The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-08
PERSONAL HISTORY OF
 LITTLE JOE" BROWN.
D, John corrisan. Jr.. In AtlaBs. con.atutIos. '

tks this time president of the college. Lat CT he took q business course at Moore's Business College. After grad uating from Ogiethorpe University he studied law and was admitted to prac- tice in Canton. This was in 1sI3- Later he went to Harvard. where his eyes failed.
 HIs Work as a Railroader.
 Going into the railroad business as freight clerk on January 2, 1877. he was offered the munihcent salary of $40 month. Joe Brown was soon. turning a brake wheel, and in October Of the same year he was made freight conductor Four years later. when 30 years of age, he was general freight agent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad at a salary of $2.500 year, while at 33 he was general frteght and passenger agent at salary of $4,OoO- In the meantime he had filled the po- sitions of agent to trace lost cars, claim agent and ticket auditor. His election by the Board of Directors of heroadeto be general freight and pas-
 senger agent occurred September {. 1884. On February [. 1889, he was chosen by the stockholders as general
 traffic manager.
 This rapid advancement was not due
 to the influence of any stock he held,
 for Mir. Brown did not then and has not now any railroad stock whatever
 When the State road was leased by
 the Nashville. Chattanooga and St.. Louis, on December 2s, 1890, MT.
 Brown was continued by President
 Thomas as traffic manager, and later
 was appointed by him to represent the
 system as a member of the executive
 board of the Southern Railroads and Steamship Association.
 When the various branches of the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad were consolidated under one management on September l. 1898, the separate organization of the Western and Atlantic Railroad was abolished. Mr. Brown was succeeded by H. F. Smith. brother of the president of the system. after twenty-five years of suc- cessful service.
 He went with the Seaboard Air
 Line upon invitation of President John Skeiton Williams in 1899, and remain ed with the road until President Will Hams and his organization was frozen out by the Thomas F. Ryan interests. MT. Barr was then made general man ager.
 During the recent campaign for
 Governor. these business changes were attributed to Mir. Browns fncapacity.
 A recital of the facts incident to ev- cry change made causes these charges to fall to the ground
 nIr. Brown as m Author. It has been made to appear also that there was something impractical or
 unmanly in a well educated. studi- ous gentleman being an author. In 1sss Mr. Brown wrote and pub , lished e history of the Atlanta cam paign which was paid the remarkable l tribute of being praised by both Gen. | Joseph D. Johnson and Gen W. T. Sherman, as being an accurate and im- partial history of that event. On | f..s |. ~na letters on both sides of this fierce
 struggle commendisg the accuracy of
 the account Gen.. Marcus J. Wright stated he had never before heard of such a thing In. the history of war. Mir.
 Brown also wrote historical romance
 of the mountain campaign, called Ken nesaw's Bombardment."
 In his leisure hours for the past sew eral years Mir. Brown has been work | ing on historical romance of America. | This was his greatest source of diver sion In his hours of relaxation and free | dom from routine business cares. The volume was called "Astyanax,R and was Iissued last year from the press of the Broadway Publishing Company, of New
 York City.
 Some Family History. Mir Browns ancestors came to this country in 1862 from Londonderry, Ire- | land They were Scotch Irish protest ants. His great grandfather was Whie rebel. who settled in Virginia and took an active part in the war of the revolution. His grandfather, Mackey Brown, was a native of South Carolina, | to which State his ancestors had moved l from Virginia, Later Mackey Brown moved to Tennessee, where he joined the brigade of General Carroll, and served under General Jackson ln tns campaign of New Orleans. In the fam Iny there has existed great admiration of that sturdy military hero and states
 man.
 | was Sally Rice. who was born in Vir- sinia of welsh ancestry. The hiee | family having before emigrated to Ten nessee Mackey Brown and Sally Rice
 were married and lived in that state Iuntil short while before the birth Of | Tosenh Emerson Brown, the father ot tha present candidate for Governor. He
 was born in the 18th of April, lS2l' m Ptckens District. South Carolina Later the family moved to Gsorsla ana ses Ltled in Union County. Here Joseph E. Brown labored in the fields, and until the age of 1s tended stock to contrib ute to the support of the family.
 Senator Joseph F. Brown.
 Joseph Emerson Brown, Georgia's war governor, and later a Senator ot inc United States from the State of I - EPickens County, South Carolina. During lhIs boyhood his parents moved to Union County in northeast Georgia Hera he was reared and remained un- iii he set out for college. His earthly Inossessions at the time consisted or a woke of steers. Accompanied by his younEer brother. James. he set out Tor Calhoun. Academy in Anderson district. They aIternated in riding their fath- l CTS blow horse and driving the steers. When about 130 miles of the journey
 was completed James returned with the horse, according to the plan agreed lupon. Upon arrival at the college town Joe Brown sold the steers for eight Innonths' board. He entered the school and was forced to so Into debt for the amount of tuition fee charged. Tn ls44 he was a teacher in Cherokee County, 1 Georgia. The next year he studied law and in October entered Yale College. I having been assisted by liberal loan from Dr. Lewis. Armed with the legal ana, literary advantages which this training gave, he. returned to Canton and began the practice of law, In 1s47 he was married to Elizabeth Grish- lam. q daughter of Rev. Joseph Grisham.
 a Baptist clergyman of South Caro- iina.
 The children who blessed this mar riage. one of whom Is the Governor who was chosen by the people on Thurs dav are Julius L. Brown, Elijah A.