Capt. James Franklin BROWN was the son of Col. William BROWN & Amanda GRAY, and the husband of Ann Elizabeth HENDERSON.
C.S.A. Service Record: 1861-Brown, James F.-Elected Jr 2nd Lieut, of Co K 12th Regt. Ga Vol Inf June 15 1861. Resigned Oct 10 1861. Enlisted as a Private in Co K 1st Regt, 1st Brigade Ga State Troops Oct 10 1861 Mustered out Apr 8 1862. Elected Captain of Co G 59th Regt. Ga Inf May 6 1862. Resigned May 16 1863.
Newspaper article, circa 1899: ...torn Screven, ...[byline torn off] .....a cut of Dr. J.F. Brown of Screven County. The Doctor is one of the best known populists in the county. He has been identified with the reform movement from its very beginning.
Dr. Brown was formerly a resident of Bulloch county, but came to Screven about six years ago. He has represented Bulloch twice in the legislature and has also been the state senator once or twice from that district. He ran for Congress against Rufus E. Lester two years ago and was defeated by about the same methods in Savannah that Watson was in Augusta. He carried his own county, Screven, by a majority of 315 in the face of a republico-democratic fusion.
The election in Savannah was the merest farce. Drunken negroes were heeled about from poll to poll and voted continually. The election for mayor, which was one of the most exciting ever held in Savannah, which was held not long afterwards, resulted in the polling of less than 2000 votes of as many as were polled against Brown in the November election. The proof that at least 2000 fraudulent votes were cast in Savannah alone is indisputable.
Dr. Brown has figured prominently in Georgia politics for many years. He has been a delegate to many conventions and many notable assemblages. He went as a delegate to Omaha in 1892 and assisted in framing the Omaha platform.
The Doctor ceased to practice medicine a good while ago and is now a planter. He owns a splendid plantation of some 1200 or 1500 acres lying between Cameron and Captola. He cultivates both varieties of cotton and ships a number of car loads of watermelons to New York every year.
The Doctor has got a good deal of dry wit and fun about him. Year before last he had a fertile hill covered over with big ripe watermelons, ready for shipping when a big rain storm came up and washed a car load or two of them down hill vines and all. He said he supplied the people down the river with watermelons for 40 miles.
The Brown residence is about a mile and a half from Cameron and is situated on the site of the Old Paris Hill Academy. Two large lakes are almost within a stones throw. One of them contains probably 150 or 200 acres. It abounds with the choicest fish--bream and trout. On a cold winter day, with the wind blowing high, we have seen the waves roll in and break on the icy slope with the most mournful (s)plashing sound we have ever heard.
The editor of this paper once taught the HENDERSON-EVANS (Cameron) school and during that time lived at Dr. Brown's. We spend some very pleasant hours there. This cut was made for the Transcript by Mr. W. F. Henderson who is a nephew of the Doctor on both sides of the family. The doctor will no doubt be a little surprised this week when he gets his paper and finds his picture in it.
Mrs. Brown is a sister of Capt. W. M. Henderson, whose name has several times been mentioned in these columns. She is very fond of flowers and has her yard beautifully laid off and planted with the choicest varieties. It has contained as high as 60 different kinds of roses at once.
The doctor and his wife have but one child, Mrs. C. W. Evans.
C.S.A. Service Record: 1861-Brown, James F.-Elected Jr 2nd Lieut, of Co K 12th Regt. Ga Vol Inf June 15 1861. Resigned Oct 10 1861. Enlisted as a Private in Co K 1st Regt, 1st Brigade Ga State Troops Oct 10 1861 Mustered out Apr 8 1862. Elected Captain of Co G 59th Regt. Ga Inf May 6 1862. Resigned May 16 1863.
Newspaper article, circa 1899: ...torn Screven, ...[byline torn off] .....a cut of Dr. J.F. Brown of Screven County. The Doctor is one of the best known populists in the county. He has been identified with the reform movement from its very beginning.
Dr. Brown was formerly a resident of Bulloch county, but came to Screven about six years ago. He has represented Bulloch twice in the legislature and has also been the state senator once or twice from that district. He ran for Congress against Rufus E. Lester two years ago and was defeated by about the same methods in Savannah that Watson was in Augusta. He carried his own county, Screven, by a majority of 315 in the face of a republico-democratic fusion.
