Biography of 	Brown, Matthew J. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller December 1997

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    Foremost among those who have a high standing in the business
circles of New Orleans is Matthew J. Brown, who brings the widest
possible range of practical experience to bear on this important
enterprise with which he is connected.  He is associated in business
with August Rauxet, with whom he first started out in life at the age of
fourteen years.  He was born in the city of New Orleans in 1860 to
Matthew J. and Mary (Coleman) Brown, the former of whom was born in the
state of New York and the latter in the beautiful isle of Erin.  The
mother was reared in the city of New Orleans and survives her husband
who was called from life some years ago.  In the public schools of New
Orleans Matthew J. Brown obtained a practical education and improved his
time to considerable advantage.  He is a member of the Roman Catholic
church and belongs to the 343d branch of the Catholic Knights of
America, of which order he has been a member for eight years and of
which be is secretary, he also had the honor of being elected state
secretary of the C. K. of A. for two terms, becoming popular and well
known in that capacity.  He belongs to the Chalmette Benevolent
association, the Southern Rifle club and is a prominent and useful
member of both orders.  In business he is honest, reliable and
efficient, and in character is sober, industrious and moral.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
322. 
Submitted by Mike Miller