Tattnall County, Ga Biographies  Brown McCollum

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McCOLLUM, Brown, manufacturer. Long Branch, Tattnall Co., was
born Jan. 5, 1829, in Robeson county, N.C., and is the son of
Dougal and Flora McCollum. Dougal McCollum was of Scotch
parents, an elder for forty years in the Presbyterian church
and was a prosperous farmer. He took great interest in
educational matters and gave his three children a good
education. These children were: Mary Ann, married Nathaniel
McNair, of Robeson county; Martha Jane, wife of Edward
Campbell, of Marion county, S.C., and Brown. Brown McCollum
received his education from private tutors and in the common
schools under able teachers. He taught school for two years and
then commenced farming. In 1860 he married Miss Kate Newell
McLean, of Robeson county. She was a daughter of Archibald
McLean and was born in 1837, and was educated at Salem, N.C.
There were born to this union two sons and two daughters, viz:
Jennie Brown, wife of R.P. Hamer, of Hamer, S.C.; Mary, wife of
Dr. T.C. McSwain, of Marion, S.C.; Arthur Newell, graduated at
Davidson college, North Carolina, has been engaged in farming
and merchandising and is now agent in Houston, Tex., of the
Equitable Life Insurance company; Dougal A. was educated in the
common schools of Robeson county and then took a course in a
business college. He is now engaged with his father in Tattnall
county in the manufacture of naval stores. Brown McCollum has
been a member of the Presbyterian church thirty years, and has
always been a man temperate in his habits. He has been engaged
in manufacturing naval stores for twenty-five years. He first
operated seven years in Robeson county, N.C., then went to
Marion, S.C., where he was in business twelve years; thence to
Wilcox county, Ga., and in 1889 to Tattnall county, he
manufactures five thousand barrels of resin and spirits
annually, and employs from eighty to ninety men and produces
two crops per annum.