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Author: Will T. Hale

   COL. JOHN BELL BROWNLOW. A son of former Governor and United States Senator

Brownlow, whose name and career stand as permanent records in Tennessee history,

Col. John Bell Brownlow has himself had numerous distinctions in public and

business life. A cavalry officer during the war, and in government service for

some time afterward, he has long been identified with business affairs in

Knoxville, the city in which he was born and where most of his life has been spent.



   Colonel Brownlow, who was born at Elizabethtown, Tennessee, October 19, 1839,

was one of the eight children of William Gannaway and Eliza (O'Brien) Brownlow,

his father having been during his time the well-known editor of the Knoxville

Whig. The paternal grandparents were Joseph A. and Catherine (Gannaway)

Brownlow, and the maternal grandparents were James S. and Susan Dabney (Everet)

O'Brien. On his mother's side Colonel Brownlow is a direct descendant of Capt.

James Gaines, the Revolutionary soldier and a member from Chatham county to the

North Carolina convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States;

also a descendant from Judge Edmund Pendleton, who was a Virginia member of the

Continental Congress in 1774-75.



   During his youth Colonel Brownlow attended private schools in Knoxville and

then the Emory and Henry College of Virginia. He became connected with his

father's paper and served a long apprenticeship in the profession of journalism.

He was also private secretary to his father during the latter's service as

governor of Tennessee and in the United States senate.



   During the war, from 1863 to 1865 he served as lieutenant-colonel commanding

the Ninth Regiment Tennessee Cavalry in the Union army. During 1865-66 he was

special agent for the United States treasury department. He was member of the

United States government board representing the postoffice department at the

exposition held at Nashville in 1897; at Omaha in 1898; at Buffalo in 1900; at

Charleston in 1900-1, and at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.



   Colonel Brownlow has long been connected with the real estate business in

Knoxville. On March 1, 1905, his son William G., became associated with him in

business, real estate, loans and rental collections. Colonel Brownlow was

married October 1, 1872, to Miss Fannie Fouche, daughter of Dr. John Fouche, of

Knoxville. Their residence is at 608 West Cumberland street. Colonel Brownlow is

a Methodist, belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution, the Masonic order,

and in politics is an independent Republican.



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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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