Fayette County, West Virginia Biography of CHARLES MILTON BROWN, M. D. This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 420-421 Fayette CHARLES MILTON BROWN, M. D. The services rendered as a talented physician and surgeon have given Doctor Brown a reputation over several counties of the state and also the City of Huntington, where he was located for a time. He is now in charge of the mine practice for Mines Nos. 1 and 2 of the Paragon Colliery Company, Argyle Mine No. 1 of the Cub Fork Coal Company and the Orville Coal Company, his home being at Yolyn in Logan County. Doctor Brown was born at Mount Hope in Fayette County, West Virginia, February 19, 1870. His grand- father, John Brown, was a native of Virginia, and spent his life as a farmer and planter in Montgomery County, that state, where he died in 1856. Charles C. Brown, father of Doctor Brown, was born at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, in 1826, and lived to the age of eighty-four. Dur- ing all these years he never tasted tobacco or whisky, and was never guilty of profanity. He was a man of great strength of will and character, and exercised a beneficent influence throughout his community. He died March 10, 1910. At the age of twenty he came to Beckley, West Vir- ginia, and with Joshua Hannah opened a cabinetmaking and carpenter shop. A few years later he removed to Fay- ette County, and lived at Mount Hope for half a century. He was in the Confederate army four years, and in the battle of Gettysburg acted as field courier, and had three holes shot through his blanket, but was not wounded. His neighbors in Fayette County always appreciated his high degree of skill as a carpenter and cabinet maker. He erected many houses in that vicinity, and for years he was called upon to supply all the coffins over a district miles around. For many years he was an officer in the Christian Church, and voted as a democrat until the prohibition party was organized and thereafter was an active worker in that party. He owned a farm near Mount Hope. His wife, Martha Anna Blake, was born in Fayette County and died in 1914, also at the age of eighty-four. Her father, William Blake, was a pioneer of that county and at one time owned 17,000 acres in the vicinity of Mount Hope. William Blake and wife came from Scotland, and at one time conducted a wayside inn on the old Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turn- pike. Charles Brown and wife had seven children: William H., a prosperous farmer at Shady Springs in Raleigh County; Mollie, wife of Charles Pack, of Shady Springs; Anna, who died at the age of sixteen, in 1879; Lizzie, wife of A. D. Moseley, a contractor of mining and building; Arrie M., wife of Cabell Moseley, merchant and farmer at Mount Hope; Charles Milton; Rosa F., wife of Alfred P. Bailey, a merchant and coal operator at Mount Hope. Dr. Charles Milton Brown was noted as a youth for his rugged manhood and strong physique, and he did a great deal of arduous labor in the service of railroads, sawmills and in the timber. He attended district school at Mount Hope until he was twenty years of age. During 1894-96 he was a student of medicine in the University of Louis- ville, and was licensed to practice in West Virginia in 1896. He did his first practice at Jumping Branch in Summers County. Later he entered the Maryland Medical College at Baltimore, where he was graduated in medicine in 1902. He did a large amount of hospital work at Baltimore, and has supplemented his early training by extensive experience and post-graduate study. After leaving Baltimore, Doctor Brown was in practice at Mount Hope from 1904 to 1909. He had a large country practice. In 1909 he joined the staff of Kisler's Hospital of Huntington, and for the first year conducted clinics and classes in obstetrics and nursing, and was otherwise associated with the hospital until 1916. He then resumed his professional work at Mount Hope, and in 1920 took over his present responsibilities as mine physician at Yolyn in Logan County. In 1893, at Mount Hope, Doctor Brown married Ida Lee Turner, daughter of William and Mary Turner, of Fayette County. Her father was a native of Scotland, and for many years was a mine foreman. The children born to Doctor and Mrs. Brown were: Anna Maud, now principal of the Mount Hope Junior High School, wife of J. C. Roby, who has charge of the stenograpic work for the New River Coal Company. Iris, at home; Gladys, wife of H. T. Brown, who is in the railway mail service on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, with home at Huntington; Regina, wife of R. L. Tliompson. of Charleston, West Virginia; Hercules A., a school boy; Maxine, who is captain of the basket ball team in the Junior High School at Mount Hope; and Charles W., who died in infancy. Doctor Brown is a member of the Fayette County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the Southern Medical Association. He is a democrat in politics and a member of the Christian Church.