy. He
| studied law there and afterwards under
| Judge Shepherd himself familiar with
| dots ard dashes and the click, click of the
| relay and bounder. Before going the
| bench he was a very active and ardent
party worker in Eastern North Carolina.
Very few men at that time did more pO-
! litical work than Judge Brown He was
| Democratic Presidential Elector in 1883
and rendered appointment as Superior
Court Judge by Governor Scales January
1, 1889. He has served constantly since.
| In 1895 he was nominated for Associate
| Justice of the Supreme Court, but went
| down with his confreres in the memoir
| able Fusion landslide whose nastiness
| yet emts an odor at least unwholesome.
In 1902 he only missed the nomina tion CT
his party for Associate Justice by Az
| votes with Mitchell county instructed for
him but not represented.
| His nomination to succeed Justice
| Montgomery on the Supreme Court bench
| in 1904 is evidently a foregone conclG-
sion and is conceded by all as a proper