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Author: George Washington Smith (1912)

   COLUMBUS BROWN, M. D. Some of the most successful members of the medical
profession have found their practice and the exhaustive study necessary to keep
abreast of the constant discoveries of science so engrossive as to preclude the
possibility of active participation in outside matters. Without exception such
men have won the confidence and approval not only of their patients but those
with whom they are associated, to appreciate their conscientious fidelity to
duty. Dr. Columbus Brown belongs to this class of medical men and is recognized
as one of the most able of his profession in Williamson county. Dr. Brown was
born on a farm between Herrin and Carterville, November 2, 1868, and is a son of
Captain John Brown, whose birth occurred in Union county in 1826.

   Rev. Jeremiah Brown, the grandfather of Dr. Brown, came as an early settler
of Illinois from the state of North Carolina, beginning his labors as a Baptist
minister here in 1845. His children were Grant Wagoner; Captain John; Mrs. Betty
Miller; Frank, who died in Marion in 1893; George, who died at Carterville; Mrs.
Mary Davis, who died at Creal Springs; and Henderson, whose death occurred in
Union county. Captain John Brown came into his majority when this section was
much like the frontier. He had just passed his minority when the war with Mexico
broke out over the admission of Texas, and he joined the army raised to carry on
the war. Serving through to the close of that struggle, he resumed the duties
incident to farm life, which he had abandoned only temporarily, and continued to
engage therein until his death, in February, 1899, save for a period he spent as
a merchant at Metropolis and Crainville, Illinois. Locating in Williamson county
prior to the Civil war, he entered the volunteer service in August, 1862, and
was commissioned captain of Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment,
Illinois Infantry, which rendezvoused at Camp Butler, Springfield, and was then
ordered to Cairo, where it was disorganized in May, 1864, and all of its
officers, save the colonel, discharged. Captain Brown then returned home and
took up farming again. He never entered the political field, being content to
serve the Democratic party only as a voter. His wife, who bore the maiden name
of Martha J. Wilkins, was a daughter of Jacob Wilkins, of Union county, and died
in June, 1910, at the age of eighty-three years, having been the mother of the
following children: Patima, the wife of Ephraim Herrin, father of the city of
Herrin; Mrs. Josie Herrin, of Creal Springs; Gertrude, who married C. H. Murrah
and resides in Creal Springs; Curtis, living in Boulder, Colorado; Cornelia, the
widow of Isaac Hammer, residing in East St. Louis; Florence, who became the wife
of Thomas Stotlar, living in Herrin; Orion J., who married A. K. Elles, of
Herrin; Cora, who married E. T. Steele and lives at Urbana; and Dr. Columbus, of
this article.

    Columbus Brown's early life was spent on his father's farm, where he worked
while attending school at Creal Springs. Equipped to enter either a business or
professional life, he chose the latter and studied medicine at the Missouri
Medical College, St. Louis, from which he was graduated March 29, 1899. He first
chose the town of Creal Springs for his field of practice and remained there
eight years, and since that time has practiced in Herrin. He has served as
vice-president of the Williamson county Medical Society, and is a member of the
Illinois, Southern Illinois and American Medical Associations. Dr. Brown's
practice receives his whole attention, but he has shown his public spirit by
serving as a member of the board of education from the Fourth Ward. Like his
father, he is a Democrat.

   On August 12, 1902, Dr. Brown was married in Independence, Missouri, to Miss
Lula Slack, daughter of Anthony Slack, a retired merchant of that city, and
sister to Miss Josephine, of Independence, and Edward, Anthony and Paul Slack,
business men of Kansas City. Dr. and Mrs. Brown have had four children, namely:
Martha, John, Anthony and Curtis.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal
Interests

BY
George Washington Smith, M. A.
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1912



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