The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

learned. He was a close student of his
tory and the affairs of government. TIL
works of the poets, the brilliant oratlon
and debates OF the orators and Statesmen
read and studied by him, the advance.
made in science and learning, led hin
away from the farm, and inspired hin
with the determination to overcome cir
cumstances and convert difficulties into
''stepping-stones' to a higher, nobler and
more useful life in the world.
By close personal application, aided BY
the Instructions received in the neighbor
t~wenty-four passed through all the pre-.
paratory grades, and entered Messy
Greek (noW Carson and Newman) Col
lege. The habits of work and thought
already formed, served him well in col
lege. Mathematics was his favorite
study. He stood high in his class, and
graduated in the year 1857 with the de-
gree of A. B., and by reason of his high
standing as a student, his educational
pursuits and attainments, shortly after
graduation received from his alma mater
the degree of A. M.
His own love of books, the great need
OF the times, his great love for, and
burning desire to assist and elevate man
kind, made him choose teaching as a
profession and life-work which imme-
diately after graduation he took up, be-
ginning as principal of the French Broad
Institute (now Mars Hill College) in
Madison County, N. G. In l958-'59 he
edited and published The Carolina BGp-
list at Hendersonville, N. c.; taught
school in the Hendersonville Academy in
1860; in the same year was elected pro-
lessor of mathematics in Messy. Greek
College, which closed on account of the
Civil Wal in 1861. He enlisted and
served in the Confederate Army till the
war closed. Taking up his profession again,
he taught school at Mouse Greek (now
Niota), Tenn; removed from thence, and
joined Rev. N. B. Goforth, D. D., in es-
tablishing and conducting the Riceville
Scientific and Classical Institute; went
from there in 1870 to Massey and Sharpe
College, Winchester, Tenn; 1872-'77, was
principal of the Masonic Female Insti-
tute, Messy Greek, Tenn; was then pro-
lessor of Mathematics in Bramer In
stitute, one year; in 1878 was principal
of the Newport High School, Newport,
Tenn; was one of the faculty of Judson
College, at HendersoQville; N. c., from
1879 to 1885; was elected the first
County Superintendent of Education of
Henderson County in 1881, which of
flee he held till 1887; during the years
of l8S6-'s7, he built up and conducted
the Liberty High School, in Henderson
County, N. c.; was principal of the
Fairview Collegiate Institute, from 1888
to 1892; from 1892 to 1894 vas principal
of the Brevard Academy, Brevard, N. c.,
since which time i'll health has prevented
him doing active work of any kind, and
he, at present, resides with his youngest
son, the Rev. T. L. Brown, at Delway,
N. c.
The foregoing affords ample proof
that Professor Browns early ambition to
be a scholar, a teacher and a benefactor
to mankind, has in a large measure been
rewarded. His life and work have great
ly blessed and elevated the people in the
fields where he has labored. Thousands
of men and women, all over Western
North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee,
and in all the States where his students
have taken up their abode, are con
sciously and unco~nsciously, enjoying the