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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOSEPH HENRY BROWN.
    Prominent among the energetic, farsighted and successful business men of
Little Rock is Joseph Henry Brown, vice president of the C. J. Lincoln Company,
wholesale dealers in drugs. He has made his home in the capital city since the
fall of 1890 and throughout the intervening period has been connected with the
business enterprise of which he is now one of the leading officials. Mr. Brown
came to the southwest from Illinois, his birth having occurred in Morris, Grundy
county, December 18, 1860. He is a son of John and Ann (Brown) Brown, who,
though of the same name, were not related. The father was born in the village of
Trushington, Leicestershire county, England, September 1, 1825, and his life
record covered the intervening years to 1906, when he was called to his final
rest. He served an apprenticeship to his cousin, James Ogden, a druggist of
Ashton, England, and soon after the completion of his term of indenture he
purchased a pharmacy at Droylsden, near Manchester, England. In the fall of 1851
he came to the new world, crossing the country to Illinois, where lived his
friend, William H. Bradbury, formerly of Ashton, England. Mr. Brown purchased
land about seven miles from the present site of Morris, Illinois-. He afterward
returned to England, disposed of his property there and left the following
spring for a life on the Illinois prairies. In the spring of 1867 he took up his
abode in Morris and there engaged in the drug business, in connection with
Hamilton Longworth. He continued to carry on business there almost to the time
of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were married August 27, 1850, and celebrated
their golden wedding at Morris in 1900. Mrs. Brown was born at Barton under
Nudwood, England, in 1826, and departed this life January 7, 1903. Mr. and Mrs.
John Brown were the parents of ten children.

    At the usual age Joseph Henry Brown became a pupil in the public schools of
Morris continuing his studies there until graduated from the high school. He
also spent a year as a student in the Chicago School of Pharmacy and was
graduated in 1883 from the Philadelphia (Pa.) College of Pharmacy. Later he
returned to Morris and entered his father's drug store, in which he was employed
for several years. In 1S90 he went to Denver, Colorado, expecting to locate but
only remained for six months, working during that period as a pharmacist. He
next tcok up his abode in Little Rock in the fall of 1S90 and soon afterward
purchased an interest in the wholesale drug house conducted under the name of
the C. J. Lincoln Company. Since then he has been closely associated with the
business, its development and conduct, and in 1898 he became vice president and
manager, in which dual position he continues. He has thus had much to do with
shaping the policy and directing the activities of the house, which is today one
of the strong and potent forces in the commercial circles of Little Rock.

    Mr. Brown is a republican in his political views and his religious faith is
that of the Christ Episcopal church. Fraternally he is a Mason of the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and member of the Mystic Shrine. He
also belongs to the Country Club and the Quapaw Club and is highly esteemed by
reason of a genial social nature.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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