BROWN, Stephen H., M. D., Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged
in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 596-597.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914,
by Century Historical Association.

Brown, Stephen Henry, M. D., son of Fielding and Eliza Jane (Hair) Brown, was born Sept. 5,
1873.  Fielding Brown was born in 1837 in Alabama and came to Caldwell parish, La., when but 7
years old.  He enlisted at Columbia in Co. K, 12th Louisiana regiment, and served through the
war.  He was taken prisoner at Vicksburg, but took a parole from a dead man and so got away
from the Yankees and went back into the ranks.  After the war was over he returned home and
about 1866 went to live in what is now La Salle parish.  He was a farmer and operated a sawmill
and a cotton gin.  For 11 years he was president of the police jury in Catahoula parish before it
was divided.  His political affiliations were with the democratic party, in which he became quite
active.  Mr. Brown's first wife was Harriet Starks, who died soon after their marriage.  His second
wife also died early in life, leaving 1 child, who is the subject of this sketch.  He was a member of
the Masonic order, and died in 1906 in La Salle parish.  S. H. Brown was his father's only child,
and was cared for by his grandmother and a colored servant.  He was about 5 years old when his
father married the third time, and on account of incompatibility with his stepmother, he could not
stay at home all the time.  When he was old enough to go away to school, he went 1 session to
Mt. Lebanon college, and in the collegiate department of Tulane university for 4 years.  Having
taken up the study of medicine under Dr. J. B. Godfrey of Olla, La., in 1894, he entered the
Louisville medical college, where, in 1897, he graduated with the degree of M. D.  He at once
began the practice of his profession at Davis, where he continued until 1909, when he moved to
Columbia, at which place he has since enjoyed a lucrative practice.  Dr. Brown is a member of the
Louisiana State Medical and the Caldwell parish Medical societies, is a member of the Masonic
order, of the Knights of Honor and of the Columbian Woodmen.  He was appointed major on the
staff of Gov. Sanders.  In 1896 Dr. Brown was married to Miss Charlotte Jackson, daughter of E.
C. Jackson, of Louisville, Ky., and they have 2 children:  Erwin F. and  Cecil W., both living at
home and both pupils in the Columbia high school.