Wilcox-Dooly County GaArchives Biographies.....Brown, Walter G. 1862 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   WALTER G. BROWN, prominent banker and merchant of Rochelle, has been a
resident of this city since 1898, and has been actively identified with the
foremost business interests of the city in the years that have passed since his
settling here. He was born in Dooley county, near Vienna, on June 1, 1862, and
is the son of Judge Ira Brown and his wife, Henriette (Lasseter) Brown. The
father was judge of the Dooley county court as long as forty years ago, and was
one of the leading men of his community during his lifetime. He later occupied
the same position in Wilcox county. There were seven children in the Brown
family, of which Walter G. was one. Of his four sisters, but two are living
today, Emma and Lucy, both married to prosperous farmers of Wilcox county.

   Walter G. Brown received his early education in Dooley county.

In about 1882 he became interested in the merchandise business and established a
store near Abbeville, where he continued for four years. He then located at
Seville, remaining there in business for nine years, coming from there to
Rochelle. Mr. Brown has prospered in his mercantile ventures, and he owns the
building where his present business is conducted, a two story brick with a floor
space of eighty-five by fifty feet, and boasting the only elevator in Wilcox
county. In addition to his flourishing merchandise business, Mr. Brown is owner
of the Brown Bank Company of Rochelle. This institution was organized as the
Citizens Bank in 1908, under the laws of the state. In 1909, when the City Bank
had been in operation one year, Mr. Brown bought it out, since which time it has
been conducted as a private institution, and it is operated on a sound and
conservative basis which has won and retained to it a high standing and the
confidence and patronage of the best citizenship of Rochelle.

   Mr. Brown was postmaster at Seville, under Grover Cleveland's last
administration, a position which he most ably handled, and he has in other
positions of a public nature exhibited the same characteristic efficiency and
trustworthiness which marked his career as postmaster, and in the private
business which he conducts.

   On March 14, 1890, Mr. Brown was united in marriage with Miss Sallie
Elizabeth Hardaman, daughter of J. D. Hardaman of Seville, but formerly from
northern Georgia. Five children were born of their union, of which number four
are living. Birdie died at the age of two years. Walter E., aged sixteen, is a
student at the North Georgia Military School, in Dahlonega, Georgia. Annie
Wilmer, seven years old; Mildred, aged five, and William, now two years of age,
are the remaining members, of the family.

   Mr. Brown is a member of the Masonic fraternity, blue lodge degree, and is
one of the most highly esteemed men in Rochelle.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913




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