The election in Savannah was the merest farce. Drunken negroes were heeled about from poll to poll and voted continually. The election for mayor, which was one of the most exciting ever held in Savannah, which was held not long afterwards, resulted in the polling of less than 2000 votes of as many as were polled against Brown in the November election. The proof that at least 2000 fraudulent votes were cast in Savannah alone is indisputable.
Dr. Brown has figured prominently in Georgia politics for many years. He has been a delegate to many conventions and many notable assemblages. He went as a delegate to Omaha in 1892 and assisted in framing the Omaha platform.
The Doctor ceased to practice medicine a good while ago and is now a planter. He owns a splendid plantation of some 1200 or 1500 acres lying between Cameron and Captola. He cultivates both varieties of cotton and ships a number of car loads of watermelons to New York every year.
The Doctor has got a good deal of dry wit and fun about him. Year before last he had a fertile hill covered over with big ripe watermelons, ready for shipping when a big rain storm came up and washed a car load or two of them down hill vines and all. He said he supplied the people down the river with watermelons for 40 miles.
The Brown residence is about a mile and a half from Cameron and is situated on the site of the Old Paris Hill Academy. Two large lakes are almost within a stones throw. One of them contains probably 150 or 200 acres. It abounds with the choicest fish--bream and trout. On a cold winter day, with the wind blowing high, we have seen the waves roll in and break on the icy slope with the most mournful (s)plashing sound we have ever heard.
The editor of this paper once taught the HENDERSON-EVANS (Cameron) school and during that time lived at Dr. Brown's. We spend some very pleasant hours there. This cut was made for the Transcript by Mr. W. F. Henderson who is a nephew of the Doctor on both sides of the family. The doctor will no doubt be a little surprised this week when he gets his paper and finds his picture in it.
Mrs. Brown is a sister of Capt. W. M. Henderson, whose name has several times been mentioned in these columns. She is very fond of flowers and has her yard beautifully laid off and planted with the choicest varieties. It has contained as high as 60 different kinds of roses at once.
The doctor and his wife have but one child, Mrs. C. W. Evans.
Capt. James Franklin BROWN was the son of Col. William BROWN & Amanda GRAY, and the husband of Ann Elizabeth HENDERSON.
C.S.A. Service Record: 1861-Brown, James F.-Elected Jr 2nd Lieut, of Co K 12th Regt. Ga Vol Inf June 15 1861. Resigned Oct 10 1861. Enlisted as a Private in Co K 1st Regt, 1st Brigade Ga State Troops Oct 10 1861 Mustered out Apr 8 1862. Elected Captain of Co G 59th Regt. Ga Inf May 6 1862. Resigned May 16 1863.
Newspaper article, circa 1899: ...torn Screven, ...[byline torn off] .....a cut of Dr. J.F. Brown of Screven County. The Doctor is one of the best known populists in the county. He has been identified with the reform movement from its very beginning.
Dr. Brown was formerly a resident of Bulloch county, but came to Screven about six years ago. He has represented Bulloch twice in the legislature and has also been the state senator once or twice from that district. He ran for Congress against Rufus E. Lester two years ago and was defeated by about the same methods in Savannah that Watson was in Augusta. He carried his own county, Screven, by a majority of 315 in the face of a republico-democratic fusion.
The election in Savannah was the merest farce. Drunken negroes were heeled about from poll to poll and voted continually. The election for mayor, which was one of the most exciting ever held in Savannah, which was held not long afterwards, resulted in the polling of less than 2000 votes of as many as were polled against Brown in the November election. The proof that at least 2000 fraudulent votes were cast in Savannah alone is indisputable.
Dr. Brown has figured prominently in Georgia politics for many years. He has been a delegate to many conventions and many notable assemblages. He went as a delegate to Omaha in 1892 and assisted in framing the Omaha platform.
The Doctor ceased to practice medicine a good while ago and is now a planter. He owns a splendid plantation of some 1200 or 1500 acres lying between Cameron and Captola. He cultivates both varieties of cotton and ships a number of car loads of watermelons to New York every year.
The Doctor has got a good deal of dry wit and fun about him. Year before last he had a fertile hill covered over with big ripe watermelons, ready for shipping when a big rain storm came up and washed a car load or two of them down hill vines and all. He said he supplied the people down the river with watermelons for 40 miles.
