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Author: Will T. Hale

   LUCIUS POLK BROWN. When Tennessee, in line with the advanced legislation and

public opinion throughout the nation, created the office of state food and drugs

commissioner, the appointment of the first commissioner resulted in securing the

services of the ablest commercial chemist in the state, and it was his ability

and record in his profession and not from any political considerations that

Lucius Polk Brown was chosen for this important post. Mr. Brown during the past

four years has done a valuable work in behalf of the people of his state and the

standards of food and drug quality have measurably risen in this period of time.



   Mr. Brown is a native Tennesseean, born in Maury county, August 1, 1867, and

represents two of the prominent families of this state, whose various members

have always been distinguished by high character and in many cases by notable

position in affairs. This branch of the Browns is of English origin, but came to

America from the north of Ireland where some of the early bearers of the name

had settled. The founder of the family in America was Rev. John Brown, a

minister of the Presbyterian faith, who became a pioneer in what is now Augusta

county, Virginia. He established the Liberty Hall Academy, which was the

beginning of the present Washington & Lee University, one of the oldest and best

schools of the South.



   Mr. Brown's great-grandfather was Dr. Samuel Brown, a Kentuckian, who married

a Miss Percy, a native of Mississippi. James Percy Brown, his grandfather, was a

native of Frankfort, Kentucky, and an attache to the American legation at Paris

under his uncle, the Hon. James Brown. Mr. Brown's parents were Campbell and

Susan Polk Brown, both natives of Tennessee. Campbell Brown was born in 1840 and

died in 1893, and was a grandson of George Washington Campbell, secretary of the

treasury under President Madison, first minister of the United States to Russia

under President Monroe and one of Tennessee's early senators in the national

congress. Campbell Brown served with the rank of major as a soldier of the

Confederate army in the Civil war on the staff of Gen. R. S. Ewell in the Army

of Northern Virginia. After the war he became a farmer and stock breeder of

Maury county. Susan Polk Brown, his wife, was the daughter of Gen. Lucius J.

Polk, of Maury county, and granddaughter of Col. William. Polk of Mecklenburg

County, North Carolina, a soldier under Washington in the Revolution.



   Reared on his father's plantation in Maury county, Lucius Polk Brown was

liberally supplied with school advantages. He attended private schools, the

Montgomery Bell Academy and the high school at Bellevue, Virginia, and then took

a special course in chemistry at the University of Virginia. For a year he was

connected with the experiment station at Knoxville, after which he followed

farming for a time, and in 1894 established his office as commercial chemist at

Nashville. He acquired a reputation and a fine professional business, and

continued in private practice until 1908, when he was sought for the first

incumbent. of the office of food and drugs commissioner. He is devoted to his

work and holds a high rank among his associates in similar work throughout the

country. It is his distinction to have been the first Southerner chosen for

president of the Association of American Food and Drugs Officials.



   Fraternally Mr. Brown is a Royal Arch Mason, and he is a member of the

Episcopal church. His home is in Williamson county, a country residence near

Franklin, his official headquarters being in Nashville. Mr. Brown was married in

1895 to Miss Jessie Roberts, of Nashville, who died in 1897, leaving a son

Campbell H. Brown. Mr. Brown's present wife, whom he married in 1903, was

formerly Miss Susan C. Massie. They are the parents of three daughters, named

Susan Polk, Lizinka Campbell and Lucia Cabbell.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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