Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of D. H. BROWN, M. D.

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D. H. BROWN, M. D., one of the prominent physicians of Sharpsburg, Ga., 
was born in Coweta county in 1847. His father, James Brown, was born in 
Newberry district, S. C., in 1812, and in 1832 came to Georgia, settling 
in Coweta county, where he cleared up a farm, suffering all the hardships 
known to pioneer life. Mrs. Lavina (Haines) Brown, the wife of James 
Brown and mother of Dr. D. H., was a daughter of Daniel and Rachel 
(Haines) Hanes. 

Dr. D. H. Brown was reared on a farm and received a good common-school 
education. In 1869 he began the study of medicine, and in 1870 read 
medicine under Dr. Calhoun, of Newnan, Ga., entering the medical college 
at Nashville, Tenn., in 1870. In 1872 he practiced medicine at 
Sharpsburg, entering in the same year the Jefferson medical college at 
Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1873. 

He then returned to Sharpsburg and again practiced his chosen 
profession. In 1879 he was married to Miss Ella, daughter of Dr. Robert 
W. and Calista (Glass) North, to whom have been born five children, three 
of whom are living: Ralph, Rex, and D. H. Mrs. Brown was born and reared 
in Coweta county, and both she and her husband are members of the Baptist 
church. Dr. Brown is one of Coweta county's best citizens, and is well 
respected by all who know him.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.