BROWN, Charles C., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************
 
 


CHARLES C. BROWN, CARENCRO.--Charles C. Brown, merchant and planter, was born
at Breaux Bridge, St. Martin parish, August 3, 1850.  He is the son of Dr.
William E. and Margaret (Claudel) Brown, natives of Pennsylvania and France,
respectively.  Dr. William E. Brown was a graduate from Jefferson College,
Philadelphia.  He practised [sic] his profession for some time in Tennessee,
and in 1846 or 1847 he removed to Breaux Bridge, St. Martin parish, where he
practised for many years.  Several years prior to his death, in 1859, he was a
resident of New Orleans.  Our subject's mother is still living at Breaux
Bridge.

Charles C. Brown is the oldest of a family of five children.  He spent his
school days at the place of his birth, and when but a boy of ten years he
became a clerk in a mercantile house.  In 1870, in partnership with his
brother-in-law, Jules, he embarked in the mercantile business on his own
account.  In 1875 he removed to Carencro, where he has since conducted his
business with marked success.  Mr. Brown now owns about one thousand acres of
land near Carencro, which he cultivates chiefly in cotton.  He is also quite a
large stock raiser and dealer.  While a resident of Breaux Bridge, he was a
member of the council, and he has served for some time in this capacity at
Carencro.  Since 1887 he has served as a member of the police jury, and is the
chairman of the parish Democratic Executive Committee, of Lafayette parish.

Mr. Brown married, in 1874, Miss Andrea Ynojoso, of Lafayette parish.  To this
union three children have been born: Samuel P., William E. and Sarah W. 
George E., the junior member of the firm of Brown Brothers, is a native of St.
Martin parish, Louisiana.  He was educated at Breaux Bridge, and early in life
married Miss Genevieve Milaudon, a native of Paris, France.  She was a highly
accomplished lady.  She died in 1890, having become the mother of one son, 
Thomas Weston.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
206-207.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.