Biographical Sketch of J. P. Brownlow, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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J. P. Brownlow, banker of Buffalo, MO., and one of the prominent
and enterprising residents of Dallas County, was born in Giles
County, Tenn., August 17, 1841, and is a son of James and Isabel
(McCreary) Brownlow, who were also natives of that State and 
county, the former being killed during the late war by the soldiers,
and the latter dying in Dallas County, MO., in 1882.  J. P. Brownlow
received a limited early education, owing to the scarcity of good
schools at that period, but acquired a fair knowledge of the "three
R's".  In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, in Company K,
Third Tennessee Regiment, under Col. Brown, who afterward became
governor of Tennessee, and participated in the battle of Fort 
Donelson, where he was wounded by a grape-shot in the right arm,
and was afterward discharged and joined the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry,
and was elected a lieutenant in Gen. Forrest's command.  At the 
battle near Franklin he was wounded by a gunshot in the left shoulder,
but was not disabled from duty.  He was also in the battles of Nash-
ville, Resaca and in a great many hard skirmishes, and was mustered
out and discharged in April, 1865, at Gainesville, Ala., after which
he returned home, and was engaged in farming until 1873, when he came
to Dallas County, and located in Benton Township, about five miles
from Buffalo, where he tilled the soil and was interested in stock
trading and raising until 1882.  He then came to Buffalo, where he
has since made his home.  All his business enterprises have been
attended with good results, and in both social and business life he
ranks among the first men of the county, and is a liberal giver to
all worthy enterprises, having been one of the liberal contributors
to the beautiful Baptist Church which has lately been erected in the
town.  He was married on December 4, 1859, to H.J. Ussery, a native
of Tennessee, by whom he has seven children:  Arabella F., Sallie P.,
John E., Joseph F., Cecil A., Cora and Katie.  Mr. and Mrs. Brownlow
and their four oldest children are worthy and consisten members of
the Baptist Church, and are highly esteemed residents of the county.
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