Biographical Sketch of Rev. Martin Collins Brown, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Rev. Martin Collins Brown, or "Parson Brown," as he is familiarly 
known, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Cabool, was
born in Bedford County, Tenn., January 14, 1831, and is the son of
Jesse and Mary (Hicks) Brown, and grandson of Hezekiah Brown, one of
the pioneers of Flat Creek, Bedford County, Tenn.  His nativity is
uncertain.  Jesse Brown was a native of Tennessee, and was a farmer
by occupation.  He went to Illinois in 1840, and located near Shawnee-
town, where he died one year later, at the age of forty-one years. His
wife, Mrs. Mary (Hicks) Brown, was a native of South Carolina, and the
daughter of James Hicks, who was a native of Ireland and who settled
in South Carolina in pioneer days.  Rev. Martin Collins Brown was the
seventh child and only son in a family of ten children.  He attained
his growth on his father's farm, and in 1850 was united in marriage to
Miss Cordelia Brown, of Illinois.  He then farmed and taught school 
for about seven years, and in 1854 he professed religion, and with his
wife joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  About eighteen months
after this he united with the presbytery of that church, and began 
preaching, and at the same time carried on his teaching.  Up to 1867
he traveled as a missionary through Southern Illinois, and in the 
spring of that year he went to Franklin County, Kas., where he remained
engaged in his ministerial work, until 1871, when he returned to Frank-
lin County, Ill.  In the spring of 1876 he moved to Texas County, MO.,
locating on a farm on Elk Creek, and remained there until this year.
He has 180 acres of valuable land; is a breeder of hogs and cattle, and
is doing well.  He is the father of these children: Jesse M., of Elk
Creek; Emily, wife of Morgan Stotts, a farmer of Bates County, MO.;
Wiley Luther, a farmer of Elk Creek; Julia, deceased wife of George
Marsh, of Washington Territory, and who left a daughter; Agnes, wife 
of Gideon Harmon, of Piney Township, Texas County, MO.; George B., a
farmer; Charity M., James M., Josie Minnie and Maggie T.  Of this fam-
ily all are well educated, and bright lights in their social relations.
The three eldest sons have taught school.  Parson Brown is a public
spirited gentleman, and contributes liberally to all objects having for
their aim the general advancement of his locality.  He has assisted
greatly in the building of a new Cumberland Presbyterian Church at 
Cabool, and has rendered considerable aid to other church work.

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