The Brown residence is about a mile and a half from Cameron and is situated on the site of the Old Paris Hill Academy. Two large lakes are almost within a stones throw. One of them contains probably 150 or 200 acres. It abounds with the choicest fish--bream and trout. On a cold winter day, with the wind blowing high, we have seen the waves roll in and break on the icy slope with the most mournful (s)plashing sound we have ever heard.
The editor of this paper once taught the HENDERSON-EVANS (Cameron) school and during that time lived at Dr. Brown's. We spend some very pleasant hours there. This cut was made for the Transcript by Mr. W. F. Henderson who is a nephew of the Doctor on both sides of the family. The doctor will no doubt be a little surprised this week when he gets his paper and finds his picture in it.
Mrs. Brown is a sister of Capt. W. M. Henderson, whose name has several times been mentioned in these columns. She is very fond of flowers and has her yard beautifully laid off and planted with the choicest varieties. It has contained as high as 60 different kinds of roses at once.
The doctor and his wife have but one child, Mrs. C. W. Evans.
C.S.A. Service Record: 1861-Brown, James F.-Elected Jr 2nd Lieut, of Co K 12th Regt. Ga Vol Inf June 15 1861. Resigned Oct 10 1861. Enlisted as a Private in Co K 1st Regt, 1st Brigade Ga State Troops Oct 10 1861 Mustered out Apr 8 1862. Elected Captain of Co G 59th Regt. Ga Inf May 6 1862. Resigned May 16 1863.
Newspaper article, circa 1899: ...torn Screven, ...[byline torn off] .....a cut of Dr. J.F. Brown of Screven County. The Doctor is one of the best known populists in the county. He has been identified with the reform movement from its very beginning.
Dr. Brown was formerly a resident of Bulloch county, but came to Screven about six years ago. He has represented Bulloch twice in the legislature and has also been the state senator once or twice from that district. He ran for Congress against Rufus E. Lester two years ago and was defeated by about the same methods in Savannah that Watson was in Augusta. He carried his own county, Screven, by a majority of 315 in the face of a republico-democratic fusion.
The election in Savannah was the merest farce. Drunken negroes were heeled about from poll to poll and voted continually. The election for mayor, which was one of the most exciting ever held in Savannah, which was held not long afterwards, resulted in the polling of less than 2000 votes of as many as were polled against Brown in the November election. The proof that at least 2000 fraudulent votes were cast in Savannah alone is indisputable.
Dr. Brown has figured prominently in Georgia politics for many years. He has been a delegate to many conventions and many notable assemblages. He went as a delegate to Omaha in 1892 and assisted in framing the Omaha platform.
The Doctor ceased to practice medicine a good while ago and is now a planter. He owns a splendid plantation of some 1200 or 1500 acres lying between Cameron and Captola. He cultivates both varieties of cotton and ships a number of car loads of watermelons to New York every year.
The Doctor has got a good deal of dry wit and fun about him. Year before last he had a fertile hill covered over with big ripe watermelons, ready for shipping when a big rain storm came up and washed a car load or two of them down hill vines and all. He said he supplied the people down the river with watermelons for 40 miles.
The Brown residence is about a mile and a half from Cameron and is situated on the site of the Old Paris Hill Academy. Two large lakes are almost within a stones throw. One of them contains probably 150 or 200 acres. It abounds with the choicest fish--bream and trout. On a cold winter day, with the wind blowing high, we have seen the waves roll in and break on the icy slope with the most mournful (s)plashing sound we have ever heard.
The editor of this paper once taught the HENDERSON-EVANS (Cameron) school and during that time lived at Dr. Brown's. We spend some very pleasant hours there. This cut was made for the Transcript by Mr. W. F. Henderson who is a nephew of the Doctor on both sides of the family. The doctor will no doubt be a little surprised this week when he gets his paper and finds his picture in it.
Mrs. Brown is a sister of Capt. W. M. Henderson, whose name has several times been mentioned in these columns. She is very fond of flowers and has her yard beautifully laid off and planted with the choicest varieties. It has contained as high as 60 different kinds of roses at once.
The doctor and his wife have but one child, Mrs. C. W. Evans.
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