Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Charles Fox Brown, M. D.

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Charles Fox Brown, M. D., of Van Buren, was born in Virginia in 1820, and is a 
son of Henry and Mary (Brown) Brown. The father was also a native of Virginia, 
born in 1770, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was of English descent. He 
died in 1823. The mother was a descendant of a different family of Browns, was 
born in Virginia, and died in 1835, aged forty-five. Our subject is the youngest 
and only living child of a family of ten. He lost his father when three years 
old, and when ten accompanied his mother to Louisville, Ky., where he attended 
school four years. He then entered the Baptist Seminary at Richmond, Va. He soon 
after accepted a position as clerk in a store there, and in 1840 commenced the 
study of medicine, at Fayetteville, Ark., under Dr. J. C. Pollard. In 1844 he 
entered the medical department of the Louisville University, and attended one 
course of lectures. In 1845 he located in Fayetteville, and for a year practiced 
with his former preceptor. Coming to Van Buren in December, 1846, he practiced 
some time, and in 1848 entered the Ohio Medical College, from which institution 
he graduated in 1849. He is with one exception the oldest practicing physician 
and surgeon in Van Buren, and has attained a high rank in his profession. He is 
a member of the Crawford County Medical Association, and has at times been 
president of the Crawford County Medical Society for the past fifteen years. He 
is a charter member of the State Medical Society. April 1, 1858, he married 
Helen M. Bostick, a native of Columbia County, Mo., born in 1839. To them five 
children have been born: Mary G., Charles F., John B., Ione F. and Guy. Dr. 
Brown is a Democrat, and in 1861 enlisted in Ray's battalion, serving as 
surgeon. He served four years, and it is to the practice obtained in the army 
that he attributes a large portion of his success as a surgeon. He was in the 
battle at Oak Hill, and was afterward transferred to the Mississippi department, 
and appointed to hospital service. He is a Mason, and a member of the I. O. O. 
F., and Mrs. Brown and all the children belong to the Christian Church.