Biography of Andrew Brown, Clay Co, AR

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From: 
The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

Andrew J. Brown, merchant and postmaster at Piggott, Ark., is one of the
prominent residents of the county, and in his business as well as social
relations has won the confidence and respect of all who know him. His birth
occurred in Union County, Ill., June 15, 1843, his parents, Samuel and Annie
(Dillow) Brown, being natives of the same State. They reared their family on a
farm in Union County, and here Andrew J. Brown remained until twenty-five years
of age, enlisting in 1862 in the One Hundred and Ninth Illinois Infantry, which
was afterward consolidated with the Eleventh Illinois, and served until he
received his discharge at Springfield on the 15th of July, 1865. He was in the
fight at Vicksburg on the 4th of July, 1863, and was at Yazoo City, Fort
Spanish, and the surrender of Mobile. He was in the hospital at La Grange,
Tenn., a short time, and in 1868 removed to Arkansas and located in what is now
Clay County, where he was occupied in farming for a few years. In 1879 he
embarked in merchandising, and in 1882 located at Piggott, where he erected a
business house and has since been engaged in keeping a general mercantile
establishment, and has built up a good trade. He was appointed postmaster of the
town in April, 1883, which office he has since held. He and wife are members of
the Missionary Baptist Church (in which he is a deacon), and he is a member of
the G. A. R. organization, and is quartermaster of his post. He was married on
the 28th of December, 1868, to Miss M. J. Pollard, a sister of W. W. Pollard,
whose sketch appears in this work, and they are the parents of the following
children: Henry O., a lad of twelve years; Cindona, a daughter, who died March
11, 1889, at the age of seventeen years, and an infant deceased.