Biography of E. F. Brown - Craighead Co, AR

***********************************************************
Submitted by: Unknown < >
        Date: 26 Sep 1998
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
***********************************************************

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 322

E. F. Brown, a leading and prominent attorney, of Jonesboro, Ark., was
born in McNairy County, Tenn., November 22, 1844, and is a son of
William F. Brown and Nottie (Swain) Brown, the former a native of
Virginia, and the latter of Tennessee, who in 1858 came to Randolph
County, Ark., locating near Pocahontas. Here Mr. Brown engaged in
farming and mercantile business until his death in 1869. His wife died
two years later. To their union were born thirteen children, only four
of whom are now living. E. F. Brown was the fourth child, and when
fourteen years of age came with his parents to Arkansas. He received a
common-school education, and in 1862, in the early part of the late
war, enlisted in Col. Kitchens' regiment, Reeves' company, and served
until the close of the conflict, surrendering under Gen. Jeff Thompson,
at Wittsburg, Ark. He was in battle at Whitewater bridge, Redlief farm,
Little Missouri and Saline Rivers, and Little Rock. Peace having been
restored, he returned home, and completed his education. He was
admitted to the bar in 1871, and in 1872 took a course of lectures in
the law department at Lebanon, Tenn., and in July, 1873, located at Oak
Bluff, Clay County, where he began the practice of his chosen
profession. The following year he was elected a delegate to the
constitutional convention, and in 1875-76 represented the First
district in the Senate. In 1878 he was elected prosecuting attorney of
the Second judicial district, and was re-elected to the same office. In
1883 he came to Jonesboro, where he has since been engaged in the
practice of his profession. He was married, in 1879, to Ada Parrish,
daughter of N. C. Parrish, of Humphreys County, Tenn., and their union
has been blessed by one child, Doswell. Mr. Brown has a beautiful
residence in Jonesboro, and has one of the finest libraries in
Northeast Arkansas. He is a member of both the A. F. & A. M. and the I.
O. O. F., and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He is a loader of the Democratic party, as a lawyer is an able
and fluent speaker, and as a business man his career has been one of
unusual success.