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Source: The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia
Author: Unknown

The Toccoa Record, 5 Nov 1908, p. 1.  

Biographical Sketches


B. P. Brown, Jr.  Benjamin P. Brown, Jr., the present Ordinary of Stephens 
county, was born in Banks county, this State, Dec. 15, 1862, and in point of 
age is one of Toccoa’s oldest residents.  He was raised on the farm, educated 
in the county schools and in a North Carolina school.

When a young man Mr. Brown chose a business career, and came to Toccoa and 
engaged in the mercantile business up to the time of his election.

When the movement for creating Stephens county was launched he identified 
himself with it, and after the Legislature passed the bill establishing the 
new county, he offered his name as a candidate for Ordinary.  Stephens being 
so young there were a number who wanted to taste the sweets of political 
office, and who desired to be honored among the first to be selected by the 
people.  Three candidates announced themselves as opponents in the race.  
Meaning no reflection or discredit to the gentlemen who opposed Mr. Brown, it 
must be said with credit to him that his election was remarkable in that his 
vote overcame the total vote of his opponents by a majority of fifty-one.

The Ordinary had quarters in the upstairs of the Brown building, which he had 
rented for the county offices and court room.  During this time he had under 
consideration the project of building a court house suitable for the demands 
of a live, progressive new county.  The court house was built in 1907, and is 
one of the handsomest public buildings in the State.  The wise business and 
economic administration of Mr. Brown h as given the people of Stephens the 
best court house in Georgia when the price is considered.  Usually when an 
Ordinary of a county builds a court house it means the end of his political 
career.  Mr. Brown  has broken such a precedent, however, by his re-election 
this year.  Again he had opposition, but a very nice majority was given by the 
voters of the county.

Mr. Brown is a big warm hearted and genial servant of the people, a man who 
keeps the strings to his generosity ever within ready reach of his friends, 
and an official who, if he makes promises before the election, keeps them 
afterwards.  

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