Pike-Fulton-Spalding County GaArchives Biographies.....Brannen, Thomas April 26, 1869 - December 10, 1941
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Author: Southeastern Drug Journal     June, 1939

"A Druggest Can Retire," Says T. H. Brannen, Georgia Veteran
   That a druggist can retire from the drug business is demonstrated in the 
experience of a well-known and veteran Georgia druggist--Thomas H. Brannen, 
who has been "living the life of Riley" with his daughter at 318 University 
Drive, Brookhaven, Ga., since his retirement two years ago from the Dr. Fred 
Palmer Laboratories in Atlanta.
   But it cannot be said that "Tom" Brannen, who celebrated his seventieth 
birthday on April 26, discarded the habits of hard work, long hours, and 
responsibilities implanted in heart and mind over a long period of years in 
the drug business.  A visit to his modern and highly efficient egg-producing 
plant and a look at his two hundred fifty or more beautiful White Leghorns is 
a sight to behold and represents a prgram of activity and venture into an 
entirely new field which many men of younger years would hesitate to 
undertake.  And, too, there is "Jack" and "Red" to greet you with loud barks 
and tail wagging, with "Jack" ready and willing to yodel at his master's 
command.  Regular attendents at Georgia conventions will remember "Jack" as 
Mr. Brannen's constant companion at the State meetings.
   An only child, Thomas H. Brannen was born at Zebulon, Ga., on April 26, 
1869, son of James H. and Mary A. Brannen.  His father was a merchant at 
Zebulon.  Young Brannen attended grade school in his home town, clerked in his 
father's store, and later migrated to Griffin, Ga. , where he continued his 
retail experience as clerk in a shoe store.
   Heeding the "call of the city," Mr. Brannen decided to take up his 
residence in the Capital City, and in 1899 he moved to Atlanta, where he 
entered the employ of John B. Daniel, wholesale druggists, as a country 
salesman and shipping clerk.  Later he joined Lamar & Rankin Wholesale Drug 
Company, and after a period of service with the organization entered the 
retail drug business as an assistant manager for Jacobs Pharmacy Company, a 
position held for a number of years until he purchased the Stovall-Smith Drug 
Company located at Whitehall and Mitchell Streets. This business he operated 
with an associate as Brannen & Anthony for a period of twelve years, at which 
time it was merged with the Jabobs Pharmacy Company.  He then resumed his 
association with the Jacobs organization and eventually assumed the management 
of operations of Dr. Fred Palmer's Laboratories, an affilate of the 
organization, which position he maintained until his retirement two years ago. 
    Forty-three years of extreme happiness followed his marriage to Miss 
Mildred Eiseman, of Atlanta, in 1892, who passed on in 1935.  Three children, 
Alfred Lynne, of Athens, Ga., Thomas H. Jr., and Mrs. J. G. Moore, of 
Brookhaven, make up the family circle. 
   Extremely active in affairs of the Georgia Pharmaceutical Association 
during his earlier years in the retail drug business.  Mr. Brannen served as 
Vice President of the State body for several years, and in 1922-23 was honored 
by being elected President of the organization.  He was interested in the 
activities of the national bodies and was a regular attendant at the N.A.R.D. 
conventions.  His happiest moments are spent in recalling experiences with 
former associates in organization work, including Charles Jordan of 
Monticello, Thad Rice, H.C. Shuptrine, of Tampa; the late W. Elkin, Jr. and 
other verterans of Georgia pharmaceutical history.
   Not content with the responsibilities and many duties involved in the 
develpment of a modern egg-producing plant, Mr. Brannen has cultivated a 
garden where he grows almost every variety of vegetable desired for the 
table.  But his first love and chief interest is in the raising, housing and 
scientific care of almost three hundred chickens, now producing around forty 
dozen eggs weekly to supply the fountain and luncheonette needs of several of 
Atlanta's drug stores.  The layers are all of pedigreed stock, and 
hospitalization, segregation, and scientific treatment constitue their living 
in the "Brannen" Eggery."
   To visit Tom Brannen in his "retirement," to grasp the enthusiasum of his 
new activities, and to share with him for a short time the apparent happiness 
of his communion with friends of fur and feather is an inspriation and 
evidence that true happiness and contentment are not the sole occupants of 
business offices and retail establishments, but exist wherever man may seek to 
blaze his trail and apply his energy.
   His legion of friends throughout Georgia and the Southeast will be glad to 
learn of Mr. Brannen's present activities, and the Journal joins with them in 
wishing him continued happiness and success. 



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