Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Brown, Milton P. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 8, 2011, 5:22 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers REV. MILTON P. BROWN, son of James D. Brown, who in early days, preached on Sunday and farmed through the week, is the oldest of a family of seven. He was left an orphan at the age of nine, took charge of his father's farm when but eleven, and conducted it with a reasonable degree of success until he was seventeen, attending schools in the neighborhood at such times as he could be spared from his duties on the farm. He was licensed to preach in the M. E. Church, South, in October, 1848, and served as an intinerant in the Tennessee Conference until 1858. In that year he located in Scottsboro and conducted a farm and taught school in that vicinity until 1861. He joined the Confederate army and was severely wounded in the hip at the first battle at Manassas. He was elected Probate Judge in 1862, and held the office until 1868, in Bellefonte, which was then the county seat of Jackson. Since 1868, he has conducted a mercantile business in Scottsboro. In 1854, Mr. Brown was married to Mary Elizabeth Parks, daughter of W. D. Parks, of Scottsboro and they have been the parents of eight children, namely: Julian C., who was educated at Vanderbilt University, is a preacher in the M. E. Church South, and is now at Francis street charge, St. Joseph, Mo.; Idella H., wife of M. D. McClure; Eva R., wife of W. J. Robinson; Kittie F., wife of S. M. Bains; William Davis, Annie E., Hattie M., and Mary P. Having lost his first wife, Mr. Brown was married May 7, 1876, to Mrs. Annie E. Williams, a widow, and daughter of Hiram Read, originally of Eatonton, N. C., but late of Auburn, Ala. Mr. Brown is a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight of Honor. He has been Councilman and Mayor of Scottsboro, President of the Board of Trustees of Scott Academy and Superintendent of Education of Jackson County. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART III. HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE. CEREAL BELT. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jackson/bios/brown851gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb